10

Today was the day Blake and I were going out. I had no idea where he was taking me.

I did my hair up in a ponytail, I couldn't be bothered to straighten or curl it.

I threw on my ripped jeans Leo got for my birthday with a strapless crop top.

When I got downstairs Ari was watching a cartoon and everyone else was nowhere to be found.

"Hey, where's everyone?" I asked getting an apple from the fridge.

"Well, Capree left, Christina went to get her hair done and Dad is.... I don't know" she said. "Where are you going?" She asked. "Wait, are those Leo's shoes?"

"I'm going out and these shoes are none of your business"

I kissed her on her forehead and left.

"Bye," she yelled.

Just as I was about to knock on the door it flew open.

"I see someone is on time" Blake greeted me.

"Let's just go, please"

It turns out he decided we go to the beach.

"So did your father ask about my pregnancy?" I asked holding his hand and my shoes in the other.

"Surprisingly, no, apparently no one thinks I could be responsible for it," he said.

"Wait, did anyone in your house even know we were together?" I looked at him.

"I doubt it, maybe Drake knew but he didn't say anything," he said. "Hey no one in your house knew either"

"Of course, Leo knew and......... and mom knew too"

"Oh, I forgot"

"By the way, I got this very disturbing text last night," I told him.

"Please don't tell me you're calling my messages disturbing," he joked.

I pulled out my phone and showed him the message.

He stopped for a while.

"But everyone now knows about the abortion-"

"Thanks to Metal Mouth," I rolled my eyes.

"So, what could this mean?"

"I think it's mom's death they're talking about," I shrugged.

"But who else knew about this except us?" He questioned.

"And Leo" I added "but Leo would never do something like this, he knew I would die"

"Then who else knew?"

"I don't know Blake, did you probably get drunk and tell someone?" I asked.

"Are you saying it could probably be me?"

"Well, you do get like that sometimes."

"It wasn't me, I'm positive," he said. "Let's not think too much about it"

The rest of the day went by pretty fast; we got ice cream and then went back home.

..........................

I have been sitting in my car for the past half an hour.

I didn't feel like I wanted to go to school today, I needed to clear my mind.

I took off, having nowhere to go, I just drove.

A few minutes later I was sitting in the cafe staring through the glass.

"Can I take your order?"

I looked up to see a beaming Beth smiling at me.

She wasn't here the last time I came with Tyler, and I thank God.

"No thanks, I'm good," I told her.

"Ok but if you need anything don't hesitate to come to ask me," she smiled walking away.

Was she always this bubbly, gosh it creeped me out.

I sat there in that corner for an hour reading 'Made for Each Other'. Mom bought it for me when I was 10 and I've never read it to the end. It has always been in my bag. She was such a romantic.

I managed to conquer 12 chapters.

I decided I would go to the community center a bit early and spend some time with Tyler.

After a 5-minute drive, I parked in the car park and got out.

Inside the building was a lady in her early 50s going inside the office. She had jet black hair which made the grey ones prominent.

She paused when I entered the room.

"Oh, you must be Gemini, I'm so sorry I've been busy lately we didn't get to meet, I'm Martha," she said holding out her hand for me to shake.

"It's very nice to meet you, Martha," I said shaking her hand.

"I hope Ty and the kids have been treating you well," she raised an eyebrow.

I smiled "Definitely, they're great."

"Good, you know you're the reason Ty is still here," she said arranging some folders on her table.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Well, his community service ended last week, he decided to stay since you were new and all, he's such a sweetheart," she smiled.

"Oh, I see"

It was strange, but as Martha said he's a sweetheart.

"Do you know what time he'll be here?"

"Well, he's always early, gives him about an hour" she replied "You can set up the children's area until he gets here"

"Ok"

The more I knew about Tyler the more mysterious he was.

I went to the back room where Tyler stored some stuff. With the hope of finding some new paint for the kids, I opened the door and entered the room.

I found a locker at the back of the room.

Luckily, I found paint.

I noticed a photo hanging on the wall, it seemed as if it was "Blake".

It couldn't be the boy in the photo was hugging a teddy and was sitting in a woman's lap. Neither of those belonged to Blake. Next to them was a baby chair with a baby. They all looked so happy.

There was something scribbled at the bottom of the picture, and I wanted to get a closer look.

My foot got stuck on the stupid projector wire on the floor, spilling the paint all over the table.

Sh!t.............

I was good as dead.

I tried to wipe the paint off the papers when something grabbed my attention.

It was a folder with my name written on it. It had a photo of me.

Skipping the leaves I noticed photos of Leo, Ari, Capree, Dad, and most importantly Mom.

I grabbed the page with mom's photo, below it stood a whole page of information on mom.

It had her date of birth, her date of death, how she died, and where she died. Everything there was to be known about my mother was on this sheet of paper.

Lifting the page, I noticed it wasn't one, there was a map at the back, a map of Middleton.

My address was circled in red along with where mom died on the freeway.

This was all too much for me to handle.

I heard the children filling in one by one as their laughter filled the room.

Tears stung my eyes. What was Tyler doing with all of this?

Was he stalking me?

I tried to fix the folder as neatly as I could.

Another surprise knocked.

There was also a file with Blake's name written on it.

Inside was written in Red.

'The father of the baby'

My heart stopped beating at this point. How did Tyler know all of this?

And why would he want to know this?

I heard the door behind me open.

" Gem what are you doing......?"

I turned around with the folder in my hand, by this time my face was drenched in tears.

"How did you know all of this?" I asked him.

"Gem it's not what it looks like, I have to have information on everyone that works here," was his explanation.

"How do you know about my mother's death?"

"Wouldn't you want to know," he grabbed the folder from my hand.

"Tell me!!!" I screamed.

"Because I did it, she wasn't supposed to die it was just to delay her so your father would have enough time to find out about a pregnancy," He said.

I ran outside of the building. I had no idea where I was going.

I could hear Martha and Tommy calling after me.

I could hear Tyler's footsteps behind me.

I came upon this bridge when I ran out of breath.

I was still crying.

"Why?" That was all I could say.

"Do you think it's easy having your father walk out on you to go start a new family of his own?"

"They were never to get married let alone have a family. They took everything from me. So I decided to ruin their golden boy. Finding out you were pregnant for him was the best leverage."

Listening to him go on, reality hit me. He was Blake's brother.

"I can't believe you," I whispered.

"And now you can't leave knowing what you know," he said.

He grabbed hold of my hand.

The pain was terrible.

"Tyler, please don't."

"You can now join your pretty little mother in HELL." He spat.

I tried wiggling my arm from his grip, but it just made it worse.

"I swear I won't tell a soul," I pleaded.

I sank my teeth into his hand.

"You bitch," he yelled.

This caused him to hold me by the hair.

I screamed and begged him to let me go but it was no use.

We were almost on the other side of the bridge.

"Tyler, please."

He took my arms and allowed me to stand up.

"I'm sorry but I can't let that happen."

I took the opportunity I had on my feet to run.

His grip was still rigid, it made it impossible to move.

I tried to pull my hand away.

He released my arms, and I could feel myself flying towards the end of the bridge.

My head collided with something hard, and my vision started to get blurry. I could feel liquid soaking through my hair as Tyler came and stood over me.

"I'm sorry Gemini."

Then everything went black..............