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Chapter 0215
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Calvin.
I wait. I wait patiently for her to come back. I didn’t know where she went, but I can take a
pretty damn good guess. She was mad; I understand that more than anything. If anyone is
pissed off and hurt at what Emma has been doing, then it’s me. She has caused me and
Gunner more hurt than I’m ever willing to
admit.
I hear the door unlock, but I don’t move. I’m not even sure what the hell I am doing here.
The boys are at
my house with the nanny. For some reason, I feel like I should be here.
Ava stops dead in her tracks. “Cal, I didn’t expect you to still be here.”
Her eyes were red and puffy. She has been crying: that much is clear. Words honestly fail
me. I have no
F***ing idea what the hell to tell her.
“I thought I would wait for you,” I say as she takes a seat. “Where have you been?”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI knew where she went after she realized that Emma was Gunner’s mom. That was hours
ago, I don’t
know where she went after. I’m sure confronting Emma didn’t take almost three hours.
“I needed to think, so I just drove around,” she whispers. “Gosh! This is so hard for me.
Not only because I love Gunner like my own and it kills me to watch him hurt, but also
because I see myself in him.”
I don’t know much about Ava. I was about two years ahead of her in school. We weren’t
friends back then, and I didn’t pay attention to any girl that wasn’t Emma.
Even now, I don’t know much about her. I kept myself closed off. I felt it would be unfair to
dig deep into her life when I barely told her anything deep about mine. All I know is that
Rowan hurt her pretty badly. Just like Emma destroyed.
“Why?” I ask curiously.
“Because I suffered the same fate as him when I was younger. I was unwanted. For me, it
was much harder because I was unwanted by both my family and Rowan’s family. I didn’t
understand why they didn’t like me. I tried so hard to get them to love me, but they never
did. In fact, it got worse as I got older.”
I didn’t know that about her Unlike other boys who tried getting close to her so they could
get close to Emma, i didn’t. I thought their tactic was downright cruel. Using one sister to
get another was utterly disgusting
I’m so sorry, Ava
There was nothing else I could say to comfort her. I don’t even know how to comfort
Gunner when he asks about Emma, so how can I comfort Ava?
“It’s okay. It was a long time ago, and I’m slowly starting to heal” she pauses. “In any
case, this isn’t about me. I want to know the truth. How did Emma end up being Gunner’s
mom?”
I sigh. I was dreading this question. Not because I don’t want to tell her what happened,
but because I don’t want to remember the painful memories.
“Well, you know about my love for her from high school,” I start and she nods.
“Yes, definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone knew I wanted Rowan.”
This was so messed up. We both somehow ended up with the people we wanted, but in
the end, it turned out to be a nightmare. Both of us got hurt really, F***ing badly. Maybe
we should have stayed away from them. It seems like Rowan and Emma were meant to
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmbe. It’s like Ava and I got punished for getting in the
way of that.
“We’ll I tried everything to get her to notice me, but she never did. It wasn’t even possible
when the person I had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when we met again, I
was nerdy, Cal. There was nothing S**y about me,” I began, but Ava interrupted me by
chuckling.
“Have you seen yourself in glasses? You’re like a woman’s nerdy fantasy. You probably star
in ladies dreams as either a hot professor or a librarian.”
I laugh at that despite myself.
“Maybe now, but not back then. Emma was probably disgusted with me. I mean, come on,
even I have to admit I looked terrible back then. I wouldn’t have wanted to date myself” I
continued.
“We finished high school, and in the summer before college, I decided to work on myself. It
took a lot of effort, but I got to the point where I was actually proud of how I looked. I even
started getting appreciative
glances from girls”
It had been the highlight of my life at that age. It felt good to be attractive. It felt F***ing
great.
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