"Chris, why aren't you eating anything?" Maa said with a scowl on her face. She hate it when someone wasted food. She has always taught us that there are people out there who don't have enough food on their plates and if we have the privilege of having our plates full we should be grateful for that, not waste what we are given.
But how can Chris eat with her on their family table knowing that Julie's chair was empty and he was the sole reason for her not being here with them?
The things Chris had done to her and the words that he had said to her haunts him to this very day.
He can't get rid of his guilt. He just wanted to burn it all, burn it until there was not a shred of past left, not a shred his guilt left.
Maa doesn't say but he knew that she missed her too, every fucking day. Her silence only added more weight to his guilt. How can she not miss her? Julie was a part of her. Her part of her heart.
The sorrow in maa's eyes ate Chris alive. Knowing that he was the one who divided their family, maa told her to leave because of him. His sister wasn't at fault at that time but he was. Maa didn't trust her, He didn't trust her. She begged him to believe her but he didn't.
She begged them to believe~
It has been four years since she left home. Chris looked towards her empty chair, sometimes it felt like she was going to come downstairs from her room, shouting on top of her lungs for us to don't start eating without her because Jack was going to eat her share of cake too.
Sometimes it felt like she never left, she was still with us. Everything in this house reminds him of her and why not, she was the one who decorated everything.
Chris didn't know how to put it in words but it was just a twins thing and in his case, it was a triplets thing. Not knowing where she was and what was she doing haunted him. It leaves him restless. It was like an important part of him was missing.
You know we don't realize our mistakes until it's too late. And now when we have realized how wrong we were it was too late. We have lost her.
We have lost Julie.
"I'm full maa." Chris replied not looking at her.
"Your daddy won't be home until tomorrow so I was thinking that if both of you are free you can stay here until he is back. It has been months since the last time we have spent some time together." Maa asked with desperation evident in her tone, completely ignoring the fact that Chris had barely touched my food.
Finally, Chris looked at her face.
She was looking at him and Jack with hope and why wouldn't she?
Jack and he loathed coming to their childhood home. They rarely visit. Jack didn't come because of his anger towards maa and Chris. And Chris didn't visit often because every time he came here the weight of guilt on his shoulders became almost unbearable.
It was like someone had tied a noose around his neck. He was unable to breathe under the same roof he had grown up.
Jack was his brother who was currently sitting with maa, unaware of the guilt that was eating Chris alive.
Jack, Julie and Chris are triplets. When they were young mom always told them that she knew that he and Jack were going to come in her life but Julie was an unexpected gift from God to her. Mom thought she was pregnant with twins because Julie was a wee babe probably hiding between her brothers. So when Julie came into this world she became a gift for all of us. She was cherished by everyone. They never let her out of our protection, not even for a second but know she was not with them anymore. They have no idea where she was, it was like she had cut them out of her life.
The daughter of billionaire business tycoons was on her own. She didn't take a single penny from their parents. Even the money that daddy transferred in her account every month was untouched. It was like she was showing us that she didn't need us anymore.
We didn't know that she was the one who tied our family together until she left. Nothing was the same after her departure.
Everything fell apart. From their sibling bonding to their relations with their parents. Every single thing fell apart.
"Sorry mother but I can't stay I have an important meeting tomorrow but I think your favorite child will be free." Jack replied nonchalantly.
Chris knew that Jack wasn't going to stay until he was here with maa. He called their mother maa while Jack used to call her mommy but that also changed the day Julie left. Jack the once mommy's boy had become Jackson now.
They have two fathers. While Jack handled the business of their biological father Ethan James, Chris handled the business of their stepfather Maxim Sebastian and Mom's business, who Julie was supposed to take over.
The three of them were business tycoons. Jack and Chris pretty much got everything on a silver platter but that didn't mean that their parents went easy on them. They had to work their asses off to maintain their positions in the business world.
Failure wasn't a choice for them~
Julie, Jack and Chris were inseparable as children. Everyone used to call them 'The Destructive Trio' or 'The Reincarnations Of Satan'. The three of them were walking troubles. They were the kids who had spent a large part of their childhood days in police custody because of their attempts of doing the things that they were not allowed to do.
And they always got this ache to do the things that no other children were allowed to do which had always lead to extreme disasters like burning the kitchen in flames or the time when they locked their bodyguards in the house so that the three of them can drive a car. They were eight at that time. Not to forget the time when they almost blasted their mother's car to recreate a scene of Mission Impossible. The three of them were the definition of trouble.
Jack, Julie and Chris were partners in crime but now Jack hated his guts and he has every right to do so after all Chris was the one who started all this in the first place. Jack was treating him the same way Chris and maa had treated Julie.
Chris looked at maa, she held so much worry, sorrow and love inside her small body. Life was never easy for her. And now she was burning along with our family in the fire that Chris had started four years ago.
The least he can do to ease her worries for a time was to spend some time with her.
So he agreed.
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"Do you miss her maa?" Chris asked with his voice breaking at the end.
Currently, he was laying on the sofa with his head on maa's lap. As a child, it was his best place to voice his worries and guess what it still was.
As a kid he always sneaked from his room, leaving sleeping Julie and Jack behind to spend time with maa.
"Every moment." Maa replied while softly massaging his scalp.
"I miss her mom. I just want her to come back, this house doesn't feel like home without her." Chris sighed "I don't even know how she looks like now. It's been years since she left home." He said longingly.
"She didn't leave Christian. I made her leave. She didn't want to leave but my harsh words forced her to leave. You know before the truth came out she used to call your daddy daily. She would talk to Jack and your daddy, telling them about how her day was. Your dad always told me how she was doing, about the new things she was trying. He often told me that she wanted to talk to me but I never received her calls. I avoided talking to her. I was punishing her over something that wasn't her fault and after the truth came out she stopped calling daily. In the beginning, she would call in weeks and then weeks turned into months and months into years. Now it's your daddy who calls her every day but she rarely received his calls. And in my case now the roles are reversed. It's me who's calling her and now she avoids my calls. If you count blocking my number in avoiding. Now she's punishing me for sending her away. It kills me to know that now you and I hold no importance in her life." Maa sobbed.
"Daddy told me she's going to spend her vacations with her best friend. Do you remember maa that while growing up Julie didn't have any friends? Jack and I were all she had and now it feels like she's proving to me that she can have a life without us and she's doing a pretty good job in showing me my worth. After all, I was the one who told her to get a life of her own and leave us alone."
"It wasn't your fault Chris, I was so afraid that she was going to turn into a person like Sara. I should have resolved that conflict between you two but look at what I did. Look what my fears of Julie destroying her life like Sara did to us. I pushed her out of our lives. Out of her own home." Another sob escaped from maa's lips.
"Do you think she will forgive us maa?" Chris voice his thought.
"It's been four years Chris and she hasn't visited us even once, I don't know what to expect anymore."
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"If she barely got any friends stay away from that Bitch because that means she's crazy and the few friends she got are crazy too"♡♡♡Present Time♡♡♡"Mr.Andrew do you think there is any play of fate in your success?"'People believe that if they can't get something that's because of their fate but I believe that if you want something then work hard, fight hard until you get it.I'm not one of those who blame their failures or success on fate, maybe because I never had a taste of failure and I would like to keep it that way.'"After all this success do you still wish for something that you haven't achieved yet?"'Today Raphael Andrew is one of the biggest names in the business world and my company is one of the leading companies in the world. I have everything one can wish for. There is nothing that I can't achieve.'"Have you lost anything on your way to success?"
"Maddy!""Maddy!!""Maddyyy!!!!""Jesus women stop yelling! I'm trying to sleep here..." Maddy yelled back at Jes.Finally~"Let's go out... I'm fucking bored!" Jes whined."Not gonna happen Julie. You didn't even help me in packing, I'm fucking tired and on top of that my flight is early in the morning. So shut up and let me sleep." Maddy said, turning his back towards her."Hey! How many times I have to tell you to call me Jes." Ignoring his comment on her not help him, Jes snapped while poking his back with her finger knowing that he hated it when she did this."Julie, Jes it's all same to me." Maddy mumbled sleepily.Grrhh!Jes's real name was Julie but she preferred to be called Jes and Maddy didn't have any problem with calling her Jes yesterday when he was begging her to help him, once
Family~A small word but it held so much power over Jes. A few people that have so much control over her. Jes was master at pretending that she was fine and somewhere in pretending, she had started to believe that she was really fine.She can spend months in her happy and chill mode but sometimes she felt everything a little too much.Dear Mom,Do you miss me? I have left my childhood behind. . .Shake it off!A few times at her work Jes had lashed out on her fellows. One minute she was joking and in the next minute, she burst into tears for no specific reason. It mostly happens when she kept her feelings locked within herself.It took her two years to shape herself into a strong person or to act like one.It was the time when she stoppedFightingCryingTrying
**Flashback**Julie's POV"What's the purpose of dick slapping on top of the pussy before proceeding to have sex?" A very drunk Kylie asked while keeping a straight face.Jes almost spit her juice out at her coworker's question."To delete the previous settings." Cane answered nonchalantly.And that was how Jes regretted coming with them for drinks. Maddy was busy with some stuff at work and Jes stupidly thought that she will have a good time while hanging out with her fellow workers."Can you guys please shut the fuck up!" Jes hissed, looking around them. Thank God no one heard her crazy fellows. They were fucking annoying and embarrassing the hell out of her. "Kylie who the fuck asks that kind of question? I don't know how can you come up with questions like that." Jes scolded Kylie."You don't know because you are one boring person who likes to order a
PRESENT TIMEAt some point in our lives, we all had been in those types of situations where we just wanted the floor to open up and eat us alive and currently Jes was in one of those situations.The Demi-God was currently staring at her like she had grown two heads right in front of his eyes."Where's your babe?" He shrieked like a teenager. If Jes wasn't currently sitting on her ass in front of a bunch of idiots in the VIP section of a club than she would have laughed at his horror-struck face but it was her bad luck that she was currently trapped in the most embarrassing situation of the century and to make it worse her one night stand was right in front of her witnessing the whole situation.It was a good thing that the last time he had seen Jes, she had her real blonde hair at the display which reached just above her shoulders.And now her hair was brown and she had her ha
Seeing Nathan after a long time was like bringing back all the memories of the past. Jes never thought that she would miss him. He was the only man she had talked to romantically. She still remembers the day she had left him in the hotel room. He was so desperate to get her number, so desperate to not let her go. But at that time Jes had to leave.***Flashback***Jes look around the hotel room and all of a sudden coming to a hotel room with a stranger seemed like the worst decision she had ever made. Even if the stranger had made her feel butterflies in her stomach.Her breath hitched when the stranger shut the door with a slight thud.Jes turned around and looked at him.God!He was gorgeous. . .His unruly brown hairs gave him a more sexy look, making one more addition to his sex appeal."My name is Nathan and I think you forgot to tell me your name." He said while takin
Jes looked at the magnificent building of Andrew Enterprises. She whistled at the work of art. She was going to work here for three fucking months.The building could even put her parent's offices to shame. It was breathtaking, made of black glass and black marble.Today Maddy and Emily were going on their lovey-dovey vacation, leaving Jes with Emily's friend who already works at Andrew Enterprises.Suddenly, Jes felt irritation in her left eye.God! The struggle of using contact lenses was going to kill her one day.Jes strode towards the sports car that was parked in front of the building. Taking out the rewetting drops from her jean's pocket she put a drop in her left eye and adjusted the lens on her eyeball with her finger."That's the CEO's car, I'll suggest you step away from that car because the CEO is one arrogant son of a bitch." Jes stepped away from the car and turned to look at the owner of the voice.
"It is weird the boss has never told anyone to stay this long at the office before but then again, he is an unpredictable paranoid." Sage shrugged her shoulders."You seem to know a lot about the boss." Jes noted. She was still trying very hard not to stare at Sage's blossoms.Jes herself has a decent size of blossoms but they were melons compared to Sage's watermelons."I don't know the boss but I do know his friend very well. His name is Lucas. We became friends after he saved my ass at the annual party." Sage said dreamily."How did he save you?" Jes asked in confusion."As you already know that I'm a graphic designer here so I was assigned to design the invitations and I was going through a rough patch at that time and in my fucked up state instead of printing that 'The CEO of Andrew Enterprises, invites you to the Annual Party' I printed 'Anal Party' on the invitations and send them to everyone." Jes burst into a fit