It Ends With Us Parents Guide Novels & Stories

“Quiet or get out.” “Ooo I love it when you get all bossy.” Her mum whispers, but not quiet enough. Leanna and Kim groan simultaneously and Shane smashes cushions onto the sides of his head to block his ears, Luke laughs loudly, trying to pull them away. Shouting about how parents need love too and the chaos resumes again, their dad sighs, pausing the film and waiting until everyone calms down. It’s late by the time the film’s finished and the parents all get up to go straight to bed, Leanna gives me a look which goes straight to my penis and I make my excuses and head upstairs to shower and then start my research.

Atlantic High. A school for dickheads and whores. Only a few of those rich kids didn't have a screw or two loose from their heads. The rest were full of themselves and knowing that I was in a country like Nigeria, where they could even burn off a gay person, I had kept my secret from everyone.

I knew it would take a long time to heal. One day, the doctor finally told me I could be discharged. As I walked past the pediatric clinic, I saw Enzo carrying Luca in his arms for his check-up. "Dad… Mom… I'm scared of the needle," Luca whimpered. He clutched Enzo's hand, his eyes welling with tears. "It's okay, don't be scared." Enzo comforted him. "I'll stay right here with you. When you get better, I'll take you to the amusement park."

In the end, the Kinsey family negotiated an agreement—sending him abroad forever in exchange for the charges being dropped. … A week later, my engagement to Jace went ahead as planned. That evening, while reviewing the gifts, I discovered an anonymous package. Inside was a signed transfer of assets from Wayne. A text message arrived at the same time, his farewell written in a single line. 'I'm sorry. Congratulations on your wedding.' I didn't reply. Instead, I donated everything he left to the children's charity.

Now, only Leonidas and I remain on the winding forest path, surrounded by blooming night-roses. "Make him love you, Gorgo," Grandma's parting words echo in my mind, sending a shiver of dread down my spine. "Why do you stare at the dirt, future Luna?" Leonidas asks, his towering frame casting a massive shadow over mine. "Is my presence that offensive to your senses?"

I immediately rushed towards him and grabbed him by the collar and pulled him away from the flames that were still trying to eat its way through the cold soil. The sound of a Coal Smoker’s horn blaring wakes me up again. I take a few more breaths and continue to crawl through the baggage. Finally after going through hundreds of other dead Legionnaires baggage I finally see a pack with the words written on its side saying “Pack light, work right.” It was Riiger’s pack, I had finally found it. …

"Dad, Mom, I regret it. "You were right. Ines Sutherland was never the right person for me. I want to come home."

Uriel “That was terrible!” I plopped my head on my gigantic fluffy heart pillow. A hot tear ran down my puffy face. “I can’t even finish the movie, if that poor little thing has to live on like that.” Taking the remote, I stopped the movie and tossed remote to the other side of the room. “That poor little deer lost his mom and had to go live with his really serious dad. I’m not finishing that. He looked waaay too grumpy to be a happy ending and I am all about happy endings.

I shouted. He wrenched his arm away, and his tears fell onto the back of my hand. "My family won't accept him. Don Corleone said that if you insist on keeping the baby… He'll have you killed," he said, burying his face in the crook of my neck and crying like a child. He went on, "Evelyn, please listen to me. Once I've dealt with the family, then we'll have a child… Just wait a little longer, okay?"

And for the first time in our long, complicated, beautiful story… There were no questions left. Only one answer. Us. At last. Forever. The End