SAMANTHA LILY ADAMS

'The truth was that I still found no home in the face of the earth.'

"Welcome home little hoe bitch." The words ring louder than any other words as they come from my sister's lips.

Not being surprised would be considered a sin at this point.

"Everything alright?"

I look at the look in my sister's eyes and it makes me feel so many things, the way she stands in front of me looking at me like a little piece of shit she is disgusted at, to me it's like I don't know her. She doesn't look like the sister I grew up with.

"Everything alright?" She repeats my words with an annoyed frown on her face. "Samantha look am tired and so overwhelmed with your two faces here that looking at you makes me want to vomit. You could pretend to my parents as much as you want but not to me so drop the fucking act with me, we are not shooting a show here." I knew my sister was a tough cookie but she never targeted this side of her on me.

I've always heard stories of her being like this to so many other students now am wondering what I did to bring out the worst in her.

"Am not following here sav." She rolls her eyes and steps closer to where I am standing.

"I am telling you while am still talking to fuck the fuck off from my life and Lucas' while am still talking Samantha. You don't want to see what I would do if you don't." she hisses at me before she storms and walks back into the house.

I look at her disappearing figure and it drowns on me that I might have been scolded for Lucas' sake.

But what confuses me is that. 'I don't own the guy.'

I pull my phone from my back and ring him as I also walk in.

"Hello Samantha, I didn't think you would call me this much as soon as you got my number." I try not to want to smack his stupid grin off of his face that am a hundred percent sure he has on his face as we talk and go to what I just called him for.

"What did you say to my sister when you talked to her earlier?"

"What do you mean? I apologized like you told me to do?" I roll my eyes because I don't want to be in the mood of being taken from here and there. Am already carried away by life too much.

"Drop the acts Lucas and tell me."

"Why do you think I talked to her then if not apologized, I don't know what you heard but just know that I did apologize as you forced me to Anyway talk to you later, am gonna go." Like that, he hangs up on me.

I stand in the living room and stare at my blank screen in disbelief.

'What just happened?'

"Lily Samantha, what was the noise I heard of you and your sister arguing about?" I look at my mother and sigh.

"Good evening ma." She walks and takes a seat on the couch.

She is still in her early pregnancies, I don't think she is showing because you can't tell by just looking at her that she is pregnant. But the toll it's taking on her for being pregnant in her late forties, it's something we all get to witness.

"Nothing much, it was all about school drama and gossip," I say and she turns to learn from me. She pauses and stares at me before asking.

"Are you two alright?"

I nod. "Yeah, why would you think otherwise?" She shrugs her shoulders resting her arm over her flat belly.

"I don't know. Maybe you two might be facing some troubles at school and not be sharing them with us, I mean me and your father."

"Like what ma?" She again turns her gaze at me.

"Like bullying. Lily Samantha, we are not from here and I don't know. Kids might pick at you for your skin color, for difference in language, for who you are. I don't know many more others." I look at her and sigh suddenly wondering what is triggering her to think like that.

"I promise you none of us are facing any kind of a situation like that at school. Mom you know we would say something." She nods her head turning her head to the side and looking unsurely. "I would like to hope so." I just nod my head.

"Am going to go up and shower." With that being said, I don't wait for her reply. Instead, I turn and walk up to my room.

I throw my bag down to the floor and jump on my bed lying on my stomach.

Today has been so hectic that all I want is to vanish. Run away? Disappear? I don't know, I haven't decided what is more inviting and fitting at the moment.

I just said to Kai that I like him, I just got yelled at by my twin sister for something I don't even know of.

I sigh tiredly feeling confused and so defeated. With an evening I just had, what would a girl do? 'Is it unreasonable of me to feel like am faded up with the world as much as young as I am.'

I stay in my bed lying in one position just wondering with my mind that before I know it my morning alarm is ringing.

I wake up and I realize I slept while I lay on my bed thinking. I get up and get ready to go for a jog before I come back and get ready for school.

I walk downstairs and meet with my brother having breakfast and I join him.

"Good morning sleeping beauty." I roll my eyes at him but at least am glad that one of the young Adams is in a teasing mood and not a yelling one.

I don't want to be dramatic about anything but yesterday my sister hurt me by his outburst.

What does she take me for?

I look at yarrow. "Did you meet with Sav?"

"What kind of a question is that?" He asks. "We live together, what do you mean by have I met her?"

"I mean since yesterday after class have you talked to her?" He shakes his head. "Not really, I don't think we've been in touch since yesterday morning, wait, now that I have thought about we haven't been talking much." I pour myself some coffee before sitting down beside him and tease.

"Since when have you been talking much with Sav? Where was I when that happened?"

He turns to smirk at me. "We're sleeping of course." I shake my head at him because he never fades to annoy me.

"Do you know how much I woke you up last night to come and have dinner but you wouldn't budge, you scared me that I panicked thinking my favorite sibling had died but you wouldn't die with me here, want to know what I did?" I look at the smirk on his face and am sure I don't want anything to do with whatever running in his messed-up head.

"Oh please shut up, I know it's Mom who woke me and I told her I wasn't hungry so please find somebody else who wants to listen to your imaginary book story."

"Okay." He says chuckling at himself. "Anyways I have some bad news to share with you, I will not be driving with you to school anymore." I hum squealing in my seat. "You call that bad but I call it blessings. What happened though?"

He stands up and looks at me.

"Dad got sav her car which means Remi is my driver now." I find that quite unsurprising. It was about damn time that it happened.

"So we now like the elite kids in Africa?"

"Yeah, you could say that. Anyways have a good one Sam, meet you at school." He says and I wave to him bye and stay behind drinking my coffee.

Am halfway with my coffee, when I hear footsteps on the stairs.

I turn to look at my sister's face at the same time her face wears a glaring gaze in her eyes.

I open my mouth to greet her but she just rolls her eyes and turns around and walks out of the room not sending a last killer look at me.

I shake my head because I can tell how hectic the day is about to be and unfortunately for me, it goes just like that.

In every class that I had with my sister, I could feel her killing gaze on my back. At lunch, she keeps sending glares at me.

I find myself breathing a relieved sigh when am back in my car driving to the embassy.

I could use some time away from my family because I feel like being with them is going to just go as how my day just went, nothing but a suffocating very terrible and so horrible time.

I walk up to my desk and then announce my presence to Kai through the office telephone.

I stare in a daze contemplating what am being given the cold shoulder for because as much as I keep on thinking of it am still not getting it.

Am in a daze that I don't realize the office telephone ringing or Leila standing at my door.

"Samantha? Sam?" I blink twice when she snaps her fingers and looks at her.

"Uhm, Leila hey."

She walks closer to me stands right in front of me and asks.

"Uhm girl where are you? Anybody out there making you like this" I shift in my seat as I smile at her.

"Where is all that coming from?" I ask her back with a simple smile playing on my lips suddenly giving her question a second thought, now I wish it was something like that.

"You tell me." I look at her and before I have a chance to open my mouth again to reply to her.

Kai is also knocking at my cabin.

"Samantha, were you here all the time?" I raise my head at him not understanding his question.

"What?"

He folds his arms on his chest making his strong firm biceps pop out as he leans on the wall.

"Do you have an idea of how many times I called you?" He says and I frown.

"Am sorry." I just find my mind replying to him because what else would I say?

He just stands there and stares at me looking nothing less than how handsomely hot he always looks all the time. I don't get time to dwell on him because I turn my gaze as I feel his hot gaze on me and as I try to raise my eyes at him later to sneak a glance.

I look back down when I find his still on me.

As I diverted my gaze, I could feel his raising the tension in the room by a hundred Celsius.

It takes seconds but it feels like an hour of me under his gaze and it so feels torturous like am under the punishment of his burning gaze on my soul.

Am feeling all sorts of things when I suddenly come back to memories of him and I yesterday when I confessed I liked him.

Totally Savannah was able to take my mind away from him and my embarrassments of yesterday, I should give it up to her. 'How was she able to do it?'

'As soon as she saw me she cursed and yelled at me that the only thing I was able to think and try to process was what caused her anger towards me.'

Leila clears her throat and she takes my attention back to her.

'What is happening to me, myself, and my young mind.'

"Excuse me, Samantha, guess I will come to see you later." She says and by the look on her face and a stupid mischievous grin forming on her lips that she is trying so hard to hide but fail at it miserably.

I know that she probably caught on to the tension that was between me and Kai.

I don't get to reply because I look up to see her already walking out.

She bypasses Kai and after he makes sure she's left, he tilts his head back to look at me.

"So?" I look at my arranged table that I haven't even touched yet and pretend to be busy with it like it's the most beautiful thing requesting my attention right at the moment in the office.

"Samantha come in my office." He says and just like that he is off to his office.

I let out a hitched breath that I didn't even realize I was holding until I let them out.

I sigh pulling myself together.

'I mean what's there to run away from having a little crush? The worst that would come out of it is him kicking me away from his side. Right?'

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