Book 2: In the Life of Mia: College Chapter 51
Leona shifted again speeding up jolting me back and placed her hand on my thigh and squeezed. "I came here after you left saying you'd be going out after and panicked a little when you were not hear but your friends were. Then pinged your phone and saw you were all over the countryside and figured you'd be fine since your team was with you. As for being at the pub I had other reasons and since that was the pub, they were all at the night that Violina died I wanted to scope out the place. The killer could still be watching you all to make sure you don't know anything, and since we still don't know who he/she is we have to do what we can" I could hear the fear in her tone. I knew how she felt when all I could think about was trying to go back to that day even if it were for seconds. I was lost in my head thinking about all the faces I had seen in the last few hours and nothing caught my eye as being suspicious. Leona pulled into the driveway and into the garage before I registered where we were. "Thanks for the drinks again... must not be much of a dancer though...anyways I'm in serious need of a hot shower and my new bed..." I started to yawn slowly opening the door. Leona was out of her side in a heartbeat and over to mine helping me out.
We walked into the house and the lights beamed to life as we walked the hall with Leona behind me. I kept up my pace not sure what to do as my body was still wired up from dancing and drinking. "Well I guess I should head to bed before you decide to wake me for whatever it is you have planned! Should I ask if sleeping is even worth it since it's 3am?" I asked stopping before heading down the other side of the house. Leona gave a little laugh and I finally turned facing her and she stepped back a step. "I'll let you decide and either way when you do get up and I get up you will be tested and sent through the ringer so just be prepared" she smiled and her eyes told me she had serious plans for me before finally walking away. I watched her head down her hall to her side of the house and part of me wanted to stop her, but she knew I was hurting. I let out a long sigh and finally headed to my bedroom with Bailey and Lola already in their bedrooms after leaving me with Leona and giving me back my phone. It had taken me an extra second to even find my way to the bathroom now that I was alone, and all my thoughts were screaming at me.
Taking a deep breath I finally got up and into the bathroom taking a quick shower and climbed into bed hoping I could get a little shut eye. After lying in bed for 2 hours with only about 45 mins of sleep as the voices and cries started to get to me. I was out of the bed and in my work out clothes by 6am and headed out to my kitchen and found my personal chef. "Rocco.... what are you doing here I told you, you could have stayed at the house" "No ma'am I like you too much and you've broken me in... why make you have to break in another, heard you moving around in there so came out to get your smoothie ready" he gave me a soft smile and a wink before blending. I took a seat at the island and drank my smoothie reading my messages I had received the night before. I had a dozen texts messages from Catherine, Giovanni and my parents. Catherine was mad that I had turned my phone over to Lola and refused to call her on the phone. Giovanni was worried about me and was just as pissed as Catherine. "You are ignoring the people who love you the most and I get you are upset and just want to be left alone to grow up and follow your dreams. I am here for you day or night and hope you realize that." I wanted to txt him back but I need more time so I would not ask him about Sharene. "Yes, I know and thank you" I text back and left it at that.
My parents, texts were both full of sadness and maybe even a little disappointment. They were going to give me space but wanted to know if I was going to make it home for the holiday break and my brothers birth and it drove me crazy that they thought I wouldn't be. Instead of texting back right away I decided I'd wait until it was a reasonable hour for them since it was only about 1am where they were back home and my parents needed their rest regardless of it being the weekend. I opened up my laptop and books as it sat on the counter island and started on my first huge assignment for one of my classes. After deciding that I would be staying in this country and this house I knew I had to try and make it my own in some way even if it were the littlest things around the house. I trailed off from schoolwork as I took in my new space of living for whatever time I had left there and depending on Leona who was getting more intense every day. My email had pinged pulling me back to the reality of what I had originally been doing before my thoughts got the better of me and my schoolwork. The email had been from school letting me and the rest of my classmates know that we had messages from our professors who were hoping we were taking their assignments serious.
After downing my smoothie I headed for the gym and was thankful that it was far from any part of the house that held people in bedrooms sleeping since I knew I'd be pretty loud even though the room was sound proofed for that exact reason. I was wired up and wound up so tight that I wasn't sure if all the work and getting my frustration out was actually going to help me at that point. I started with cardio and ended with kick boxing on a dummy that was in the room which did not help as much as I thought it would since there was no give back. I tore off the gloves and laid flat on the floor looking up at the ceiling that had never caught my eye until that moment as it was painted with stars and constellations almost as though there was some type of hidden message within it. "What the hell am I doing... have I lost my mind and now just pushed the one person I trusted with my whole heart..." "You didn't trust her enough or you would have told her everything and trusted that she'd help you through this part..." my grandfather Artemis cut me off with his firm voice.
I knew it was just a matter of time that they came busting through since I had been blocking them out and it was not the best idea probably but it's what I had needed at the time. "Well I guess I'll have to learn from that mistake and a broken heart, but maybe that's just who I am....broken and don't need to be going and breaking others since I've been doing a pretty good job of it so far. That's it I'm just tired of feeling sorry for myself and have to grow up for real and put the big girl panties on... I might have felt grown all these years but the truth is I haven't seen half of what it's like to have responsibilities like my parents, their parents, and even my friends around me that don't get to live the way I do and are on scholarships...." I could feel my heart starting to finally become one with me again as I finally got to my feet and brushed myself off. I heard the door of the basement gym open and a second later Leona yelling "I sure hope you are not too tired of working your ass off since I have not even got my hands on you yet" she was so loud as she made her entrance and came running down the stairs.
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