Heartache and friendships - chapter six

Chapter six

As cadee told her father how she ended up on his doorstep he noticed Adam was half asleep leaning on the table. Adam sat up straight and stretched before noticing her father smiling at him.

“Sorry, did I fall asleep sir?” Adam said sheepishly.

“I’m not that old, so don’t call me sir. Call me Paul” cadees father spoke joyfully. He called out for Miranda, cadees step mother to get some herbal tea. When she handed a cup to Adam he scrunched up his face from the smell.

“You only need a few cups, it will help your head and soul. Now cadee, I’m going to call the police station. Your mother cannot just hit you for seeing Adam here”

“She has no right to hit you at all” spoke Miranda who had now taken a seat next to cadee at the table. Cadee smiled and looked down at her stomach.

“Dad! You knocked her up!” cadee yelled, pretending to be mad. He threw a pillow at her and smiled back. “Ah, now you’ll have to tell the police that you hit me too” cadee laughed. Her father spoke on the phone while Miranda checked cadees cheek for her. She had been a nurse for a number of years before falling pregnant to Paul. He treated her right and made sure she had everything she ever wanted. Cadee had never seen her parents like this. Her mother was always stressed and irritable.

“Thank you officer” there was a pause. “Okay, see you soon” he put down the phone and took a seat again at the table.

“They will be here soon. They’re sending a car to your mothers to take her down to the station”

“Thank god!” Adam exclaimed with a mouth full of tea, which dribbled, down his chin and on his shirt. Miranda giggled and got up to grab a tea towel from the kitchen.

“How far along is she dad?” cadee asked concerned. Her step mum was fairly grown at the front. She looked like she was having twins which worried cadee. Her mother would go crazy after this and if she found out her father had gotten another woman pregnant, she’d get even worse.

“She’s got 3weeks, maybe 2” he sighed.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to budge in or..”

“Cadee” he put a reassuringly arm around her shoulders. “You’re my daughter and I’ve often wondered why you haven’t come to see me. Then, one day when I was out shopping with Miranda, your mother saw us. She swore that she’d never let you near me again. I was heart broken. Truly. I couldn’t stand anything for about 6 months”

“It’s true. Nobody knew what to do. He was a total mess”

“What changed?” cadee asked confused.

“You two turned up on my door step”

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Cadee wandered out of the bathroom in a towel around her body. She was still partly wet, as she hadn’t dried herself properly. Her father was smiling at her when she got to the top of the stairs. There was a door to the left of her covered in band pictures, all emo bands. Avenged sevenfold, Panic!, Fallout boy, the list went on. Paul walked up the stairs and smiled.

“You want to meet Shaun? He’s your stepbrother. Miranda had him with her ex-husband. He’s kind of like you”

“What do you mean like me?”

“He’s quite, obnoxious.. Crazy..”

“I’m not obnoxious” cadee objected as the door opened. Shaun stood in shock at the girl standing before him. She had mid length blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes and the cutest little smile he’d ever seen.

“I’m not obnoxious Paul” he argued. Paul smiled and put his arm around cadee.

“This is my daughter cadee. I’ve spoke of her..”

“At every single dinner and every other moment possible.. I’m Shaun” he spoke as he lent forward and kissed her on the cheek. She automatically blushed and smiled. He had black hair long enough to cover his eyes, which were a grey/blue colour. He was wearing an avenged sevenfold black hoodie and black skinnies. Cadee was left breathless. How was she meant to stay here with this hot, gorgeous.. Wait! What was she thinking? He’s her brother. Well not literally, but he was a stepbrother.

“Glad to meet you” she smiled. Shaun noticed the glittering in her eyes and the redness in her cheeks.

“You have amazing eyes” he said happily. He wandered down stairs with her and Paul failing to notice she was still in a towel. As they entered the kitchen to grab a plate for dinner, cadee realized Adam was asleep at the table. She laughed and wandered over to him.

“Wakey wakey baby” she said before kissing his neck. Adam moaned and sat up and stretched again. “Dinner’s ready.. Then you can go and sleep. You need it”

“Right after we change those bandages and clean those wounds. We can’t have them getting infected” Miranda piped in. cadee smiled and sat next to Adam. Shaun walked over and sat beside her.

“Oh, where’s my manners..”

“We don’t have manners here” joked Shaun. Paul walked past and hit him over the head with a pillow.

“Oh, dad now your going to have to also explain why you hit him too” cadee smiled. Paul hit her again with the same pillow and Shaun looked at cadee.

“Who hit you? They should be killed” he spoke angrily. Cadee frowned and looked down.

“Her mother” sighed Paul. “We’ll explain everything after dinner. If you didn’t have your music up so loud you would have noticed there was something going on”

“I picked up the phone and realized you were on it so I was like argh”

“I was calling the police” Paul said sternly. Shaun seemed to slump in down in his seat and smile at cadee who was giggling at there little argument.

“Cadee, you were in the shower when the police called. They’re taking longer with your mother than they thought so they might not be here until morning. So I’m going to take a picture of that eye now so they can see the full extent of what occurred”

“Sure dad. Right after you address to Adams wrists”

“I’ll see to that” Miranda interrupted. Cadee had forgotten she was a nurse. Her mind was revolving around Shaun. He was cute, had a great sense of humour and it seemed as if he liked her.

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After dinner Miranda took Adam into the bathroom and helped him out while Paul took his camera out and took a few photos of Cadees cheek. He made sure he got one from each angle to show all the markings and cuts.

“I can understand the bruising but why the cuts”

“oh, she threw a glass at the wall behind me. When I fell backwards I must have landed near it. I really don’t remember much”

“Well, she’s going to get it now. I want you to go sit outside with Shaun because I’m sure you can tell him what’s going on and why. Plus I see you’ve got a bit of lustful thoughts running through that mind”

“Dad!” cadee exclaimed, “I don’t have lustful thoughts. It’s merely a crush” she said defeated. Paul laughed and walked her to the back verandah and smiled.

“Go on you” he patted her bottom as she walked off.

“Dad you’ll..”

“I’ll explain it!” he said jokingly. She smiled and joined Shaun on the verandah. He put a comforting arm around her as she told him everything. When she had finished he turned her to face him. They stared at one another for a moment before Paul knocked on the door for them to come inside.