That Word Everybody Hates (Complete)

Chapter One

Sang

I pull my white Escalade into the large driveway of our large three story house and just sit there, staring at it numbly. Victor brought this beautiful house for us all on my eighteenth birthday that still feels like yesterday but really, it was seven years ago. It’s a beautiful house actually with 12 large bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms and all decorated to the way we wanted them. The kitchen is large and white with black marble counters, perfect for cooking in which myself, Luke and North love doing together. The family room has a large TV and several three seater sofa’s. The dining room has a large wood dining room table that is about to seat twenty people.

There’s a basement that the boys have converted into a games from with a pool, tennis and air hockey table. Plus a TV with a blue ray player, xbox, ps3 and Wii along with different collections of DVD’s and games.

One the first floor are six bedrooms, they belong to Owen, Gabriel, Kota, Silas and Nathan, the last bedroom has been converted into a guest bedroom, not that we have any guests but Kayli and her boys staying over on the occasional Friday night after one too many beers. One the top floor is myself, North, Luke, Sean and Victor. The sixth bedroom on that floor has been turned into a room for Gabriel where he can make his own clothes.

Outside we have a large swimming pool and a pool house that we use for family meetings. It has a small kitchen with three bedrooms which we have changed into offices. That’s basically what the pool house is really, our own building of offices. One room is full of different computers and equipment for Victor and the other two are simply just normal offices with a desk, although the bigger room out of the two is mainly Owens. Myself and the others use the second office ourselves.

We have a tennis court also plus a large shed that has been converted into a gym. The brick building we call the shed is big enough for several treadmills’, bikes and other gym equipment and still leaves enough room to get the blue mats out to practice the material arts we all know.

I love this house. I fell in love with this house when the boys first brought me here. There was no denying it that it would be my home with a few changes here and there. But then again, home is wherever my boys are.

I banging sound from the direction of the garages get my attention. I spot North under his jeep, no doubt messing around with it again. It’s the same jeep he had when I first met him at almost sixteen years old. I keep telling him that one day it will just pack up and stop working but he’s insistent that it will never die on him. Guess it wouldn’t start again this morning then.

I get out of my car and then reach into the backseat for the few bags of grocery shopping I brought from the store. There isn’t anything special inside. Just some different fruit and vegetables with a joint of meet. My door car slamming closed gets North’s attention as he slides out from under the car. When he sees me his face lights up. He drops his tools to the ground with a clatter and makes his way over to me, wiping his black t-shirt over his forehead. “Hey baby.” He says reaching me.

“Hey.” I say, giving him a quick kiss on the lips as he wraps his arm around my waist. “Get it working yet?” I ask, a smile tugging at my lips.

He shakes his head and looks back at the jeep. “It’s dyeing on me. After what? Ten years, it’s fucking dying on me.” I can’t help but slightly flinch at his words. North must have felt it because he looks down at me, a frown on his handsome face. “You okay baby?”

No, I’m not okay but I will be, I tell him in my head. Forcing a smile, I nod my head. “I’m fine. I’m going to go inside and get dinner started.”

He nods and I pull away from him, heading towards the front door. When North calls my name, I turn and look at him. His hands are on his hips, his eyes going up and down the length of my body, checking me over, making sure I’m physically okay, not in that way that sets me on fire. “You’d tell me if you weren’t okay wouldn’t you baby?”