arranged love

chapter 1

most people think as love as loving and caring for one another. for me it was the exact opposite. my love was used and forced. my father always forced me to love someone just for their money. I tried my hardest not to love them and just act like I love them so my father won't do anything terrible to me. he's a man who you need to keep a promise for. you don't want to twist his words because once he gets his revenge it's revenge and it's comes hard. my best friend Reyna was the only one who knew about this all. our fathers worked together. Reyna and I have been best friends since birth and we've only had about 1 or 2 fights throughout our 21 year long friendship. crazy right? my mother passed away when I was only 15, her and I wheres so close. the cancer got to her and took her from me. ever since she passed that's when my dad changed. he always gambled all of our money away, always gets drunk, and used to abuse me also. and that's when Brendon stepped into my life. him and I are friends I guess you can say. we hang out here and there but that's really it. he's started a career and I'm happy for him honestly. he has an amazing voice so I know he will make it big in life.

"you okay Kacie?" Brendon asked while sitting next to me on my bed snapping me out of my thoughts. "u-uh yea sorry just thinking about something" I replied back. looking at my phone. "shit it's 10:41Brendon you gotta go" I replied back panicking a little bit. my dad always gets back home from the bar at 11:00pm sharp. he's rather drunk and yells at me or he brings a girl home. "Kacie are you okay? you've been asking me to leave at around 11 for a while now, is everything okay?" he asked me. God damnit the questions are just making the time fly by faster. "yea I'm fine just.. you gotta go Brendon" I said getting up from my bed and he got up also. I walked him to the door. "thanks for coming over" I said to him. "hey no problem what are friends for" he said to me and laughed a little bit. so we are friends, good. I laughed and we walked over to his car and he got in. "are you sure you wa-" Brendon tried saying but I cut him off "yes I'm sure bye Brendon." I said shakily as I felt the time only go by faster. "bye Brooke" he said and I watched his car go down the street and turn as I saw it fade away.

I ran back into my house and took off my jacket as I ran upstairs to my room. I turned off the tv and made the bed a little messy so it will look like I was sleeping. I smelt Brendon's cologne and I sighed as I ran to my bathroom to get my perfume and I sprayed it around my room, maybe a little too much. I looked at my phone as it said 10:58pm. my eyes got huge and I turned off my lights and got into my bed and tried to get as comfortable as I could and ran my fingers through my hair to make it look messy. I saw my dads truck lights shine through my window as he pulled up in the driveway. I looked at my phone and as usual always on time at 11:00pm sharp. I saw the light turn off and my heart started to beat faster and faster as I heard noises outside. i always locked myself in my room at this time because God only know what could happen if I left my room while my dad was drunk. he was terrible when he was drunk. he would break things and hurt people and get sexual too. it was pretty odd and I hated it.

in my twenty one years of life I have never once got drunk. yes I still live with my father at this age. I'm currently looking for a house with Brendon and Reynas help. Brendon because he has a good taste in houses and Reyna because her and I are planning to live in the hose together. my moms money was passed to me ever since she passed and not my father. she loved that man to death but he was already loaded and she wanted me to have money for the future. it was a lot of money and I've been saving it for emergencies all these years. I thought a house was a good emergency. and plus Reyna will be paying the other half and she will actually be moving out of her apartment to move in with me. I heard a girls giggle downstairs where once again I was interrupted by my thoughts. I quietly got up and locked my door. "BROKE" my father yelled from downstairs and I closed my eyes in fear. I didn't reply. I pretended to be asleep as I heard foot steps come up the stairs. I heard the clicking of the girls heels on the hardwood floor. I got my headphones and connected them to my phone and turned up my music all the way up and closed my eyes and listened to the sound of the music and it slowly started to fade away as I fell into a deep sleep.
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heyooo author here I just wanted to say yes I did re-do this chapter and I don't think that many people will notice mainly because it only has 1 read right now lmao, hope you all enjoy the story so far :]

~ Kacie