Cane
A week later..
Sitting in the firearms room I'm polishing the new ones that has just arrived. I get joined by my dad as the door closes.
"Getting married" His voice sounded very enthused and by the look on his face he is proud. "I thought i'd never see the day" "Yeah me neither" "Your mother and I fell in love young in only a month. married her 4 months later and had you 7 months after, yes she was pregnant before I married her." "with yours truly" "and your sister, which by the way someone is here to see you about her" "what?! dad why didn't you start off with that?" He chuckles walking towards the door. I follow him. "Where is this person?" "She's at the entrance." I look towards it as I seen a beautiful, bout 5'5, brown haired rich girl standing there. Before I could approach her I grabbed my dad "Did she give a name?" "Mila Moretti" "Of the Moretti Family? What would she know?" "How about you go find out. We're having a family dinner in 2 days, bring my daughter home." I wave him off as my eyes went back to Mila, she stood there looking so polished. Just by how she was holding her bag you could see how rich she is.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Jamie says from the corner. Her face screamed anger which made me start walking towards them. "Oh hello Jamie." "What are you doing here Mila?" "Doing what you should've been did. Hello Mr. Black" Jamie turns to me with a pale face as her hands started to shake. "Ms.Moretti, weird to see you on this side of town." "Daddy told me where to find you, since you've guys done business before." "Of course, your father is a promising client. My father tells me you have information on my sister?" "I know where she is and where's she been." She shoots a look at Jamie, she lowers her head so I wouldn't look her in the eyes. "Where has she been?" "For the past 4 1/2 months she's been staying at the Carter residence with Shane Jamie and I." "Excuse me?" Jamie lifts her head opening her mouth to speak "The hell do she mean she's been with your brother this whole time Jamie?!" "Cane it's more to the story I was going to tell you" "WHEN JAMIE? You've known where she was this whole thing and i've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off!" "Let me explain please." "both of you my office NOW."
I called my dad and Kyle into the room with me as my blood was boiling through the roof. For Jamie to be under my nose this whole time and also my sister at my fingertips is really driving me up a wall, i'm trying to not haul off and choke Jamie against this wall.
"Start talking now Jamie." "The night of the kidnapping the explosion all of that, Shane's guy were riding by and seen a masked set of people carrying Cassie body to a van. Knowing who she is they followed and knocked the van off the road, killing the two drivers. During the impact Cassie hit her head very VERY bad, to where when she woke up in my home her brain was severely swollen and all her memories of who she was and her family were gone." I felt myself explode hearing all of this so I jumped up hitting my desk "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER?" "Cane calm down son" "Dad she's had Cassie this whole time!" "She didn't want to come to her family and not know who you guys were. She just started researching you guys and fighting again, she's coming to herself but uh.." "but uh WHAT?" Mila cuts her eyes at Jamie "But she's also fallen in love with Shane." Mila lowly says. The hurt in her voice told me more than she needed to. She has a ring on her finger that she toys with biting her lip. "How do you know that?" "I heard them, last night.. He, they.." Jamie gasped "THEY SLEPT TOGETHER?" "He loves her Jamie, more than he will ever love me." I rubbed my temples trying to collect all of this at once. Cassie has temporary memory loss, she's starting to come to herself but in the mix of that fell in love with a man who completely hates us. Great westside story in a twisted way. "I think it's about time I pay Shane Carter a visit and Jamie you're taking me. NOW."
Cassie
I smell bacon. The smell of bacon woke me up making me sit up to realize i'm alone in bed. My body felt more loose and relaxed than it has in weeks maybe because I let out everything i've been feeling since I got here, dealing with the memory loss, Mila Shane my feelings. Last night was the result of that. Remembering everything made me shiver as I got out of bed and found Shane t-shirt on the floor, I draped it over my head and onto my body. I follow the smell of the bacon going into the kitchen. Shane stood over the stove making eggs, shirtless. This is a sight I would love to see every morning. I bit my lip creeping up on him snaking my arms around his torso kissing his strong back. "she's awake" "I would've slept longer if I didn't spell bacon" "I don't normally cook but.. you make me try new things" I love this, this happiness i'm feeling off the both of us. The comfortability we felt with each other, everything just flowed it was meant to be like this. We were meant for each other. In the middle of feeding him bacon his phone rings seeing the contact his face fell "I gotta take this i'll be right back" I nodded okay as he kissed my forehead.
Sitting there for about 10 minutes he finally comes back in, but something was off about him. His face was blank his eyes were dilated and his fist is clinched. "Shane what's going on?" "Cassie we need to .. " just before he could finish talking the front door opens. Since we could see from the kitchen who comes through the door I turn in my seat. Standing there frozen as we locked eyes is someone who looks exactly like me but in a males body. When we locked eyes my whole body became numb, then I felt weird. My head started to pound very badly to where i grabbed it standing up "ugh.." I drop to my knees from the pain not knowing what's going on. Everything around me started to spin I felt my body become weaker and weaker, then he touches me. Cane touches me holding me up as my vision was blurred I touched his face. Then it happened...
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Cassie memories started to rush through her head but her most treasured one starts to go on in her mind.
"Cane pass me my shoe" "Cassie pass me my belt" "Cane pass me my lipstick." "Cass pass me my cologne." As we were helping each other get read for senior prom. "Cane let me ask you something serious." "Shoot." "Remember when ma lost her memory, then her twin brother came and saved her, soon as he touched her all her memories came back?" "Yeah why?" "Were like them, I feel incomplete without you. I'd be myself always but we were in the womb together, we were raised together and did sports and everything together. Business and illegal things together. We're one in the same, if something is to ever happen to me where I forget who I am. Come for me please.. because as mom said if her brother didn't come for her. She wouldn't even know who her kids were because of her brother being the other half of her memories. You can restore a brain and memories when the other half of them is nowhere near. So promise me." He looks down at her as she finishes his tie. "No matter what Cassie I'll always come for you, until you get a man who can also complete you like that." "we're blood Cane, that'll never change" "Of course. Blacks for life" They pounded their fist twisting it, representing them putting a lock on their bond forever. "Blacks for life"
Cassie starts to come to in the bedroom she's been in for 4 months.
Cassie
I open my eyes hearing bickering. Two male voices as I place my hand on my head. Everything in my head felt like it just reset, and starting to backup from before I lost my memory mixed in with everything that's happened these past 4 months. I sat up to a white girl beside me with curly hair holding my hand I look at her seeing her face I remembered her name.
"Jamie?" I cleared my throat hearing how nasty my voice sounded. "Cassie,are you okay?" "My head is banging right now, it's like a hard drive loading into a boot in the back computer." "You got your memories back?" "Yeah, I.. I did." I shake my head as the voices I was hearing started to become more clear because they were beside me. Cane and Shane were arguing back and forth about something. As I looked at Shane my heart started to beat, even with regaining all my memories the feelings and the ones we've created has become so strong they synced in with my old ones.
"Guys.." I lowly say knowing they couldn't hear me. "Guys. GUYS! SHUT THE HELL UP" they turn to me walking towards the bed. Cane grabs my face cupping it "Cassie are you.." "I'm back, I guess I still feel a little weird but.. I'm back, you kept your promise." He smiles lightly rubbing my cheek "took a little while but I'm here" we hugged and my heart felt full. Holding my brother again after feeling like I was away from my body this whole time felt amazing. "How's dad? Oh my god How's Yasmine?" "everyone is fine, mom is fine, Cade is fine, Yasmine is moody and pregnant.." "Oh yes forgot you were having a baby. Did you.." "Yes, i proposed" I smiled clapping my hands "what a time to get my memories back wedding time." "before we do that, maybe we should give you and Shane a minute." I look up at him as his eyes were full of regret. Something is off. Jamie and Cane left the room as I sat on the edge of the bed, Shane stood over me rubbing his temples.
"What's going on?" He gets down on his knees grabbing my hands, kissing them, grabs my face kissing my lips. "You know how I feel about you Cassie." I make him look me in the eyes "what's going on?" "Forgive me please." "Shane.." "I have to marry Mila, Cassie i'm sorry." The minute I get my heart back together he breaks it in two with just 5 words. I snatch my hands out of his as my eyes start to sting "wha-wha.. what's are you talking about?" "Cassie i'm sorry but we're not going to work." "Shane, but last night?" "It was a mistake Cassie.. I got carried away." His face was bland, he wouldn't even look at me which infuriated me more. I stood up smacking him across the face. His head cocked to the side as my chest went up and down. I caught the tear before it fell. He looks at me with remorse in his eyes and I look away chuckling. "CANE!" I scream for him, seconds later he opens the door feeling the tense aura in the room. "We're leaving." "I'll meet you in the car" I went to walk by Shane without nomore words to say, he grabs my wrist but real quick I snatched it away.
"YOU PLAYED ME. You played me when I was most vulnerable and for what?! Huh!?" He didn't answer me instead just stood there. "Nothing? You're pathetic." "Cassie-" "STOP saying my name, don't ever say my name again, don't speak about me don't ask about me, just stay the fuck away from me. Forever Shane" I opened the door to Mila standing there. With not one smirk on her face, but she looked uncertain. "You wanted him, you can have him. Congratulations. Have a nice life." I ran out that house faster than I showed up there. I haven't felt pain like this before to where all I wanted to do was break down and cry. I got in the car with Cane and just stared forward "You we're always right about him Cane." "Cass it's okay." "He just won't ever get over what his father did for me, instead he runs from it. But it's cool..just get me out of here. Take me home"
Heartbreak is real, I bring pain to people often but this isn't a pain i'd wish or bring on anybody. I thought he cared about me, I thought he was my ace.. He played me until I fell in love with him and that's sure what I did. Fell so deep in love with a con-artist.