This Is Us
03. My Number One Law
That Night; 2:14 a.m.
Niall’s POV
I sigh to myself as I look at the time. Today wasn’t a very good day for me. Around lunch I got a very interesting call from a very important person in the business world and now I’m just completely ticked off. So, I came down to what Jana calls me ‘Man Cave’ and got one of my guitars, just strumming random things.
The TV was off, but I had some music softly playing, just to break the extra silence, you know the kind of silence that annoys you so bad. My thoughts roamed like crazy, things popping up in my head at random, no relation to each other at all.
It’s late February, I have a very important date coming up.. My 10th Year Wedding Anniversary, possibly one of the most important ones ever. I sigh as I think of things, think of what I could do. But there wasn’t anything in the world Jana and I haven’t done together.
I took her every where she wanted to go, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm. We go to Dublin and London more than we need to, but still, there’s nowhere I haven’t token her.
We went to Rio de Janeiro for our 5th, which was another big one, The Bahamas for our 1st, which clearly is the best one, to Paris for the 2nd one, Cancun for the 3rd, Tokyo for the 6th, Barcelona for the 7th, Sydney for our 8th, and finally to Cape Town for our 9th.
And God, lets not forget all the birthday trips, of course only on her birthday. And then the few summer trips where it was just me and her, and others when it was all of us. My point is, there’s no where to take her. I don’t even know what to plan, other than sex. I know she wants that all the time, trust me.
I was about to start listing some open options, which all sucked anyways, when my phone suddenly rang. My first thought, it was Jana and something as wrong upstairs. My next thought, just answer and find out!
As I grab it from beside me, I look at the ID. Are you dead fucking serious right now, really? At 2:25 in the morning. What the hell does this bitch want? I roll my eyes and answer, knowing that she would just continue to call until I picked up.
‘’Hello?’’ I sigh out, annoyed at this already and I haven’t even heard her damn voice yet. She clears her throat before starting the torture, ‘’Mr. Horan, I’m sorry to bother you at such a late hour, but I have some interesting news. You and I will feel the same way about it, I’m sure.’’ She tells me.
You see, I was on the phone with Dalton’s mother, Dalton is Tori’s ‘boyfriend’. ‘’What it is?’’ I simply ask, not trying to get into a full on discussion with this. She only had called to tell me how horrible I raise my children, but yet she’s the one with the fucked up family.
Her ex-husband, and father of all three of her kids, raped her youngest daughter, who was twelve when it started and sixteen when she told it. But yet, I don’t raise my child right and my family’s jacked up. Mmhm, sure.
‘’Well, my son had a small get-together with some of his friends earlier tonight, and it ended before midnight. Well, anyways, I went to check on the kids a few minutes ago, like I try to do every night, and well..’’ She stops herself.
I raise my eyebrows, I could care less what she saw her son doing. I roll my eyes lightly as she continues with a sigh. ‘’I turned on the light, and I um, I saw someone. Niall, Tori was in Dalton’s room, in the bed with him.’’ Mrs. Williams says.
I almost choke on my own spit as I throw the guitar from my lap and beside me on the couch as I stand up. ‘’You’re joking right?’’ I ask as I hurry up the small staircase. ‘’No, I’m serious. But it gets worse, and this shocked me very so.’’ She tells me.
‘’Well what was it?’’ I ask as I shut the door to the basement and hurry to the foyer so I can go up the damn stairs, I swear to God if Tori’s not up in her god damn room I’m going to fucking kill her, bring her back, then kill her again.
‘’Well, I didn’t bother them, because I figured you’d want to see it for yourself. But um, I was peeking around, just to make sure they were.. you know.. not doing anything they weren’t supposed to do. And well, I looked in the crash can, and I almost had a heart attack.’’ She informs me of this.
‘’With all respect Mrs. Williams, and sorry for my language, but please tell me you didn’t see a fucking condom package.’’ I sigh, my hand on my forehead as I hurry up the stairs. ‘’Sorry to say, but yes. Not just the package either.’’ She huffs lightly.
The anger builds up inside of me, bubbling out like crazy. I have never felt so betrayed before in my life. We have rules in this household, in this family. Each child has his and her own, plus the overall ones. And Tori’s number rule is to keep pure, despite past events we try not to mention to anyone at all.
And she broke my number one law. She broke it, and that breaks me.
Finally, after what felt like forever, I made it almost to Tori’s room, and Mrs. Williams hung up so she could get dressed and wait at her door for me, because I was coming over. Trust me. I was for sure.
I open the door, pushing it will the force I have inside my body. I flick on the light, and there was the evidence I needed. The balcony door was open, the bed was messy, her phone was gone, her purse was gone… and most importantly, my daughter was.. Gone.
Hurrying to the balcony, I fear to find more evidence, I know I will. I step onto the balcony after turning the light that was out there on. My heart breaks into a zillion pieces as I see a rope tied to the railing and dropped all the way down. She must have planned to get back up that way, well her plan was a fail.
And right now, I was honestly thinking of killing her and that boy. But most importantly, her. She can’t blame him, she asked for it so he gave it. I know how it goes with teenagers, all they fucking think about is sex.
For my daughter to disobey this much in one night, it truly just makes me completely fucking sick, and furious.
Niall’s POV
I sigh to myself as I look at the time. Today wasn’t a very good day for me. Around lunch I got a very interesting call from a very important person in the business world and now I’m just completely ticked off. So, I came down to what Jana calls me ‘Man Cave’ and got one of my guitars, just strumming random things.
The TV was off, but I had some music softly playing, just to break the extra silence, you know the kind of silence that annoys you so bad. My thoughts roamed like crazy, things popping up in my head at random, no relation to each other at all.
It’s late February, I have a very important date coming up.. My 10th Year Wedding Anniversary, possibly one of the most important ones ever. I sigh as I think of things, think of what I could do. But there wasn’t anything in the world Jana and I haven’t done together.
I took her every where she wanted to go, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm. We go to Dublin and London more than we need to, but still, there’s nowhere I haven’t token her.
We went to Rio de Janeiro for our 5th, which was another big one, The Bahamas for our 1st, which clearly is the best one, to Paris for the 2nd one, Cancun for the 3rd, Tokyo for the 6th, Barcelona for the 7th, Sydney for our 8th, and finally to Cape Town for our 9th.
And God, lets not forget all the birthday trips, of course only on her birthday. And then the few summer trips where it was just me and her, and others when it was all of us. My point is, there’s no where to take her. I don’t even know what to plan, other than sex. I know she wants that all the time, trust me.
I was about to start listing some open options, which all sucked anyways, when my phone suddenly rang. My first thought, it was Jana and something as wrong upstairs. My next thought, just answer and find out!
As I grab it from beside me, I look at the ID. Are you dead fucking serious right now, really? At 2:25 in the morning. What the hell does this bitch want? I roll my eyes and answer, knowing that she would just continue to call until I picked up.
‘’Hello?’’ I sigh out, annoyed at this already and I haven’t even heard her damn voice yet. She clears her throat before starting the torture, ‘’Mr. Horan, I’m sorry to bother you at such a late hour, but I have some interesting news. You and I will feel the same way about it, I’m sure.’’ She tells me.
You see, I was on the phone with Dalton’s mother, Dalton is Tori’s ‘boyfriend’. ‘’What it is?’’ I simply ask, not trying to get into a full on discussion with this. She only had called to tell me how horrible I raise my children, but yet she’s the one with the fucked up family.
Her ex-husband, and father of all three of her kids, raped her youngest daughter, who was twelve when it started and sixteen when she told it. But yet, I don’t raise my child right and my family’s jacked up. Mmhm, sure.
‘’Well, my son had a small get-together with some of his friends earlier tonight, and it ended before midnight. Well, anyways, I went to check on the kids a few minutes ago, like I try to do every night, and well..’’ She stops herself.
I raise my eyebrows, I could care less what she saw her son doing. I roll my eyes lightly as she continues with a sigh. ‘’I turned on the light, and I um, I saw someone. Niall, Tori was in Dalton’s room, in the bed with him.’’ Mrs. Williams says.
I almost choke on my own spit as I throw the guitar from my lap and beside me on the couch as I stand up. ‘’You’re joking right?’’ I ask as I hurry up the small staircase. ‘’No, I’m serious. But it gets worse, and this shocked me very so.’’ She tells me.
‘’Well what was it?’’ I ask as I shut the door to the basement and hurry to the foyer so I can go up the damn stairs, I swear to God if Tori’s not up in her god damn room I’m going to fucking kill her, bring her back, then kill her again.
‘’Well, I didn’t bother them, because I figured you’d want to see it for yourself. But um, I was peeking around, just to make sure they were.. you know.. not doing anything they weren’t supposed to do. And well, I looked in the crash can, and I almost had a heart attack.’’ She informs me of this.
‘’With all respect Mrs. Williams, and sorry for my language, but please tell me you didn’t see a fucking condom package.’’ I sigh, my hand on my forehead as I hurry up the stairs. ‘’Sorry to say, but yes. Not just the package either.’’ She huffs lightly.
The anger builds up inside of me, bubbling out like crazy. I have never felt so betrayed before in my life. We have rules in this household, in this family. Each child has his and her own, plus the overall ones. And Tori’s number rule is to keep pure, despite past events we try not to mention to anyone at all.
And she broke my number one law. She broke it, and that breaks me.
Finally, after what felt like forever, I made it almost to Tori’s room, and Mrs. Williams hung up so she could get dressed and wait at her door for me, because I was coming over. Trust me. I was for sure.
I open the door, pushing it will the force I have inside my body. I flick on the light, and there was the evidence I needed. The balcony door was open, the bed was messy, her phone was gone, her purse was gone… and most importantly, my daughter was.. Gone.
Hurrying to the balcony, I fear to find more evidence, I know I will. I step onto the balcony after turning the light that was out there on. My heart breaks into a zillion pieces as I see a rope tied to the railing and dropped all the way down. She must have planned to get back up that way, well her plan was a fail.
And right now, I was honestly thinking of killing her and that boy. But most importantly, her. She can’t blame him, she asked for it so he gave it. I know how it goes with teenagers, all they fucking think about is sex.
For my daughter to disobey this much in one night, it truly just makes me completely fucking sick, and furious.
Notes
Cliff hanger, I will update soon guys! Please comment your thoughts, love you so much!!!
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His mom, remember it was a whole chapter about it before??
10/18/15