Crushed and Created- Tangled series (Overprotective famous brothers)

Hanging up and confessions

ALISHA

I woke up early in the morning and got ready in ten minutes flat. Just as I was having some cereal and fresh orange juice to get geared up for today, I got a text from Adrian. I almost smiled seeing his name and face light up on my screen. Key word- almost.

So, morning there? – Adrian

Yep. :/ - Alisha

Why are you so :/? -  Adrian

One, it’s morning, and two lotsa drama going on. I hate my life. – Alisha

Oh no. :( what happened? – Adrian

Can’t tell…makes it worse – Alisha

Of course u can’t- Adrian

What do u mean? – Alisha

Just…forget I ever said anything – Adrian

Not caring about the ridiculous rates of international call, I called him straight away.

“Adrian, we can’t ignore stuff said. Nor can we hide what’s going on in our lives.” I tried to stay as calm as possible, and focused on being positive. It was only natural to fight sometimes when in long distance relationships, right? And then, it was all so surreal for everyone, nobody could expect everyone to be calm and understanding all the time. He was a teen too, how had every right to act like a bipolar.

“Exactly. And you are hiding so many things from me. How am I supposed to live with that?” even from miles away I knew it was hurting him. I wanted to, I wanted to tell him everything and break every wall between us. But not everything was in my hands.

“Adrian, trust me at this one. I want to tell, I wanna tell this to the entire world. But I can’t tell you, it’s classified information.”

“So you the FBI now?” he hissed at me and I lost control over my mouth. I knew it was difficult, but he couldn’t just go on judging me without even trying to understand what the hell was going on.

“Listen. Lives were destroyed, and they won’t get justice if this gets out. I cannot tell you, I can’t even tell my brothers. Nobody knows.” I spat at him and hung up. I immediately regretted ending the call, but I couldn’t speak more about it. If the news about the intelligence having a sketch leaked, the culprits would make sure to go underground and untraceable. We’d never find them then. Justice would never be delivered, all those lives would be lost for nothing. Even my brothers understood and let me keep a secret for once, but him? he refused to even listen and understand!

After a minute, Adrian called again and I picked up at the second ring.

“I didn’t realize it was about the attack. Sorry.” He sounded guilty, his voice was thick with it. Still, somewhere deep inside I could detect some more questions and complications. But then could I blame him? I had kept so many things from him, I had refused to tell him about half my life and he gave me my time. Maybe it was just time…

“It’s ok. Just don’t tell anyone that I ever said anything about it.”

“Never.” He replied instantly and I could trust him on this one. He wasn’t the one to go yelling about hot news, it just wasn’t him. He didn’t even bother to brag about dating a “celebrity sister”, then why would he tell the world about this one?

There was this awkward silence that felt like eternity. You’d think we’d apologize and I’d spill some more tears, he’d console me and there’ll be a masterpiece of a song coming up, right? Well, wrong. All I was getting was silence.