Chapter 4. Other Side of Anthony

One Year Later

"Happy Birthday Lilian! Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!" All of my friends were howling and whistling. We were at the hottest club in town, celebrating my twenty-first birthday.

I was wasted, and my boyfriend Jack was being a dick. I was fucking mad at him, for screwing my friend Mariana at my birthday party. I found him pants down, pounding the very eager Mariana. Both were shocked at seeing me, but I just smiled at them and told them to carry on. I didn't care anymore.

Since Janet and David passed away, I had a new point of view in life, which was fuck the universe! They had fucked with my life, and I just didn't give a damn anymore! I went on with my days carefree like nothing could ever hurt me anymore. I was done feeling sorry for myself!

I'm twenty-one now, meaning that I would be free of Anthony. My annoying, controlling eight-year-older stepbrother who was also my legal guardian. We didn't even share the same last name.