Bought and Sold (Part 1 of 3) by Megan Stephens

Author:Megan Stephens
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-01-28T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Although Mum still didn’t like or trust Jak, she didn’t have any real objections to my going to live with him and his family – I suppose because she knew his parents would be there. She was spending most of her time with Nikos, but I continued to see or talk to her almost every day after I moved out of the apartment.

Jak was working as a gardener and I was able to go with him, to sit in the sun and talk to him while he did his jobs. It was about two weeks after Mum and I had not taken our flight home that I began to notice how much better his English was. ‘I learn really quick,’ he told me when I remarked on his rapid improvement. And I had no reason to doubt what he said.

He often told me: ‘I don’t want you ever to go home. I want you to stay here with me for ever. I love you.’ And I believed that too. I really wanted it to be true, because I knew that I loved him. At the age of 14, I think the only ambition I had ever had was to know that someone had chosen to love me.

I only stayed with Jak’s family for a few days before Jak and I moved into a small apartment in a town a bit further along the coast. I didn’t tell Mum though. I let her go on believing that we were still living with his parents. Jak and I had been in the new place for just a couple of days when we had a huge row. I had told him I wasn’t going to go to work with him that morning because I wanted to spend some time with my mum, and he looked really hurt and asked, ‘Why don’t you want to spend the day with me?’

‘I’ve spent every day with you,’ I said, ‘and I’ll see you this evening. But today I want to see my mum.’

I was completely taken by surprise when he suddenly started shouting at me. I didn’t understand everything he was saying, because the angrier he got the more he seemed to lose his grasp of English. And then he bellowed into my face, ‘You don’t love me! I want to spend all the time with you, but you don’t want that.’

I might have been pleased to think he felt jealous if I had been planning to spend the day with someone else. But it was my mother I wanted to see, and his aggressive reaction startled me. I hadn’t entirely lost the stroppy teenager part of my character so I shouted back at him. And when our neighbours complained to the landlord about the loud, full-scale argument that ensued, we were kicked out of the apartment the next day.

Jak was contrite about his jealousy, and I was flattered when he told me that the reason he was so upset was because he loved me so much he wanted me to be with him all the time.

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