Disguise by Love-Wins Bella & Wild Bella

Author:Love-Wins, Bella & Wild, Bella [Love-Wins, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2015-09-16T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ALEXANDRA awoke with a startle. She had been dreaming again. Three days had passed since Dad came home. She sat up in bed, tears on her face. The dream was still fresh. She was Alexandra and Lexxi Rock, in two bodies at the same time. Alexandra had been watching Lexxi perform on stage, except it was not her rock star self. She was not singing. She just stood there, smiling and putting up a cheerful front until her face cracked and fell to the floor. No one in the audience noticed what had happened; no one but Alexandra. They kept screaming and cheering and bursting into rounds of applause for her cracked face on the stage floor. It felt more like reality than a dream. The fact was, that was her life.

Now, she was in a different kind of reality. It was far from the hollow glitz of Los Angeles and the world of rock stardom, but she was happier here. She hopped off the bed and tapped the alarm to turn it off. It had been set to remind her of all the times her father needed his doses of medicine. His next home health nurse would arrive soon to relieve another from her night shift. Just in case she didn’t arrive, Alexandra would take care of him. She got dressed in a pair of plaid skater shorts and a black t-shirt, which she covered over with a tan button-down shirt. She spritzed a tiny amount of cologne at her chest, coughing.

“That should do it,” she mumbled, stepping into some masculine flip-flops before strolling out of her bedroom to start the day.

The sun had not yet crested over the horizon when she went downstairs. The old house was drenched in milky gray shadows, as thin, weak light tried to penetrate the dense blinds and closed curtains. She looked around. She had practically turned their home into a mausoleum. She threw open the curtains as she walked by. She would shop for some items to brighten up the space next time she went to the department store.

It was time to help take care of Dad. She had effectively gone through a crash course on how to take care of him, but now that Rosa was out of town, she felt ill-equipped for the job. Alexandra was grateful Rosa had the twenty-four-hour nursing service start before she left. She had not paid much attention to why Rosa had to go out of town. All she remembered was something about a building Dad owned that needed better property management. Whatever the reason, Rosa’s absence meant it was entirely up to Alexandra to stay on top of things.

“Good morning, Dad,” she said to her sleeping patient.

He was out of it with the meds they had prescribed, but she chose to believe he could hear her. She nodded to Lynn, the overnight nurse. Lynn was already gathering her things, so she could leave as soon as the day nurse arrived for her shift. Anxious to get home, no doubt, but who could blame her.

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