'Oh Kai,'
"Hello, Los Angeles."
I felt sparks and butterflies all over my stomach as the plane landed on the ground of Lax. This is my first time being in this state of America.
All my life I have lived in Virginia and AlKansas but as the car drove us to the residence of where Kai lived, I felt like I was moving in with the person that I don't know about.
Yes, you heard me very loud and clear the first time.
I am moving in with Kai.
You might be wondering how we got ourselves from being called a prostitute to us moving here in Los Angeles. Well, a little pick-me-up story.
A few days ago
The very same day I was kicked out of my family house and disowned by my father,
I walked into Kai's car and he drove me to the Radisson Blu Hotel in his suite still the thought of bearing that I was parentless was not sitting right with me.
I felt so betrayed but mostly coming back to Savannah, I felt nothing but confusion towards her.
I mean really? What did I ever do to her that would make her do something like that to me?
After Yarrow told me that Savannah was the one who brought the pictures to my parents, it suddenly became clear that there is still a part that I am still in the dark but I guess that I will always be in the dark because I plan to not meet my family ever again.
Savannah has always had a talent for photography and she has done something like that to so many students back in Virginia that it fit my gap when I was told she brought the pictures.
But my darkness in all that lies nowhere but from wondering, what would she get in framing me like she did?
Now that I am a disgrace, a cast-out child from my family. What does she get?
How does her life change?
Sometimes some bad doings can have an explanation even though bad is always bad but really! What does Savannah earn from doing me like she did?
Anyway, I think there is no need to delay things that will never be of importance to us even though a few days ago, absorbing that and wanting to live by its concept was something I found hard to do but with time am learning to digest.
I have cried, sniffled, sobbed, did a lot of thinking, a lot of wondering. But in life what's done is done.
But what confuses me is how the people you most didn't suspect are always the ones to backstab you in the back.
Kai was banned from working in the embassy, I felt like crap when I heard the lengths Dad was taking just to ban him from politics. I am not going to lie it made me loathe my father and loathe his so politics that I was starting to love. In my eyes, it turned so fake.
We had nothing tying us in Rwanda anymore so we moved places thus to why we came to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, it's Kai's home. Really? I guess I felt way too surprised than you were when I heard of it. Come on don't ask why? How come a person with a body like Kai's adding the fact of coming from Los Angeles become a politician of all careers? It was about damn time that I was to realize Dad and Savannah may have done us a favor without knowing.
The car that drove us pulled at a beautiful penthouse which is located in the good neighborhood of the city. We get out of the car and I turn to Kai.
"Where is this place?" I asked him when he came to my side and started leading me in.
"Our new home, darling." Did I just hear him right?
"Our new home?" I ask back and he just nods his head.
I gasp because I don't realize what is happening here.
First I have been blown knowing I was going to live in Los Angeles and now I get to live this luxury. Please don't get me wrong. Los Angeles has been my favorite city to live in ever since I was young.
I love Hollywood so much, that I could not imagine living in its hometown.
"Kai this place is insanely expensive," I exclaim because the penthouse standing in front of us and the city we just drown into screams nothing but money.
"Let's go inside and have a tour then we will have a conversation about it later." He proposed looking as calmly as ever like he always does but hello my dear, deep down I am freaking out.
I would hate to tour this place and love it and then be kicked out of it.
But hey, who am I kidding? I already love the place.
We walk through the big doors and there is a man dressed in a uniform suit standing at the start of big rounded stairs in the middle of the house.
"Good morning Mr Daniels. Good morning ma'am." I know I am addressed as the ma'am but what is going on with Mr Daniels?
Kai lets out a sigh. "It's Royal now, Theodore."
"Sorry, Mr Royal."
I put my arm through Kai's and he leans his head and looks at me.
"Samantha, meet Theodore the house manager. Theodore meet Samantha my girlfriend."
I step forward and give my hand to Theodore which he takes and shakes lightly.
"Nice to meet you ma'…." He stops and I frown.
He looks at Kai for a second before he brings his eyes back to me. "Nice meeting you Samantha."
"Okay." I shake his hand too before I raise my eyes to Kai.
We pull away and he composes himself.
"Want a tour guide?" He asks and I nod.
"Please," I answer because I can't wait to see the whole of this place.
Even though I am still confused with whatever happening here, I believe it's for good reason. I just know my heart and mind can't take another betrayal. And nothing here seems to look threatening.
Like you caught on Savannah's moves earlier.
I shake my head subtly to get Savannah's thoughts out.
Theodore leads us upstairs first and shows us to the rooms of the house.
I realized then that the house looked much bigger than how it did from the outside.
The upstairs part has three bedrooms rooms each with its expensive well-decorated designs, two of which are master bedrooms.
There is an office and there is a sauna room.
Getting downstairs there are two other bedrooms with bathrooms, and there is a gym room full of the equipment that you would find in a real gym, and another small office.
There is a living room and one kitchen.
Going outside there is a swimming pool, a jacuzzi, and a very nice garden on the the side of house.
This place is insane and I like how it's so full of lights because of the design it's built in.
The house's many walls are made of glass which enables a very good amount of light in.
We finish the tour and we walk back to the living room.
"What would you like Samantha?" I turn to look at Kai as I answer.
"A good day nap that could be followed with a swim in a warm jacuzzi with a glass of smooth drink."
"Well, not what I imagined but will do."
I laugh.
"I am joking though I am jet lagged and I could really use a nap."
And oh, did I forget to mention me and Kai flew in a private jet? If I did I am sorry but don't blame me because I don't understand what is going on with my life, keeping up is also an obstacle I don't know how to move past it.
"Let's get you to sleep then." He says and I nod but as we make our way up I remember being introduced to a two-master bedroom which I know what that means but I have to confirm it.
"Kai?"
"Uhm?"
"Are we not sleeping in the same room?" I turn to look at him as we walk up the stairs.
He shakes his head.
"No darling." Harsh
"Can I have a nap in yours at least?"
"As you wish Samantha." He says and we just walk into the first master bedroom the other is also in front of that which I suppose I will be taking then.
We walk right in and because of lack of clothes which I am still short of, I get undressed from the jeans with a big jacket I was wearing.
It's mid-April and Los Angeles seems to be cool.
I get in bed and am surprised that as soon as my head hits the pillow am lured into a long nap, I wake up late that day.
The sun is setting. Am alone in the room, I get out and make my way out to go look for Kai.
The living room, the kitchen. I look everywhere but he is nowhere to be found.
"Kai." I start calling out at him loudly but my voice resounds around the place.
I call again and again but I get nothing in return it.
I walk in the kitchen to look for something to eat but unfortunately for me, the fridge is calling me back, meaning there is nothing in there.
I sigh defeatedly.
"Miss Adams." I turn to look to whoever calling.
"Theodore." He is with packages of groceries.
"Am sorry, I haven't had time to set everything and get groceries in time but I will be making dinner soon." I shake my head.
"Yeah, well am hungry and I could use a good meal at the moment but I will wait no problem."
"But, do you maybe know where Kai is? Am not finding him anywhere."
He nods at me.
"He stepped out to have a word with his mother."
"His mother?" I ask again and he nods. Well, that's a new one. I don't think I have been told much about his mother and I also never asked.
"Will he be taking long?"
"No, he should be on his way." I nod my head absently suddenly having a thought on my mind.
I look at Theodore.
"Good talk Theodore," I say before I make my way out of the kitchen.
I go upstairs to my room and text Kai to bring me ice cream before I get busy with the movies.
I don't want to be alone because I don't want to think about my lifestyle anymore.
The world has gone upside down and the last thing I want is to dwell on it. It takes me to places that I have hated to be in and never want to visit again.
I try to busy myself with the movie but Kai doesn't take long before he comes into my room. I offer him a big smile when I see him.
"Hello there stranger." He smiles at me, comes closer leans into me, and kisses me a closed-mouth kiss on the lips before he pulls back.
"Am sorry I left without saying anything. You seemed peaceful sleeping and I hated the thought of waking you." I shake my head. "Well, where is my ice cream?" I ask.
"Here." I smile realizing is my favorite mint chocolate cream.
"You have remembered my favorite cream all this time?" I ask feeling surprised.
"Of course darling. I have kept everything about you in my mind. So what are you doing?"
I tap on the spot beside me.
"Watch a movie with me." He comes and sits beside me. I changed my position and lay on his chest as we continued the show I was watching.
It comes to an end and I turn to look at Kai but before I utter anything Theodore clears his throat.
"Dinner is ready."
"Thank you, Theodore," Kai replies and he looks at me.
"He told me you were hungry?" He asks caressing my cheek and I nod my head.
"Aren't you?" He shakes his head. "I had an early supper with my mother." That reminds me.
"Oh, and I was told." I get on my feet and give him my hand.
"Come, let's go and talk about it all over dinner." He takes my hand in his big one and leads me out of the theater room to the dining room.
"Sit, I will serve you." I nod take my seat and watch Kai making me a plate of food.
He comes and puts it in front of me and sit beside me.
"Enjoy darling." I smile and dig into the yummy food in front of me.
"It tastes amazing."
"I know. Theodore does wonders at every work he is dedicated to."
"So tell me, about your mother? Who is she? What kind of woman is she? What are we doing here in Los Angeles Kai?"
I ask because I don't even know what we are doing here or what is going on anymore.
After being kicked out of my father's household and after threatening us that he was going to make sure Kai lost his free will in American politics, my father just did that like he told us.
A few days later, Kai received calls banning him from working on anything political in America issued by the chief of staff in the White House.
I felt terrible and so horrible thinking everything was happening because of me, Kai on the other side seemed cool like he always is.
After all that storm, he came to me with a proposal.
He wanted us to go back to my family and clear all the misunderstandings but I didn't want to.
My family betrayed my trust so hard which caused me a pain that I don't even know I will ever heal from, especially Savannah and my parents.
I mean why would Savannah do me like she did really? Every time I think about it, I don't come up with a proper explanation as to why.
Sometimes it drove me crazy that I almost reached for my phone to call and ask her why, but at the end of every anger I managed to stop myself.
I would go crazy and cry miserably in Kai's absence to what my family did to me.
After I refused that proposal, he came up with another.
He asked me to move in with him to Los Angeles. He told me I would finish my last semester from there and then get to college. At first it felt like a dream come true.
But as I thought about it more and more and came to realize the cost it was going to take, I almost declined.
I mean who was going to cover all of the cost for me.
It freaked me out and I don't know how Kai got to penetrate through my insecurities.
It was the day before we flew here that he told.
"Darling I got you." The words were simple coming from his lips but the look in his eyes spoke to me volumes.
"Please don't worry about anything with me here darling. I love you, I respect you and I cherish you. Before I let anything harmful, hurting, or something bad come your way. I would embrace death myself." I cried.
He held me so close to his chest and I slept in his arms with the sound of his heartbeat as the lullaby luring me to sleep.
So I came with no plan or anything but it is not like my life had a plan anyway.
He looks at me and the exact words that come out of his mouth as he stares into my eyes. I don't believe them.
"My mother....my mother is Amy Daniels." I believe for my jaw to be hitting the floor.
Amy what????
He is kidding right!?
But the thing is, he doesn't look like he is.
Oh, Kai,
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