C3 Chapter 3

Adam Leonard POV**

Lena was different today. I could remember the first time I saw her in school. At first, I didn't remember her until I saw her deep brown eyes, it was the first thing I remembered. Those brown eyes have always given me nightmares.

I will always remember those eyes, it wasn't drenched with tears.

She was the girl in the accident, I wanted to come closer and exchange pleasantries but her cold brown eyes kept me at bay.

She looked totally shunned out, she doesn't talk to anyone or be anyone's friend. She just put on her black hoodie and pink rustling bicycle.

It was in the school that I knew that she was the daughter of the infamous architectural company in New York City; Mr. Gomez, who died four years ago.

That was when I connected the dots.

Since then I just watched her from afar and let her live her life but she gets weirder and weirder everyday.

Just like the day a girl reported that she saw Lena snooping around her house and tagged her a stalker, the after some few weeks the girl was found in the river, some people thought it was a murder until they saw her suicide note.

I don't know much about the details but it seems that she was one of the people that had it sore in life.

I really sympathized with her when I heard but since then I saw that Lena didn't even talk to anyone anymore after she was questioned by the police.

It's hard to know that Lena was still the sole heiress of Gomez Architectural company, one of the five top architectural companies in New York City which was now run by her aunt. Miss Gomez, who was featured on “ World beautiful spinster” she was the older sister of Mr. Gomez.

At the moment she has a son who is 20 years old and he is studying architecture in Oxford.

Don't ask me how I know these things, I'm a socialist. Right now I'm still in high school so I can't join the family business so my mother advised me to know about all the A grade families and The Gomezs’ are of them.

Oops, I haven't introduced myself.

I'm Adam Leonard, the only successor of the generational multi-billionaire company named Leonard Empires.

Age 18.

When I said she's different today, I think it was because her eyes look darker today but I can't figure out why. Not to talk about her big black hoodies because that was the only outfit I've always seen her with.

Today she looked so unhappy and stressed, I suddenly felt the urge to erase all the pain away.

I really wished I had talked to her that day, helped her get through what she was going through then, maybe I wouldn't be regretting now because I regret it every day.

Well, here's another chance for me to help ease her pain or whatever it is she was going through.

I knew she was going through a lot after tailing her to the rooftop one day. I wasn't entirely tailing her then actually.

I realized she always went there, so I did too. I'd sit in one corner out of view to watch her, she never turned even though I knew she knew she wasn't alone.

She was drawing closer to me, when she bumped into a girl who I've never seen before in class. For a brief moment I think she blanked out and the girl started calling her name.

It was at that time that I heard a familiar voice calling out my name, "Adam, Adam, I've been calling you man, what's up, still coming for the party later tonight?" Sean asked

Sean is someone I know in school, he's also a member of the football club in our school. He was also in the same class as I was.

"Yeah sure,”

I replied then asked him about the location and what to bring. We are not really close, but everybody has wanted to be close to me since I got out of mom belle.

I always got invited to every party, I knew it was because my parents were rich, so they knew I'd have a few bills to spend around and I really don't mind spending on balling, they are all fake friends.

I knew better than to trust any of them, I was the only son of my parents, they had been married twenty-five years but they had me after 7 years of marriage.

Yeah!I'm a miracle alright, even the doctor advised mom not to try another kid because of some diseases I don't know of but all good. I love being alone and enjoying mom care to myself, she spoiled me rotten.

I have the latest car, watch, motorbike and everything I wanted to be handed to me in gold platters and I'm happy, I have never been sad a minute in all my life.

My mum's smile always managed to cleanse my sadness, my dad was barely around, he was all about the company.

He ran the biggest company in the country, the Leonard empire. Its net worth was in billions. He always thought about giving lots of money to me and mom covered for all the time he was not around which didn't but my mum never complained about it.

My mom on the other hand was always around, she owned a small school around the corner, not like she needed the money but she just didn't like being idle.

She always tells me that I will handle our family business in the future and I'd tell her to leave the future matters to the future, she was the real rare gem.

After Sean left, I noticed Lena's old pink bike paddling along the old road, and I could see the girl who she bumped into earlier in the front and how she's doing all her best so the girl wouldn't notice her.

Little nutcase, what's she up to??

I half grinned, but immediately died when I saw the scene before me