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⋆ Chapter 10 ⋆The Truth

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The video began with a man sitting on a bed that looked like it belonged in one of the motels that Cal owns. It wasn't a second later until she heard Cal's voice asking the man questions. The conversation started out casual but quickly became more sexual.

"What the fuck is this Nate?" Adaline asked looking at the boy.

"Just keep watching." He shrugged her off.

As the minutes went on the video just got more and more disturbing. From Cal putting his meaty fingers in the guy's mouth to encouraging the man to get on his knees. Adaline felt sick. She had to turn away when Cal inserted himself into the man from behind.

Nate grabbed Adaline's chin turning her head back to the video. She went to protest but she immediately shut her mouth when a new voice cut through the moaning and groaning.

"Come on Cal why should you get to have all the fun." It was her dad's voice. She'd recognize it anywhere.

Adaline's heart hammered in her chest as her father appeared from behind the camera and walked towards the bed. She turned away when she saw him begin to remove his pants. She didn't need to see the video to know what was happening. The commentary from both Cal and her father summed up the events pretty well. They were both praising the man for being able to take it from behind while sucking her dad off at the same time.

"Turn it off!" She screamed springing up from the chair and moving away from Cal' desk. "What the fuck was that? Why would you show me that?" She cried.

"You had to see that to understand." Nate said coming over and grabbing her face in his hands. He wiped away her tears with the pads of his thumbs while gently stroking her cheeks.

"Understand what Nate? That didn't explain anything. That was just sick!" She yelled.

Nate sighed stepping back from Adaline. He watched her confused and upset face for a moment before explaining. "My dad has a bunch of tapes like that. He's been doing shit like that since I was young. There's a couple of him and your dad."

"Why does that matter? What the fuck does that have to do with you texting Jules?"

"He slept with her a couple weeks ago." Nate said causing Adaline's jaw to drop. She didn't expect Jules to be like that. Who in there right mind would willingly sleep with Cal?

"I still don't understand why you're pretending to be some random guy and catfishing her."

"If she says something my dad could get in serious trouble. It would ruin our family's reputation." This made Adaline scoff. All the Jacobs' family cared about was their stupid fucking reputation. "It wouldn't just ruin my family. It'd ruin yours too." Nate explained hoping that Adaline would realize why he had to do it.

"Who cares my parents are dead." She laughed.

"You're not." Adaline rolled her eyes ignoring him. Nate moved closer to the girl getting in her face raising his voice. "That shit would follow you Adaline. Every time someone looks you up they'd find some article about how your dad liked to fuck and secretly record little kids. And I'm sure they'd spin it. Probably have a field day talking about how your poor druggie of a mother found out and was just so upset that she decided to kill herself and her cheating pedophile of a husband too."

Adaline's eyes were on the floor letting Nate's words sink in. She knew he was right. After her parents death there were already a bunch of rumors going around about the possibility of her dad having an affair which lead to her mother's actions. The girl wiped her tears away as she looked back at Nate.

"I'm not trying to be a dick Ads. I'm trying to look out for you." He said pulling her into a hug. He ran his hands up and down her back knowing she liked when he did it because it would calm her down.

"Do you think my dad has his own tapes?" Adaline asked in a small voice looking up at Nate through wet lashes.

"I don't know beautiful but it wouldn't surprise me if he did. Why?" Nate kissed her forehead as she sighed leaning more into his tall frame.

"If he has some then we need to find the tapes and either destroy or hide them. I don't want anyone to know about them." Her voice was muffled by the fabric of Nate's shirt as she spoke into his toned chest. "I bet they'd be in my parents storage locker. After they died everything important was moved there for me to go through when I was ready too. Will you come with me?"

"Yeah baby we can go tomorrow morning." Nate nodded leading her out of Cal's office and back to her room.

The next morning Adaline woke up with a strong arm wrapped around her waist. After her and Nate left his father's office they went back to her room and just talked. Nate explained to her how he had found his dad's collection at a young age and how he'd known that her father was involved. Adaline was a little upset with him at the fact that he knew and said nothing but she also understood why he didn't tell her. Nate was only trying to protect her. He knew if he told her it would just upset her. And Nate hated seeing Adaline upset.

Adaline removed herself from Nate's grasp sitting up on the side of her bed. She felt nauseous but just chalked it down to her being nervous about looking through her parents things.

She unplugged her phone from the charger and noticed she had a few texts. 3 were from Cassie telling her about her date with McKay the night before. 5 from Rue complaining about how Fez wouldn't sell to her anymore and 2 from an unknown number. She clicked on the number opening the chat.

Unknown - Hey this is Jules! Rue gave me your number the other day. I hope you don't mind. Unknown - I was just messaging you to see if you'd maybe want to hang out sometime. You seem really cool and I feel like we could be good friends. Sorry if that's a little too forward lol.

"Fuck!" Adaline groaned turning her phone off. Nate stirred in his sleep from behind her but thankfully didn't wake up.

The brunette didn't reply to Jules. She didn't know what to say. As much as she understood why Nate was doing what he was she couldn't help but feel bad. Jules seemed like a really nice girl and she didn't want her to get hurt. But she also wasn't going to stop Nate.

Adaline got a quick shower before throwing on jeans and one of Nate's hoodies. It was way too big for her but she didn't mind. It was nice and warm and it also smelled like him. She didn't bother doing any makeup. Adaline kept her hair pretty simple. She just put it up in a loose bun with a couple pieces left out to frame her face.

She walked over to her bed and gently shook Nate. "Nate it's time to get up." The boy groaned pushing his head deeper into Adaline's light pink pillows. "Come on you said you'd come with me to my parents storage locker."

"Give me 10 minutes." He mumbled into the her pillow.

Adaline went downstairs and made herself and Nate a quick breakfast of oatmeal with some cut up fruit. Marsha was in the living room laying on the couch nursing a hangover and Cal was nowhere in sight. Adaline was thankful that he wasn't home. She wasn't sure how she was ever going to be able to look him in the eyes again.

Nate came downstairs a couple minutes later and sat down at the table next to Adaline. She was already finished her breakfast and was now just staring at the messages from Jules. Nate noticed that she was in her head and sensed that something was up.

"What's wrong?" He asked shoveling some oatmeal in his mouth.

"Jules texted me." She said glancing at Nate who practically choked on his food when those words left her mouth. "She wants to hang out and be my friend."

Nate nervously scratched the back of his neck. "I uh don't know what to say. You two are kind of similar. You guys could potentially be good friends."

"Yeah and how am I just supposed to act like everything is normal and like I don't know shit that I shouldn't know about her?" She asked raising her voice.

"I don't know Ads."

"Whatever. It doesn't matter. Let's just go get this done and over with." Nate mumbled a small okay. He was a little taken back by her attitude but didn't say anything. Adaline put both her and Nate's dirty dishes in the sink and followed him out the door to his truck. She gave him directions to the storage place and they drove there in silence.

Adaline was praying that they wouldn't find any tapes in her father's things. She was hoping that it was just something Cal pressured him into doing but deep down she knew her dad was just as messed up as Cal.

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