Chapter 44

I Met Someone

Mother's home when I get there.

I can tell, firstly because the door is unlocked. Secondly, because she's singing loud from the other side of the house with music blasting from he t.v.

My stomach drops.

She hasn't done that since before dad and Alex passed away. I drop my bag on the couch and hesitantly make my way through the hallway down to her room at the end of the house

"Mother?"

There's a pause in her singing and then the music stops, bathing the house in an uncomfortable silence. I steel my stomach, preparing myself for a barge of hateful words to spew from her mouth.

The door to her room whips open and she smiles at me, wide.

Her lips have remnants of last's night red lipstick, and her mascara runs down her face. "Alina, did school get out early?"

I frown. She's muttering, her lips wrapping around an unlit cigarette and I find myself in

shock that she isn't actively smoking.

"I wasn't aware that you knew what time my school day ended."

She rolls her eyes. "Serioulsy, Alina. Are you always so dreadful?"

I flinch, watching her as she turns from me, in her blue robe, leaving the door open. She's going through her closet, throwing clothes across her dirty room as she whispers to

herself.

My lips twist between my teeth and I wonder if I want an answer to the question I'm

asking. "What are you doing?"

"I met someone."

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Immediately, I want to cry. "You... met someone?"

She presses a dress to her front as she looks at herself in the mirror. "Yes. I think... I think

he could make me happy."

My ears ring and my vision turns blurry. "No."

"Did you expect me to

for the rest of my life, why should it

for her?

"No, it's just...

hands through the air before bringing them

about love. He

of us."

wave of discomfort fluttering

for

"You just met him."

"Yes, and?"

him taking care of us,

"Yes."

she's acting like this is the

can't

tense and whatever calm she was holding

and she steps forward as she points a finger at me.

taking a

"You don't question me."

and I shake my head, still not knowing how

she

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turns angry so fast.

for you, that you have a roof over your

my arms around myself, but I hold my ground. "I'm your

"More like a curse. If you had never been born, your father and

be here."

has my hair flying across my face. The words coming from her don't hurt as much as

guilt holds me in its

to the things I tell

having been holding my breath this entire

to my

room.

a scream in when I bump into a

Aiden.

places his hands on my shoulders and looks down at me with

him. "What are

the living room. "Your front door was

drop from my

the tears

she always talk to you

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