Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Chapter 451

My father had hung up as soon as I was done explaining without saying anything. I looked at my mother who looked as confused as I felt. She pulled the phone back to her and furrowed her brow, and started typing. "What are you doing?" I pulled out my hairdryer and started in on my hair. I watched her out of the corner of my eye as I finished getting ready.

My mom kept typing on her phone and barely glanced up at me. "That was fucking rude." She started typing again.

"What was?" I bent over to dry the underneath of my hair and all I heard was her clicking at her screen.

"He just hung up." She tossed out and I snorted.

"You will get used to it." I flipped back over and shut the dryer off. I grabbed some oil to scrunch out the cast on my hair. My mom looked at me and I laughed. "He does it all the time. He has the attention span of a goldfish. If he has a thought, he needs to deal with it right away or he forgets it."

My mom stopped typing. "But he wasn't like this before."

I finished my hair and turned to look at her. "Probably because he had you to talk to and to remind him. He doesn't have that anymore." I did some light makeup as my mom processed my words.

"Fucking hell." She leaned against the mirror and I saw a look cross her face. "Stop it." I snapped at her.

at me with wide eyes.

dumb with me. I know you and that look." She blinked at me. "My father's issues with remembering things is not on you. He found a way to work around it. It is not your fault that he has a short attention span. Rude or not, he figured it out. Stop trying to make this

She sighed. "But-"

you.

mom's eyes lit up. "The

vibrating with her excitement. "But I need to go into work and get everything

We also need to

a second, but I shook my head. "No

I finished my makeup. “Why won't we need

families in the yard. They won't even be staying here." My mom shook her

you set up a should like you have here, Carly, Rick's family and Alannah's should stay here." Myè mom jumped from the counter and turned to look at me in the mirror. "Vince will definitely be looking

She was right. "Fuck."

her finger. "Lynn is ready." My mom smiled. "I can't say she is healed, because I don't think that will ever happen, but she is ready to kill

leave everyone here with