Downtown Boy

c h a p t e r 34

🎶My uptown girl🎶

-Billy Joel

Things don't turn out the way you want them to, like right now, when I thought I could get some closure, some relief after talking to my parents, my father.

It just frustrated me more even more, way more than I was before. I was numb, but now, there were salt on the wounds. I did expect, that maybe, somehow, by a miracle, there would be regret. But there wasn't.

'You had potential, I loved you. You lost it, you lost me.'

I walk out of the police station where they held my parents, I feel like I could breathe a bit better than when I was in there, my head was pounding and my heart hurt. But I could breathe.

I was free.

Free from their taunts, free from hiding, free from fear.

The court was supposed to announce the decision later today and before that, I just...I just needed their side of the story for the constant hate I got.

*******

"We've come to the decision of execution of Harold White for various murders, scamming, domestic abuse, unlawful accusation and rape." The judge announces.

"Coraline White will serve 30 years in prison for bank fraud. Case dismissed." He slams the hammer on the desk.

******* 

"You can't expect me to be happy Hunter!" I shout at him, shoving him away from me.

"Well what did you expect? That they'll be taken away and stay alive?!" He yells.

"I don't know! I didn't think that far."

"You never think far, exactly why you got into this mess!"

"So you're saying that I rather get married to some guy I didn't know? You're saying you regret meeting me?" I say, my heart hurting even more than it did when I the judge announced his decision.

"I-" he rubs his forehead, closing his eyes and exhaling, "that's not what I mean and you know that." he points at him.

"That's exactly what you mean!"

"Sierra, they ruined your life, they knew what they were doing, they fucking ruined you and didn't stop once to think how you were affected!"

"You think I don't know that?!"

"They involved my sister in this Sierra, do you think I'm going to let that slide? That bastard laid his hands on her and who knows, if we weren't fast enough he could've-"

"I know what he could've done! Dammit does anyone stop and think that I've been through the same situation and I know how it feels! I've been through it Hunter and I'm glad she didn't have to endure it but-" I stop for a second, my heart pounding at an abnormal rate, my vision getting blurry and my head hurting, "can we stop for a minute and think about how everything needs to turn out?"

"We don't have to cause its pretty obvious." He spits stubbornly.

"You know what, fuck you Hunter, talk to me when you aren't being an asshole. You would've felt the same if it were your parents." I yell, walking away from him.

When I close the door and slide down, bringing my knees close to me, every single word he told me repeats. All the hate, all the love.

"Fuck!" I hear a glass being thrown, breaking into pieces when my heart shatters along with it.