Song for this chapter: Heading home by Alan walker
When i enter the house still half soaked mum rushes to me
"Natasha! how did you get wet,you are gonna get the cold,and that'll start the headaches more,god knows if you get some kinda infection and the..."
"Mum,mum. I'm ok really , i don't feel chilly at all" I did. a lot.
"Yeh,you are gonna say that now, where's sadie?"
"She went home."
"She might be soaking too,why did you let her go?Anyway,now go upstairs and have a bath,dinner will be ready soon."
"Alright"I give her a peck on cheeks and run upstairs.
The upstairs bathroom is used by Beth,Sophie and me since Arya has been in California, most of the time it's dirty as hell and beth keeps whining about it and yelling at us where she doesn't even cleans her hair from the skin and Sophie makes the place soapy all over everytime she baths,so i'm the one who has to clean it everytime.
By the time,I get in the shower,I start to fill shivers all over ,the hot water spraying on my skin feels so sultry, my mind wonders over how i'm gonna go to school tomorrow,how's it gonna be but spiraling thoughts comes down to the one that always comes and go torturing me,
that guy.
what is he doing now? does he know? mum would have told his mum by now..why didn't he text me?shouldn't he text me,i mean i'm dying dude! God! no!I'm not gonna think about him,he's gone,go..shush! If I stay in the shower more I'm gonna think about him,so i quickly dry myself and head downstairs.
When i reach the last step I'm trapped in a bear hug,and i can recognize by her minty smell, "Arya"
"I'm so sorry I didn't come visit you when you were sick,I was slammed with assignments,and I didn't think it was a big deal,but i left for home as soon as mum called me"
"It's ok ,i understand" actually it wasn't. I was out for a whole week,my whole body was in pain,But the pain that my big sister didn't care hurt me more.
"Arya,how could you come now?"sophie flops down on the couch
"I bunked classes today and I took the afternoon flight, in the economy section" she says emphasizing the last part for mum,Arya is a senior in UC Berkeley ,its like 8h hour drive from Eugene,so its understandable when she doesn't want to drive but last christmas she took a first class flight which was like 300 dollers,let me just tell you mum wasn't happy.
"Did you come by a airplane?"
"yes"
"Is it like the one we took when we went to NewYork ?"
"Yes"
"When are you gonna go back?"
"let me see... I don't have classes tomorrow and i'm gonna skip classes on thursday and friday,and i'll be leaving on the morning flight of sunday"
"so,you are gonna stay the whole week?" Sophie keeps asking question as we sit down on the couch,this girl! she has to know everything and i don't think anybody can be as patient to her as Arya.
"Mum, Is dad home yet?" My dad is a Math professor in Oregon state University, this morning when my results came in, he rushed to the hospital for me although mum needed more consoling than me,he took us home and held my hand until I fell asleep,when i woke up he had gone to classes.
"Yes,sweetie,he is taking a shower. We'll have dinner once he comes down."
"So,Beth how's college going?"I hear Arya asking
"What are you asking me? Is it even called college life? I'm basically still in high school with double the work to do" Beth who is two years older than me was now a sophomore in University of Oregon which is like 30 minute away from our house,so everybody thought it would be better if she went from home instead of dorms except of course Beth and she never fail to express her annoyance .
"Heyy,all my girls are here..." Arya went and hugged him"what do you say,should we have a movie night after dinner?"
"Yes!Yes" Sophie started jumping up and down .
Movie night was tradition for us Hills,I guess its the one thing despite our looks we had in common our love for movies. And we always sat in our traditional places too, Arya by mom's side,sophie in beth's lap and me in dad's arm. Today we were watching North by Northwest, a film that we have seen a hundred times, but this film gives me warmth everytime I see it,It brings me back to my childhood days,like returning to a old friend,like returning to home.
Half we through I feel like I can't anymore, the twinging headache gets the better of me.
"I think I'm gonna go to bed"
"What is it sweetie?do you have a headache?are you in pain?"Mom asks anxiously
"Mom,she would have told you if she was hurting" Beth says
"yeh it's fine,i have classes tomorrow too so that's why"I shrug
"It's ok honey,you can go have rest"
"Thanks dad" i head upstairs after saying everyone goodnight.
What beth said made me remember a incident of when we were kids. We all had gone camping back then,we three were playing around while mom and dad sat with little sophie. Suddenly me and beth fell bumping into eachother,and beth just started to cry so loudly i just looked at her confused hat to do,when mum-dad came they rushed to beth and she just wouldn't stop crying,Dad came to ask me if i was hurt and mum said "she would have told you if she was hurt. Now make this one stop crying"
After we came back to the campsite and beth has stopped crying in exchange of gummy bears and i still couldn't walk properly dad came to check up on me and when he got my tights up i was bleeding through,seems that i hit a bark and it went through my flesh,i needed three stitches for that wound.
But I guess if you are not crying out loud,your pain isn't valid,it doesn't exists.
The strong one never feels the pain.
[ omfg the longest chapter by now, phew!
i don't know if you guys found it boring but her family plays a big role in her life so i had to write this one
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