Mania +All American+

Chapter 13: finals

(Welp. Next chapter is the last chapter of season 1. What are some predictions for season 2?)

"Why are you here?" I demanded from corey.

"I came to see my daughter dance," he told me.

"I'm not your daughter. Didnt you get that memo. Isnt that why you left eleven years ago?" I asked him, tears in my eyes.

"Sweetheart, I always knew you were adopted. I was the one wbo picked you," I froze.

He picked me. Corey chose me. That alone made me cry.

"I watched you grow up and yo brother picked up a football and I watched you loose youself in music in ways i never thought imaginable. And see you dance here today is the greatest gift I could be given as your father," he told me.

"You chose me?" I asked him, stuttering over my words.

"And I'd do it again."

"Then why would you leave me!" I asked him, overwhelmed by my emotions.

"It was me and your mother," he explained."it never had to do with you or Spencer or dillion."

"Then why it seem we all the ones suffering," I asked him.

And there was no answer. At the end of the day he left us. And he left the day after Spencer's birthday. In case you forgot that's my birthday. Its why I party so hard on it, I want to forget the significance of that damn day.

"I'm sorry," he told me, tears in his eyes

"I've been hearing that alot here recently. I have to go, Corey," I said pushing by him.

I left the room even sicker then I had felt all day. I had a competition at the end of the week and could not afford a stomach bug. I saw JJ waiting for me in the halls and when he saw me crying a concerned look went across his features.

"Baby, why are you crying?" He asked holding my tightly against him.

"Hes back JJ. My dad is back."

And he held me tightly as I sobbed into his chest. I should be happy hes back but now all the emotions I've buried have come to the surface. And I want to forgive him, I've wanted to forgive him for so many years but I cant.

"Not only did he leave on my birthday," I said slowly to JJ, but talked faster and angrier with every word," He left one week after finding out I was bipolar. It was so much evidence that it was me that drove him away. That it was my fault he left. So for him to come back and say he chose me is bullshit! Jj it's all bullshit! He doesn't love me Jj! He doesnt love me."

"Yes he does. Hes your father. And it isnt your fault he left," he said comforting me.

He picked me up and put my on his back. We walked out to his car and he sat me in the passenger side of the car and drove us home. Once we got home I ran upstairs and puked. All the crying making me feel worse and worse.

"Yeah, shes upstairs," I heard JJ say.

I heard a knock on my bedroom door and yelled come in. There stood my brother, eyes red with tears. I motioned him to me and hugged him. Corey will never be able to make up what hes done to me and Spencer. The issues we will forever hold by his decision.

"We cant let him destroy this week for us. He hasn't earned that," I said through gritted teeth.

"I know."

After he left JJ came up to my room and laid next to me in my bed. I leaned into him and drew me closer to him. My head rested on his chest and his heartbeat lulled me to sleep.