The Power Within: A Rose Full Of Emotions

26. Long nights

As I travel through the store, crazy bitch still behind me, I start freaking out when I notice all I hear is silence. When I look outside, no one's there. My brothers, the girls, everyone's just...gone.

When I turn the corner, I can see the figure clearly. Clear as day. It's a woman...it's mom.
Mom? Why is mom here? She should be an angel in heaven. Not a ghost on hell-I mean Earth.

I'm assuming she has unfinished business...Us. We are her unfinished business. We have to be. Crap. Is she gonna kill us? Give us advice? Maybe she's like Lizzy...just here when we need her? Wait...what happened with Lizzy? She was a bitch not even 3 months ago, then she dissapears and now she doesn't speak and somehow has angelic powers? Nah, I'm not buying it. There's something seriously weird going on in this town.

I back up, not wanting her to come closer. Instead she turns around and raises her hand, pointing to outside, where everyone was...wait, they are here again? Did they ever dissapear? Great, they're staring at me like I'm crazy.

Wait, they aren't staring at me....they are staring at mom. So much is happening. It's too much. Moms back? Lizzy's back? Are they ghosts? Are they angels like Luke? I need answers! Where's Jack when you fucking need him!?

At that moment, Jack appears behind me, making me jump when I turn. "Fuck! What the hell Jack? Where have you been!? Do you know why mom's here? And why Lizzy is here?" I say, freaking out, not really wanting him to answer those questions.

Jack has a calm facial expression as he says, "Jonah, calm down. Your mom's not here to hurt you-", "Then why is she here? Why are we her unfinished business? Why is everything happening so fast? Why am I not Lizzy's soulmate anymore? Why do I feel so bad about her-" I can't speak anymore before the the shock sets in when mom appears in front of me with a loving smile.

She raised her hand, me being the asshole I am, I back away. I'm not used to mom being a loving parent and only having her attention on me. It scares me.

I hate having anxiety and Bipolar. It makes everything 10x harder to deal with. One minute I'm fine, I have a clear head and I'm happy. The next, I'm depressed, stressed, and very, very angry and scared. I don't even know what I'm talking about.

As Mom pauses, to let me feel comfortable with her, I soon let her gently brush her fingers against my forehead, moving my hair to the side and away from my eyes.

Suddenly she stops, looking confused. "What's wrong?" I ask, getting quite confused myself. She looks me square in the eyes and I can see all the fear she has ever felt towards me. I want to hold her and tell her I'm not gonna hurt her...but she dissapears before I can do anything.

Tears fill in my eyes as I look at Jack, who also has tears in his. I never thought about him seeing mom...they were happy from what I heard. Mom never talked about him though. Maybe she was hurt by Lewis stealing us from Jack and her. Legally Lewis is our father but biologically, Jack's our father.

Jack seems really distant though. He doesn't seem like our dad. Mom doesn't even feel like our mom, did she ever? I don't remember feeling like she was my mom since I was little.

I wonder where she went. Maybe she went back to the old trailer we used to live in when me and Luke were 12. I remember one time when me, Luke and Jasper were watching TV and mom made us sandwiches, then Jake asked a question and mom ignored him. Jake hates being ignored.

When he finally had enough, he screamed. Then mom threw a plate on the ground and said something about her being our mom and that he should respect her, then he got scared and backed away and ran away to the woods.

We didn't want to disturb mom and get in trouble so we quickly but quietly tried to sneak out and look for Jake when she was in her room.

We found him at our treehouse we all built, well Jake and Jasper built it but me and Luke helped a little, we mainly stayed at home and occupied mom so they could get it done.