The mute witness

Chapter three

Zsolt's POV

I'm walking home from dropping off Avalon and I know exactly what's going to happen. My mom is going to be home and she will just start throwing me around and say how I'm "So disrespectful" and how "She wishes she never had me" and anything else she can think of to hurt me, so I'm using this walk to brace myself for that. this isn't my first rodeo. 

I go through the front door of my house and right as I do, I get yanked to the other side of the room.

"You disrespectful son of a bitch, where were you?" my mom yelled after she pinned me to the wall.

"I was showing a new kid around town, and it got late, I'm so, so sorry," I said on the verge of tears, even more scared than I have been before. Why is tonight any different than any other time? why cant I just be numb towards it like I usually can be?

"Don't give me those fucking sad eyes, or I'll give you something to cry about" She screamed letting go of my arms. Very original, mom. 

"You want to know what you gave me to cry about, you gave me, as a 16-year-old, fear of my mother, I don't know if you had noticed, but no 16-year-old should be scared by their mother, beat the shit out of by their mother or dreading going home because of their mother," I said with a wave of courage, and I guess I struck something inside her because I saw raw emotion from her for the first time before she finally spoke a minute later. I don't care, I've dealt with this long enough, I'm tired and I don't know how much more I can take.

"Get. out. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE RIGHT FUCKING NOW, I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN" she yelled after me when I was already going and gone.

I grab my car keys from beside the door and drive away, never going to that house again.

I drive for an hour aimlessly and I am speeding the entire time until I finally calm down and park about a block from Avalon's foster house.

I climb up the latter at the side of the building and then go to the room that I finally see as hers and knock pretty harshly, she looked like she was looking at something important and she was sitting on the ground, and I made her jump to her feet, but when she sees me, I can tell the worry is kind of off her face.

When she opens the window, she has her hand on her chest, no doubt because of me and I say "I'm so sorry, but there was nowhere else I could go." looking down at my shoes in an embarrassed way.

She doesn't do anything but have me sit by her on her bed and runs her fingers through my hair and she says "It's ok" in a very badly raspy voice, but she spoke, so I don't know what to do but shoot up to my feet with a stupid look on my face.

I see her eyes go down sadly and I sit back down on her bed with a somewhat smile on my face "Did you just talk?" I asked her.

"Y-yes" she struggled to say.

"Hey, don't force it, you don't have to talk to me," I tell her reassuringly, cupping my hand around her cheek.

She nods and puts her hand on mine, smiling, my arm tingles from her touch.

She grabs her computer and puts it on a streaming service and hands it to me to pick one.

I choose "We bought a zoo '' It's an older movie, but it's one of the best in my opinion and when it starts, she puts her head on my shoulder and that's how we end a very crazy day. A soft embrace.

"Hell of a day," she says after a couple of movies.

"Yeah, but we should probably go to bed," I say as I close her laptop and move stray hair from her face.

She nods and gives a weak smile as she goes under the covers, getting comfortable. 

"I'll be right on the floor if you need me," I say.

She shakes her head.

"What's wrong," I ask.

"You're not sleeping on the floor," she says, her voice still super raspy, but I can tell it's something special, almost intimate that she doesn't want anyone to know of.

I just stand there for a few seconds and eventually turn off the light and go into her bed and she snuggles up to me and falls asleep almost right away and I just hold her until I follow suit and fall asleep myself.

A/N: hey guys, updates will be very sporadic from now on, school is about to start and everything, but please comment! I would love to hear thought and ideas and thing you like and dislike about my work, I will take any constructive criticism and use that to better my writing! Thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you guys for a new update soon!