Things I can't forget

Keeping it PG

"You had no right Juliet! No right at all," Rebecca shouted at me, her face going a light shade of pink.

"I was the one who wanted to see you," Matt held his hands up trying to step in.

"You shouldn't have bought him here. In fact you should've listened to me and not have gone to your fathers for Christmas in the first place," Rebecca continued ignoring Matt.

"Or you shouldn't have lied to me my entire life and should've told me about Matt," I snapped back. "Matts my brother, my twin brother! For crying out loud! He's your own son- who by the way you disowned for almost seventeen years! What kind of mother are you?" I exclaimed.

Alex and Caroline had excused themselves and had left soon after Rebecca had made the announcement about Matt being her son.

Now it was just Rebecca, Matt and myself shouting at one another in the living room. Well, Rebecca and I were shouting at each other. Matt on the other hand was trying to make peace amongst us.

"Rebecca Manners has always been selfish and ignorant, never once caring about anyone but herself and this just confirms it. You're a-".

"I know," Rebecca said cutting me short. "I'm a bad mother and I'm a- whatever it was that you were going to call me. I already knew that okay? It's hard for me Juliet," she lowered her voice.

"I loved your father, I really did. But it wasn't the love that made you want to get married and have kids, we thought it was but it wasn't. It just took for you two to come along for us to realise that- for me to realise. Your father is such a wonderful man but he was a blind one too. I tried to explain how I felt but he said that I was being silly and so I took matters into my own hands." She fiddled with her hands.

"I wasn't ready to be a mum and so when the two of you came along I was ready to leave, except I couldn't not without at least one of my children. I took Juliet and I promised Matt when he was just a newborn that I'd come back for him when I was ready to take responsibility that came with being a mother. But that time just never came," her eyes filled with tears and she quickly wiped them away.
"I failed at being a mother to you Juliet and I couldn't do that to Matt as well-".

"You didn't have to abandon him!" I shouted. "Stop making excuses for your behaviour and stop trying to make us feel sorry for you because we don't."

"I'm just trying to make you understand-".

"No you understand this. Either you except that my brother and your son Matt is staying with us or we'll both be on our way and won't look back."

"Where would you go?" She asked incredulously.

"To fathers," I remarked. "Believe it or not he asked me to move in with him and Matt."

This was true.
During the short time I had spent at my fathers he had proposed the idea of me moving in with himself and Matt.

I looked at the shocked expression that had surfaced Rebecca's face before continuing, "Believe me when I say Rebecca, that I'm still considering this as an option."

I was considering this as an option but it was very unlikely one. I couldn't leave Sam. I couldn't move four hours away because I wouldn't be able to see him as much as I do now, nor how much I would want to.

I didn't want to move to a new school, again. I felt that Brampton has become my home and that I belong here. Not to mention the fact that I couldn't live without Dallas.

It might sound dramatic but Dallas and I have become so close and he is my best friend. If I'm honest I'm not entirely sure how I managed without him for all this time. And now that I have him in my life, I can't imagine not having him and his witty comments with me twenty four-seven.