amnesia // l.h. (DISCONTINUED)

➳Chapter 27

➳Alaina's POV

I walked into the front door. The house was silent.

Lately, it seemed like the house was silent quite a lot. My parents still weren't really on speaking terms. And they haven't really tried to make an effort to hang out with me since the accident. It's like they basically just handed me over to Luke and was like "here she's all yours to worry about." It really hurt.

My parents were sitting on different ends of the dinner table. There was papers over the table. I didn't really feel like sitting, so I just walked over towards the table and waited for them to begin.

My mother spoke first, "Alaina before we tell you anything we want you to know that you didn't cause this and that we both love you so much." I just nodded my head okay and awaited for them to continue.

"Well, I guess we should just go ahead and get to the point about why we wanted to talk to you. Your father and I are, well, we are.. um-" My mother stopped speaking and awkwardly coughed.

My dad finally spoke up, "We're getting a divorce."

I sort of expected that they were getting a divorce. I mean all the signs were there and it wasn't like they were making an effort to communicate or make anything better.

Even though I was expecting that, I still got mad. It made me mad because not only do I feel like they gave up on me, but they also gave up on each other.

"But what happened?" I questioned.

They both looked at each other.

"Just different things. We just aren't made for each other, Alaina. It was leading up to this, sooner or later." My father explained.

"What's going to happen now?" I had all these questions going through my head, but I just mainly wanted to know what would happen now.

Would I move? Would they have a big fight about who got custody of me? Would I be able to see the other parent? Are they close to the divorce being finalized?

"Well, we decided that it would be better if you stayed with me, but you'll still be able to see your father whenever you wish. Everything will pretty much still be the same." My mother said that everything would be the same, but really it wouldn't.

"It's not going to be the same! He is leaving! You guys are divorcing! I won't be able to just walk into the house to see my dad, I would have to call him and set up a place that we could meet! It's not going to be the same, everything is going to change! I just got used to everything and you're going to just tear everything apart!" I couldn't help the words from coming out of my mouth. I was just so confused, hurt, angry, and still worked up about what happened at Luke's.

Today just wasn't going well at all.

I didn't even give my parents any time to defend themselves before I was running back out of the front door.

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I forgot my keys to my car back in my house and I definitely wasn't going back in. I pulled my jacket around my body because it was starting to get chilly. The sun was setting.

It was such a beautiful day outside. It was such a beautiful sight for such a horrible day.

The blazing orange mixed with the dark pink clouds in the sky. It mixed so beautifully. I continued to walk down the sidewalk, until I came across a tree that was planted all by itself.

It looked like it had been here for quite a while. It was a huge sycamore tree. The leaves were perfectly shadowing the grass below.

I went and sat down in the shade and watched the sun as it set.

I wish that I could just sit here forever without any worries. It was all so peaceful.

A light breeze blew and tousled my hair around my face. I pushed some of it behind my ears, so that I could continue to look as the sun slowly fading out of the beautiful mixture of blazing orange and dark pink.

In that moment it was like everything just was floating away in the wind. All the worries. All the fears. All the doubts.

Everything.

As I watched a caterpillar wiggle it's way up the trunk of the tree, I bleach blonde boy walked up to me.

I recognized him as Michael.

"Hey, can I join you?" He politely asked, as he sat himself down.

"Since you're sitting, you can."

He flashed me a smile, then looked out at the sunset, "I really hate the sun because I get burned so easily, but I love sunsets." He said, as he squinted to looked at the sunset.

I didn't reply, I honestly just didn't know what to say.

"So, how is everything going? I heard you and Luke got back together."

I thought back to everything that has happened today and shuddered. "Well, it's not going very good."

Michael turned away from the sunset and faced me. He had a look of genuine concern. " What's wrong?"

I shrugged, "Everything. Luke and I are back together, which is great, but he's acting sketchy and just isn't being himself. When we started dating he seemed so happy and overjoyed, but something happened and he won't tell me what it is. And on top of that, my parents are getting divorced."

Michael sent me a gentle smile. "Do you want to go get some donuts?"

This Michael dude sure wasn't what I expected him to be like. The first time I met him he made me cry, but right now he is listening to me talk about the problems in my life and offered to get donuts?

Despite everything going on, I took Michael's offer and we went to get donuts.

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I laughed as Michael told his totally lame joke.

We got our donuts and ate them, but decided to stay at the bakery and just chat. Michael is a really cool guy and he is really sweet.

I found out he is a really good listener because he let me just ramble and vent about everything and didn't judge me at all. It was nice.

Michael turned my horrible day into a fairly good day.

"So Michael, why did you decide to hang out with me today instead of just continuing to wherever you were headed to before you passed me at the tree?" I had been dying to ask Michael this since he offered that we get donuts.

"Well, I felt like a total dick about making you cry the other day and just thought you weren't that fond of me since then. You're a really cool chick, Alaina. Plus you're really pretty." Michael said, with a chuckle.

His cheeks got a shade of pink starting to form.

I don't know why, but I was starting to feel like my cheeks were doing the same as Michael's.

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