Finding Oriana

Chapter 13

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

When Baxter left, I ran into the house.
"Mum. Mum... Oh God, mum."
She turned to look at me with wide eyes. She's panicking while asking me what's wrong. She's asking me if I'm okay. I'm shaking my head while exactly telling her I'm fine.
"I-I have a date. He asked me out, Mum. He wants to take me out. Oh, god, can I do that? I mean, I'm not even sure I've been on one before Have I do you know if I've been on a date before?"

I'm looking at her waiting for her to give me some answers. I mean, I've just turned eighteen, so I've got to have had at least one boyfriend in my life, right? If not, well that's just really freaking sad.

"None that I know of, Angel. I mean, I don't remember you having a boyfriend. So I guess this will be, your first."
She turns away when she says this and just carries on with preparing our dinner.

"So, has he told you where he's taking you? I guess you'll need a new outfit too, huh? I can take you out for a new outfit tomorrow I mean if you want to?" How can I not? I mean, the smile on her face tells me she's excited about this.

"Of course, I'd love that. I mean, who else will give me fashion tips? Because let's face it, I really have no clue right now."

I bite my lip when I tell her this because again, it's not funny that I can't remember shit. I just can't help it. I think if I don't laugh then I'll cry.

A little while later, we're sitting at our dining table. I'm sitting next to my uncle Darren, but my little brother? Well, he'd chosen to sit by our mum. I guess he's still not ready to sit with me because sadly he's still struggling.

"So, Squirt, I hear you had a visitor today. How did that go?" My Dad asked.
I carry on excitedly telling him, I have my first date. However, he doesn't react the way my mum did. Oh, no, he doesn't because he's just looking at me.

"With Baxter, you have a date with Baxter?" He asks and I nervously grin and then bite my lip as I nod. Oh lord, he doesn't look pleased. He then turns his head, looking at my mum and she just shrugged her shoulders.

"We're going shopping tomorrow for a new outfit. She needs something to wear for it."
He slams his knife and fork on the table, making me jump.
"No!" He says and I snap my head to the side so I can look at him with shocked wide eyes shocked he'd say this.
"What do you mean; no?" Mum asked. I think she's just as stunned as I am.
"Because I've said so, and that's final."
He practically thunders, and all the while my mum's having it out with him. She's telling him, he's being irrational.

I'm sitting here just feeling gutted. I'm gutted that he's stopping this. I'm so gutted. I have tears in my eyes because I've been so excited about my first date, only for him to shatter it.
So I stand and slam the palms of my hands down on the table in frustration. Only it makes Darren do the same. He's laughing as he's banging away. So I gently place my hands over his just to calm him. Luckily, he does.

"You know what? I've had enough. I've sat here, in this house every day since leaving that damn bloody hospital. I've been bored out of my freaking skull. I have no friends as far as I know. I'm assuming that I have no friends because none have come to see me. And the only one that made me smile, wants to take me out. He wants to get to know me without making me feel like a freak! You sit there throwing all these visitors my way, hoping they'll jog my memory! But not one of them has and I'm sick of it I've had enough! Now I may not, remember shit, but I've had enough of sitting back. I've had enough of waiting around for it to come back. So I want to move on. I can't live like a prisoner any longer. I need to live my life.
Now I am I'm going on this date and you'll bloody deal with it because I refuse to be weak. Alex, I won't allow you or anyone else to tell me how I should live my life!"