The Line Between You And I

Elizabeth

I was shocked at how harsh reality can be. It felt like someone had winded you. Or in other words, smacked the life out of you but in this case, there was no smacking or violence involved just one sentence. I felt the room go dizzy and my lungs began to wheeze in and out with every breath my body was trying to take but with every breath, my body longed for my chest to slow, it stopped making room for the lungs to inflate. Heaven must have clearly seen me struggling because she moved quickly toward me just in time. As I felt her comforting arms around me, I felt my knees give into my own weight. Within a matter of seconds, I was on the marble floor on my knees. After a few minutes of slow breathing, I picked my head up and nodded slightly so that Nevaeh knew to carry on. She filled me in on everything that has happened over the past month. As the words slipped out of her mouth one by one, I felt them blur my vision. The sadness crushed me with the overwhelming force of a tidal wave, and I have been drowned in its embrace. The only thing that I could do was let out a soul-crushing wail, in which my mother happened to hear...

Within a split second, I felt the door to my room fly open and with that my mother came barging through. My mother must have said something to Nevaeh because with that, she gave me a kiss on the cheek and bid her goodbyes, I dared even look away from the tear-stained tiles below me. About a minute had passed, and I hadn't seen Nevaeh, so I'm guessing that she had left. I saw a shadow come sit right next to me and gave me a cup of something, with the cogs in my mind out of curiosity, I looked up and my eyes were met by my mother's ocean blue eyes. Her soft ivory hair had grown out now, it was longer. Almost as if I hadn't seen her in a month... Once I had drunk my tea, we made out way downstairs, where I was also joined by Victoria's presence. She wrapped me into a tight embrace and tucked my messy thick hair behind my ear before proceeding to say, in a whisper that only I could hear.

"Don't you dare ever do that to me again. Do you hear me Elizabeth?"

I gave her a kiss on the cheek before standing on my toes just to reach her ear, to then respond with.

"You have my word for it Victoria. You didn't think I really would leave though and break our promise, did you? Always and forever my dearest sister."

I made my way over to the lounge and once I did I completely just flop onto the sofa but within a matter of minutes, I felt my ears prick up as my mum's high heel shoes started clicking their way to dad's study. Positive note: I could go and snoop around now outside of his office. Negative note: the chances of me getting caught were quite high...

I silently made my way over to the study door making sure to when walking around hallways and stuff to watch out for the creaky tiles and floorboards. Growing up as a child, I always learned that if you walk close to the wall it reduces and even stops the amount of noise you make whilst wandering around the house. I had read too many books, so I had a glass in my left hand and my right hand placed on the wall so therefore I had a sturdy stance and the chances of me getting caught were reduced again. This is when everything started coming together for me.

"Matthew darling, she's practically miserable. She needs time to heal before you make her come in here and explain everything to you." My mum said whilst trying to calm down my dad.

"Verity!" The words flew out of his mouth and were sharp like a dart being thrown at a board. "She is my daughter, mine! And if she doesn't learn to respect me and tell me the truth then why should I keep providing for her?"

"Matthew please be kind, she is your daughter." I heard my mum solemnly say to my father.

"She is no daughter of mine, VerityThompson, if she does not learn to respect and tell the truth to her father!" My father shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Matthew Thompson! You do not speak to me that way do you hear me?" My mother was using her scary voice where she went all cold and the world felt like it plummeted into a deep ice age. It was brilliant but scary. With that, my mother flung the door open, and to my surprise, I jumped... But so did the glass in my hands. I looked across the hallway, to find my two parent's eyes beaming back at me.

Oh no...

The things I'd do to be an obedient child...