New Girl In The City

Chapter 3

Well this chapter was supposed to be chapter 2 only but you know what happened. This chapter is pretty big itself though...

BTW my story ranked #455 in teen fiction already, I am boundless happy.. Thanks to you all..

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I pulled the curtains away, revealing the NYC skylines. Beneath was the road, full of people and cars...City that never sleeps. Chloe was still sleeping , I looked at her face, even though I was far away from her but the restless look on her face was very prominent and was clearly visible in morning daylight.

I stayed inside the room, my half part wanted to go out to the balcony and wanted to take in the beauty, but some strong force was holding me back.

Laziness...

I thought.

No your dad...

Someone spoke.

'Don't leave.' Dad voice echoed in my head.

'Stop!'

'Don't go! Beth!'

One after one of his words came flying in my head, screaming, shouting.

"Stop!" I screamed, clutching the curtain tightly, closing my eyes shut. A thick warm tear made its way out of my eyes. I was sitting over the carpeted floor on my knees, by using my one arm as a support.

' You should not have left him there alone.' My conscious spoke this time.

"No!" I should not have...

I was not sure whether I was crying or not all I felt then was miserable, guilty...selfish. How come I never asked about it to mom? Why did not I question her decision before? Why ?

Because you were not able to see your parents like that. Tearing themselves into pieces.You wanted them to take a break.

My conscious spoke again. And I knew it was true. It was really hard for me to see them like that. Gulping there own problems in their own way and not together.

But why did I left my dad alone? .

I looked up from the floor as I felt someone's presence.

Chloe...

Without saying anything she just did a simple thing, a simple gesture, a simple action, and it made me feel relieved for some known reason. I did the same, I hugged her back. Its a nice thing, how actions can speak so much louder than words.

We were seating like that for God knows how long, but I was not complaining, for all I knew that this was able to make me calm.

" Dad is just...lost." Suddenly Chloe spoke up. She pulled herself out, facing me, holding my hands. "He needs time, alone to think of his action, Beth." Chloe said, answering my questions which I was having all along, a while ago, within me.

"Dad was finishing himself. And mom just could not see him like that. She loves him too much to see him finish himself like that." Chloe continued, and I just listened her words in silence. "It it really hard to believe that he was the same person from before.The one, Who used to be so much cheerful, energetic and a great achiever." She took in a deep breath. I could see Chloe's eyes, they were glistening by the water that formed in her eyes.

"I really don't understand why dad is doing this, he paid for the consequences he had before and his business was coping with that. But then him getting drowned into alcohol and loosing his more shares." Chloe pinched the bridge of her nose. "Mom was there with him but she got hurt when she saw herself failing in bringing dad back to his old-self . Hard for herself to see loosing him." I looked at Chloe, she is my twin, my other half but how could she was able to see through so much, more than me.