Another Love (Hessa)

Part 17 - Divorce

Tessa

After a one-hour ride, we finally arrive home. Hardin parks the car in the front of my house, but I don't leave yet.

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, I will be ok. And we need a few hours away, so you can miss me more." I smile.

"Come to my place later. We can watch a movie."

"As we did last night in your room?"

"If you wish, yes." He laughs. He is my pervert boy.

"See you later." I kiss him and I leave the car.

I like how he doesn't go anywhere until I'm inside. He does this since Noah appeared in the front of my door a few months ago.

I enter in my house and I see my mother watching TV.

"Hi, mom!"

"Tessa, honey!" She gets up and she hugs me.

"So? What happened?"

"We are gonna talk later. Let's make lunch together."

"Ok, fine. But let me take a shower before."

"Good."

I walk downstairs, I take some clothes and I go to take a shower. After 25 minutes I'm done and I go to the kitchen where I find her and Travis.

Tessa: "Hello bro!"

Travis: "Hi!" He hugs me. "I have missed you a lot since you're gone."

Tessa: "I'm here for the weekend. We can do some activities together while I'm here."

Travis: "With Hardin?"

Tessa: "If you want him here, then yes."

Travis: "Cool!"

Carol: "Guys, will you help me make lunch?"

Tessa: "Of course!"

We help my mother to prepare the lunch, doing our usual stuff when we cook together. We decided to make lasagna. After more than an hour we were done eating and it's time for talk.

Tessa: "So? I think now it's time to tell us what happened."

Travis: "Right."

Carol: "Ok..." She makes a pause. I have no idea what to expect. "You know that your father was absent in the last months, right?"

Tessa: "Yeah, what's wrong? He is sick?"

Carol: "Oh, no, no, no. But... We are getting a divorce."

Travis: "Divorce?" His look is frightened. Shit. He's only fourteen. How he can survive through a divorce?

Tessa: "What?" I suddenly feel like the world is spinning around. "A divorce?"

Carol: "Yes..."

Travis: "But how?! There was love between you two!"

Carol: "What we had it wasn't love anymore, baby...."

Travis: "No, no, no! It can't be possible!" I hear him yelling and I hug him. I don't think I can see him crying.

Carol: "Travis... Calm down."

Travis: "No!"

Tessa: "So, everything you were saying it was all a lie?!"

Carol: "It was for your own good, guys!"

Tessa: "Our good? Everything was a fucking lie! I'm done with this, mom!" I get up and I leave the house. I don't want to be here anymore. I can't stand her right now.