Always Mine {Book 3}| Completed

Chapter 7

                           Chapter Seven
                              EMMA POV:

     I made sure the table was perfect. I wanted everything to look nice. Christopher had straightened out the cloth napkins, folding them a different way than dad already did. I know how OCD Christopher can be at times, but only when it involves in the kitchen. Not if it's his bedroom or bathroom. But hopefully in the kitchen or anything to do with cooking or food, he is quite the neatest of a OCD life. And I just laugh, thinking about it to myself.

It took dad and Colleen a little bit of time to actually come out onto the patio where we were, both just chilling by the table, fixing everything. And I did still notice the strange energy going on between them that was dull. But I already know the issue. Dad has cheated on Colleen. It might be my mother, but then again it could be with anyone. My childhood was full on with my dad constantly cheating on my mother. I believe that it happened when mom and me were constantly home thinking he was working late shifts at the hospital. But they were all lies while he would screw every woman. And I guess I'm judging him still, and I thought he would be different when it came to Colleen. But there is so much insanity that I'm mixed with it.

    If I'm right and dad cheated on Colleen then I don't know what to say. I'm stuck on confusion and just not understanding why dad would do something to ruin and destroy his marriage like this. And I think my mom is involved because I saw their faces at the hospital they wouldn't even look at each other. It was like they were afraid of catching a virus from one another. Do they hate each other again? What's going on between my parents and my dad and my stepmother? There's something going on. I'm positive of this. And if I'm wrong, then I have no idea what's going on. And I want to know exactly what is happening because I fucking deserve the truth.

I can't make out if Christopher might know. He's sort of not noticing it to be fair. And I think he doesn't know because he's horrible at a poker face. But I do know that if he knows, and keeps it, he must have a reason for it. But I don't wish to investigate this because if I'm wrong then I'll look like an awful person. I need to catch them in the act. And I need to do it without them noticing it. So I have an entire plan sped up in time for me to try to find out if there's any sort of affair going on. And I will find out.

But I have no idea if Christopher knows anything at all. But there is only one way to find out.

As I'm fixing the cloth napkins I have the courage up to say, "hey Christopher, do you think our parents are acting strange?"

Christopher had made one of the napkin across the plate horizontally.

   "No. Why?" He said calmly, and he slightly frowned.

   I guess he seems fine and he's not hiding anything. So he must not know anything. And if he does, this should be his chance to tell me.

   "It's because ever since the hospital my parents and my dad and your mom... the three of them have all been acting funny. Like their all hiding something. And if there's something... I'd like to know. That's all." I definitely spoke how I felt on this matter so Christopher would understand that I want to know. And if he does know, he should tell me right now.

   "I'm sure it's nothing. I mean, their perfectly fine. And if it's anything it could be work related or something financially. It's nothing to worry about." He basically was calming me, making me feel like everything was perfectly fine, but I just didn't believe it. I think our parents are fighting or there's something off. Something not right. Why can't he see it?

   "Christopher," I took a step back, he tried placing both of his hands on both of my arms to hold me in an embrace, but I backed up two steps away. "I know there is something. And if you do know something... now would be the time to tell me. If you do know... please tell me. I deserve the truth. So if you know, please stop lying and tell me the truth."