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11

Ophelia's POV

"Where have you been all night, Ophelia?" I only took my shoes off after coming back home, when my mother ran to me with her questions.

"I slept at my friend's place," I said. I didn't want to talk with her when my head was still in great pain because of drinking yesterday.

"What friends?" mother asked me again.

"It's my new friend Liliya. I went to her place for the sake of not waking up you and my brother in the middle of the night" I lied. I don't even remember how I got into Arden's dorm.

"Alright, just let me know if you do something like this the next time" she put her hand on my shoulder.

"I will" I passed by her towards the kitchen. I needed to find the medicine for my headache and drink it.

"The guy who's working as a driver will come soon to take Elijah to his art classes" mother was following me to the kitchen.

I'm glad to hear from her that she's doing her best to let her son do things he loves. Maybe a year ago she insisted that Elijah should do sports like me, but I begged her to let him do what he wants. I guess, she listened to me.

"Cool" was the only word that left my mouth. I was in search of medicine, so I didn't pay attention to the other part of my mother's sentence.

"I recently found out that this guy is your best friend Jace's older brother" this is what my mother just said, which stopped me from what I was doing. I turned to her.

"Jace isn't my best friend anymore. You know that" it kind of hurt me to say that.

"I know, but I'm just saying that I was surprised to find out that these two are brothers. You should at least be friends with the older one" my mother took a seat at the table.

"I'm not going to do that" I whispered to myself and continued searching for medicine.

"Oh, I also wanted to tell you that I'll take Elijah to his father this evening. It's those mandatory meeting hours again" I could hear from her voice that she was close to being pissed. She hated taking my brother to meet our father every weekend. Or maybe she hated seeing my father having a nice new family?

I could understand her because I was extremely mad at my father for leaving my mother and us for a new woman. For a woman who was ten years younger than my mother. But he had his reasons and my mother was one of them.

It's been three years since my parents divorced and I still feel that indescribable pain inside my heart. It was actually one of the last things that pushed me into a deep dark tunnel from which I still haven't come out. I'm still stuck there, but with a better working mask on my face.

"Just don't start a fight with father again" I finally found the medicine and took it with drinking water on top of it.

"Don't worry, I'm too tired for that" I don't know if I can trust her after finding those drugs in her room a few days ago. I'm scared that she's still having mental problems because of them.

"Don't let my brother see you fighting. You know how much it affects him" I wish I could go together with Elijah, but I have to go to my part-time job in maybe two hours, and also, I still don't feel like going to meet my father.

It will break me again if I see him happy with his new family when the three of us are still suffering.

"Do you still don't want to meet him? I mean, I understand you, but he's your father too" mother looked at me. She's right to say this, but I don't want to do that.