My Understandings [ON HOLD/EDITING]

My Understandings: Part 17

"Yes!" I shout loudly. Alan stands and pulls me into a tight hug and starts to spin me around. We laugh for awhile and exchange smiles. "This is so great Alan! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I shout. Alan sets me down and unplugs my laptop.

"You're welcome." He says while turning back to me with a smile. I can't help myself, I run back up to him and pull him into another hug and give him a kiss on the cheek. He let's me go and I notice the reddening of his cheeks. Odd.

"What would I do without you gingy?" I ask playfully. He turns around and smiles.

"Come on. We need to go and show the police." says Alan starting to rush out the door. I follow him downstairs but something catches my eye. I walk back and see my dads bedroom door cracked open. I push it open a little to see 3 pieces of paper on his bed with unfamiliar handwriting on them. I wander in and sit down on his bed and pick one up.

"Dear Martin

I think it is very rude of you to take my daughter away from me. I've been trying for so long to try and see her and I don't understand why you don't want me there. You're the one who is causing her harm and you don't seem fit to be a parent. I would like you to tell your "friends" to leave me alone also. One of them has tried to take me and I am ready to call the police. I will do it. And whatever you do...

Keep your fucking disgusting hands off my daughter.

Ellie"

"Edith come on we have to go..." Alan see's the letters and I hand him one to read. I pick up the next one, in shock. Ellie. That's my moms name, it's so close to mine. Why did my dad make her leave? I don't understand what she did that was so bad.

"Martin

Please tell your friends to leave me alone. Please. This is very cruel and immature and I am forced to move due to the frequent visits. I don't understand why trying to teach her to be creative and free like you used to be was so bad. You beat us both so much I just wanted to teach her some way to be free. I would like to come back and take her with me but every time I show up you threaten to kill me.

I'm ready to call the police Martin

Ellie"

What!? I hand Alan the other letter and pick up another one. My dad kicked her out because she tried to teach me how to be like him... This is ridiculous I fucking hate my life. I pick up the next letter and hand the previous one to Alan.

"Martin

I'm coming to get Edith now. Whether you like it or not. She's 18 now, she can make her own decisions.

Ellie"

I gasp as I hand Alan the last letter. He reads it quickly and looks over to me with wide eyes.

"She's coming." He says with a smile. I feel my face light up and I drop the letters onto the floor. Alan opens his arms wide and I jump into them, feeling happier than I ever have before.

I've never had a mom, or at least I never remember having one. I can't wait to feel loved by someone in my own family, to feel wanted and not like a waste of space. I've never felt important to my dad whatsoever and this is my time to be important to my mom. To know that she had been trying to keep touch makes me feel a little better.

"Edith." Alan mumbles. I look up at him with misty eyes, ready to cry out of happiness. "You deserve this. You really do. I can't think of anyone who I'm more happy for than you." He says. I smile and he returns one and pulls me into a tighter hug. I let a tear shed, I can't hold it in anymore. This is the best day of my life. I feel Alan's finger trace my cheek and wipe away the tear. "Don't cry. Be happy. Now lets go get Austin out of jail." I nod and smile and pick up the letters off the floor.

Something catches my eye. A small metal safe in the corner of his room the looks poorly hidden with dirty clothes. I walk over to it an move the clothes around.

"What is it?" I hear Alan ask. I move more clothes around it and pull on the handle, it wasn't locked.

"I don't know..." I mumble opening the small door. What I see inside just about takes my breth away. "Oh my god, Alan come here." I say staring in disbelief at what's in front of me. Alan walks over and gasps at what he sees.

Inside the small safe are stacks of twenty dollar bills. So many stacks that the whole safe is filled to the brim. There has to be at least my dads whole life savings in here. And guess what? It's all mine now.

"Woo hoo!" we both shout as we jump up into the air. Alan picks me up off the ground and runs around my house giving me a piggy back ride while we cheer.

"I can do whatever I want now!" I shout. 

"Fuck yeah!" He shouts as he runs back to my dads room. I need this money more than anything. Now I can pay for my classes and help with the apartment for me and Alan. Life is looking pretty good now. All I have left to do is get Austin out of jail and this will be the happiest day of my life.

I pick up my bag from the floor and start shoving bills in it. Alan starts to help as we take each stack,  stare at it, then put it in my bag. My stupid fucking cunt of a dad doesn't need all this money. I do.

"Now we can definitely send his ass to jail." I say with a smile. Alan grabs as much money as he can and we move all of the clothes back over the safe to hide it. I grab the letters off of the bed and run out the door. As I'm running out the door I stop dead in my tracks on my front porch. Alan turns around and gives me a look that says What? 

"Laptop Alan." I say with a smile on my face. I shouldn't be smiling, if we left that here it could have been destroyed but I can't help myself, I'm finally free from my dad and my mom is on the way. Alan runs inside and comes back out with my laptop as I start to climb into his car. As Alan begins to back out of my driveway I have this strange feeling that.... I'm being watched?

I look all around at my house and notice that somethings not right. Alan closed the door behind him... so why is it open? A figure steps in front of the doorway and I see big brown eyes staring at me. The same eyes that belonged to the man that broke my arm when I was a kid.

"Alan. Drive. Hurry, we need to get the fuck out of here." I say as I direct my attention to the figure in the door.

"Here. Hold this. Nothing can happen to it." He hands me my laptop as he pulls out of my driveway and speeds towards the freeway. I take it and hold it tightly to my chest, I think if anything happens to this I'd be dead. It's a good thing I found this or else my dads friends would be out to get me on no time.

I close my eyes for a little and take a short nap that I really need. It's been a long day, Austin's just lucky we found this. The look in his eyes when he was being taken away scared me... I wonder how he's doing in... prison. He'll be ok though... we're coming to bail him out.

"God this is so perfect! Right Edith?" Alan asks. I hope it's perfect... what if something happened to Austin in jail or with the cop. What if that guy tries to.. kill Kat. Or what if he tried to kill anyone else. Where is my dad? Does he even know that we're going to turn him in? I hope not... if he does I know he'll have a way of getting around it...

"Edith?" I snap back into reality and smile and nod at Alan. I can't be sure that everything is going to be perfect, I can only hope it will be...

[Author's Note]

Hey guys I know it's been awhile since I last updated. I forgot to tell you guys I was going to Florida for a week and wouldn't be able to update. I should be updating again soon because I have so much planned. Sorry for the wait! And thanks for everything you guys!