Cold love {teacherxstudent, wlw}

Part 20

*Danielle's POV*

The ride to my grandparents is awkward every year, this is the only time my father is sober, but after a year of abusing me I don'f find talking to him desirable.

"Hey Dani, you know I'm sorry right?" he asks, sure he is sorry now, but will he be sorry when we come back home? No he won't, he will be wasted and will go back to hurting me in a second.

"Yeah I know" I just say, I don't want to fight with him or have this conversation, I just want to get this whole holiday over with.

"Don't tell grandma about it" he says, wow he has nerves, he abuses me through out the whole year and the second thing he can say to me is to not tell it to anyone? I hate him, I hate him so much.

"Don't worry about it, it's not like this is the first time in a year you can talk to me without pushing me to the wall, or hitting me" I say

"Don't start Danielle, you know why I do it, alcohol just makes shit better, if the consequence is hurting you, well then be it" he says like it's the most normal thing ever.

"Yeah I noticed" I say under my breath "What did you say?" my father asks me, I look over at him as I repeat myself "I said yeah I noticed" I say it loudly this time.

"Just because I'm not drunk don't think for a second I won't stop this car and leave you on the side of the road if you don't stop this attitude" he warns.

"But then who would make sure grandma knows you are a perfect dad to me?" I taunt, he hits the steering wheel, making it honk.

"Calm down Dad, I won't talk to you or about you for the rest of the week" I say, turning away to look out the window.

We drive in silence from then.

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"Hi sweetheart" my grandma says as she pulls me into a hug "I missed you so much, how have you been?" she asks.

"Thank you Grandma I've been good, I missed you too" I say as I pull away from the hug.

"Come on, dinner is starting soon, we all were just waiting for you" she says as she looks at my dad and gives him a small smile, she leads us into the house.

Me and my father are walking behind her "Behave" my father whispers to me, does he really not understand I have nothing to gain from telling someone what he is doing to me? I will be gone by the end of summer, we are talking about 8 months later, I can deal with these 8 months, after these 4 years it's nothing.

"Dani!! You look beautiful, you are all grown up" my aunt says running towards me "Thank you Aunt Anne, you look amazing too" I say.

I have 4 aunts, they are all younger than my mom was, me and Aunt Anne have 10 years between us, she feels more like a friend than an aunt.

"Come, sit next to me" she says as she sits down at the big table and indicates me to sit next to her.

"So how is everything? This is your last year of school right? Harvard still the plan?" She asks, after my mom's death me and Anne got really close, I always told her everything in my life when I saw her, except for my father of course.

"Yes, this is my final year, and of course Harvard is still the plan" I say smiling, I really like talking to Anne.

My grandma speaks up "Thank you all for coming, I hope you enjoy the food" she sits down and everyone starts eating, we are a big family, I think there are around 30 of us here, there are people I never even talked to before, but they are just the partners of some of my cousins, uncles or aunts.