unchosen path

CHAPTER TEN

chapter ten

~ no parents ~

                       march 31st, 2018

my family was breaking apart by the day, it's like we have some kind of curse, we obviously didn't but it still felt like it, i don't know what i did to deserve this, we were going to have to go to court to see if corbin could get custody of us, me and him were still not on a talking basis, considering he punched me in the face until i bled, so honestly i didn't want him to have custody. besides, he was still in college, he had a life he didn't deserve this. i didn't want to go to court but we had to, but not today. today we had a different mission. seeing mom in prison.

i didn't want to see her, i wanted to kill her, why would i want to see her? but i guess i had to, we all got ready and we went to the prison, we were put in a room with a glass wall between us. i sat beside my little brother and i stared at my feet while corbin talked to our mom.

"cece, what happened to your face?" she asked me trying to get my attention, i ignored her. "cece, speak when your spoken to."

"what are you gonna do mom? you gonna hit me with your car again? oh wait you're in jail for 120 years with no parole so no you can't." i replied giving her a smug smirk like she does to me.

she tried to get up but she was handcuffed to the table. "can't get me now, can ya mom?" i asked walking out of the room and sat on the bench outside. i waited until they were done because i didn't want to see my mom's face ever again.

the sheriff walked up to me and sat beside me."hey kid, you should go back in." he said.

"no, i'm not doing that." i said. "what happened to your face?" he asked.

"nothing, nothing happened." i looked the other way.

'what's going on with you, you're worrying me?" he asked i looked at him. "that is a lot of audacity for you to ask me that considering my dad died and my mom is the killer and everyone thinks i'm insane." i walked away, i wasn't sure where i was going but i was walking. i went and sat on corbin's car. the sheriff had followed me.

"i'm sorry this is happening to you, cienna, i don't need you to talk to me but-"

"yeah i don't want to talk to you, just leave me alone." i sat on the sidewalk trying to ignore anyone who came by. i really didn't want to talk. my siblings came out. they looked at me, i got in the car, then they did. no one talked to me

i wasn't exactly mad about it. they let me out of the car, i had told them to anyway. i was a park. i sat on the bench, i had no one on my side, corbin was on my side. i guess not anymore. my dad would be but we all know what happened there. liam, i'm not sure about liam. and my mom, hated me. i hated her more. more than anyone or anything. i don't blame myself for that.

a little girl came up to me, she looked a lot like younger me

"cece, it's going to be okay."

"how do you now my name?" i asked.

"i am you, cece. i am 7 year old you. i came here to tell you that it is going to be okay."

i tear ran down my face. "okay, if you are younger me, go tell dad you love him." little me nodded and ran to another bench, i saw my dad, alive as ever. he looked at me and smiled. every time i was worried he would give me that sweet smile. seeing that right now told me everything was going to be okay.  i looked back at him teary eyed. i gave him a sad smile. the next time i blinked he was gone. i walked towards a tree so no one saw me. "dad." i whispered. he didn't show up though. i needed him, even if it was just a hallucination, seeing him told me everything was going to be okay.

even if nothing elsse made me feel okay, that did. seeing his face, imagining a world where he is alive and our family is stuck together and okay. even though in the back of my mind, i knew that wasn't true it still made me feel better to think so. but i still had one more case to crack. what was my mom's motive to killing my sweet father, just some random night. i didn't want to ask her but i wanted to figure it out. so i walked home. i found my mom's phone, i guessed her password a few times and i got in. i immediately looked at her texts, that is when i saw something i can never unsee. a text mesage to my mom's bestfriend.

"i killed him."

they were working together. wen i say i RAN to the police station i mean it, i couldn't talk i was so out of breath when i arrived i just gave the sheriff the phone and he called some other officers, they told me they would handle it themselves. i let it happen i went home and i put away all my investigation supplies, all the files, everything. this was over. at least for me.