Falling For You

Part 1

~Amelia~

"That's what you always say Michael! I had enough of you thinking that your good actions should delete your bad ones! For years you manipulated me but I won't have it anymore. What's the point of you trying anyway, we're getting a divorce in one week!" Mum screamed behind the shut bedroom door to dad. "Thank god we're getting a divorce! I couldn't be married to someone who's common sense is as blind and stupid as you unlike mine for any longer!" Dad yelled back.
"You think you're so smart, don't you? But you're not the only one who knows stuff here. For example, I know that you secretly texted to your ex wife behind my back!" Mum replied.
"You left me with no choice! You were being a dumb bitch." Dad said.
"Don't you dare call me that!" Mum said back, clenching her teeth. Yeah. Mum and dad were always like that. Mum was always naive and too optimistic to see reality. I feel like extroverts think positive shit to block out reality sometimes, because not everything has a bright side. That's a lie, they know it too. But they use it as an escape. Whereas for dad, he was toxic. Always made us feel bad, not just Mum, he did it to me and Mason too. We were never good enough for dad, if I ever got a 90% in an exam, dad would tell me I failed and compare me to my other friends and relatives. For dad, mum was always too fat and never fit, always eating too much. According to dad, Mason was too old to be playing with toys and he should start focusing on his studies. That boy was only 7 for fucks sake. He also manipulated us into getting his way all the time. Mum never made decisions in the house, it was always dad who made choices. So now schools were closing and it was almost summer holidays, our parents were getting a divorce in 1 week. How do me and Mason feel about it? When were heard the news, we said 'Finally', quite literally. We would finally have silence and peace, no more shouting and controllingness of dad, no more mental abuse. We were OK with them divorcing. But do you know what broke us. When mum told us she would look after us anymore, that she couldn't do this anymore. We didn't expect dad to take us with him after he divorced anyway, he didn't actually give a shit about us, he only liked fucking up our lives. But I relied on mum. We both did, me and my little brother Mason. So now our Aunt Cecilia would look after us, and we would get to live with our cousin Leo and our Uncle Jhonny.
The fighting continued with mum and dad, I felt so tired of having to bare all these years of fighting, but I clenched my teeth and walked back to my room to pack up, after one week all this would finally end. I officially hated mum too. She neglected us growing up, and she had completely abandoned us now. Great. I walked to my room and opened the door to enter inside. Suitcases and bags were stacked up on my bed with my stuff on it and boxes wrapped around in bubble wraps were under and around my table. I gathered all my room things too; my posters, photos, lamps, wall hangings. I was going to move into the guest bedroom at my Aunts house, it was nice if them to give it to me, and our cousin Leo was more than glad to share a room with Leo for now until we moved him into the room across us, normally it was their work office, but they hadn't used it for years so it would be Masons room now. It was small but it would make do. My room was also small but it would be larger if I moved out the double bed in the room and put in a single one instead. Their house was a slightly smaller then ours but for some reason it felt more like home, cozier. Family friendly. Unlike ours. My door creaked open, it was Mason. I forced a smile at him, "Hey little man. What ya doing?" I said, trying to lift his mood. Poor guy probably felt shit because of the lot he had in his plate too. "Nothing much." He said. "Just tired." He added. His eyes had dark rings around them. "Why, is it because of school? Or is it all the packing up?" I said. "Nah, it's cuz of all... this." He said. I felt so sorry for him. I had to look out for him now that I was the only family member he had left. I had pressure on my shoulders too, but I couldn't let it weigh me down and cause me to abandon Mason like mum did to us. I was never going to parent like them when I became one. "Same, buddy. Same. But it's almost over. I promise everything's gonna be so much better from now on. It's a fact, not a thought by the way. Anywhere else is better than home, especially at Leo's." I said, and he nodded as if to approve what I said. I used to use home as an escape from school, but school was the ultimate escape from home. School was shit, so bad I wanted to drop out one time. But home was a million times worse, think about how bad school can be but then way worse at home, that's a hard life to live. There was this one guy at school though, in our yeargroup and we were in the same school since primary school and I absolutely hated him. He was so annoying, he literally flirted with the whole world except for me, what was his problem with me? I snapped out of my thought and snapped back into reality. Shit, I forgot about Mason. "Anything I can do for you mate?" I said. "Nah I'm fine. Just wanted to check on you." He said. I nodded and he left the room. I'm fine, he said. That's how we grew up, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, cuz nobody ever listened or gave us any rights. No one was nice. No one was fair. We didn't have the understanding, supportive parent material type. But what was the point of telling the problem the problem anyway, they'd make that a problem too. I thighs about what I had said to Mason. We were going to be much better. We were. Another escape from home and I didn't even have to run away or sneak out to Manchester or some friends house this time. I was saved.