𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻

II - Eaton

"My parents disowned me." Annalise said, and all I could do is wonder. I knew that, most of her friends already knew about that-- but I reckoned they knew why. "Why is that?"

She takes a while to answer, seeming as if she's trying to find the words to explain. But I could just see it from the look on her face, it's not something that she did. Whatever it is, it must be full of shit. And the girl I'm holding in my arms is not to be given the shitty fucking treatment.

"If I tell you, will you tell me what's up with your attitude change?" She chuckles, her fingers running on my chest. Naughty.

I nod "Reveal your thoughts to me."

She takes a while before responding, "Kenna and I always had a good relationship, but our parents didn't and my father definitely didn't like me for god knows reason what and once they got a divorce a few years ago, my father married another woman and he decided to disown me. He said he never wanted me and it was pretty obvious growing up that he didn't." she sighs before continuing. "I mean I was nineteen when he disowned me so it didn't really matter." 

I could feel her expression changing just from the tone of her voice, making me tighten my arms on her. Her father's reasoning is bullshit. "How about your mother?" I ask, softly. 

Annalise's smiles a little after I mentioned her mother. 

"I actually don't know," she grins, "she said she never wanted to disown me... but she did anyways. She just can never not listen to my father even when she knows it's wrong." my expression must've shifted to something else, because suddenly she holds my hand, tight. "But my mother was nice, took care of me for the most part-- and til now she's still nice to me."

I stare at her eyes, her expression, and her lips I would love to kiss a million times. "She should've took your side, her daughter should've been her priority." I said, my thumb brushing her hand. 

"Well I wasn't her only daughter." She ends the sentence with a single chuckle. I raise an eyebrow hearing her statement. 

"It's not like that. I was never jealous of Kenna, we were good siblings even in those situations. But, I would be lying if I said that I never wished that my parents wanted me the way they wanted her in the past." 

"And are you okay with that now?" I'm aware that she said it before, that her relationship with Kenna is fine-- but I want to know her thoughts deep down. 

What good of a man am I for her if I could only so much think that she's fine with something and not wanting to know how she actually feels deep down? 

"Of course, I love her." I nod at her words

Out of all people I know what it feels like, I see it, and I've experienced it. The shit your family gives you sometimes, or maybe a lot of the times. Me and Annalise seems to have a similar situation with our father, and our mother who is nice but isn't there. And my sister-- 

If only I could tell her..

"Eaton." she calls out, placing her hands on my neck.

I swallow, my thoughts running. I know what she's about to ask, and I'm not sure how I should answer. "Now tell me what's up with you." She smirks. 

I want to tell her, I can't tell her, I want to, I can't, but I should, I shouldn't. 

The past month has been rough, until now I don't know if the situation is ever gonna get better, if the feeling will go way. Or maybe the feelings are already gone since the day it all happened. And in the midst of all that, there was Annalise, the woman who was it for me. The one who compares to no other.