How It Ends {l.h}

Chapter 19

No POV

Grace sighed as she saw candids of Luke and Bailee. She was absolutely depressed, but she was not going to do anything she've done before. It's been two days since he left and nothing too depressing has happened. It would make the boys worried again and the girls too. She didn't want that. She was absolutely done with getting depressed. She was sad but she knew she had to move on whether she liked it or not. She didn't want any of her friends worrying and especially her aunt who was now coming once a month. Soon she had school to attend, and she had her education on top of everything. She had a low self-esteem, insecure about everything but she kept on studying and she could not give up in the last year.

It was Wednesday afternoon, she was moping around in her room a bit but she had her window opened, chilly breeze going in and out her room. Yesterday she went out with Claire and Anna. They went to accompany Claire with her ultrasound scan. It was beautiful. The baby was small but found out it was a she. She told Calum and Calum bursted into tears and again, he cried into her shoulder.

The London sky was beautiful, any time of day. And that made Grace happy. At night the stars shimmered and Calum would be with her. He had helped her all the time mostly because Calum of course felt sorry for her but he was scared anything could happen. Grace assured him nothing would happen and she had promised herself she would not do anything. Anything.

Grace was on the guest bed and she put her phone down and just stared out the window. The cloudy sky still looked beautiful to her.

There was a knock on the door and Grace already knew it was Calum.

"Come in!" She yelled.

Calum came in with some cookie and two cans of diet coke.

"Hey!" He cheered as he skipped towards her and handed her one of the can.

"Thanks." She smiled.

"So, what are you going to do today? Claire's out with Michael to go shopping. Ashton's meeting up with his friend and Anna's joining him since MY girlfriend took HER boyfriend." Calum explains with a laugh at the end.

"I..." I start but something hits me in the head. Mentally.

"Calum, can I tell you something."

"Uhh.... sure?"

"What do you think of my parents?" Grace ask.

"I thought you were going to tell me something?" He replies looking confused.

"Just answer this." Grace rolls her eyes with a chuckle.

"I don't know, they seem nice. Like a really responsible parent." He answers.

"But that's not true." She state. She looks at Calum who had the most confusing face in the history. "My parents were horrible. I was depressed and angry because of them. They were horrible. I'm sorry Calum but I had to deal with my period by myself. I had no fucking idea what was happening to me until I actually learnt this whole thing in school. Just because I didn't turn the TV off even though I wasn't even the one who turned it on, they'll get mad and ignore me for weeks. They were horrible parents. They were nice. But it was only sometimes. They acted every time I had a friend over or something. They were sometimes abusive. They called me fat and a pig, my own damn parents called me names." She blabber out all the things that was inside her. She had no idea why suddenly she said this but she had the urge to tell someone this and get it all out. Maybe it was probably because Luke reminded her of her parents. That was the real side of Grace's parents. Of course, she was sad when her mom and her dad died but she was also sad when her own parents called me names. It wasn't the way you treat your child.