MY WAY - Amelia's Daughter

28. Escape

    "MOM" I plead desperately in the phone. "Yes honey, Are you okay? I'm on my way home" she wondered. "No, come pick me up. I'm at Will's house" I begged.

    "I'm like two minutes away, what happened?" she asked worried. "There's a lot I haven't had time to tell you so I'll just explain in the car" I promised. "Okay be safe, Moe. I love you" She ended the call.

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    "Mom you have no idea how glad I am to see you" I hugged her climbing into the passenger seat. "What's wrong hon?" she placed a hand on my cheek.

"Can you start driving first?" I requested. "Sure" she agreed as we sped out of Will's driveway. Why am I always running away? Should I be running back in?

    "So- uh are you ready to talk about it?" she pried. "okay this is a long story, you ready?" I sighed. "I mean yeah, go ahead" she permitted.

"So last night at dinner Mer was acting weird about Will, so I went to talk to her and found her on her computer" I began. "Seems normal for her" Mom shrugged.

"Just wait, so I went over and she was looking through old patient charts" I added. "I'm not connecting the dots" she raised an eyebrow.

"Mom, his mom was her patient with Uncle Derek" I finally spat out. "You're kidding!" she gasped. "So today when he told me he loved me-"

"He told you he loved you??" she questioned. "Yeah he did" I sighed, I'd blown it. "So then what happened?" she wondered.

"I just froze," I admitted "I said I had to go." I thought it would feel better to let it out, but know I just felt ashamed, I probably really hurt him.

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The house was quiet leaving me only with my thoughts and all my regrets. Should I explain? no. Should I apologize? yes. just not now.

"Moe?" Zola stood at my door, "Can you come play with me?" she requested. "I'm sorry ZoZo not know" I swallowed hard, am I going to regret this later?

    "What's wrong?" Zo crept closer to the edge of my voice. "Nothing, I'm fine" I sighed. "It's okay to be sad, that's what my Mommy always says" Zola smiled.

    "Yeah, I know. I'll play with you later okay?" I bargained. "I don't even want to play anymore, I just want to know you're okay" She explained. "I'm fine, I pinky promise"

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    "Zo told me you were sad" Mom entered my room. "I'm fine!" I repeated again slightly annoyed. "Hon, take a deep breath. I made you hot chocolate" She set it on the table beside my bed.

    "I ruined the best thing I ever had" I pouted. "It's not over M, you need to text him" she said what I didn't want to hear. "Mom please! I'm just so tired, I don't want to!" I groaned. "You text him or I will" She set out my options. "Just hand me my phone" I sighed.

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Morgan: I'm sorry Will I promise it's not you I just have a lot going on. But I do love you too. I mean it. Not just because you said it and I regret not saying it back, but because it's burning so deep inside of me I can't wait any longer to tell you. But I hope you don't hate me now.

Will: How could I ever hate you Princess?