The Shy Boy and the Girl in the Green Dress

Chapter Seven - The Tough Day

Chapter 7 – The Tough Day

"What's wrong Pumpkin?" Blake asked the second I walked into his room.

I didn't even take the time to answer or let him ask more questions and threw myself in his arms, my tears spilling like waterfalls.

Blake's arms automatically wrapped around me, his hand stroking my hair.

I knew he was confused. I would be too if my boyfriend had just dropped unannounced at my house and was sobbing uncontrollably in my arms without any kind of explanation. But at the moment all I cared about was that I needed Blake, I needed those arms around me because otherwise I had no idea how I could deal with what had just happened.

I needed more than just his arms around me actually. I wanted to lose myself in him and stop thinking about life outside of this bedroom. I wanted Blake to make the problem go away, the way he usually did. So, while still crying I started to kiss him. I kissed him frantically, taking him by surprise, my hands grabbing the edge of his sweatpants.

But Blake did something I hadn't expected. He grabbed my hands, stopping them and held them firmly at my back.

I tried to free them or to start kissing him again, but it was useless. I wasn't getting out of his grip.

"Lexi..." The way he said my name, it broke my heart and I just started to cry loudly, my head pressing against his shoulder.

Blake took this as his cue to let go of my hands and just held on to me tightly. "Lexi, what's going on? What's wrong?" he whispered against my hair.

"My mom left my dad," I cried against his shoulder, holding on tightly to his shirt.

Blake stiffened. "What?"

"Mom left dad!" It was hard to believe but I started to cry even more. I must not have been a pretty sight at the moment, snot coming out of my nose and tears covering my face. "Can you believe it? Can you fraking believe it because I know I can't!" And then I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed and Blake just carried me to the edge of his bed, sitting me on his lap and rocked me in his arms, whispering soothing words I could barely understand.

After I don't know how long, when stopped crying to uncontrollably I told Blake everything, told him how Mom had taken me out for lunch today to announce that she was leaving Dad because it just wasn't working anymore. And that she had been gone and out of the house before dinner.

In a couple of hours, my Mom had left us, had left me and my Dad and my brother and my sister. Just like that, with no more explanation and without enough time to really process it, she had been out the door.

How could she leave us this easily? How could she walk out of that door without looking back? When had she realized she would be leaving us? Since when had she been planning this? And how, how had I never seen this coming? Sure, ever since Mom had turned forty, she had started to act a little strange, but I never ever figure she could abandon us this easily.

"How's your Dad?" Blake asked me, still holding onto me tightly, my head tucked under his chin. "How's your brother and your sister?"

"I don't know," I whispered, my eyes closed. "I just up and left. I couldn't take it, I couldn't stay in the house."

"Lexi, your family needs you right now," Blake said softly.

"But I need you."

Blake grabbed my face, making me look in his eyes, his forehead touching mine. "I'm not going anywhere Lexi. I'm not leaving you. Not tonight, not tomorrow, not ever. So don't ever worry about that. But your family needs to know that you're not leaving them either. They need to know that you will be alright, together, all of you."