My Jack Gilinsky (Sequel to The Jack Gilinsky)

Chapter 35 - Messy Hair & A Messy Life

I was nobody. Just a ghost it seemed. I spent most of that night crying, and when I wasn't crying I was feeling sorry for myself. I was still trying to accept the fact that My Jack Gilinsky could be capable of such a thing. He had lied to me by promising that Adeline was just a stranger to him. But she was his wife? How did that even work out? I didn't want to talk to any of my family for many hours but I ended up spilling everything to Mom. As I silently cried to myself later on that evening I heard her explaining the whole thing to Dad. Cam was home and he probably found out too, I don't know how he took it; Jack was a friend of his. My phone had been lighting up with texts and calls from Jack and over the course of a few days Aleena, Imogen and Kayla started getting worried and attempted to contact me. I just kept myself iscolated though, turnng my phone off eventually. I stayed deserted in my room too, only escaping to use the bathroom. Mom had gotten fed up of trying to persuade to come out and leaving trays of food on my doorstep so in the end she lectured me from the otherside of my door explaining how unhealthy I was being and that she was no longer leaving the trays outside my room. Now if I didn't want to starve to death, I'd have to go and get the food myself.

I held my breath as I walked downstairs, I could hear cluttering of cutlery and low, muttering voices. I solemnly stepped in, the subtle conversation that Mom and Dad were having faded out as they both turned up to look at me. Cam, who was there turned his head up too.

Mom broke the silence by clearing her throat. "Regan, honey." She smiled warmly. "Your food's not cold yet." She gestured to my plate.

I nodded a little before pulling out the chair and taking my seat, not whispering a word.

To break the awkwardness, Mom and Dad tried to carry out the typical family conversation. You know, How was your day? And, What did you get up to at work?

I just remained silent. I ate in silence, I sat there in silence, just watching Mom and Dad as I ate. I didn't want to speak. I never wanted to speak ever again. Surprisingly, Cam, who was diagonally on my right seemed oddly quiet too. I could see he had a firm grip on his knife and fork, his face seemed tense and so did his arms. He was staring down at his plate until he started shaking in anger. Mom, who was sat next to him was the second to notice his unfamiliar behaviour.

"Cameron?"

He suddenly dropped the knife and fork he had his fingers locked around and let them fall onto his plate, making a loud clang.

"How can you sit there like nothing's even wrong?!" He looked directly at me, raising his voice.

"Cameron!" Mom hissed at him.

"We discussed we wouldn't bring this up at the table." Dad glared at him along with Mom.

"How can we not bring this up?!" He threw his hands in the air. "Regan, your boyfriend cheated on you with his wife that you didn't even know about!"

I firmly gripped the end of my jumper under the table. I didn't want to say anything, though I was about to reach my tipping point.

"Now is not the time." Dad told Cam straight.

"Well when will be the time?! We're just gonna pretend that Jack wasn't an absolute asshole to her?!" He fumed.

"Language!"

"Cameron!" Mom began, "We are at the dinner table. Of course, this is a tough time for Regan and we understand exactly how she feels-"

"No!" I shouted out, interrupting the whole thing. Dropping my cutlery too, earning a second loud clang. This was the first time I'd spoken to anyone for about five days now.

I silenced everyone.

"That's the thing!" I continued, throwing my arms in the air. "You don't understand! Nobody here understands at all. So everyone just shut up!" I shouted, getting up and leaving the table.

"Regan!" Mom called after me.

"Leave me alone." I responded, having myself up the stairs.

A/N: Okay so I made my promise I'd update on Saturday, so hopefully it still is Saturday for some of you; but here in the UK its like 2:40am on Sunday haheeeh. Anyway, for my UK fans, maybe you're up; if you are.. why?? it's nearly 3am. But if you are up, here you go. And for those of you who are asleep for the night, or just the lazy ones that may be napping at the moment, here's a lil chapter for you to wake up to :)

See you very very soon lovelies,

Gabby xoxo