Breaking up with Ben has really turned my life around. I don't go out anymore and I just watch a lot of TV. My house is a total wreckage. Clothes lying everywhere. Pizza packages and empty bags of chips everywhere.
I think I need a bath. Its been days and my own breath smells like rotten fish. I removed my clothes and stepped into the bathtub.
My phone started to ring again. It had been ringing the past four days of my breakup. So Ben decides to call now that we aren't together anymore?.*sigh*.
Just as I was enjoying my bath, my mum's voice decided to haunt me at that moment.
"Trisha Hathaway!!!!!!". This wasn't a haunt. My mum's voice was coming from the living room door. "Shit" I smacked my head two times.
She opened the bathroom door and began to stare at me angrily.
"Hi mum"I faked a smile and waved a little at her.
"Don't hi mum me. What is all this?!!"
"Its nothing really. I'm just moving stuff around that's all" I try to lie a bit but she doesn't buy it.
"Are you kidding, your house looks like you hosted a party last night".
I stepped out of the tub and wrapped my hair with a towel. As I walked pass her into the room her perfume filled my nose.
"Mum is that the new perfume you made?" My mum started launching her new perfume two years ago and I don't think its working out for her.
"Yes it is. What do you think?"
"It's umm..... I don't know..nice?" I give her my fakest smile.
"I knew it wasn't great. No wonder the taxi driver kept opening the windows"
I threw out many clothes from my bed to create space for her to sit but she sat on the stool instead.
"So what brings you here, did dad tell you to come check on me?"
"No, I came to take you back home"
"Are you joking now?. I'm not going back to Seattle.Ever!!!!".
She stared at me as I tied my hair in a bun.
"Of course you are going to Seattle. This place is a dump!"
"Its my home,Mum, where I live".
I search the bed for my bra. The one that made me looked busty. As I struggle to put it in I step on a carton of pizza. Great!
I find a shirt and clean the mess from my feet.
"That's disgusting Trisha" my Mum exclaimed. "Go back and have a proper shower!"
"Its okay. This is nothing"
"Where's Ben?" She askes scanning the room.
"We broke up Mum"
She smiled and stood to sit beside me.
"Just say it" I said
"Say what?"
" I told you so" I picked my black top and brought it to my nose. Ugh!
"Well I'll say it to spite you. But you know I did tell you he was no good" she started to pick my clothes from the floor and put them in the hamper.
"Going to Seattle will really help you to forget about him. I mean you've spent nearly all your years since you clocked thirteen in this place"
I came to London to attend high school and I never left the place.
"Maybe you could meet your old friends Luke, Nadia, Jerry. They miss you a lot and I know you do too."
Nadia,Jerry, and Luke. My best friends. We Skype a lot but I never contemplated on meeting them. I think Jerry got married but I couldn't attend because of well.... Ben.
"They throw a lot of parties nowadays" my mum squeezes her face as she picks my brown shorts.. I remember throwing up on that thing.
"I'll go for some months" I said absentmindedly
"What?" I know she heard me. I rolled my eyes and said it again.
"Wow. Your dad actually bet $200 that it will take me three days to get you to change your mind. What do you know."
Just kill me now!.
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