City Lights

Chapter 12

We didn't really have a long conversation.
Mum and Dad had guests over and I was oh so grateful considering I didn't had anything in particular to say.

Mum kept saying how much she missed me and wished that I'd finally be happy and blah blah.

Dad however , was talking to someone on the phone, just like old time. April and I would continuously get annoyed by how many calls he had but somehow he always managed to make time for family.
I promised and told him I'd call him later.

After it'd been well after 4 , I heard the front door open and some noise come from outside. I got up and checked if it was Anna and man did I almost screamed.

Anna was kissing a stranger, his hands all over her body and hers over his.

I cringed and went back to my room , making sure to lock it .

You must be thinking that I should be used to seeing Anna with new guys every other weekend but I wasn't . Somehow I'd always hope that Anna would change and would actually settle on a single guy but I guess she had different things in her mind.

I sighed and decided that I should give sleep another try but it was too damned hard. I tossed and turned all night but sleep didn't come to me at all.

The noises had stop a while ago and I was still staring at the fan on the ceiling, unsure of what else to do.

April had always been the one who'd stay up with me all night and we'd watch movies and eat candies and sing on top of our voices until dawn came through and then the next day mason would lecture us about how unhealthy it is to stay up late and be like the boring old grandpa he was , until April would kiss him and shut him up .

I smiled at the memory.

They were so cute together, always fighting or arguing .
But it wasn't one of those dramatic fights you usually see,Their fights were more of playful banter.

They were the best OTP, as April would always say.

She'd always shipped herself and mason and I used to make fun of her for that.

I sighed.

I wished they were still around , so maybe
Everything would've been alright and life wouldn't have been so miserable and mum and dad would've been happy and we all would've been sharing this apartment together.

New York was April's and mine's dream.
We used to imagine all the shit we'd do here , how she'd get all the hot guys to fall in love with her or how we'll see the Empire State Building.

New York was what our dreams are made off and i was living our dream.
Both of ours dream.

I sighed again and wondered what April would've been doing , If she was here.
Would she still be with mason?
Would mason still be playing football for that college he'd always wanted to go to?

I just groaned.
So many questions left unanswered.
But the main question that really kept me up that night was If they could see me now , would they forgive me for what I did?