Finding Ava

Chapter 24

Previously:

We had to wait in this room for about five minutes. One of the guards opened this door and after a couple of seconds Aaron appeared with a officer behind him. He looked like he hasn't got any sleep in the past two days. When he saw me his face lit up and so did mines.

The officer took the handcuffs off of him and I jumped into his arms. It felt so surreal to actually be held in his arms. Tears swelled in my eyes and they started flowing after a few seconds.

"Hey sweetheart." Aaron says kissing my forehead.

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"Dad I missed y-you." I cried.

"I missed you too Ava." he says.

"I'm so sorry. This i-is all my fault."

"Ava none of this is your-"

"Yes it is!" I screamed.

"No its not. Listen to me Ava. I'm going to be fine ok? Don't worry about me." Aaron says trying to make the situation seem better when its not.

I don't understand how he doesn't hate me for all of this. I already hate myself for doing this to him. He should hate me for causing all of this unnecessary bullshit for the both of us.

Aaron lets go of me and brushes the hair out of my face. He wipes away my tears. "Stop crying Ava."

I took a deep breath and pulled myself together. I wiped my face with the back of my hand. My vision is a little blurred but when it clears up, I look up at Aaron. He's smiling down at me and it breaks my heart. I bite my lip to keep myself from crying again.

"Why don't you hate me?" I ask, my voice shaky. "You should hate me with a passion right now. Why don't you?"

"Because I'm the one who made the mistake. Not you. I just have to deal with the consequences now." he tells me.

"Do you regret rescuing me?"

"No." he frowns. "I don't regret rescuing you at all. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me. Don't ever think that I regret rescuing you ok? I've learned a lot from you. When I first brought you home I didn't know what the hell to do. I went to one of our old neighbors house and asked what I should do. It was one of hell of a job to do but I managed to get it right and now look at you. You're a beautiful, young lady who has a whole future ahead of you. Even if I'm not apart of it you'll always be in my heart. Don't forget that."

A few tears spilled from my eyes but Aaron catches them before they rolled down my face. I'm such an emotional wreck. The tears won't stop flowing and my eyes are getting puffier by the second. I calmed myself down after a few minutes and wiped my tears away.

"I'm sorry that I'm an emotional wreck right now." I chuckled a little.

"Its ok. There's nothing wrong with crying Ava. I know you're hurt but that's life." Aaron holds my hands in his.

"I just want everything to go back to normal. If I would've never looked at that stupid poster we wouldn't even be here right now. We could be at home chilling on the couch watching tv, eating pizza or something."

"I know sweetheart but were not. You can always dream about it like I will."

That put a small smile on my face. I know that I'm going to dream about us having good times. I even might have nightmares about this event but that's ok. Not everything will be good.

"That's the pretty smile that I've been looking for." Aaron says pinching my cheeks softly.

"Too bad you won't be seeing it everyday. But I'll be sure to send you lots of pictures of me smiling." I tell him.

"I'll be looking forward to see those pictures. With letters also so I can know how you're doing."

"I'll most definitely write you letters. I love to write."

Grandpa Edward interrupts us by clearing his throat. Aaron ignores him and smiles down at me. He pulls me into a long, tight hug. I linger into the hug until I'm being peeled off by an officer. I glared at him but he isn't fazed by it.

"I love you Ava. Don't you ever forget that." Aaron says.

"I love you too Daddy." I say as a tear threatens to fall down.

I watch as the officer places handcuffs on my father. Before they walked away Aaron smiled at me and I smiled back sadly. The officer takes him back to wherever he came from. As I watch him walk away a single tear fell from my eyes. My poor heart just broke into a million of pieces.

"Come on Ava. Lets go home." Grandpa Edward says placing a hand on my shoulder.

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Back home, I went straight to my room. All I wanted to do was go back to sleep. I laid down on top of my bed and bursted into a pool of tears. I cried myself to sleep.

There's just too much going on in my life right now. I'm trying to adjust to this new move and accept the fact that Aaron is going to jail. Its just too much to handle for me. I wasn't prepared for any of this. I just have too much shit on my plate right now.

Three hours later I woke up from my much needed nap. I can barely see out of my eyes, since they're puffy from all of the crying I did today. But I don't care. I should be going through this pain because mostly everything is my fault. I need to live with this guilt. Even though, Aaron says none of this isn't my fault I know it is.

If I would've just kept my mouth close and let Aaron tell me for himself when the timing was right. If I could take that day back I would but life doesn't have a reverse button.

I grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and decided to text Yamile. I'm lonely and don't have shit else to do with my life at this moment.

I texted Yamile for a few hours until my phone died on me. I grabbed my charger off the nightstand and plugged my phone up. I set it down and turned my tv on. I began flipping through the channels to find something to watch. It took me a few minutes to find a simple show to watch. The only good show that's on is CSI: Miami. So I just stuck with that.

Just as I'm getting into the show there's a knock at my door. Who the hell could this be other than Grandpa Edward? I rolled out of my bed and stalked towards the door. I opened the door and Jacob is standing there. I don't say anything, I just stand there and give him a what-do-you-want look.

"I wanna talk." he says.

Talk? About what?

"About?" I asked confused.

"You."

Me? Why the hell does he wanna talk about me? Ok, let me take a deep breath and just be nice.

I smiled a little and let him inside of my room. He walks over to my bed and sit down. I closed the door behind me and sat next to him.

"Ok. So why do you wanna talk about me?" I ask in the most nice possible way.

"I just wanna get to know you better. That's all." he says.

"What do you want to know?"

-so Jacob wants to get to know Ava better. they're complete strangers to each other & living in the same house so why not get that brother, sister bond going?

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