Finding Ava

Chapter 26

Today is the day I finally get to meet my mother. She doesn't know that she's going to meet me today. Until, I get the true story about the accident I'll probably let her more into my life if she didn't have anything to do with the accident. She better hope and pray that she doesn't because I swear I'll fucking flip out.

I'm upstairs in my room laying down listening to music as I patiently wait for my mother to arrive.

There's a knock at my door and I yelled for whoever is at the door to come in. Jacob walks in with a grin on his face. I wonder what he has to tell me now. I sit up and pull my headphones out of my ears.

"She's here." he says.

"Ok." I smiled standing up.

I slipped on my slides and followed Jacob out of my room to the living room. This should be very interesting. I just want the whole thing to go by smoothly.

We made it downstairs but I let Jacob enter the living room before me. I listened on as he talked to our mother. Her voice sounds nice but I wonder if her voice is as nice as her personality.

"Mom someone is here to meet you." I heard Jacob say.

"Who?" she asks.

"Ava come in."

I entered the living room and my mother is standing there. She looks at me and her whole face is covered in unbelief. I slowly walked towards her with a awkward smile. This is so weird.

"Hi." I speak up as I stood in front of her.

"Hi." she says awkwardly.

We all just stand there in silence looking back and forth at each other. I'm not speaking up so Jacob, Grandpa Edward or Grandma Evelyn better speak up. I don't even know what to say.

Grandpa Edward stands up from the couch and walks towards us. He places one of his hands on my shoulder and smiles at both my mother and I. I don't know what the hell he's smiling for because I don't see anything to be smiling at.

"Hayden this is your daughter Kaila but her name is Ava now." Grandpa Edward informs her.

"K-Kaila." she stutters. "I think I'm going to be sick."

She runs off to the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

"Well. That was a nice welcoming." I say.

I shake my head and sit down on the couch. Jacob sits next to me and starts laughing. I'm confused to why he's even laughing right now. I don't see anything funny.

"I'm going to go check on her." Grandpa Edward says walking out of the living room.

After waiting for about ten minutes my mother and Grandpa Edward enters the living room again. They have a seat on the opposite couch from me and Jacob. I cleared my throat, signaling them to speak up. We're going to get to the bottom of this today. No more trying to hide things from me.

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"Ok Hayden. I want you to tell me the truth about the day of the accident." I tell her.

She gives me a look as I called her by her government name. Well maybe if she tells me the truth about what happened on the day of the accident I'll call her mom. But until then she's just Hayden to me.

"Haven't the man, who took care of you, told you the story?" she questions.

"He told me his side of the story and now I want to know your side of the story." I reply.

Hayden pushes the little strands of hair out of her face and sits up straight. She looks over at Grandpa Edward, who shrugs, as he waits for her to explain the accident.

"Well on the day of the accident I was out in the woods with two friends camping. We were trying to make fire and I didn't want you to be around it so you could get hurt. So I left you in the car while we got the fire started. As we were trying to get the fire started you began crying. I didn't pay much attention to you but my friend Erik went back to the car to check on you. He placed your favorite blanket around you but you kept whining." she explained.

This is getting interesting.

"He came back and helped me and Ashley with the fire again. After a few minutes we finally got the fire started and you started crying louder for some reason. I had turned around and saw that the car was on the edge of the cliff and was getting ready to fall off. We all started running towards the car but it was too late. The car had drove off the cliff. I began crying because I knew that you could've been dead or severely hurt." Hayden says grabbing a tissue from beside her.

"The cliff was too high for one of us to jump from. One of us could've died if we jumped that high. So instead the three of us went running out of the woods to find help. It took us about thirty minutes to find a near by gas station and ask for help. I called the police and told them what happened. It took them almost the same time to get to the station as we did. But when they finally did they took us back to the woods. Once we got back the swim people went into the lake to find you but they said you weren't there. They literally searched the whole lake for you but ended up with nothing."

I kind of believe her story but at the same time I'm not buying that shit at all. But you know what? Sooner or later the truth will come out. She can keep all of her little secrets to herself right now, but when the truth comes out we'll see who's going to be satisfied at the end.

"Ok." I finally speak up after a few minutes of silence.

I just find this story as total bullshit. I feel like she's not telling the whole truth. That's all that I ask for. All I wanted from her was for her to tell me the truth. Because I didn't hear anything about her trying to look for me over the past thirteen years. Its like she doesn't even care that I'm alive.

"Are you going to say more than just 'ok'?" Hayden asks me.

I stand up from my seat as I turn on my heel to leave. I'm done with this. I don't have time to be playing games with her today.

"Are you going to continue lie to me?" I mumbled under my breath as I exit the living room.

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