Finding Ava

Chapter 30

I was in my room on my phone when the doorbell ringed. I looked up from my phone and immediately grew nervous. I could hear Jacob run towards the door. He was very excited to see our father. I was just as excited but I'm nervous as fuck right now.

"Hey Dad." I hear Jacob say.

"Hey Jay. How are you?" my father answers.

"I'm good. You?"

"I'm fine. Where are your grandparents?"

"In the kitchen." he informs him.

I get up from my bed and walk to the stairwell. I don't even know why I'm trying to eavesdrop on them. I listen as my father talks to my grandparents for a few minutes.

"Ava!" Grandpa Edward yells from the kitchen. I quickly run back to my room.

"Yes!" I yelled back.

"Come downstairs! Someone is here to meet you!"

I slipped on my slides and grabbed my phone then walk downstairs calmly.

Before I turned the corner and entered the kitchen I said a quick prayer. I made my way into the kitchen. My father is standing there with a nervous smile on his face. I felt like bursting into tears when I saw him but I held them back.

"Ava, this is your father, Drew." Grandpa Edward tells me.

"Hi." I say nervously.

"Hi sweetheart." He pulls me into a warm hug. At first, I'm a little surprised he even gave me a hug but I quickly hugged him back.

When we finally pulled away I swear I saw some tears fill in my father's eyes. He noticed and wiped his eyes. I laughed a little.

"Dinner is ready!" Grandma Evelyn announces.

Everyone grabs a plate and begins to fix their plate. I didn't get much because I was kind of still full from the pastries Grandma Evelyn brought back. We all sat at the table and Grandpa Edward quickly said prayer then we dug into our food.

"You're sixteen right?" my father questions.

"Yes." I nod.

"When's your birthday?"

"September 24th. Well that's the one the man who took care of me gave me. Do you remember when my original birthday is?"

"Of course. Its October 22nd."

I nodded and stuffed my mouth with a piece of chicken.

I want to have a private conversation with my father and Jacob, so he can learn the truth about why our parents broke up. I know our father will tell us anything we want to know unlike our mother.

• • •

After dinner, I cleaned up the area I sat at. Jacob did the same and fixed the place mats. Once we cleaned our areas I went up to my father to ask if we could talk in private. He agreed and I led him upstairs to my room as Jacob followed behind us. We entered my room and I sat on my bed.

My father pulled my desk chair up to the bed whilst Jacob sat next to me. I'm not even sure how I'm going to ask this question. I don't want to come out with it and he gets the wrong idea about what I mean.

"Jacob and I want to know why you and mom really broke up." I said, putting it in the best way possible.

"Well we were having a few problems before you even disappeared. But like, maybe a month after you disappeared she turned to this whole different person. I didn't even know who she was anymore." my father explains. "It was like she didn't even care if you came back home or not. So we took a year break and got back together after our break. And that's when she became pregnant again with Jacob. Hayden was so excited about having another child."

Umm. This is very interesting.

"About a few months after Jacob was born, I had mentioned you and she got so upset. She changed the subject and continued to tend to Jacob. Then like maybe a year after I had mentioned you again and she went ballistic. She told me to stop bringing you up because you're never coming back. I couldn't believe that she had said that. We got into a heated argument so I just left her."

Now, I'm really starting to think she had something to do with the accident. Because why would she get upset when he mentioned me to her? It doesn't make sense at all. Grandpa Edward needs to take her into questioning. She really needs to be interrogated. I could care less if she's his daughter or not she needs to be taken in.

"Did you ever tell this to Edward?" I ask.

"No. He wouldn't believe me. He thinks she's too sweet and innocent to do something." my father says.

"Well he should've saw that last week."

"What happened last week?"

"Hayden came over and when she saw me she ran to the bathroom to throw up. Then at dinner she got mad because I left the table without asking to be excused. I kind of put her in place because she don't know nothing about me to talk to me in any kind of way."

My father doubles over in laughter. Why is everyone laughing at me? I don't see anything funny.

"I bet, she didn't handle that well did she?" he asks.

"No. She was in so much shock. But I mean, she had no right to come at me like that so." I shrugged.

"You're right. That's only making you to not like her. I understand where you're coming from."

"About time. Someone who finally understands me."

I see where I got my brains from. I most definitely didn't get it from my mother. There's no way in hell I could get my brains from her by the way she acts. But now I see where I get all of the talk from. That's one trait I got from her but mine is worst.

I turned to look at Jacob, who's been quiet, the whole time. He didn't even say a word. I thought he wanted to ask some questions too but I guess not. It just seems like he's in a little daze right now.

"Jakey, you ok?" I ask.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I was just trying to process all of this information in my head." he responds.

"Do you have any questions you'd like to ask?"

"Nah. I think I have enough info."

I nod. Now, I just have to figure out a way to convince Grandpa Edward into taking my mother in. If he won't do it then I'll do it myself. I'll have my father call the police and tell them everything he knows about my mother.

I won't be satisfied until she's being taken in. Because I'm not living with this heavy weight on my shoulder forever. She better confess or snitch on somebody.

-hope you lovelies enjoyed this chapter!! it wasn't much but I guess you lovelies will still like it thoo.

there's one more chapter left 😭 it'll be up Saturday & I'll be posting an epilogue after the last chapter on Sunday;)

the next update will be up Saturday

check out my other story Behind Closed doors

please comment & vote;) ❤

*sorry for any mistakes*

love you guys!! xxx

😘❤