Life is the Long Game

Chapter 15

*Friday*

Enid's POV:

I have been discharged from hospital and am currently on my way to see Harper, we need to talk, and she doesn't work Friday's. When I arrive outside her place in a taxi, I step out, take a deep breathe and knock on the door. After a few moments, it opens.
"E-Enid. H-hi."
"Can we talk?" I say cutting to the chase.
"Yeah, sure come in." She says walking me into her living room. "How is it possible you look that beautiful after all you went through yesterday and I look 10 times worse?" She attempts to lighten the mood. It doesn't work very well at all.
I don't know what to say so I just laughs awkwardly. "Do you want a drink?" She says.
"Um, no, I'm okay thanks."
"Okay. So what did you want to talk about?"
"What you did yesterday."
"I saved your life!"
"No, we agreed years ago that we would show no emotion towards each other, and no one would find out our secret!" I say, annoyed and frustrated.
"And we have! But you could have died!"
"There are millions of people with the same blood type as me!"
"But I care about you!"
"Farkle and his friends aren't stupid! They'll figure it out from that, now that you've made it ridiculously obvious, that is."
"People have to find out sooner or later!"
"But I don't want them too! That's why I moved! For a fresh start! A clean slate! I thought no one would know me!"
"Apparently we have similar taste in cities!"
"Well yeah, clearly! Why can't we just be apart? We don't work!"
"Maybe we're not meant to be apart!"
"I'm leaving New York! And that's that!"
"But you're 16!"
"And you have no control over me!"
"Yes I do!"
"No! You made that decision long ago!"
"Fine! Go! But who will give you money? Who will you live with?"
"I don't know and don't care! But what I do know is that it has nothing to do with you!"
"It damn well does!"
"No! And I mean it!"
"You do not tell me what to do!"
"Why?"
"You know damn well why!"
"Say it again! I want to hear you say it again!"
"BECAUSE I AM YOUR MUM! You are MY DAUGHTER! I'm your mum. I gave birth to you." We are both crying now.
"And dumped me on my dad's doorstep!"
"I was barely 15! I couldn't raise a child! And my father was going to disown me! I couldn't loose him!"
"But you could give up your own daughter?"
"I came back for you the day I turned 18! But you had gone! Your dad had sent you off! And then I found you! And I took you home with me, but then your father came back and took it to court! I didn't stand a chance! I was 21 by then and had nothing but necessities! Anything we could live without, we did! And your father, he was 24, a successful businessman and had a huge mansion in the suburbs! He was almost a millionaire!"
"But he was a crap father! Why did he come back for me?"
"He didn't want to see me happy!"
"And then I ran away, a family took me in and you came back for me again! And we agreed not to have contact with each other!"
"I'm sorry."
"Me too!" I storm out and go to the nearest Starbucks to get and drink to help me calm down, before going to buy a dress for tomorrow.

So a few of you called it! Harper is Enid's mum! Lots more to come on that! But first! The dance! Enid above! 😘