I See You. (Camren)

Chapter Sixteen.

Are You Ready??

Camila..

Lauren pulls up outside of my parents place, putting the car in park and turning to face me, I run the palms of my hands across my legs, trying to build the courage and calm my nerves.

"I don't think I can do this" I say to Lauren.

"You don't have to, we can turn around and go home right now if you don't want to get out of this car" Lauren says resting her hand on my thigh.

"I need to go in there" I nod.

"Do you want me to come in there with you?"

"No, You should stay in here with Harmony, I don't want to disturb her from her sleep, and I have no idea how they're going to react" I say.

"Just breathe beautiful, I'm right here okay" Lauren says squeezing my thigh.

"Okay" I nod.

Lauren kisses my temple softly before I slide across the seat and open the car door, I take a deep breath before closing it behind me and staring at my childhood home, nothing has changed in the slightest, my dad still has the same car from when I was kicked out, looks like nothing has changed, it gives me a weird feeling, being back here, I feel like a child once again, no longer an adult.

I walk up the drive and stand in front of the house, I smile as I see my name and Sofia's still carved into the wooden frame, I run my finger across our names, remembering the day we done this, well I done it, but it was Sofi's idea.

Our parents were talking about moving houses, and Sofi and I really didn't want to, we were both in love with this house, neither of us wanted to move, but it wasn't our decision, so she wanted to leave something behind, so she asked if we could carve our names into the house, I was sixteen at the time, Sofi had just turned six, we both snuck out of the house while our parents were watching tv in the living room and I carved our names, the next morning when my dad saw it, he went absolutely mad, at me of course, Sofi didn't get the blame because she was too young to have been able to do it, not that I would have allowed the blame to be put on her anyway, I took it all and was grounded for two weeks, it weren't too bad, when dad found out the reason behind it, he told us we weren't moving anyway, we just started to look at it as a memory now, something that would always be there.

I realised that I was still just standing and staring at my old front door, not having made any movements to knock, I don't think I can do this, just as I was about to turn and leave, the front door opened to reveal my mother, I gasped at her appearance, it has only been just under four years and she looks like she has aged ten years, she doesn't look like the woman that I used to know.

"Karla" She says, her expression also shocked.

"Hi" I breathe out.

"What are you doing here?" She asks.

I can't quite decipher her tone, is she happy to see me? Is she mad that I'm here? I honestly don't know, she isn't giving anything away.

"I wanted to see Sofi" I tell her honestly and watch as my mothers face drops.

"She's not here" She says in a somber expression.

"Do you know when she will be back?" I ask.

My heart is beating so hard in my chest right now, I'm surprised it hasn't bursted out to lay by my feet.

"She won't be back"

"What do you mean she won't be back" I furrow my eyebrows.

"Camila I can't do this with you" My mother shakes her head and begins to close the front door but I quickly put my foot in the way to stop it from closing.