Dragged to my knees

Chapter 5

As the school day wears on, I get a text from my mum telling me to catch a ride with the William twins back home. She claims she's already informed their mum.

Seriously mum, they've only been our neighbors for a short while and you're already asking favors from them? Way to go.

I send her an okay text and settle in for my last class. She's probably unavailable to pick me up because she has to work extra hours or something.

Turns out going home with the Williams wasn't bad at all. Their mum is really fun, making jokes and small talk and such. I still haven't met their sister but I guess that's really not a problem. I mean, two's good enough right? After all, she's probably still too little or something and I'm no pedophile.

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"I'm home!" I yell as I make my way into the house

"Keep it down Ricky" mum shushes me as I move toward the stairs.

She's standing at the top of the stairs and I gasp when I see her. She smiles when she sees me but I can immediately tell it's forced.

"Mum, what happened?" I ask, cutting to the chase. There's no need to ask her if everything's fine because it's obviously not okay.

She makes to speak but I cut her off.

"And don't lie that everything's fine because if it were, you wouldn't look all beat up. Does this have to do with that day in the car? I know you're hiding something from me!"

I don't know what's gotten into me but I'm on a row now because I feel worried, left-out and irritated.

She has to stop feeling like she needs to protect me. She has to start telling me things. "Stop keeping stuff from me mum. You can trust me, you know that. Please, just tell me what's really wrong."

What the hell was that? wait,  what if I'm overreacting? Is something wrong with me? I sound like some psycho on a frenzy. I can't help it though. I just care so much about my mum.

She's always there for me. Even when Kenny used to abuse me. She was the one who made it all better.

"What day in the car?" she says, staring at me blankly.  "Anyways, Kenny was here earlier" this statement zaps me back to reality

"Y-you mean dad?" I stutter, confused because he knows how much I hate him. Why would he come all the way here?

"No, knuckle brain, I mean the janitor who digs ditches in our backyard." She rolls her eyes and smirks at me before her demeanor goes back to its sad form.

Even when she's upset she still can't pass up a chance at sarcasm. I chuckle because my mind wanders a bit to Adira. I bet she'd get along fine with mum.

"Uhm, you do know I was kidding right?" she asks furrowing her eyebrows at me.

"Yes mum. I'm not an idiot"

"Oh good, because you just kept staring into space when I said it. I got worried." She chuckles.

"What did he want though?"

"He Uhm...He wants to get a divorce. Make our separation legal." Her expression is really serious now.

Phew! for a moment there I thought it was bad news. "I don't get it though, you're sad because Kenny wants a divorce? You're making it seem like a bad thing."

"Uhm...you see Ricky, we got into an argument." She pauses for effect.

Rolling my eyes I pull a confused expression. "How is that news? You guys used to fight all the time."

"Well, the thing is..." she begins. "Kenny wants custody of you."

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I'm so sorry for the short chapter is but I'm on a plane right now and can't really get a lot done.

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