Matt Espinosa

Chapter 5

Chapter status:

(Edited)

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Ann's POV

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(BEFORE I START WRITING: FLIGHTS JUST CAME ON IM SCREECHING OMF)

(FLIGHTS TO LA TRIPS TO PARIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭)

(Okay I'm good 😭)

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2:00 am departure

8:00 am landing

9:57 arrival at home

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"I've never been to Michigan." Matt says smiling out the window.

"You'll love it." I say seeing my house in the distance." As we got closer I saw my two brothers playing outside in the snow that has fallen and was still lightly falling.

"Annie!" John yells once he see's me I jump out of the car and hug my twin brothers. Marcus was crying and John was on the verge.

Matthew grabbed my bag and handed it to me. I paid the taxi driver with a 5 dollar tip.

"Thank you." I say and hand him the money.

"No thank you!" he exclaims before driving off.

"Where's dad?" I ask John.

"He's gone after Linn." he says looking down.

"Who's been watching you?!" I ask

"Mommy!"

I haven't seen my actual mom since my tenth birthday 6 years ago. "our mommy?" I ask.

"Yah." Marcus chirps. he throws a small snowball at Matthew and it hits him in the face. Matthew shivers and laughs while I giggle. in the corner of my eye my mom steps onto the porch.

"Sadie-Ann..?" her voice is quivery.

"I-I just go by Ann now." I say looking at her with the smallest smile I could force myself to do.

The last time I saw her she was a total wreck. She went to AA but that didn't help. She harshly opened the front door with a bottle of liquor in her hand and a cigarette in her mouth.

"Where's my little baby?" she yelled.

"Mommy!" I yell. at that time i hadn't seen her for 5 months.

She smelled so much of liquor that I coughed and the smoke from her cancer stick was disgusting. she hugged me and I could've sworn she was crying. she hadn't hugged her child for 5 months.

"I got you a present! I saved for three months for it." she said pulling a Barbie out of her shopping bag.

"ITS JUST THE ONE I WANTED TOO!" I yelled. I didn't have any friends so I ran into the living room to show my new little brothers. they were six months old...

I still had that Barbie. I kept it because when I ran out to show my dearest mommy she was gone.

"Mommy?" I yelled outside. tears ran down my face as I ran down the steps and ran down the sidewalk towards nothing. I tripped and broke my ankle. I screamed for my mommy that had bought me my favorite Barbie. the one that would protect me.

But she was gone.

I also remember what she was wearing.

A black jacket with blotchy paint covered boot cut jeans. her shirt was red and her shoes green. her hair was like dread locks...nothing like what she looked now.

She had on blue johns and a white snow jacket. her hair was short and blonde polka dotted rain boots covered her feet. her skin looked smoother too.

"Thank you." I blurted while running up to her.

"For what?" she said. she wrapped her arms around me and I said it again in a whisper.

"For my Barbie." I said wiping a tear of my face. "I never said thank you."

"When have I ever gotten you a...." she stops mid sentence.

"My tenth birthday." I say. she nods her head before smiling and whispering "your reaction was thank you enough." I laughed and wiped away more tears.

"Oh..hum I want you to meet my friend Matthew." I say. He was making snow angels with the boys when I looked behind me.

"Matthew huh?" she winks.

"Yes mom." I laugh

"Annie look!" John yells at me. I look over at him and he's up and jumping on Matt.

"Ooh that hurt!" Matt yells while laughing. "ahh." he moans while walking over to me. he's gripping his stomach like it'll fall off.

"Are you okay?" I say in between laughs.

"Yah I'm fine." he laughs.

"Boys come inside! Hot chocolate and cookies?" my mom asks.

"Yeah!" they say running past Matthew and I. "Momma who's Ann's boyfriend?" I hear one of them ask.

Matthew obviously heard it too because he was blushing tomato red. "Uhh..." he says. "I didn't tell him that." he shyly laughs.

"Haha they're just silly." I say and we walk inside.

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Emotional..?

A little.

Long..?

A little.

Good..?

Very. :)

Haha bye

~Jennifer