Spiders

Spiders - Chapter 5

Hey guys! So, new chapter on it's way, sorry the last one was so short. I just needed to introduce Gavin and the green eyed man and all that jazz.

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"What's the point of marrying someone you don't love?" I hear Michael ask me angrily.

"You know why Michael... for my parents. You know, so don't even try to tell me there's no point in it." I say back, annoyed, because I know he knows why I'm doing something I can't stand, for my parents, because I was responsible for losing Gavin, and I had to try my best to make that up to them.

He just sits there and shakes his head, "Lee there is so much you don't know! I want you to understand that, and that would take time, I'm telling you right now that you're doing the wrong thing. Please don't Lee." He looks at me with the most contemplative expression I've ever seen. I'd never been able to not practically read his thoughts, but this time was different, "you'll never be able to forgive yourself for this."

"What don't I know Michael?!" I shout back angrily, "What do I need to learn? What the hell does that even mean?! Stop telling me I'm doing the wrong thing! Because I know I'm not. And if you can't support me in this... then I don't know what I'm gonna do. I don't Michael."

"Lee how the hell am I supposed to support you in doing something that hurts me? Something I KNOW is absolute shit and I can't do anything to stop it because you're so freaking stubborn and won't look at things from a different perspective!" He says shaking with anger and annoyance.

"I know its not the 'right' thing to do! But I have to do this! My parents deserve so much better then what they have! They deserve their son back but I can't do that can I?! This is the only thing I CAN do and you're trying to stop me from doing the thing that I can even try to do to try to make up for Gavin?" I was shaking now too. I'd never been this mad at Michael before, but he was trying to stand in between me and my goal.

"Lee you don't need to make up for anything! It wasn't your fault what happened, and I know you think you're right here but your parents don't need to be given or told anything to make them happy! Why can't you realize that? You're telling me that your just gonna leave your home, your neighborhood and your entire life here just to go be some snobby rich guy's trophy wife?! You deserve so much better then him and we BOTH know that Lee! You have your ENTIRE life ahead of you and you want to spend it with that guy?! I swear to god you're insane!" He was in my face now, I could feel his hot breath on my face.

"No of course I don't want to spend it with him Michael! But you know what?! I'm gonna do it for my family because they need it! I'm doing it for your family too! Because your parents might as well be mine and your siblings might as well be mine! And YOU'RE telling ME that your siblings don't deserve proper meals and new toys on Christmas?! That's bullshit!" I yell right back at him.

"Fine Lee! Just fine! If you are so fucking dead set on throwing your entire life away then I can't stop you can?!" He yells before walking back to his house and slamming the door loud enough to attract the attention of the Mrs. Wensky four houses down.

"Lee Darling," Henry says shaking me gently, breaking my train of thought, "we're home."

I look out the window and see the looming white outline of a monstrous house. The trim all painted a pristine white and the grass cut to perfection, a green that's almost too green. The shutters remind me of a plantation home I saw in one of a slave history books back at school. I step out of the limo and smooth out my dress and Henry hurriedly links arms with me and guides me to the front door, my parents trailing behind us.