Life for the imperfect

Life for the imperfect-chapter three

"DO YOU EVEN CARE?" screamed my mother.

"OF COURSE I DO!" my father replied, even louder.

Just then, I walked in and they shut up, although their faces were still bright red and they were clearly both still angry.

"Umm... hi mum and dad." I said awkwardly. Suddenly mum was chattering away about dinner. She was going into overdrive trying to make me think nothing was wrong. Dad took the opportunity to skulk away into his study.

When dad didn't show up out of his study for dinner, I asked mum where he was and she said, "Your father is staying at a hotel for a few days. We're getting separated."

"You're getting divorced!" I said angrily.

" No, no, we're just separating for a little while, to cool off." she looked like she was going to cry so I dropped the subject.

As soon as I was alone in my room, my imagination started spinning out of control. What if I ended up like one of those kids who had divorced parents and every time they mention it, people say, "oh, sorry." when really they don't know what they're talking about.

"Shut up Chloe." I chided myself quietly, "they're just separating for a little while."

The next day at school I was doing the usual, when Nate suddenly said "What's wrong?"

I hadn't realised that I had been tapping the table really hard with my pencil.

"Sorry, I'm just distracted." I definitely wasn't going to tell anyone what had happened.

Besides, although it feels like I've known Nate forever and I can tell him anything, in reality I've only known him for three days and I don't even know if I can really trust him.

Nate is looking at me strangely. " Are you sure?"

"Yes." I reply, a little bit too quickly. He wasn't convinced.

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