THE UNEXPECTED WEEK

Day 2- Tuesday

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Ryan

I didn't want to wake up. Yesterday was all so confusing, it was like how your mind gets​ in the morning after drinking loads of alcohol the previous night. Basically, hurting. I was regretting even going with her to the restaurant. What did she wanted to show me? That she is doing so fine without me? Earning so much and being able to feed me in such a restaurant? I hate her. I hate it.

After I left her midway through the meal, I literally ran away. I ran as fast as I could and only stopped when I reached the orphanage's door. I reached my room and found Seb on my bed. He looked at me, bewildered. He opened his mouth to say something but I waved him away.

"Not now, dude. Tomorrow for sure." I had said and now I will have to tell him the fiasco that occurred yesterday.

After telling him so, I sat on my bed and thought. Thought about the reality of the situation. The fact that she knew my middle name means that she knows me because no one except the mistress of this institution knows it.

I thought of every other possibility. I was feeling pathetic and dreadful but I didn't sleep. While most people thought of sleeping after a bad day or the like, it was not my mantra. Sleeping, for me, was a coward's way of dealing with life situations. Instead of clearing your mind, sleep tends to suppress the gravity of the situation. It just numbs your mind towards the important thing and instead of getting better, the situation gets worse.

Today, after breakfast we had half an hour to us. I filled Sebastian in with what happened. All the while, he was as quite as the bird who died in front of our window last week.

When I was finished, he spoke something I had never imagined my best friend would.

"I think you have to meet her." He said looking straight at me. He peered at me so much so that I flinched.

"Are you kidding me? This isn't a joke Seb. She...she is the woman who calls herself my mother. Whom I met yesterday, after sixteen years. She is the woman who made me like this. I can't even...you understand?" I grimaced.

"Yes I understand and I also feel that you have to give your...um, mother a second chance." I cringed at the word.

"Oh man, I don't know. I don't know what's happening anymore. You know saying that is easy 'Giving another chance'. How can I just forget about it all? It's all so frustrating and confusing, you know."

"No I don't." Sebastian said. We looked at each other for a moment and then started laughing hysterically.

Then a knock came at the door. I eyed Seb before opening it. And who could it be except, her! What the hell was she doing here!

"What the hell are you doing here?" I growled.

Ashley just stood there looking at me. She had the same expression of regret and fear and sadness in her eyes. There was something other than that too, something alien. I couldn't tell. Maybe she was sorry or...whatever.

"I am so sorry for all that happened yesterday. Please give me another chance. I'd make it sure to..."

I cut through her crap talk. "What? Another chance? Didn't I give it to you yesterday? Sorry that it got ruined. You got your 'second chance'. Now please leave me alone in peace." I was again feeling rage inside me.

Sebastian who was watching and listening all this time spoke up abruptly. "No you didn't." He said. Dead seriously.

"What?!" I snapped at him shooting my angry glare his way.