I Taught The Bad Boy How To Drive✔

Tell me I'm a screwed up mess

(Chapter 37)

*Alyssa's POV*

I hugged myself and swayed slightly as I blinked away tears that threatened to spill. I shivered, rubbing my hands over my goosebumps, despite the humidity, and rocked myself like a little girl trying her best not to let her emotions take control over her thoughts. My fingernails had left deep imprints from too hard clenched hands, I couldn't do this anymore.

1 hour earlier:

There was silence for two minutes as I gaped at my parents and they glared furiously at me and my bags. "Mom? Dad? What are you guys doing here?" I asked perplexed, fear building up in me. My mother pursed her lips, her arms still folded at her chest. "We came back early from Chicago. We were worried about you. You didn't answer our calls for hours and you've never wanted to miss school before." She was all business, gone were the eyes of a mother, instead they looked at me harshly. "I-I-" I spluttered, not knowing what to say. "That's why we knew you must have been seriously ill to want to miss even a day of school. So we came back, not-not wanting to make the mistake we made with.. Your sister." My father spoke the words quietly and I stifled a gasp. They'd never talked about Venice with me before. "Of course when we arrived, you weren't here and the place didn't look touched in days. We tried calling your friend, Sydney but she denied knowing where you were. Either you lied to her too or she's an incredibly loyal friend. And good liar" My mother said acidly and I winced.

"I, I just went to stay at a friend's place to-" I began to form a stupid lie in my head but my mother's eyes flashed with anger and held her finger up, ordering me to stop. I swallowed hard and squeezed my purse's strap. "WE KNOW YOU WENT AWAY WITH SOME FOOLISH BOY" She shouted loudly and I backed a step in fright. It had been a while since she shouted at me, usually it was the silent treatment. My father just shook his head at me in disappointment making me want to yell. I hated disappointing my parents, I'd always fight to look like gold in front of them. Once I'd scored a C on a 6th grade test I hadn't known about because I was exhausted from doing a project late in the night and they were so disappointed in me that I cried in the bathroom and wrote "FAIL" on my forehead with a red sketch pen and kept it for the rest of the day as a punishment.

I chewed my lip as my mother snatched her phone from her pocket and furiously tapped on it. "THIS is how we know!" She fumed and held it up for me to see. I squinted and saw a photo of Adrian and I smiling as we ate ice cream, in front of the hotel we had stayed in. "How did you get it?" I whispered hoarsely. "I told Sydney that I wanted to talk to her mother and when she went up to call her, I found her phone unlocked on the table. I found this on her Facebook feed. That boy Adrian Skyler posted it." I wanted to tear my hair out. "YOU WENT THROUGH MY BESTFRIEND'S PHONE?!" I cried. "YOU LEFT THE CITY!" My mother shrieked back and my father put a hand on her shoulder. "Madison." He warned quietly. I shook my head in agitation. "Ever since that stupid boy started taking to you, you've been distracted and LYING to us! How dare you just leave the city like that? Now tell me where you two went off and don't try lying to me. The only caption he wrote on his post was: Not missing San Francisco when I'm with this one.- You see he calls you 'one'. Which respectful boy does that?!" She scolded angrily, obviously she had forgotten that I had asked for her permission to leave to Venice. Typical of my workaholic parents. All my emotions and exhaustion poured out. "Respectful?! Is that all you judge on? You want to know something? HE TOLD ME HE FREAKING LOVED ME TODAY! And I screwed up because my bloody mouth couldn't say those three words back! You want to know where I went? Freaking VENICE! ADRIAN TOOK ME TO VENICE! And you want to know why? Because I miss and love my sister and I needed someone who could be there for me. AND ADRIAN WAS THERE! Not you or dad! A freaking player who loves ME! So you see why I did what I did?" I yelled, not caring when my mother choked and father flinched at the word 'Venice'.

They stood in silence for a moment. And then my mother pointed up the stairs, her face pale and eyes filled with hurt, disappointment and wrath. "In.Your.Room.NOW!" I didn't hesitate for a second as I stomped up the stairs.

**

So, I locked myself in my room and an hour had passed swiftly. My parents hadn't come knocking till now and my butt was sore from sitting on the floor. I didn't allow myself the luxury of the bed. I scrolled through my phone's photos, smiling slightly at a picture of Adrian and I. I was grinning foolishly in the camera and he was laughing and looking at me with mirth in his eyes. I shut my eyes briefly as more tears threatened to spill.  I pressed my palm to my temple and sighed sighed. Why? Why oh why did I always have to screw up? First my sister, then my studies, then Adrian and now my parents. My whole life was a screwed up mess. The only mess that I couldn't clean up.

A/N

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