The Cabin

Nine

"I thought they were happy," I said to Shawn.

"So did I." He said shaking his head. So many thoughts were running through my mind. When were they going to tell me? Who will I live with? Will we lose our house? Will I have to change schools? I'm in my senior year, they can't just move me. I just wanted to cry, and someone hold me.

"Come here Liz." Shawn said before holding me in his arms. I wrapped my arms around him and held onto him tightly before crying softly. He ran his fingers through my hair as he held me.

"It's going to be okay," he assured before kissing my forehead. That's when the memory from last night came into my head. The thought had been lingering in my head all day, but when he did that I wanted to know what it meant to him. But I didn't care right now, the only thing I cared and worried about was my parents.

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It was around 9 when my parents got home. They walked in with a big smile of their face.

"Hey sweetie." My mom said smiling.

"When were you going to tell me that you're getting a divorce?!" I blurted. Shawn walked up behind me and placed his hand on the middle of my back. My mom just looked at me with shock.

My dad cleared his throat before he started to talk, "we were going to tell you, we just wanted to have one last trip together as a family."

I shook my head and looked at my mom before saying, "I need to take a walk, or something." I walked past them to my room to grab my jacket. I knew Shawn was right behind me.

"Do you want me to go with you?" Shawn asked.

"No, I just want to be by myself." I said as I put my arms into the holes of the jacket.

"Liz it's like 20 degrees outside, there's supposed to be another storm also. You shouldn't go out there." Shawn stopped me at the door to prevent me from leaving.

"Shawn," I said trying to push him out the way, but he wouldn't budge. I sighed giving up.

"It's not fair," I mumbled turning around and running my hands over my face, "their supposed to tell me everything, not hide it from me." Tears filled my eyes again. My mom noticed and jumped up off the couch to hug me.

"I'm sorry we didn't tell you, we didn't want you to find out this way." She said holding me in her arms. That's when I lost it, I couldn't control the sobs escaping my mouth.

"It's going to be okay, we will get through this." My Mom said rubbing my back.

I eventually calmed down and got my breathing back to normal.

"I think we all need to get some rest, we will talk about this tomorrow." My dad said. I just nodded my head and walked to the bedroom. Shawn followed close behind me. I didn't have the energy to cry anymore, I just wanted to go to sleep and forget about all of this.

Shawn pulled me into his arms and held me close to his body. He ran his fingers through my strawberry blonde hair and hummed soft melodies to me as I fell asleep.