The Way it Goes

Chapter 22- The Silent Treatment

Chapter 22- The Silent Treatment

It's noon on Monday today and I haven't gotten out of bed yet. All I want is to have my dad here with me, to have one more conversation, one more hug, or silly dad joke that never made sense but I laughed at anyway. As I'm thinking about all the memories I had with my dad the tears start to flow rapidly again. I pull the covers over my head only to have them pulled down by my mom.

"Honey, it's okay, we're going to get through this together." She sympathetically tells me and envelops me in a hug which I immediately return.

"Mommy, I just miss him so much. He's gone, we're never going to see him again!" I sob into her shoulder.

"I know baby, I know," she says with tears rolling down her cheeks, "how about we both go shower and then have a lazy day together?"

Slowly I nod my head and break free from my mothers arms. I head to my bathroom and turn the hot water on full blast not caring if it burns my skin. After standing in the shower for 30 minutes I get out and throw on baggy sweatpants and another T-Shirt of my dads. There's a smell of popcorn baking in the air, which means mom must be making it. Quickly I grab my crutches and head downstairs, plopping on the couch.

"Alright hun, what movie do you want to watch?" My mom asks me carrying over the popcorn.

"Do you think we could just watch some TV mom? Movies remind me to much of our family Friday nights." I ask her and she nods.

"That sounds like a great idea, Lou, I was thinking the same thing. Now come sit by me and let's just get through the day together. Okay?" She says, trying to stay positive even though I see the sadness in her eyes.

I scooch over and nestle myself in the crook of her arm while silent tears roll down my face. Right now, all I want is to forget this and have him here with us.

Wills POV

She isn't in school today and ditched me last night at Prom. I thought everything was going so well too. We were dancing and having so much fun and she just disappeared. The thing that sucks even more is that my fathers best friend died last night and I still had to go to school.

I'm honestly furious at Lou right now, why would she stand me up on Prom night? She hasn't answered any of my texts or calls. I mean who does that, Brittany was right all along. She's not capable of letting people in and right when things start to go well she pushes you away. That's not going to be the case for me though, I'm going to march over there and tell her we're done. Of course I'm in love with her and I don't think I'll ever stop, but this has to end before I'm in too deep. For some reason something tells me I already am.

Lou's POV

It's 3:30 and schools out by now. I've been too depressed to answer any texts, so I shut my phone down not wanting to deal with people's questions. My mom went to go get pizza about ten minutes ago which leaves me alone. Will is probably going to stop by and ask why I left Prom and wasn't at school, all I really want right now is for him to comfort me. As if he was reading my thoughts the doorbell rings.

Reluctantly, I drag myself off the couch and splash my face with water to erase the tear streaks. When I swing the door open and see Will all I want to do is have him comfort me.

"Hi, you're probably won-"

"Listen Lou, this isn't going to work out anymore, us," he says gesturing to me, "first you stand me up at Prom and at school?"