Just That Kind Of World

Chapter 12 (Official)

As the day went on, it was time to go home. Walking out the school doors, I stick around the entrance, waiting.

"Hey" Ethan calls out as he walks out the doors. "waiting for someone?"

"what if I am," I reply.

"Who's the lucky one?" He grins.

"You," I avert my eyes away in shyness.

"Oh" he chuckles. "So where to?"

"Definitely away from here."

We both giggle as we begin our walk. Out of no where, Adrianna walks past me shoving me with her shoulder. "Slut."

Making me bump shoulders with Ethan, I apologize. "It's fine," he replies. "You alright?"

"Yeah"

"Good"

Silence falls upon us before he adds on, "What if I walk you class to class?"

"No, it's alright." I respond. "I wouldn't want to impose on you. I'm sure you have other things to do or a girlfriend to worry about."

"Nah, I don't. My ex dumped me like 2 months ago."

"How come?" I inquire

"Something about not being enough, I guess she got bored"

"Oh" 

Not enough? She has to be blind.

"Anyways, I'll pick you up from now on. How does that sound?"

Wonderful. Perfect even. "Sounds good," I reply.

"Cool"

We continue walking in silence until we reach my house, "this is my house"

"Alright. I'll be seeing you tomorrow then" he replies as I make my entrance into the house. "Sure, get home safe," I give him a quick nod and close the entrance door.

Finally alone by myself, thoughts corrupt my mind.

"Whore!"

"Freak!"

"You ugly fucking garbage"

"Die cunt"

"Shithead!"

"You're nothing. It's only a matter of time til he realizes it too" 

"I should've gotten rid of you"

"Look at her! Haha!"

Stop it, tears run down my cheeks as I let out a deep exhale. I rest my back against the door. It's fine, you're fine. I continue convincing myself.

"I should've gotten rid of you"

"You imbecile"

You're fine, I repeat to myself like a recital. You're just tired. This is nothing. You're ok.

I can tell I'm reaching my wits end but continue to recite. Breathing heavily as I try to calm down, I make my way further into the house only to repeat the same routine as yesterday. Once finished with everything, I make my way to the living room and take a seat on the sofa. Mom left a note saying she'll be a bit late today. I continue to turning on the TV. I know she said not to use it but just this one time.

Before I even knew it, I knocked out watching TV only to be woken up by the door slamming. Scrambling to get up, I trip over. Shit shit shit! She's home! Immediately turning off the TV, I make my way to the kitchen and prepare her a cup of water. I hand it to her as she walks into the kitchen. No words being exchanged between us, she places it down in the sink after taking her sips. In silence she goes ahead to the bathroom, closing the door behind her. As she did that, I went straight to my room and locked the door behind me.

Double checking that my door is indeed locked, I kneel down next to my bed and quietly lift up a piece of wood on the floor. Exposing a hidden compartment, I take out a box that contains all my treasures. Opening the box, I reveal a mini camera along with other treasures, a handmade flower my dad made me, my favorite childhood doll that he gave me for my 5th birthday, an Ipod he gifted me before he left us and one of his caps he often wore.

Mom made sure to throw out anything that carried a trace of memory of him, but she didn't know I still had all this. I turn of the camera and start going through it. There were 10 picture in total, all containing dad. One of the pictures was him carrying me over his shoulder as we both smiled happily. I was 3 years old in the picture. It was summer at the time and we were at a park. I scroll to the next one, it was my 4th birthday that day. There was balloons and decoration everywhere. A chocolate cake sitting infront of us, as we all stood there as a happy family. 

I miss you, a tear rolls down. I turn the camera off and place it down before picking up the Ipod, unraveling the earbuds around it. I turn it on and put on my earbuds and start playing 1 of the few songs in it. 

I don't carry many memories with him, he left us when I was only 6. Mom wouldn't tell me why he left or where he went. She swore he'll never come back but I've always hoped he would.

Letting some more songs play, I take off the earbuds and place everything back into the box in the same way I found it. Closing the box, I place it back into it's hidden compartment and close it shut. 

Still feeling the throb on my chest, I get off my knees and lay on bed. I laid for what seemed like an hour before drifting off to sleep once again.

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Hey Guys,
I know I'm a week late and I'm sorry for that but here it is. \(ﾟヮﾟ)/ Took me longer than expected. (￣∇￣") I'll make sure to work on it a bit faster than usual.

I know some of y'all would be asking what exactly happened to her dad since he never appeared before so I thought why not mention him in one of the chapters. And so there he is. I would like to know any of your opinions on him or any suggestions to my writing ༼ つ ͡ ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡ ͡° ༽つ it would be a great help.
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