Save Me

Chapter 20

"My dad was here," she says.

"Your dad? Wait, didn't he-"

"Walk out on my mom and I when I was seven? Yeah. I guess he decided that today would be a good day to come back."

"Why?"

She laughs sarcastically. "I guess he's broke now so he came crawling back to us. I made him leave, I kind of went crazy."

"You broke all the stuff downstairs?"

"Yeah, and my phone, and the lamp."

"Can I ask what happened?"

She nods slightly.

Ariana's POV

Flashback

"Mom, I'm going out in a little while!" I yell from my room, putting a basket of my folded laundry on my bed.

"Okay!" she screams back.

I hear a knock coming from downstairs and then the sound of the door opening. It's probably my mom's boyfriend or something. I roll my eyes and put my hair up in a pony tail, then grab my phone to call Harry. It's still kind of early, well, for me, anyway.

"Get the fuck out of my house!" I hear my mom yell.

I run out of the room, dropping the phone on the floor behind me. I hear it shatter, but I keep running. I get down the stairs and make a dead stop, making eye contact with a person who I thought I'd never have to see again.

"What the hell are you doing here, Edward?" I ask.

"I haven't seen my baby girl in 11 years and she won't even address me as her father? That makes me kind of upset."

"My mom said get out, so I think that you should leave."

"I came to see you, Ariana."

"What the fuck could you possibly want from me?"

"I never should've left you guys. I-"

"It took you ten years to realize that? Cut the shit, I bet you're broke."

"Is it wrong for a man to realize that he's made mistakes?"

"You're not a man. Get out."

"I love you, Ari, I-"

"Stop lying to me, no you don't! If you ever loved me or mom you never would've walked out on us in the first place! I hate you and I hope that you rot in hell!"

"Ariana, calm down, sweetie," my mom cuts in.

"No, I won't calm down! I was seven fucking years old! Every day I would ask, 'When is Daddy coming back?' I would wait in front of the window for you every day, hoping that you would come home! You never came back! Well, now I don't want you back anymore. Don't you dare walk in here and ask for forgiveness when you don't deserve it. If you're not out that door in two seconds, I'm forcing you out. I suggest you go."

"Ariana, I-"

"Time's up."

I grab the closest thing to me right now, which is a vase full of flowers, and throw it in his general direction. It lands a few feet in front of him and he steps back, but doesn't leave. I take a picture frame and throw it, aiming it directly at him. It hits him and he starts leaving. I pick up shoes from all along the wall and throw them until he's completely out the door.