Remember Me?

Scared little school girl

It's been five days since Emma came home and to say things have gotten much worse, well I'd laugh because it really was. Dad had been gone longer than he usually is coming home every other day, mum is starting to have withdraw from not having any liquor, the awkwardness in the house was starting to suffocate me. I could tell even Emma knew things were getting worse, but she tried to not let on.

The only good things that had happened was my time spent with Emery and Cory's happiness. Emery is so full of life and you could tell she was Emma's daughter, she was always giggling, exploring the house, and playing games with Cory. She liked playing hide and seek the most, since the house was huge she still could find a lot a places to hide. Even at only two years old Emery was really smart, she knew how to change the channels on the TV and which channels had her favorite shows on them. Her senses were very heightened she knew when things were disgusting or bad, like when my mother comes staggering into the kitchen. The minute my mum comes into sight, Emery bolts out of the room.

Cory is happier than he's been in the past few years, every morning he wakes up he rushes to our room to make sure Emma's still here. And every time he sees her sitting on her bed smiling or still softly snoring, he smiles happiness washing over him.

I can admit that I'm happy Emma's home and that things will get better but I just feel as if nothing has turned out the way I thought it would. Even though me and her have gotten closer she is still distant, and to make things worse we're going to be ripped apart today.

We're going back to school.

Here I lay in my bed, hair sprawled out all over my pillow, the warm May air breezing over my skin, I felt at ease and yet my world seemed to still be broken. The room was quiet, Emma's softs were low, Tony's chest rose and fell slowly, and Emery sucked her binky every five seconds. This should make me feel happy, having Emma's low snores lulling me to sleep every night. Maybe it's the thought of going to school and me and Emma both being ridiculed and criticized by every judgmental person in that building.

The thought of someone hurting Emma over a choice she had to make made me want to throw up but I sat in my bed and grabbed my small star pillow. Pulling my arm back I chucked it at Emma's head, Direct hit!

Her head lifted up in one second and her death glare landed on me, "Wanna explain why you chucked something at my head!?"

 "Get up....we have school."

Her eyes slowly closed and her head dropped to her pillow and she groaned, "Do I have to?"

 "Yes you don't have a choice me and Zack sat through two very long hours with the principal explaining your situation and working everything out, you're going."

 "Urgh fine." She pulled herself from the bed and walked to her dresser, "Hey why don't we do a twin day look exactly alike."

 "Yeah that sounds great since it's your day let's wear blue." I smiled and pulled out my over the shoulder dark blue shirt and black shorts, Emma took out a black crop top, a dark blue tang top, and black capris. We put on the same amount of eyeliner, mascara, and Emma let me use her French vanilla pink lip gloss which tastes awesome. It took us twenty minutes to get dressed and I put on my blue converse and Emma put on her blue flats, we smiled at each other then I gasped.

 "Our hair!!"

Her eyes widened and she gripped her curls, "Don't worry I'll straighten my hair."

 "No no no Jenna you're wearing Emma's hair today." Zack said as he climbed through the window, "Break out the curling iron."

 "But I don't do curls."

Emma smiled, "But I do."

She forced me down and turned on her curler and took her time curling my hair, Zack went to make sure Cory was ready and Tony began to wake up.