Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 21

The voices of my mom and dad were muffled, I couldn't understand a single word, but still loud enough to keep me awake. I let my eyes wander over the ceiling as I tried to make out what they were yelling about now, if it was still about all those text messages they were arguing about when I came home, or if they had already moved to a different, more heavier subject.

God, I hope they hadn't.

Was my mom really cheating on my dad? I didn't thing that was possible. My parents loved each other, there was no way they could ever be cheating on each other. But then... why were they still fighting so bad?

When I came home from school, still slightly shaken up from what happened with Jade, the booming voices of my parents already reached me before I could open the front door. I had furrowed my eyebrows and momentarily forgot about Jade as I walked into the house, confusion growing when everything instantly fell quiet and both of my parents snapped their attention toward me.

"What's going on?" I slowly asked while I took a step further into the room. They exchanged a quick glance before my father turned to me with a cracked smile.

"Nothing, baby. How was Jade's play?"

"It was... fine," I pushed out, deciding it was easier to lie than even attempt to explain what had happened.

"That's great. We thought you'd be out a little while longer," my mom said softly, smiling at me. Yeah. Obviously you thought that. "You know, to celebrate or whatever you do after a successful play."

"Yeah, no... We weren't really in the mood and Jade was tired, so..." I made a short pause and warily looked back and forth between my parents. "What were you two fighting about?"

"Oh, nothing important. Don't worry about it." I didn't believe one word out of my dad's mouth but knew that I probably shouldn't try to meddle into their business. I had nodded then, cracked a smile and told them that I'd be upstairs and would go to bed soon. Not an hour had passed before I heard them again, this time even storming up the stairs with my dad yelling, "What could possibly be so wrong in our marriage for you to crawl to Gary and-"

The slam of the door had prevented me from hearing the rest of the sentence.

And now as I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling with that weird, queasy feeling in my stomach area, I didn't know what I should do. If I even could do something. Sighing, I threw the covers off of me and slowly walked to my door, waiting a few seconds before I turned the knob. The hallway seemed to be so freaking long all of sudden as I put one foot in front of the other, approaching my parents' closed bedroom. Holding my breath, I softly pressed my ear to the door.

"You're never home, David! What-"

"I'm never home? Well, I'm sorry that I have a job! Should I quit it so you're happy?"

"That wasn't what I wanted to say by that!"

"You know, I don't understand why you don't just leave me instead of destroying our family with some stupid affair! You saw what it did to the West's, what it did to Jade in particular, and you really want to do it to Tori and Trina?"

What? No, no, no, no, no. This couldn't be happening.

"It's not an affair! I slipped, it was one time! You can't imagine how sorry I am!"

I stumbled back from the door as if my mom's words attempted to knock me over. My mom cheated. My dad... and... his partner... and my mom cheated on my dad with... his partner? The back of my eyes began to sting as I quickly walked up to Trina's room but my knocks stayed unanswered. When I pushed her door open, I saw why. She was sprawled out on her bed, headphones in her ears and mouth standing open. She was soundly asleep. I bit my lip to keep myself from crying, switched the lights off and softly closed the door behind me.