My Secret

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

As soon as I walked in I held in my breath trying to listen for any movements and smiled slightly when I heard noise in the kitchen, that could only mean it was dad.

My whole body relaxed as I walked towards his noise "Im home!" I yelled to him. "Hey sweetie," I heard him say back. He was in the kitchen preparing dinner, I giggled when I saw him, he had on mom's pink flowered apron. He claimed dinner tasted better if he wore it.

"Hey dad," I smiled giving him a quick peck on the cheek, I wanted to hurry and get out of the kitchen, from the smell of it, he was cooking lasagna!

"Hey there, how was school?" he asked giving me one of my favorite smiles. Dad is one of my best friends, we're really close. Closer than mom and I will ever be. I love that guy, and I have to tip my hat off to him, being married to my dear mother is no easy task. He must really love her if he puts up with her shitty attitude all the time.

He's such a great human, when he found out about shifters existing in this world instead of being afraid like normal humans he was really fascinated, according to him that is. I mean, he did marry a freaking girl werewolf, so I guess he wasn't lying about the fascination. 

"Eh, you know, the usual" I replied watching him closely, did he look tired? Upset? Was he anxious about mom coming back home today or was just that me? God I couldn't believe she was coming back already! It had been such a nice break from her in general. From her constant mean remarks, nagging about stupid things, from her negative attitude.

"Well Im glad you had a good day," he said.

"What's the special occasion?" I nodded to the pasta he was making. He smiled fondly, "Well since mom is coming back home tonight, I thought we could surprise her with a nice meal" he answered.

I had to smile, he was such a sweetheart to her, even if she didn't deserve it. "That's nice, I bet she'll love it," I said noticing he had already set the table and everything. Great, I thought, I would be forced to have dinner with them.

I tried to hide my panic, having dinner with them meant I would have to eat, and that was no good. Dad was a marvelous cook, and I knew if I sat long enough at the dinning table he would convince me to have two servings of food.

With mom away it had been so simple to brush off dad, so simple to lie to him and say I would have breakfast at school, or that I had already eaten with Carly. The nice thing about him was that he never questioned me, not really, not in a mean suspicious way like mom always does. For some reason she always thinks I'm lying to her.

With dad I only had two eat a quick meal and then tell him I had homework and then I was free to quickly go throw up dinner. With mom in the house again it would be much more harder, since she's a full shifter she would be able to hear any irregular noise, which meant I couldn't throw up as much as I wanted to. 

"I really hope so," dad said giving me a tight smile now. I knew they were having their issues, last time when mom left she hadn't even bothered saying goodbye to us, all we got was a text message saying she had arrived safely to wherever her new destination was. "Here Bria, taste this" he offered me a spoon.

I hesitated and then tried it instantly regretting it, "Mmmm...it's delicious!" I sighed, damn, it would be really tough to not eat too much food tonight. He grinned stirring the pot, "I'm glad you like it, I was thinking that maybe for dessert we could have cheesecake?" he suggested.

I gulped, he didn't really know how much he was torturing me! "Sounds great dad, mom will really enjoy it" I tried putting a happy look on my face. I collected my things and headed for my room, "I'm going to start early on my homework" I lied hurrying away before the smell of food made me sway.