Orphans Keep Secrets

C.5

(5 Weeks Later)

I'm doing better, I promise. Two hours after Marcos left me standing in the park crying, Austin came back and carried me home. He carried me to the living room and held me as I sobbed into his chest. For the next week and a half, he held me every night. He rubbed my back until I fell asleep from exhaustion. Austin was up and alert. Every single time I woke up from a nightmare where Marcos ripped out my heart, he was ready to rock me back to sleep. 

In the second week, I didn't cry as much. The tears were there but it wasn't as if someone had opened the floodgates. Austin and I stopped sleeping on the couch together. He helped me so much throughout this entire breakup. 

Now it's week five and I haven't cried in days. Well, at least not about him. There are the occasional sad moments where it pops into my head but that's all. 

Today's Sunday and it's 8:17 in the morning but I've been slacking on my online schooling so I lay in bed and quietly finish some assignments.  Math has always been a hard subject for me and this assignment feels like nothing less than impossible. After getting five question wrong and hearing the stupid math website say "Not quite, try again" I slam my computer shut and get out of bed.

I walk downstairs to the kitchen and turn on the coffee maker. The smell of coffee quickly fills the kitchen and it makes me smile. Having a little bit of time until the coffee finishes, I sit on the couch and watch Netflix on my phone. I settle on an old Kevin Hart comedy special and spend the next 35 minutes laughing so hard that I can't breathe.

I get up and sit at the island in the kitchen drinking my coffee. I accidentally spill coffee on my self and yelp as the hot contents come in contact with my chest. Frustrated, I put my mug down and stomp, well not really stomp, more like angrily tiptoe, up the stairs. I quietly walk into the girl's room and put my shirt in my dirty clothes hamper. I look at the clock and it's only 9:32 in the morning. 

 Since everyone is still in bed, I decide to have a super warm, super long, and super amazing shower. I make sure everyone is okay and kiss Hazel on the forehead before walking out of the girl's room.

Turning the shower on, I sit on the toilet and wait for the water to warm up. The room is getting foggy and I smile and happily sigh. I put my phone on the sink and check the lock on the door before hopping in the shower. As soon as I get in, I step into the water and let all my problems wash away with it. 

(45 minutes later)

I step out of the shower patting my face dry with a towel and walk over to the sink to check my phone. I grab it but as soon as I look up I drop it on the floor. There's a text message from an unknown number and it says "see you soon Honeybee" 

(A/N : I know this is a short little chapter but I've had horrendous writer's block and I really am trying. the next chapter should be up in the next week weeks. I'll try to be more frequent. )