Last Stop

Chapter eleven

I spend the rest of the weekend moping around. There is no work because the Rue family left for a mini vacation. Anna and Henry try text me but I reply that I am spending time with my aunt and uncle. Which is partly true. Except most  of the time I spend hauling fire wood into the barn and tending to the animals. No questions are asked but on Monday when I wake up with a temperature my aunt takes one look at my clammy forehead and pink cheeks and orders me to bed. I end up having the water works again because she takes care of me the whole day. I hate that I feel like I am falling out of control. My father might be here, I might be moving back to New York soon. 

"Do you know Eddy?" I ask my aunt later that afternoon as we both sit in the kitchen, she is making lunch for everyone, Jason is playing at a friends house. Millie stiffens, not meeting my eyes as she nods gently. "He is my father isn't he?" I ask. It takes a few minutes to meet my gaze.

"I think so" She says "Did your mom say something?"

I shake my head and she nods as if she expected that much "Yeah, they dated for  almost two years, everyone says he was the bad influence but," She sighs " I wasn't so sure, sure he came from a messed up family and struggled with conventual learning but he was a softy at heart who turned to drugs to make him feel whole. I was so sure that he stopped but then a few months into dating they were caught and taken to jail." Millie sighs "He was heartbroken when she left, came to my parents house demanding answers that they couldn't give. No one knew where your mom went. She was always a free spirit and the cops knew her history so they didn't put an amber alert out or anything. A year later we get a call that she is okay and has a child." Aunt Millie says "Eddy seemed to turn a new leaf a year later, met someone who helped him work through his issues. I don't see him often because He mostly works, he owns the hardware store in town, his wife owns the bakery."

My eyes widen at the news, Denis? My aunt sighs "He doesn't know that Macie was pregnant when she left."

I nod and I tell her about the call I had with my mother on Friday evening. She listens and when I am done hugs me tight "Oh, Cameron, honey. you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Your uncle and I will support any decision you make and we are happy to have you stay with us." I nod into the hug "Just make the decision for you, your mom will make it work either way." She tells me and I nod the knot loosening in my chest a little. I am beyond thankful to them.

After that she leaves to fetch Lola and Jason while I begin with the homework that the school emailed to me. The doorbell rings halfway through so I get up from the dining room table to see who it is. I furrow my eyes as it opens up to be Spencer. What is he doing here.

"Hi." I say letting him in, he has his hands shoved into his pockets, looking uncomfortable. "Did you walk here?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"No, I just got the bus to drop me off here." he says "Anna said you were sick?" I nod despite the fact that I look fine. "You left early on Friday."

I nod again moving aside so he can step further inside. I let him follow me to the kitchen, he eyes the work set out at the dining room table as I pass him water. " I was tired."

"Really?" He asked me with his eyebrows risen "Because you seemed fine until that call from the rehab center," My posture stiffens, that is why he is here to nit pick at my life and find my flaws. I have had  enough people try and figure me out I don't need another one. Especially not someone who hates me. "I googled it and it is a drug rehabilitation facility."

He googled it? I take a deep breath to try and check my emotions but when I turn to him and speak my voice comes out cold and hard. "I think you should take your nose from where it doesn't belong." He looks surprised and he should be, I have been nothing but civil to him since I have been here but he crossed a line "Can you and this whole fucking town not just leave other peoples shit alone."My calm has vanished and I am spitting mad.

"I-"

"You what?" I seething, stepping closer "You were curious? you care? you saw that I was effected?" I scoff "I have heard all that shit before Spencer, the truth is that you want something so that you can be superior, you want all the dirt in my life to be spread out for everyone to see so that you can feel bigger." He watches me as I step closer our chests breaths apart as I lower my voice "You may have everyone else fooled but you aren't the little nice guy everyone thinks you are, so cut the bull shit in front of me."

"You don't know shit." He says and I am surprised he doesn't stutter "So what if i came over because I cared. I don't see anyone else here." I furrow my eyes at him.

"Exactly, so maybe get a clue and fuck off." I tell him moving away "I don't need your pity or your curiosity."

I hear him sigh as I turn my back to him, "Leave." I say and I hear him pause before the sound of the door shutting echo's around the empty house. Why? he was interesting and I actually wanted to get to know him. Something made me want to be closer so why did he have to dig, why does everyone want to dig in my life .If we aren't close enough for me to tell you then fuck off and mind your own. I wondered if I would react as bad if it was Henry or Sarah and I realise I wouldn't. It was because it was him that I blew up because a small part of me wanted to be given the chance to tell him, in my own time.

"Fuck!" I shout . Why does everything seem to spiral out of control  at once. Just when I was starting to feel at home. Maybe I just am not meant to feel this happiness.