Belong

~Eleven~

   After my shift, I left to go to see Ellis, and the Notary. Yikes.

  "Sorry, I'm late. It was the traffic," I swallowed audibly when Ellis's caretaker approached me.

  "It doesn't matter, dear." She sighed.

   "Okay, don't tell me the notary didn't show." I huffed, knowing what she'll say next.

  "Oh, everybody's here. It's...just your mother isn't." She gestured to a room where there's people surrounded Ellis, "mom?" Her head snapped to me, after I spoken.

  "What do you people want from me?" She snapped, I sighed, looking at her caretaker, she just shrugged.

  "We need you to sign the lawyers' papers."

  Ellis glowers, "I have a cranial reconstruction in a half hour. I need to go."

  "Okay, Mom, we're all here. We have a notary. I need you to focus and I need you to sign these papers. Mom, look at me." I bent my knees next to her chair so she'll listen to me.

  "It's an emergency surgery. I don't have time for this." She fidgets with her hands, her caretaker sighed, "She can't sign anything now. She's sun downing. We should have done this earlier in the day."

  I closed my eyes, and took a deep breath.

  I just want to go home, in my own life, where my mom doesn't have Alzheimer's and not a cold bitch.

  I sniffled slightly.

  "I couldn't come earlier in the day. I have a job. And a life. And I'm here now." My knees started to hurt after being in the same position for a while.

  "Well, you're going to have to come back tomorrow when she's lucid." The caretaker said snidely, I decided to stand up.

  "You know, why did she put this off for so long? And why did you let her?" I walked towards the exit, I was itching to leave. "Doesn't it strike you as slightly irresponsible? I mean, what the hell is wrong with you people?" I snapped at them, and I stormed out of the door.

~-B-~

    I texted Scott to meet me at the coffee shop a while ago before I go to face reality, so here I am, sipping my hot ass coffee.

  "So I guess your day went exactly like how it went?" Scott raised his eyebrow, I immediately scowled.

  "Yep, I so wanted to get rid of those habits, you know?" I huffed, then I went on, " but I couldn't do it to Meredith. Even if she doesn't exist, I just don't want to ruin anything if I did something tremendously wrong." I shrugged.

  He looked at me with wide eyes, his coffee lid was inches away from his lip.

  I became self-conscious, "what?" I snapped, embarrassed.
 
  "You've somewhat changed," he mumbled before he took a sip of his coffee, I almost slammed my coffee cup onto the table. I stared at him with hostility, he looked at me evenly, then I became less hostile.

  I sighed, "Yes." I swallowed, my eyes were blinking. "Yes I have," I decided so.

  He looked like he wanted to say something. I sighed, "what?"

He hesitated, "When you disappeared...Aaron broke up with his girlfriend," I sputtered, "wait, what?" I asked in disbelief.

  He nodded, "yeah, he...um talked to me before I disappeared," I leaned forward, "he said that he's in love with you, but he was afraid that you wouldn't feel the same way, even when you told him how you felt. Then he cried, and said that he will never be able to have a chance to say it to you again." He muttered, and I felt my eyes begin to prickle.