When In Paris

Chapter 20

CRYSTAL

Silence immediately fills the room as I just stand there watching my mother and Justin just looking at one another. As I on the other hand is still wrapping my head around the fact that she found out about us before I could talk to her about it.

Is this really happening right? I've got to be imagining things and once I open my eyes I'll be back downstairs with my mum and I and Justin will be seconds away from revealing that him and I are back together like I planned.  But when I close and open my eyes I'm still in my bedroom with my mother and Justin looking at one another. That's when I know this is scene before me is really happening and I can't do anything about it but stay there and watch. 

This scene happening before me is definitely not what I was expecting and was definitely what I was trying to avoid. My whole plan on how we were going to break the news to my family has blown up in my face even before I had a chance to put in motion.

My mother suddenly turns to me and raises her eyebrow. "Well Crystal?"

I immediately look up at my mother before I look past her to Justin. Him and I exchange looks before I turn back to her as she waits for my explanation to why she found Justin in my bedroom.

I find it being ironic how my mother again found out about us being back together in my bedroom. It makes me think back 5 years ago when she found out about us first being seen together when she walked in on us being super close and holding hands and laughing as I was showing him around my bedroom for the first time and telling him about my dream of going to Paris when I was older.

Of course, this is how my mother was going to find out about us being together. Why did I think it was going to be different this time.

At least back then she wasn't going to at any moment blow up at the thought of seeing Justin and I in the same room together but of course I can't blame her. She was the one that had to pick up all the pieces when Justin first disappeared and I was such a mess. So of course I can understand her reaction to seeing Justin in my bedroom right now. I can't believe I ever thought it was going to some happy and smooth experience when I told her about us being back together not when it involves Justin and all the history between us.

Ok it's now or ever Crystal. I think to myself before I take a deep breath and look right at my mother. "He's in my bedroom because I invited him here," I finally say.

She scoffs. "Why the hell would you invite him here? You know he isn't welcome here not after what he put you through."

"He is when I forgave him and gave him a second chance after he told me the reason to leaving," I say as I look at Justin.

"You can't be serious right now?"

"I'm dead serious mother, you heard me correctly I forgave him and gave him a second chance," I say then turn to Justin and smile at him and he smiles back. 

She turns to look at Justin immediately and narrows her eyes at him. "I can't believe you went behind my back and told her about our little agree-," she says to him in disbelief.

"And I can't believe you wouldn't tell me about your little agreement you two made in the first place." I interrupt her. She turns back to me and I suddenly frown. "I can't believe you made me think Justin never really cared about me when he was just as miserable as me all those years ago." I pause then shake my head. "If someone is in the wrong here, it's you mother."

"Are you seriously taking his side over your own mother's." She asks in disbelief.

I nod at her. "Yes I am because at least he is willing to tell me the truth and not lie to me and make me believe things that didn't happen like you've been doing for the past 5 years." I tell her starting to get angry.