Forever Yours

7th chapter

7th chapter

This isn’t gonna be easy. Danielle thought over and over. She has memorized the thing that she’s gonna say to her mom so that she would let her go on the tour with Greyson.

Okay I can do this.

Mrs. Roberts is sitting in the living room drinking coffee. She is not that old, just around 40++, but what happened to her in her life made her look old. Her hair was almost all white, and her face has wrinkles here and there.

She’s a good tempered mother, always understanding Danielle, always helping whenever she can. But one thing that is hard to touch her heart is love toward men. She just can’t accept it. For what she has done in the pass, she did not want it to happen to her children.

Danielle stepped in the living room, walking as casual as she can.

She sat down next to her mother. Picked up a magazine on the table and pretend to read it.

Mrs. Roberts looked at her daughter.

“What is it this time?” she asked softly.

“What is what this time?” Danielle asked pretending to be confused.

“What do you want me to do? I know you Danielle, I gave birth to you, and I know that you wanted to ask me something, so just say it.” She smiled.

“Well, I hope you don’t get angry at me.” Danielle looked at her mom timidly.

“Is this about boys?” her mother’s expression hardened.

“Yeaah...” Danielle gave a weak smile.

“What is it?”

“Well, you know that I'm in a relationship with this certain boy right?”

Her mother nodded. “The boy at your school right?”

“Ah, actually, he is Greyson Chance.”

“Who is Greyson Chance?”

“Ahh, he is a big superstar, like Justin Bieber.” Danielle shut her eyes tightly, not knowing how her mother would react to this piece of info.

Her mother was silence for a while.

“How did you meet with him...?”

“Well, at the girl’s bathroom actually.”

“What?!”

“No, no, mother, he accidently used the girl’s bathroom and I met him there.”

“How long have you been together?”

Danielle counted her finger. “Ahh, about a year or so maybe?”

Her mother shook her head. “And all this time you were lying to me?”

“No! Mother I didn’t tell you a lie. I just didn’t tell you he is an international superstar, that’s all.”

“So what is it that you’re trying to tell me?”

“Well, it’s like this.” Danielle took a deep breath.

“Greyson is going on a world tour, for four or five months. He said if I could he wanted me to follow him. Please mother?? I'm begging you!”

Mrs. Roberts remained silent.

“Greyson said he’ll hire a tutor for me to go on our tour with us so you don’t have to worry about college, and I'm bringing charlotte with me too, so you wouldn’t have to worry about me being with boys alone. Please mother? I really want to go, mother, and I'm nineteen this year. And I have never went anywhere outside our city and the next. I really want to go mother.”

Still, Mrs. Roberts remained silent. Danielle looked at her mother’s face, and saw that she was holding back her tears.

“Mom what’s wrong? Please mom don’t cry.”

“I can’t let you go Danny, you’re my baby girl.” Her mother whispers softly as she wiped her tears. “I don’t want you to do the same mistake that I did.”

“But mom he is a singer! An international superstar! He’s not a gambler and drinker like, - like dad.” Danielle stopped a second before saying the word dad, in front of her mother.

Her mother still remains silent. Danielle knows that she should have never bought up about her dad. It still hurts mother.

Danielle hugged her mother and whispered sorry before going upstairs to her room. At dinner, Mrs. Roberts didn’t say anything. Her little sister, Stephanie, was the only one who was talking.

Danielle studies her mother’s eyes. She looks like she’s far away. So sad. So fragile. Danielle regretted everything she said that afternoon.

That night, Danielle couldn’t sleep. She stared at her purple lava lamp on the table next to her bed. The lava lamp might be a little bit childish for her, but that’s the only thing she had left from her real father.

“Danny?”

Danielle looked up. Her mother was standing at the edge of her bed, holding a box.

“Yes mother?”

Her mother sat on her bed, next to her.

“You never knew about your father, real father, haven’t you?”

Danielle shook her head.

“Well, your father was also, a singer. Only he wasn’t an international superstar one. But he was rather famous.” Mrs. Roberts smiled.

She handed a piece of paper at Danielle. It was a concert ticket.

“This is the concert I went when I first met your father. He was so cute that night.”

Mrs. Roberts’s eyes started to water. She stared into the window.

There were several pictures of her father with her mother. One was taken at the concert. Her mother held a poster of his father with his autograph and her father was standing next to her. They look so cute, thought Danielle.

“Your father, he never actually left me.” Her mom paused a second.

“What?”’

“He went on a trip to Australia, promising to bring back a souvenir from there.” Her mom wiped her tears. “But he never came back. At that time, technology wasn’t as modern as it is now. There was no telephone, and the only way to contact is by telegram. And I myself I didn’t like to use telephone and I don’t know how to use the internet.”

“I waited for him every day, going to his studio, asking them about your father. None of them told me where he went, and why he hasn’t come back...

I waited, not knowing if your father was dead or alive. But then I got the news that your father has married a new woman over there and has started a new life.”

“And you believe them?”

“At that time, I was ready to believe almost anything. “

A moment of silent passed by.

“You can go, on this tour with your Greyson,” Mrs. Robert said quietly. “Go and make sure that he wouldn’t find another girl and leaves you, like your father did.” Danielle hugs her mother tightly. “Thank you mother. You are, the best mother n the world.”

“I know that.” Her mother smiled.