Ulterior Motives

Chapter 32 Heart Attack

Natsuki's POV:

"H-how do you like living with your aunt?" Yuri questioned me softly as we walked afterschool to the small bookstore on the corner.

My aunt Patricia is an interesting person. She doesn't really like people, (my dad has an older and younger sister, unfortunately the younger one, Aunt Allyson, lives out of town) she's kind of a mean lady. Everyone calls her old Cat Pat. It was kind of like living with a gigantic angry cat woman, because her personality was that similar to a cat.

Though she has like twelve cats, who act more like her siblings than my dad and Aunt Ally, she's ten years older than my dad and fifteen years older than my aunt Ally, she's only like fifty and already she's got the title of crazy cat lady.

"Umm it's interesting..." I mutter thinking of her sleeping with her cats all piled over her, even on her face. I shutter in disgust and my girlfriend eyes me in concern.
"Well if...um you ever need...a break or anything...then my parents said...if you want...you're always...um welcome at my house. " she twirled her hair through her fingers anxiously. I smiled taking her free hand and she looked at me, smiling slightly, trying to hide her beautifully flushed cheeks.

"Thanks beautiful, my wardrobe is lined with cat hair, I'd love to spend time with you." I encourage kissing her hand. Yuri blushes darker and leans down kissing my cheek.
"Well perhaps you could stay the weekend my brothers and dad are going away. My mom will probably be working all night. It'll be just us." She smiled at me intently and I smiled brightly.

"It'd just be us?" I exclaimed feeling excited at our future plans.
"Natsuki?" I froze, no I was imagining things...that wasn't... it couldn't be.
"Suki love what's the matter?" Yuri whispered rubbing my back soothingly.

"I just...I'm I must be hearing things..." I whisper leaning against my tall girlfriend, as I feel lightheaded suddenly. Yuri kisses my cheek and whispered softly words of comfort into my ear, as she rubbed my back.

"Natsuki?" I slowly turned, grasping Yuri's hand tightly as I looked at her, the woman who ruined my life.
"June." I whisper and she looks down as if what I said hurt her. Well she hurt me, she hurt my dad, she hurt our family.

"Natsuki please don't do this." She whimpers and I step back. Yuri glances between us, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell who this horrible human being is.

"No, you lost the title of mom when you left us eleven years ago! When you left me!" I cry out angrily and she looks around at the people around her.
"Natsuki don't, not here." She steps closer to me and I glare at her darkly.
"Oh is the lying neglectful bitch who abandoned her husband and six year old child embarrassed to be called out for her actions in public?" I snapped shaking with rage and sorrow and the feeling of loss.

"You can't do this June!" My dad exclaims, I watch from the doorway of the livingroom as my dad tries to desperately stop my mom from leaving.
"Dexter move." She growls, suitcase in each hand. She can't even look my dad in the eyes.
"No, not until you talk to me, June please. You can't leave us. You can't leave Natsuki, she's six years old, she needs her mother!" He exclaimed grabbing her arm. "Even if you don't want to stay for me, stay for her." He begs and she shoves him away.
"She'll be fine without me." She whispers coldly and I rush from my spot screaming and crying.
"Mama don't go!" I sob clutching onto her jacket with everything in me. "Mama don't go, I'll be a good girl mama, I'll be good!!!" I scream begging her to stay. She looks at my dad then back at me sternly.
" Natsuki go to bed, good girls go to bed." She snaps and my dad reaches down prying my little fingers from her coat and pulls me against him. Tears are streaming down his face and he kisses my forehead. My mom turns and whispers
"Goodbye Dexter." Then she's gone...gone for eleven years...

I'm sobbing and shaking and angry, I can barely see, barely breathe. She ruined us, she ruined him.
   "Natsuki calm down, you'll hurt yourself!" Yuri's urgent pleas fill my ears and I notice her frantic hands rubbing my arms and soothing me to the best of her ability. 
   "She left us...I begged her to stay and she just left us .." I wobbled and turned into my girlfriend, wrapping myself around her, I felt so small, so vulnerable, I didn't like this feeling.

  "Natsuki,  please just hear me out for a minute!" She orders pleadingly and I pry myself from Yuri's warm embrace and look at her. Her pink hair is disheveled and her eyes are red rimmed and yet I feel nothing,  no empathy,  no remorse NOTHING.

  "No." I answer turning to my wonderful girlfriend I bury my head against her chest, hiding away in her hair. "Y-yuri...don't make me see her ...please take me away from here!" I sobbed pitifully and I feel Yuri lean down and her hands hike me up on her hip and I curl my legs around her waist, locking them behind her back.

  "I suggest you stay the hell away from my girlfriend,  because she doesn't want to see you. " Yuri sternly exclaimed.

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Here we were walking to Monika's house,  it was like three hours after I saw my mom and I seriously needed a distraction.  Yuri hadn't let go of my hand once, we'd sat in the bookstore, leaning against the dictionaries as I cried against her and she soothed me with kisses and gentle touches, I gave her hand a squeeze, she was too good for me, I didn't deserve her.

"I love you. " I sniff and she stops tugging me close as she rests her chin against my head and kisses it.
  "I love you as well Suki. " she murmurs giving me a tight hug filled with her love and admiration.

"Come on beautiful,  we don't want to be late." I stand on my tippy toes and peck her lips before I take her hand and drag her along.

To Be Continued.....