"Lucia, stop playing with your food. Your father went to a lot of effort making this for us all,"
Sighing, the brunette picked up his fork before taking an exaggerated bite of his food.
Lucia hated his mother's hypocritical complaining. She'd complain about him not participating in family nights or rarely talking to them however the woman was almost always working and leaving him and his father to go to bars with her colleagues.
He didn't understand why his father was still with her. He was a decently attractive, thirty five year old man with incredible cooking skills while his mother was a immature, forty six year old workaholic with her only skill being disappointing her family.
"How was work, darling?" His father interrupted his wife before she could further complain at their son.
He knew that she could be insensitive sometimes and he also could tell his son was struggling today. Tate didn't want Eliza to do any further damage to the teenager.
"Oh, it was lovely. We all agreed to go out this weekend too, if that's alright. I'll have to miss out on this weekend's family night. I'd love to join but you know how it is. I have to keep up with my colleagues. I don't want to work with people I don't get along with," Eliza chattered, raising her hand as she spoke.
Tate's warm expression faltered momentarily as his lips twitched into a frown.
"R-right. Of course, dear. That's alright," He hesitantly agreed before his eyes dropped to his plate.
Unbeknownst to him, his son had seen the lonely glimpse in his expression and clenched his hand around his fork before shooting out of his seat.
"I'm done," He grumbled, ignorning his mother's protests ; he stalked up the stairs.
Lucia cursed softly, flopping onto his bed and rolling over to pull his pillow close to his chest.
He gazed out his window, eyes glazed over with frustrated tears.
He deeply longed for an escape.
"Why couldn't I have just done it properly?" He spoke to himself in a hushed, raspy voice.
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A/N : Again, another short chapter but I promise I have longer chapters coming! I just wanted to introduce the characters to you first before I get into the romancee :)
Q : Soo, who likes Eliza? 👀
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RomanceWhen Lucia Miles returns to school from a mental institution, he isn't pleased to realise the entire school is aware of his attempt. With his taunting classmates, his strict mother and hopeless father, the only shred of regret Lucia has for his atte...
