Bite

𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝔀𝓸

The night goes by fast into dinner time, I hate having to eat at the dinner table, I miss when dad was around, by that time I could just eat in my room and be no where near my mom, 

Dad would always be my knight and shield me from her, but that very day, he looked so devastated and hurt when he got in his car and drove away, its officially been 3 years since he left, a few days after my 13th birthday too. 

"JAMIE! HURRY UP" my mom shouts from downstairs, I drop the second last box in my hands and rush downstairs to see a woman and her son and his sister I'm guessing, a family of three.

 Standing beside the three, my mom gives me a quick glare, "Jamie, don't be so rude, say hi." 

"Hello" I fake a polite smile, 

"Jamie, these are our new neighbors, I just invited them over,"

"oh, Jamie, what a beautiful name for such a lovely boy like you" The woman says with a bright smile, "This is my son Ian Mars, my daughter Annika Mars, I'm Kelsea Mars, but please call me Mrs. Mars."

"where's Mr. Mars?" I ask innocently,

Mrs. Mars looks down looking a little hurt by the question, my mom looks over at me with a face of 'I'm gonna take your ass in the bedroom and beat the shit out of you.' 

I gulp immediately and take a step back, "I-I'm sorry." I feel a sudden lump growing in my throat, it's getting hard to breathe, a few tears well up in my eyes, I step back more, "I didn't-- sorry to be dramatic or rude..I gotta go." I run up the stairs and down look back, i break down crying but softly, i don't want mom to hear.

I slam the door behind me and collapse into bed and cry until my eyes dry up, laying there for bed, i think about so many impossible plans.

meeting my dad, running away and never coming back, living alone and finding love out somewhere else in California.

"What is wrong with me?"

I say out loud before drifting off to sleep.