My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter 28 - Just Remember

         *Mickey's POV*

        "Hi Mickey." Dad started as he made his way toward me.

        "Dad, what are you doing here?" I asked him

        "I just wanted to come see my kids. I heard the news of your mom's suicide and I just wanted to apologize for everything I put you two through." He said as he tried to give me a hug.

        I was beyond angry. He left us and he thinks he can just say sorry?! He thinks he can just walk back into our lives and just pretend everything's okay? It's his fault I was put into the situation I was in! For so long, I've had panic attacks, I cried myself to sleep wondering what I did wrong to make him leave, I tried so hard to please the people around me so they wouldn't walk out of my life the way he did.

       "Don't touch me!" I snapped as I smacked his arms away.

        "Mickey! Watch your attitude!" He confronts me.

        Oh? So now all of a sudden he wants to act like a dad? He really thinks everything is now okay between me and him. It wasn't because of me that Mom killed herself, it's because she was thinking of him.

        "Okay, you really think you can just walk back into my life and pretend everything is okay? Do you have any idea what you put me through? I know Ryan is partially to blame, but in all fairness, you were the one that caused this whole train wreck in the first place!" This is probably the first time I've ever stood up for myself.

        "Wait, how am I to blame?" Ryan asked with a puzzled look on his face.

        "Ryan, you weren't there for me," I started as I walked towards him. "You were always with Justin and was never there for me like a good big brother should be for his younger sister. You acted as you didn't care he was gone. You had no right getting mad at me when Justin and I started dating, or when I worked at the strip club! You practically abandoned me for four years." My voice cracked as I started to cry.

        I looked over at my dad, who looked more pissed than I'd ever seen in my life. I doubt it was about Justin because he's always liked him, but then again, he never knew what he did in his free time. I think it's about me working in the strip club.

        "You worked in a fucking strip club?! WHAT ARE YOU, A WHORE?!" He started to yell.

        "Okay, first, don't raise your voice at me, you have no right to. Second, don't use that kind of language with me, there's no need to, and third, you're calling me a whore? You're the one who cheated on Mom with some 20 something-year-old bimbo! Besides, I only took that job because I needed the money for school and to help out mom. You know, we don't take these jobs because we like shaking our boobs around or whatever stereotypes you might have. Most of us take them because we need money and there were no other jobs available! I'm Catholic and you know that!" I raised my voice.

        Dad just stood  there in total shock, as if he didn't know what to say. I walked up to him and got up in his face.

        "I want you to stay the hell out of my life, you hear me? You have no right coming back and acting as if everything is okay when you know it's not after all the pain you've caused me! I hate you, and I always will." With that I walked out of Ryan's house and out to my car and drove home.

        Once I got home, I got out of my car and walked into the house. I didn't even bother going upstairs. I just sat down on the couch and cried my eyes out. All of a sudden, I heard someone rushing downstairs. I didn't even have to look up to know it was Justin. He didn't even hesitate to sit down on the couch with me and pull me in for a hug.