Coldsgrove

Captured

        I am now back in Coldsgrove. I haven't seen Aiden, nor do I want to.

        Nana died that day on the table two weeks ago and her funeral was that weekend. Everyone was constantly mourning for three days, but that fourth day reality set in and they all became used to the fact she was gone. Except me. When everyone was moving on I was suffering from two losses. When everyone was maintaining a strong composure I was in a consistent break down because the pain from his betrayal was too great.

        Shutting myself in my room had been the only way to keep my parents and Nathan from suffering from my tears. Momma and Denise would come by every other hour to ask if I wanted to talk about it but I would always send them away with a miserable groan.

        Though, one day was different. My mom just opened the door with a small knock not waiting for an answer. "Audrey. You have to come out of your room Sweety, it's been three days since you've even looked at your phone." Oh yeah. I lost my job and they texted to inform me.

        "I don't want too, Momma," I tell her and my heart strings tug as I covered my eyes with the sheets because I had taken a pair of scissors out of the drawer during my rampage I had meticulously hidden from my family and severed many pieces from Aiden's blanket as I possibly could.

        "Honey. Is this about Aiden? He did leave out of the blue." she asked innocently, but her innocent question maked a sob force out of my throat.

        "I don't want to talk about it, Mom." I wailed at her and she sat on the side of the bed and pulled her legs up and I move over as I tug the sheet tighter over my head.

        "Audrey I can't help you if you don't talk to me." Mom sayed sternly and I sit up before I comb through possibilities and latch my arms around her. "Audrey?" she asked while shifting to make her self more comfortable.

        "He left Momma!" I wailed at her painfully. "He left and he promised he wouldn't. I made him promise but he still left." I embraceed her tighter as she started to fully understand why I had holed my self in my room.

        "Oh Honey I'm so sorry. If I had known what happened-" she had started and stopped in the middle of her sentence. "DENISE!!!" my mom yelled from her position hugging me and letting her voice carry down the steps and to Denise's ears most likely in the living room.

        It only took Denise two minutes to get up there, she was probably listening for my mom just in case my mom needed her. "Mrs. James?" she gasped at the sight of me. "Audrey! What happened?" she asked me but I didn't trust my voice at the time.

        "Do you want me to tell her, Audrey?" I hesitated before I nodded, my face was still pressed under her neck to hide my sobs.

        "Aiden left the hospital before she knew he was leaving." I whimpered when she sayed his name, I hadn't spoken it after we had gotten home. "He left when Nana asked to talk to her alone and never came back." my mom told her and Denise's face hardens into a vengeful mask.

        "That dog!" Denise growled through her teeth, "I thought he was actually decent! Aiden seemed so-so UGH!!" she snarled and came to sit down next to me and gave an awkward hug from behind. "Well. No one needs men, Audrey. Women are perfectly capable of living alone and happy with out that species of lying low-lives." I giggled at her rant and unhitch my self from my mom and hug Denise for a moment.

        I looked to the corner at the dresser where my suit case sits alone now, instead of acquainted by Aiden's case and thought How could he? What made him want to play me like that if he was just going to leave? He came to the house and took his things with him, I know he didn't take the car, he didn't need it and dispite his betrayal I'm wasn't going to give away his secret. I don't go back on my word.