The Average Love Story

Chapter 18

Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long, but school has been piling me up with homework:/ Anyways hope you enjoy this next chapter! By the way it's from Emma's point of view!!;) And by the way thanks a ton for reading this! It means the world to me! Also please check out my new story A Love That Consumes You. And comment, vote or fan!:) Enjoy!

Emma's POV

I sat on the couch, shaking my leg frantically. What was taking Mia so long? Grabbing the remote, I flipped through the channels, my heart pounding. What if Jay had snuck out? What would we do then? I dropped the remote and began biting on my nails, something I only do when I am nervous. I looked up at Jay’s door for the one hundredth time and slowly stood up. Then I took a step with my right foot toward his room.

No Emma, you promised Mia, I argued with myself. I plopped back down into the couch, and decided to distract myself. I began looking around the room and observing the way it was decorated. Halloween is in a few weeks, so a few skeletons hung from the wall, pumpkins were on the kitchen table, and spider webs were tangled in the plants on top of the fire place. All Mia's creation, of course. With her mom never home, and Jay thinking that he is too cool for anything, Mia needs this to keep herself sane. She isn't meant to be alone all the time, it is going to make her crazy.

I feel bad for her quite often, but most of the time I wish we could trade places. Mia doesn't realize how lucky she is. Without a family like mine, I could do anything I wanted. And life would be easier with my father locked up too. I wouldn't have to deal with the heartbreak when he leaves, the emptiness that consumes me. The emptiness of abandonment.

My thoughts were interupted when I heard the sound of glass shattering. I felt my stomach dropped and I threw my arms up, shocked. Then banging, loud crashes as if Jay had a hammer and was trying to put a hole in the wall. "What in the world...." I muttered under my breath and jumped up, running towards his room. I threw open the door and gasped.

Jay had a wooden baseball bat in his hands, his blue eyes looking wild and sad at the same time. Tears were streaming down his face as he smashed the ground. He didn't even seem to notice me; he let out a few cries of frustration and then fell to the ground with his hands in his face. He looked so sad, so depressed it almost made me start to cry. I walked over to him and saw what he was hitting. My heart stopped and I realized it was a picture frame, with the picture of a man in it.

I could tell by his bright unnaturally green eyes that it was Mia's and Jay's father, but I have never actually seen him before. In my mind he was a monster, Mia and I always talked of him as so. I bent down and picked up the ruined picture, shattered glass sliding off of it. He was big, muscular, young looking, he was probably a teenager in this picture. His brown wavy hair fell over his eyes, but the green still shined through. Something about this picture, this paper, made me feel sick to the stomach. It made me imagine what he looked like when he was angry.

Jay sighed and wiped his face, finally uncovering his eyes. "I'm sorry," he whispered so quietly I wondered if he was even talking to me. I felt uncomfortable and bit my lip, wondering what to say.

"I'm back!" I heard the front door open, saving me from having to reply. Mia voice sounded stressed, but I could tell she was trying to be cheerful. "Emma?" She asked, confused.

"In here," I told her, feeling a little ashamed that I came in when she had told me not to. Jay stood up and ran to his bed, wiping his face off as quickly as he could with the sheets.

She walked in with her eyebrows furrowed together, taking in the scene. Her eyes wandered from the glass on the floor, Jay's puffy red eyes, to the crumpled picture in my hands. She let out a gasp of air and ran over to Jay. She wrapped her arms around him and sat next to him on the bed. "What happened?" She asked, pulling Jay's hair out of his eyes.

Jay tried to catch his breath, and he began to explain. "I was sitting here on my bed, thinking about how much trouble I was in. I thought about how good using drugs were the relief and numbness of it. Vanishing all of the horrible things in my life, the awful memories. I told myself that I would not stop using, not even if you guys shipped me off to rehab. Then I remembered what made me felt the need for it, who made me feel the need for it." He paused, taking another shaky breath.

Mia's eyes searched his frantically, trying to decipher what he was telling us. She rubbed his shoulder and murmured, "I know that it is tough sometimes, with the memories. But you are better than this, you don't need to waste your life like this because of him. You can't always feel sorry for yourself for what happened, no matter how much you hate him. Hating him, or doing this to yourself won't bother him or change his life at all. It's like drinking poison and hoping that the other person will die."

Mia's words hit me hard. It made me think about how upset I was with my own father; sending thoughts of hate towards him won't hurt him in the slightest. It only hurt me even more. I also thought of Liam, maybe it was time for me to move on.

"I know," Jay said, shrugging Mia's hand off of him. "I know, but it still hurts. It hurts getting bullied everyday because of my stupid limp. It hurts when I try out for every sport possible and get shot down because I can't run as fast as the others. It hurts when I look at my baby pictures and see myself in the hospital with an oxygen tube, or a full body cast." He let out a big sigh and said, "Sorry, sometimes I just need someone to rant to. With mom gone all the time I feel so alone."

"I know," Mia said ruffling his hair, "I know how you feel. But I am always here; you can always talk to me. Even though I am your sister." She winked. "Come on your food will get cold." They got up and walked toward the kitchen. I followed, smiling. Maybe this whole mess with drugs will fade away quickly.

Okay so I know this chapter was a little sad, but it will get happier so KEEP READING!! Haha and thanks for reading this! Please tell me what you think!;) Also I will try to update as soon as I can!