Three Shots || Jaden Hossler

12. Colorado

Rye's Point of View

Me: this is the 10th text ive sent you

Me: ive called you like twenty time

Me: im not trying to be psycho, i
want to tell you something

Me: im going back home today
and i wanted see you but im already at the airport...

I put my phone down after sending those texts to Jaden and put it on airplane mode since we're about to take off. I'm upset that Jaden and I haven't had communication since yesterday in the morning. I'm not sure why he's doing this, I thought we were fine. I was excited to tell him about my trip back to Colorado even though he was going to complain about Joshua coming with me. The thing is, Joshua heard that I needed to go home but he knows that I don't have the money for that so he offered to pay for my ticket, I said no at first but he convinced me saying that he'd join me. Having him joining makes me feel less bad about him paying for all this. He got a nice hotel and a rental car for us. He's rich so it's probably not a big deal for him as it is for me.

I haven't been home for four years, since I left when I was sixteen which is the same amount of time I've been separate from my mother. My plans were to never go back unless it was an emergency... the emergency wasn't supposed to be this.

I fell asleep the whole plane ride, I'm glad I got some decent sleep since it seemed impossible to do that last night. I kept thinking about my mom and then Jaden not answering.

"How are you getting all these things?" I ask Joshua. He isn't twenty one yet and usually you need to have that age to do a lot of stuff. "I use my dads name." He says humorously and I laugh.

On our way to my old house I felt sick to my stomach. It's my first time in years stepping in that house and my mother in non existent now. I'm about to face my biggest fear also; mom's boyfriend, Oscar. I don't think Joshua understands how hard this is for me, it's a lot going on but I'm glad that he's at least trying unlike Jaden who seems to completely cut me off.

As we arrived I had an uneasy feeling all over my body. My feet made contact with my house's sidewalk and I felt stuck, as if they were glued to the ground. I stood there looking at the house I was terrorized my whole childhood, trying to accept the fact that when I go in my mother won't be within those walls. Joshua took my hand when he noticed how hesitant I was. I walk with him holding his hand as tight as I could.

Oscar opens the door. He looks like a person living in the streets. I don't feel sorry for him, not one bit.

"Riann, you're home." Oscar says getting out of the way so I could walk in.

I can feel the emptiness and sadness running around the air inside this place. The silence filling this room could drive anyone crazy. It has always been like this, but this time is different; it's worse than I could ever imagine.

Joshua and Oscar were having some kind of conversation I wasn't interested to hear. I was wandering around the house wishing my mom would pop out and tell me that it was all a big, horrible joke. Everything is exactly how I left it four years ago except the hideous flower decoration the kitchen has. My mother has pictures of me everywhere, including the ones I begged her not to put, now I wish we never argued about that.

We would always find a way to fight and get in each other's nerves, it was all a waste of time because we only had each other and we never saw that.

⚠️"Where did she do it?" I ask, getting their attention. "Rian..." Oscar began. "I don't think that healthy for you." This man is insane.

"Unhealthy? You don't think that abusing a woman to the point she killed herself in unhealthy?" I snap at him.