Inked In Love

Forty Nine

Forty-Nine

"you missed it Elle, it was right in front of you" Theo complained from his position on the floor of the airport. We were waiting for our suitcase to come round on the conveyer belt.

"since when was it my responsibility to look for it, it's mostly your stuff anyway" I groaned at him, my eyes threatening to close from exhaustion.

He groaned as he stood up, finally wanting to help me out.

Theo decided that he wanted to join me in going to see my mother. I realised that I would need to go and find my mother and force her to explain to me what the actual hell is going on.

When we finally removed our suitcase from the conveyer, we headed straight to a taxi to start our 1-hour journey to the house where my mother and brother both live. My brother was the only one to know what we were coming.

Even though he doesn't really want to make an effort with our father, he does want some truth from whatever happened between our parents and why we were left in the dark about his condition.

We didn't even have the time to look around because both myself and Theo needed to get back before the competitions start. Tina and Ryan were keeping it together over in England, but I was needed back at training tomorrow at the latest.

"Well, your folks must have done well for themselves, because this place is where all the rich people live," our taxi guy says as he leads us into a private neighbourhood.

It baffles me how I have never been here before, but swimming did sort of take over my life.

"she had a good inheritance" I shrugged. It would have been more impressive if my mom was a hard-working adult but in reality, she got a big inheritance from my grandfather. Hiroki believed that my mother should inherit it more than my father.

"not that close with your mom I guess" he added.

"not really" I said shrugging it off. This taxi man was very talkative, well compared to the taxi drivers we have in England.

You'll think they are talking to you but soon realise the earpiece in his ear.

"well here we are, have a nice day you two," he said parking up on the side of the road.

Both me and Theo rushed out of the car. As we removed our bags the gates opened and from a far, I could see my brother standing with his sweats on waiting for us.

"you go, I'll get these" Theo said pushing me out of the way.

I walked through the gates and met my brother. "Didn't know you were bringing your boyfriend" was the first thing he said as he hugged me briefly.

"he wanted to; he's got a cousin in the next town too" I explained to him.

"where is she?" I asked him as I stepped inside the house.

He pointed to the room at the end of the hallway. "go easy on her Elle, she's very fragile"

I glanced at him for the last time as I walked inside.

I walked into the master bedroom. Mom sat at her dressing table, applying lipstick to her lips as she watched housewives on the Tv. She stared at me as I walked in and closed the door.

"you do know I don't get a lot of free time right; all this would have been solved if you had answered my calls" I said leaning against the door.

She slowly closed her lipstick and reluctantly turned around to face me.

"your tone right now is exactly why I didn't answer you" she replied.

"just tell me what happened. I said I wouldn't involve you but its hard to when you hid things about my father to me. Did you know about his mental illness when you were together?" I asked her. I wanted her to give me an honest explanation.