Desserted

New York

"Jenny bring my keys" Amanda screamed.

"Mom I'm coming" I said almost groaning and grabbed the car keys.

Mom was a very young and beautiful lady in her early thirties, she looked like someone who was in her twenties.

"Jenny" Mom screamed louder this time and it ticked me off so I came towards the stairs and threw the key down at her.

"Jenny" Mom said in something that sounded more of a worried voice but her face was contorted in a serious one.

I let out a sigh and cursed under my breath, hopefully she didn't hear me and I stormed into my room.

I moved to the piano set and started with the lyrics of a new line I was working on.

Somehow the piano let me cool off when ever I am sad or angry and of course when I'm happy. I sucked at playing the guitar so I found my skill in piano. I had to take lessons on how to play so mom hired a private teacher and he was going to be here in an hour time.

Settling on my bed I scrolled through my mobile screen. I stopped when I saw a message from Maddy, my best friend.

"Hi Jenny" she texted with a smiley emoji.

I replied her message saying "Hey, how are you?" placing a slight smile on my face because I was still a little pissed.

Maddy is like the only person I ever talk to in school. We met in my first class in the school and from there it became a wonderful relationship. Despite my snobbish attitude and arrogance she is the only one who could take and handle me.

After waiting a while and saw no reply, I matched into the bathroom sluggishly and bathed for like half an hour letting the warm water take away the anger.

I looked into the mirror and combed my hair then styled it into a ponytail. I decided to wear a jeans and a baggy sweatshirt.

Throwing myself on the bed again, I picked up my mobile. I was scrolling through it and when I saw a message from Maddy that was the exact time I heard the doorbell ring.

Knowing who it was I slipped into my pink flip flops and went down the stairs.

Opening the door I received a warm smile following a warm hug when I met  Mike. I returned the hug gladly we remained that way for a while then he pulled out and I made way for him to come in.

He went into the kitchen and made two cups of coffee. Passing me one he asked "What happened" and I shifted in my position on the couch.

"Well..." I searched for what to say but my brain couldn't boot any longer. Then I heard a chuckle from my side and I lifted my head and glared hard at him.

"You pissed off at your mom again, isn't it?" he said lifting his eyebrows and took a sip of his coffee.

I couldn't say anything still and just lowered my head and played with the hem of my sweatshirt.

"You see Jenny, there is no need of getting angry at her over and over again for what happened in the past. She is really sorry for what she did in the past and now she really loves you just accept it." he said in a fatherly tone and took another sip of the coffee.

Mike as he had told me to call him that's because he was still young but matured was like a father to me. I had no father so he kind of filled in the gap.

"Jenny" Mike called and snapped his finger which took me out of the trance of thinking about my father. "Your coffee is getting cold" he placed a smile on his face.

Sipping the coffee I nearly spat it out because it had gone cold but I controlled it and swallowed it down hard. Mike laughed a bit and I motioned him to the music room. We played for a while and I showed him the new lines I was working on, he acknowledged it and after that we had lunch and he left.

. . . .

Your my shadow and my light

I see you in the dark and the day

Your my love

Your my love

I closed my eyes in pleasure and in awe of the song, my fingers sliding and hitting through the keys until my right hand pinky finger betrayed me and played a wrong note.

I groaned in annoyance and hit the cup of coffee which was beside the piano. "Shit" I jumped up and pulled out a towel from the drawer and started drying the piano but to no avail.

I slid and sat down in front of the door of the music room and wept for about two hours. Now it was just dry tears on my face and sobs were still leaving my mouth. I kept on thinking of the time I'd spent with it. It was the ringing of my mobile that brought me out of my thought.

I slowly moved to the desk and picked up the phone, I sighed heavily when I saw 12 missed calls from Maddy. I dropped the phone and Maddy called again, I answered it and I heard sobs.

I quickly forgot my own worries and asked her what the problem was. I had not called her today so I did not see her and I was scared for her, a lot of thoughts were running through my mind.

"Jenny, your mum came to my house today and told me that you guys are moving to New York" she said in one breath in between hiccups and the sobs continued.

After consoling her for about ten minutes telling her that it would be okay. Immediately she cut the call I went back to the door and cried.

"Jenny, I'm back" Mom screamed my name probably wondering where I was considering that our house is very big.

Hearing this I got so angry and I was full of rage, I stood up, wiped my tears with the back of my hands and stormed out of the room.

"Jenny what's wrong, do you want to break that door" Mom said in a worried tone.

"I could break all the doors in this house including the whole building, what would be the use of them" I said in a very sarcastic manner yet angry tone.

"What do you mean by..." Mom said in an angry tone this time

"Oh mom, cut the crap" I cut her short before she could finish her sentence. "Why are we moving to New York, WHY" I screamed trying to overpower her voice.

She moved to and fro a little trying to find something to say. Silence hovering around the house and I could hear little sobs from mom's mouth.

"Mom, my friends, my school, my life I would just drop them here and leave" I said more like whispering breaking the silence. "Mom, your job you are still trying to make a living, how would you cope" I continued, her head was still bent down.

Then I let a chuckle out from my mouth just knowing the reason we are living "This is because of Dad right" she looked up at me and tears were flowing freely down her cheeks. She bent her head again and silence prevailed once more.

"Just pack your things Jenny, we are living tomorrow " Mom said cleaning the tears from her eyes with her hands and walked pass me all the way through the stairs to her room and locked it behind her.

I just stood there like a frozen  piece of chicken, I couldn't move a lot of thoughts running through my head. I managed to climb up the stairs  then to my room, I laid down on the bed and my head once again became a mess.

I cuddled up in my soft bedsheet and just kept looking around my room saying to myself that in few more hours all these would be behind me then my phone rang.

Picking up the phone I muttered a very weak "Hello" then the other person answered and then I knew who it was.

"M.. Mike" I stammered because knowing it was him I could pour out my heart so tears started flowing down my cheeks. I tried to speak more but he cut in.

"Hey Jenny, it's okay you don't need to say anything, I know already she told me."

I did as he said I spoke nothing but just kept on crying and laying curses on her and kept on asking Mike why she would do this. I kept on like this for like half an hour then I became to weak and then we cut the call.

I laid on my bed and pulled up the bedsheet all the way over my head and kept on saying to myself that it is all a dream. I thought about my piano and tears pricked my eyes but I decided not to cry I was already to weak and with that thought in mind I slept off.