One Direction with a Watery twist

Chapter 9

POV:Hope.

The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks. I'm sure I saw my mum wearing one of these, I get up on my feet and tell the girls I'll see them tonight. Without an explanation I ran inside, they know me good enough to not ask and just wait it out. Sadly enough cruella is home right now, that means I have to be a hundred times more careful. If she sees me snooping around mums office, she'll be breathing down my neck again, for the rest of the summer. Especially if she knows something I don't.

Entering mums office, I feel a shiver going trough my body. It's been so long since I've been here, I can still see her sitting at her desk typing away about who knows what, while little me is sitting on the floor, with some toys just staring at her beautiful face.

It brings tears to my eyes, knowing she's not here anymore and that everything's changed. I try to blink away my tears but I feel a few slipping out, rolling down my cheeks. I sniff and wipe away my tears with the end of my sleeve.

I open my phone on the pictures of the necklaces and walk to one of the few boxes in the room, when Meredith moved in she wanted al my mums stuff out of her sight, saying we needed a fresh start. So me and my dad put everything in boxes and Meredith shoved them inside this room, ment to be forgotten.

I open the first box and come face to face with a picture of me, mum and dad. I remember this day as if it was yesterday. This makes me burst into tears, I hold the picture frame close to my body. Leaning against the wall I slide down, sitting on my knees. Why did she have to leave so early, why my mum?

I gently lay the picture frame down on the desk, planning on taking it to my room, to put on my nightstand. As I open the next box, the first thing I see is a little hand mirror, she found this at the bottom of she ocean, years ago. She kept it in her room and always used it when she braided my hair, so I could see it from the back.

Digging deeper I finally feel the jewellery box, I take it out and sit down on my butt, the box in my lap. I carefully open the box and immediately see the necklace, I take it out and hold it up in the air, this is definitely the same. I want to open my phone to compare it to the picture, but right then I hear someone walking up the stairs. Putting the necklace deep into my pocket, I hurriedly put the boxes back to where they belong and kneeled down behind them, right before I hear the door being opened and someone stepping inside.

I'm trying to stay as quiet as I can but I start to get cramps in my calves, I hear someone opening drawers and cupboards.

Thankfully the front door opens and I hear my dad call out that he's home, the shuffling of Cruella's feet stops and then I hear her hurriedly walk out.

I'm waiting till I hear Crella downstairs, and then I carefully slip out and walk to my room, but halfway I stop and turn back around, there's a key in my mother's office door, walking back I lock the door and take the key with me. 2 points for me, 0 for Cruella.

In my room I put the key on an old plain chain I have and put it around my neck. now I'm the only one to have access to my mums office.

Now that I'm finally in my room I pull up te picture, and it's indeed the same.

I scroll trough the other pictures, maybe I'll find something else familiar, I end up with the picture of the whirlpool on my screen, that's the first drawing that caught my attention on the wall, this one is also, so familiar for me.

I look up to think and let out a groan, why can't I remember. When I look down again and old picture of my mother catches my eye. It's from ten years ago, she just started working for 'sea creatures' a company that does researchers for the ocean and the creatures in it.