Entanglement [COMPLETED✔]

18

Laura

Christmas came and went.

Unlike the snowy Christmas in the northeastern part of the country, there wasn't a layer of snow or even cold wind in lower parts of California. Or not as cold as I was used to, not when the sun came out almost daily, not when we were so close to the beach and the water. 

But I was fine with it all, with having sand instead of thick snow, with having rain for snow and a warm breeze that calmed me. 

I wasn't falling right in with the family, I wasn't even talking most of the time but somehow throughout the days, I had gotten to know my grandparents. 

Eliza, Mark's mother couldn't help but apologize so many times to me. Saying that she regretted deeply what she did to my mother, trying to buy me with clothes and jewelry, using her money to change my mind and whatnot. And I wouldn't say she was succeeding with taking me out every single day but it helped a little to push away my thoughts. 

Now Harold was careful around me, not because he didn't like me but because he understood what I was going through. He had tried to apologize to me, for what, I didn't know. After all, it was Eliza who did it all, Harold never even knew of the vile thought of his wife that pushed me away from them all. 

I had also interacted more with Lex and his son, Caleb. The pretty boy with light blue eyes, with hair the colour of sand and my first friend.

There was something I liked about him, of his voice and the aura that he always carried. That smile that seemed to tell me everything would be alright, those dimples that appeared on both cheeks when he laughed. He was someone that didn't look like he wanted to leave me, that saw me and didn't judge me. 

A boy who didn't care if I wore skin tight clothes or baggy clothes. Who didn't care if I wore makeup, who didn't care if my hair was long or short. Who liked me for who I was and what I had in my head. In all honesty, it wasn't something I wanted in my head. 

And true to his word, Caleb showed me why everything would be fine. Maybe not now, maybe tomorrow but eventually I would forget why I was here and finally belong somewhere.

I think another thing that seemed to pull me towards him was the fact that he didn't ask me anything. Not that I think he would, after all I was sure he knew who I was, what I did and who I was running from. 

Caleb, like his father, was also a lawyer, with a few other hidden talents at his age. Not that he was even old, no, he was only six years older than me. He was a good friend of my grandfather, worked for him and that was the reason why he was there that night. Why the first time I saw him was in a suit. 

There was also Leah, his sister. And her friends, Jasmine and Maria, there were so many girls here that befriended me. For what? I didn't know nor did I care, if it was for convenience? I wouldn't even care either because I may have a rich family but it wasn't mine and I'd steer myself away from it all.

There was so much happening, so much that ran constantly in my mind. 

The year was about to end and I was still holding onto the past. After all, I couldn't forget it all in days, I couldn't forget what I had and lost. 

It was New Years Eve and instead of being inside with my family, I was sitting close to the ocean, the water brushing against my toes every once in a while.