65 Heart to heart
“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.
1 stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already
been said and done?
“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.
Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and
completely impersonal.
I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.
“Please, I beg you” she pleads with tears in her eyes.
It was so strange looking at her with tears in her eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me with a certain cold indifference that was specifically targeted at me.
“How about you show me to our table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while
cutting off what I was about to say.
Corrine looks skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even though I was apparently their daughter.
Martha doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away in the
opposite direction.
I sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until
so do it now before
this woman back in my younger days. When
didn’t feel the same way. It changed when I realized
more of a
hesitantly takes her seat before taking my hands in hers.
her near me. The part of me that had longed for such moments was
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More than you’ll ever know”
this moment. Always day dreamed of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it.
You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more
before continuing.
can
was full on crying. If I was my old self,
tears meant
by a few drops of tears. It just doesn’t
for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit won’t work. Instead of all the drama, why don’t you tell me the real reason you wanted us
emotionlessly.
She’s been hurting me for years. This was nothing compared to what I had to endure at her hands and that
was sure that the only reason she was here was to
their family
you would think that the only reason I was apologizing
that you
tell she was the same woman
Who used to treat me like I didnt matter.
as she pours out
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