Tangled Love

"Hello? Emily, come home this instant! How dare you leave home so suddenly!"

I scoff, unable to believe her words. I silently wish I never answered the phone but the damn woman wouldn't take no for an answer. After ignoring her calls multiple times, I decided to answer before she blew my phone up. . . Literally.

"Leave me alone Mum."

"Where are you? I demand that you come home!" Mum screeches at the other end. Besides me Jake raises an eyebrow and I know he can hear her scream like a banshee.

"I'm safe, isn't that all that matters?" I argue back with her, desperately trying to make her see sense. I hear her pause on the other end before she inhales sharply. I wonder whether she finally understands but when she begins calling me selfish and an inconvenience, I slump my shoulders in defeat.

Why can she not see that I ran away for my own safety?

Would I always be the child blamed for all of the troubles in her life?

away. A warm hand slips into my left one, intertwining our fingers together. The

okay." Jake murmurs, reaching over and plucking the phone from my hand. That's when I notice it shaking and I

quite the voice on her, doesn't she?"

 my mum." I respond quietly. Moments of silence fall on us and I

hushed whisper. I sigh and run a hand over my face, totally exhausted from the day.

a vague idea why Mum let Trevor do what he did. It's always been there in the back

my Dad's death and it's her way of punishing

feel pain in your heart but right now it felt like a glass bottle was stabbing through it continuously.

my shoulder. I'm grateful for his

nod my head silently, feeling my eyes fill up with emotional tears. The door

Tobias and Ivory walk in, chatting quietly between themselves. I sniffle quickly, wiping away the tears before they

ask Ivory, noticing at her black skin tight dress. Her wild hair is curled around her shoulders and she's wearing sky

just a few friends