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?

slips into my left one, intertwining our fingers together. The small contact surprises me because in the past, I'm all alone

when I notice it shaking and I watch as Jake silently ends

she?" Jake says, amusement and disbelief lining his voice.

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

to almost a hushed whisper. I sigh and

I have a vague idea why Mum let Trevor do what he did. It's always been there in the back of my mind and I try to push it away but it just

way of punishing me." I whisper, feeling physically sick from the thought.

it felt like a glass bottle was stabbing through it continuously. The glass ripping away at me, tearing me apart.

silently pulls me me towards him and wraps an arm around my shoulder. I'm grateful for his support and lean

a murmur. I nod my head silently, feeling my eyes fill up with emotional tears.

themselves. I sniffle quickly, wiping away the tears before they can see the pain in

tight dress. Her wild hair is curled around her shoulders and she's wearing sky high black

just a few friends that me and Tobias know."