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?

tears sting the back of my eyes and I sniffle, reaching up to quickly wipe them away. A warm hand slips into my left one, intertwining our fingers together. The

my hand. That's when I

on her, doesn't she?" Jake says, amusement and disbelief

respond quietly. Moments of silence fall on us and I

stop Trevor?" He asks after a while, his tone dropping to almost a hushed whisper. I sigh

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 keeps eating away at me.

she blames me for my Dad's death and it's her way of punishing me." I whisper, feeling physically sick from

a glass bottle was stabbing

him and wraps an arm around my shoulder. I'm grateful for his support and lean against him, resting

I nod my head silently, feeling my eyes fill up with emotional tears. The door suddenly opens, ending the conversation between Jake and

walk in, chatting quietly between themselves. I sniffle quickly, wiping away the tears before they can see the pain in my

dress. Her wild hair is curled around her shoulders and she's wearing sky high black heels. She looks amazing. Ivory nods,

friends that me and Tobias