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?

hand slips into my left one, intertwining our fingers together. The small

my hand. That's when I notice it shaking and I watch as Jake

she?"

that's my mum." I respond quietly. Moments of silence fall on us and I close my eyes, Jake's warm hand

He asks after a while, his tone dropping to almost a hushed

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

blames me for my Dad's death and it's her way of punishing me." I

possible to feel pain in your heart but right now it felt like a glass bottle was stabbing through it continuously. The glass ripping away at

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

nod my head silently, feeling my eyes

quietly between themselves. I sniffle quickly, wiping away

her shoulders and she's wearing

few friends that me and Tobias know."