Tangled Love

"She's been like this ever since we got back." Ivory whispered to Jake, glancing at me worryingly.

"What happened at the store?" Jake replied, frowning. Ivory shrugged, looking clueless.

"She spoke to her Mum for a while but I don't know what it was about." Ivory murmured. Jake nodded in response before closing over his door, giving me some privacy.

I was lying in bed, facing the wall.

My body felt numb, completely oblivious to the world around me. My mind was blank, my emotions had disappeared. I was a prisoner to my own thoughts and it was exhausting. The ache in my stomach had completely taken over my whole body, seeping its way in my heart.

I felt the mattress dip slightly as Jake sat down, placing a hand on my arm.

"Muffin?" he asked

I remained silent but a single tear slid out of my eye and down my cheek. There was a few moments of silence before I finally

believing my own words. My chest felt like it

"Who isn't?" Jake asked,

my real dad," I repeat, my vision blurring with tears. I don’t want it to be true.

around my body and he pulls me tightly into him. I feel my body shake

quietly as I wrap my

biological father is. The main that raised you, he's your Dad, he always will be." Jake says firmly.

a sperm donor but it takes a father to be a real father, right?

to eat anything else is my father. The man who held me close and wiped away my tears when I was bullied in school is my father. . . He always will

out loud, repeating my thoughts. Jake nods, his thumb drawing circles on the back of my hand.