#14

     The rays of the sun on my face reminded me of how much I don't like mornings, I stired and opened my eyes. I looked straight to where the ray was coming from and noticed that I forgot to close the windows last night.

   Last night?, It came rushing back to me, I almost forgot the fight I had with my mom, now I know why I feel like shit. I cried myself to sleep remembering the day Leo died, today was going to be akward and I'm dreading it.

    I regret speaking to my mom like that last night but regret doesn't take back the things I said and I know that. I'm dreading speaking to any of my parents, dad would be worried and mom would be sad. I got up from my bed, after all, I couldn't hide all day, I had to go school... Maybe I should sleep in and lie I was sick, but tomorrow we had to be in Napa or abuela would feel bad, I didn't want to keep ruining people's mood.

    I brushed my teeth and got dressed in my school uniform, Snow didn't sleep in my room last night because my door was locked, maybe she was angry with me too, could I ever do anything right? Leo died because I didn't sit with him, mom got sad because I blamed her for Leo's death and dad would be worried now because mom and I had a fight.

    I took my school bag and decided I wouldn't stay for breakfast, yesterday I wanted to spend time with both of them and now I'm running away because of how tensed breakfast would be.

    The house was quiet, I couldn't even hear anyone making sounds, I walked a little further and heard the quiet clinks of utensils. I was about to make a straight walk to the door but dad called.

   "Princesa?"

  His voice was soft and tired, I was scared he might be angry with me but the way he called out gently sounded anything but angry. I was debating between to stay or not and I don't know which one was winning.

   "Dad, I'm going to be late."

  My words sounded like a flight response but my voice was just as tired as dad's was, maybe I was tired of fighting.

  "You have forty-five minutes more, come have breakfast, Li."

   I reluctantly turned to face the table, mom's head was down, it looked like she was reading a magazine but I could see her fingers fidget with tension. Walking to the table I sat far away from both of them, it was only a six seat dining table so I couldn't be too far. Dad had already placed a bowl in front of me, mom was drinking tea, it was hot in San Francisco but mom drank tea whenever she was tensed. Dad was having toast and coffee so I picked up the box of cornflakes and poured very little into my bowl not sure if I could eat.

    "I think we should leave for Napa today," Dad said and sipped his coffee staring at me through the rim of the coffee cup.

   Napa was an approximately one hour thirty minutes journey, what I heard last week was the party would be at four pm so we could get there in time tomorrow.

  "We could go tomorrow and still get there on time," mom said speaking my mind.

  This was the first thing I heard her say today, she was looked normal but I knew she was tensed, her gaze was solely on Dad.

  "Yeah dad, I might not be able to make the journey immediately after school."

  "Okay, the women won this round. Lola I need you to come home early, we'd be having family night"

  Dad trying to be the peace maker, thinking of spending the whole night with mom amidst the tension between us scared me, I could think of a million way this family night would end and none sounded good.

   "We are already having family time tommorow at Napa," I said dryly. A small smile appeared on Mom's face and I couldn't help but smile too.

  "Yeah I know... Uh..."

  I almost laughed looking at my dad confused face as he trailed of not knowing what to say  I wouldn't want to be him, trying to settle the argument between his wife and daughter.

  "I guess it's no use skirting round the fire with you two b-"

  "It's beating around the bush, José," Mom said and I smiled.

  "Thanks, Manuella, as I was saying, we need to talk about last night," Dad said, the first part of his statement was said in a light tone, but the end of the statement felt like a stone dropped in my stomach.

    "Dad I need to get to-"

"School," he finished for me.

  I know the both of them knew I was avoiding the topic, maybe I'm guilty of running away from problems too.

  "I know. But I want you to come home early today, we are having family night and no excuses."

  Dad was being strict today and I almost rolled my eyes. I knew he'd not take any excuses I give so I just agreed and started walking away.

  "I miss when you were a baby, no more goodbye hugs and kisses, teenagers this days." Dad sighed at the end of his statement.

  Despite being annoyed at him, I laughed and uttered a 'bye dad, I love you' hoping that was good enough to replace the hugs and kisses of a child.

  My mood wasn't too bad when I left the house, apart from the fact mom and I haven't really said anything to each other, my dad didn't make me feel really bad about the fight yesterday and actually made me smile a few times today.

   I was a bit too early, I guess that's what I get for running away from the conversation dad was bringing up, but the good thing was getting a perfect parking spot without any problems. I could see Edward's car parked at the other end of the parking lot. He loved being early so it wasn't a surprise.

    The hallway was almost empty save for very few students and the janitor. I was expecting to see Edward in the hallway picking his books for the day or something but instead I saw Jason.

   "Hey Jace!" I called from across the hall. He was just standing with his back against a locker, scrolling through his phone, a smile spread on his face as he called back.

   "Hey, Lo."

   He left his locker and walked towards me, most of the people in the hallway looked our way when we shouted but we're back to doing whatever they were doing before Jason and I talked.

   "Hi, Lola, what's up?"

"Nothing much, I'm unusually early today and I don't know what to do when I'm early."

  "Yeah, I get that. I'm sometimes clueless on what to do whenever your boyfriend's too early."

  "Where is Edward?"

  "He said something about finishing his assignments before assembly."

  "Ed doing late assignment is something rare."

  "Yeah it is. I've gotta go, see you later?"

"Yeah, I'm going to look for Ed."

   Jason turned and walked away towards his homeroom class. After picking out my books for the day, I closed my locker and started on my search for Edward. It was twenty minutes to assembly and the hall has started to fill up with more students and teachers so anything Ed was doing he had to be fast.

I peeped into our homeroom class and it was empty, I kept checking random classes till I saw him in the computer lab. Mr Aniston, the teacher in charge of the lab was busy behind a computer system, so he didn't pay attention to me when I walked in.

    Not much people were in the lab, it was just Ed and three other people apart from Mr Aniston but the lab was so quiet, I slid into a seat noiselessly and whispered, "Hi."

   "Hey, Bella," he said with a smile on his face. I liked how his eyes lit up from the smile he gave me.

  "Hey,Ed, Jason told me you were doing assignments, what's up?"

He knew I was referring to his assignments being too late which was unlike him. Edward was usually the first one to do his assignments, I postponed mine and sometimes even asked for extra time but not Ed.

  "Oh it's nothing, I was just busy this week, you know with practice and all."

    Almost immediately Edward whispered done and placed a sloppy kiss on my lips, suprising me. He didn't really like public displays and although it was only a few people in the computer lab so maybe he felt comfortable, I giggled at that and earned a glare from Mr Aniston.

   Edward removed his flash drive from the computer system. I'd done mine since Tuesday, we were meant to use the school computer system for it so I did mine a while ago wanting it out of the way.

   Edward held my hand as we walked into the general hallway to wait for the assembly.

     "When are you going to your grandparents house."

  "Ugh... We are leaving tomorrow morning, dad wanted us to go today but it's going to be complicated so..."

  "You don't look happy about spending time with your family, what's up?"

I should have known Edward would guess something was wrong, he always does. I don't know how to start the whole story about yesterday that seems like years ago now without crying.

  "My mom and I had a fight but I don't think I can talk about it now without crying and it's almost time for the assembly to start."

  Edward looked a little bit worried and it might be because of the emotion on my face but thankfully the bell rang and teachers stood making sure everyone was quiet as the assembly went on.

   Everything announced was a blur, my mind was on how akward it would be at the silly family time dad wanted to spend with me and Mom today. I wonder what he planned, maybe movie night or game night, knowing dad, it could be anything.

   When Leo was alive, anytime our parents had enough time to spare we'd do different things together, sometimes we cooked together or had a barbecue out on the backyard or we'd go on road trips. Since he died family night felt boring and like it lost its heart, Leonard's dry jokes always annoyed me back then but now without it family time felt empty and it always felt like we were trying too hard.

   "Lola?" Ed's worried voice broke through my thoughts.

  "Yeah?"

"I've been talking to you for a while, I said the bell for class would soon go off."

  The assembly was over and I was lost in thought through it all. "Oh, let's get to class."

  "Bella, I don't want to pry, but if you want to talk about what happened with your mom, I'm here."

   Ed's worried eyes stared into mine, he was so thoughtful and it made me feel so lucky to have him all over again.

   "Thanks Ed, I just want to get through the first few classes, we'll talk at lunch."

  He nodded and smiled. We both had American history class together for first period. I hated history but today hoped that the boredom of the class took my mind away from everything that's happening at home.

*****
  
    "I probably shouldn't have said that to mom, it hurts to loose a child and I reminded her about that."

  Lunch had just started and Edward was one of the first few in line so we got our food early. The pasta wasn't as cheesy as Beatrice's but it wasn't that bad. If I didn't have so much on my mind I'd have enjoyed the food but I was barely eating anything.

   "It also hurts to loose a brother too, Lola, I can't even imagine what your family must have gone through but I think you need to stop blaming yourself for everything that happened," Ed said.

   Everyone kept saying I shouldn't blame myself but it wasn't that easy, I was at home with him the day he died. If Leo was in my place and didn't hear my voice or see me for a while, he'd have checked up on me but I was selfish and only cared about stupid things.

  "Besides where did you go yesterday that your mom had to pick you up?" Edward asked, I knew he was trying to change the topic.

  "Oh, I took a walk and ended up buying something to eat at a food cart."

   I was thinking about random things and pushing my food around my plate when I remembered Christian. A shadow across my plate made me look up and to my surprise, I saw Christian smiling down at me, his smile was so infectious that I could feel my lips curving up.

   "Hey, man, hi Lola."

"Hi Christian," I replied.

"Can I join you guys?"

"Sure, have a sit."

Edward didn't move to make space for Christian and then I remembered that although they haven't met each other before, Ed might not have a good impression about Christian. I'm such a fool, I didn't think there would be tension and now I'm stuck between the two of them. Christian was still standing so I made space for him to sit beside me.

   I looked at Ed and noticed how his jaw ticked like he was bitting hard, Christian would be wondering what caused the tension. I should do something, I looked around and noticed that some people were staring at our table, this was the kind of attention I didn't need.

  "Uh... Edward, this is Christian, Christian, this is Edward my boyfriend."

  "Hey, Edward, you play basketball right?" Christian asked and some of the tension left Ed's shoulder.

"Yeah, I do, Christian Anthony, right, captain of the soccer team?"

  "Yeah."

At least they were off to a good start, even if the conversation had died out, I had to think of something to say.

  "Please no soccer or basketball talk here. Chris, what brought you to our table, your fans have been looking at us since, Ed and I love peace and quiet."

  Christian laughed at that and Edward smiled, I could tell he was happy I included him in my 'speech', it's so hard to keep up I hope launch break is over soon, I know I have to be the first person ever who wishes that.

  "Ouch, Lola, so something has to bring me here, I just decided to say hi to my new friend, and besides I don't want you saying you only see me at night, like you did last night, it's day time right now and I'm here."

  "Yesterday?"

  The look Edward gave as he asked that question made me want to roll my eyes, I didn't tell him I met Christian yesterday, it's not like I was hiding anything but it felt unimportant next to the fight I had with mom. The bell rang to signify end of lunch break.

  "Oh shit, I have to go guys, I have to be in class early if not Mr Richard would give me detention, nice meeting you Edward, see you later Lola."

    Immediately Christian said bye, Edward eyes held questions that threatened to get me angry.

  "Look, Ed, before you make a big deal out of this, we both have classes to get to but I'll meet you at your car after school, we could talk."

  I got up and gave Ed a kiss on his cheek. I'm grateful to him for being there to listen to me rant about my fight with mom, the smile on his face made me smile as we went our separate ways to get to class.

*****
"I don't see any reason for us to argue over this so I'll say it again, Christian is a new friend and I saw him yesterday because his family owns the food cart I stopped by to buy something."

  Edward and I were not arguing but I was trying to avoid anything that would lead to an argument right now, I have an unresolved one with my mom and that's more than enough on my plate.

  "You don't need to repeat yourself, Bella, I'm just being annoying."

  "No Ed, you know what? Why don't we have a date when I'm back from Napa, we could visit the food cart."

"That would be nice."

  His eyes proved that he genuinely accepted my friendship with Chris, that made me happy. He didn't like Chloe, I don't want Ed to dislike all my friends because it would just be akward anytime we all hang out together. At least this was sorted out, now all I have to think of was family night.


A/n hi everyone, I'm on a row, I updated on the 7th of February and now 15th, a week apart, well I guess yesterday was a week(Valentine's day) but I was too busy with lectures and being lazy... Baa, I'm talking too much but how have you been?

Did you have fun on Valentine's day and what's your opinion about Valentine's day?

Did you enjoy this chapter?

I love how Ed and Lola are becoming more open to friendship with other people and how Chris isn't a topic for argument with Ed *rolls eyes*

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