Chapter - Twenty-Six

303 19 4
                                    

CHAPTER 26

NOT BEEN EDITED!

Ella’s POV

For the past couple of weeks my mother’s behaviour has changed dramatically, she’s made breakfast every morning along with lunch and dinner. She has held light conversation which for some reason hasn’t become awkward.

So this morning when I wake and head down and find her missing I feel a slight pang in my chest. I’m halfway through munching my cereal when the living room door flings open and my mum walks in a suit.

“Hello sweetie,” she says as she places her bag down and shrugs her smart jacket off. Then she looks at me and her forehead creases into a line of wrinkles.

“Is something wrong?” she asks me worriedly.

“No, I was just surprised to see you gone so early in the morning,” I say looking down at my lap.

She laughs “You didn’t think I’d run away did you? No I had an interview, a very early one. You see I’m trying to get a new job,” she explains taking a seat at the edge of the sofa.

“Where was it?” I ask interestedly, I didn’t know she’d lost her old one, actually to be honest I didn’t even know she worked somewhere.

“It was at the hospital,” she pauses for a minute then she opens her mouth again “Actually, I had a couple of interviews; there was one here and one in London.”

“London?” I ask feeling the panic rise in my chest. She’s thinking about carting us off to London?

“No, I’m not carting us off to London; I just thought I’d go to the interview because I thought we could move as a fresh start, away from all this Elijah business but since you want to go ahead with all this...,” she trails off and smiles at me “Anyway all that doesn’t matter because I have a good feeling about the interview I went to here,”

“Oh okay,” I say my heart rate dropping back to normal.

“So what are your plans for today?” she asks.

“Well I was going to see Elijah I think, just hang around with him,” I pause “Why don’t you do something with Kate?”

She laughs “Don’t worry there will be plenty of time for that,” she smiles again “I don’t think I’ll be able to do that today, I have to do a few things,”

I suddenly remember her new boyfriend “Hey mum, what happened to the new guy?”

She wrinkles her nose “Ah I don’t think that we made a good match, we ended it a short while ago,”

“Oh,” I worry that I’ve crossed a line.

But she stands up and says “Besides I’ve got my eye on someone else now,”

I laugh and she gives me a wink before disappearing into the kitchen. I wonder about asking her about Noah but I know what we aren’t quite on steady ground yet.

I grab my jacket and purse wave a goodbye and head out.

Kian’s POV

Ever since Mason came to see me yesterday I’ve been feeling very jumpy and uneasy, to top things off Alex has a cold and is feeling very grumpy and Kaylan is just too happy for my liking.

He’s moving out.

I knew this would happen eventually, but still I’m not feeling too amazing about it. Sara and he patched up their differences pretty quickly, I mean I am happy for them, it’s just well hard. Anais is off on one of her mysterious rounds and Liam’s depressed. Great household I’m taking care of.

“Kian!” Kaylan is calling me from his bedroom.

“What now?” I ask unable to maintain pure calmness, but he doesn’t appear to notice.

“Can you make sure that all the boxes are taped up for me?”

“Sure.” I reply with a sigh.

Just as I scan the room and grab the tape, I can hear Alex shouting from his room. I walk over to him and sit down beside him, then I notice what he’s holding onto. It’s a picture frame of his mum, he doesn’t know much about her because he was far too little but he knows that she’s his mum and this is enough to make him sad because he knows she gone.

I pick him up and he puts his little arms around my neck, I hug him to my chest and eventually his wails settle down and I can hear the rise and fall of his chest and I know he has fallen asleep. I gently lay him and down and pull the soft fleece blanket up and cover him with it. The picture he was looking at has fallen to the floor, I pick it up and the time the picture was taken comes alive and fresh in my mind, it was just a few months before she died. I miss her so much, they say that when you love someone so much a part of them will always remain in your heart no matter what. It’s true.

I know by looking at her picture that I haven’t moved on one single bit, the memories and times are so raw in my mind. I look around the room, this was were she first slept when I took her in.

My Zara, I sigh remembering the times when I could actually say that out loud and not sound like some sort of weirdo. That kind of stuff that people say to their friends and family when someone has passed away to console them never came to me, when Zara died everyone was very upset and I tried to console everyone. No-one ever came to me.

 I never thought that I’d be able to leave this house behind with all its memories but I think that I need to do this. I have to move away, I have to do it for Alex, she will always haunt me in this house, I can’t live here without her, I need a fresh start, I know that I’ll never forget about her and that’s comforting because why would I want to forget someone I loved so greatly?

I sigh and get up and go back to the living room to tape up all the boxes.

Mason’s POV

When I’m walking back home from my afternoon job I spot Ella sitting on a swing in the park, I hesitate, I don’t know if I should go and speak to her.

But then she looks up and spots me standing there looking like an idiot, I raise my hand and give her a feeble wave. She looks sad, not like the last time I saw her when she looked like she’d struck gold.

I walk over to her and sit on the black rubber swing seat.

“Hey, what’s up?” I ask.

“Nothing really, I  was just looking forward to hanging out with Elijah but I forgot that his friend is in hospital and he’s with them,” she sighs.

“Oh, um yeah,” I don’t really know what to say to make her feel better really.

“Is it a close friend?” she asks me suddenly jumping off the swing.

I watch her carefully, she  doesn’t look particularly suspicious but she’s biting her lip. She’s just concerned. Not suspecting.

“Yeah, I guess so.” I reply trying to think of an excuse to leave.

“I know this sounds really selfish but do you think Elijah will be at the hospital tomorrow?” she asks me.

Ella please stop asking me I silently beg in my head. “Ella, I...I’ll find out for you okay?”

She nods but doesn’t say anything.

“I should go,” I say after a minute of awkward silence. She nods and waves me off.

I head off in the direction of home, but then I stop and decide that I need some answers, so I steer in the direction of Jess’s house.

All I know is that this is not going to end well. A few broken hearts maybe.

******************************************************************************

Lia xxxx :)

I hope it wasn’t too bad!!

The Final WishWhere stories live. Discover now