Chapter 35- 'Your porn fantasies aren't really appropriate right now.'

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 A/N: Happy Easter Homedaaawgs.

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I think since this whole thing began, I had run out of things to be shocked about. I didn’t know if people had a certain point where they no longer feel stunned when something happens. A quota for the day maybe that once you use up you don’t feel anything anymore, you just feel empty.

I looked at Miss Vines and the smile she had on her face was not the one that I had seen since this whole thing started. It wasn’t that of a scared, lost woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was the smile of a woman who was exactly where she wanted to be.

“What?” My voice was hoarse, and all I could do was blink in the hope that the more I did it the scene in front of me would crumble away and reality would set back in.

The thing is though; this had been our reality for a while now.

Miss Vines let out a laugh “I guess the plan really worked if your deer in the headlights faces are anything to go by.”

Bradley joined in on her laughter, placing a hand in front of his mouth and shaking his head.

“Roger was your father?” Alex’s voice was hollow.

“Yes.” Her eyes were planted on Alex, and the amount of hatred glowing in them surpassed even Bradley’s. “The man you watched die was my father.”

I was struggling to breathe. I looked at the ground in front of me as a hundred images rushed through my mind. It was almost like flashbacks, flashbacks of the night and every conversation that I ever had with the art teacher.

“How…how is that possible? We knew Roger; he never had a daughter…” Archie was shaking his head, trying to wrap his head around the whole thing.

I didn’t actually meet my father until I was 21…

Her words replayed in my head. The conversation we had back in the hall when I confided in her about what was happening with my parents and the affair.

“Oh my god…” It clicked. Everything clicked.

“He didn’t have a daughter, not until I showed up at his front door. My mother never actually told him she was expecting me when she left.” Miss Vines explained.

My mother met my father when he was married…

“He was still with Bradley’s mum. He cheated on her…” I found myself speaking as the entire conversation replayed in my head, not understanding how something like this slipped straight past me. She had told me. She had told me the entire story.

“Yeah, wasn’t too happy when I found out that bit, even though I wasn’t technically alive yet. Then again, everyone here pretty much knows how it feels to find out your parents are slipping it to someone else.” Bradley said, looking between the brothers, myself and even Kevin. We all had experience with adultering parents.

If I wasn’t about to slip into a shock induced coma, I would have laughed at the idea that the people in this hallway all had something in common.

“How did none of us know?” Archie was still shaking his head, refusing to believe any of this. I think he was trying to rake his memory back to when Roger was alive, at any hint that the man we spent the majority of our time with had another child. How could we be around this man for so long and have no idea?

Then again, we had no idea about what he was doing to Alex. It’s amazing what people can hide if they try hard enough. It’s amazing what is right in front of our eyes clearer than day but we are too blind to see.

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