Wilt.

Chapter one

The car hit a bump which awoke me.  My cheek felt numb so I looked at the time to see for how long I was sleeping, It was 9:14PM but it was still so light outside that I would have thought it was still daytime.  I looked out the window, the town wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but I still wished my mother wouldn’t make us move all the way down to Blackbeard from California. I knew the town was small and in small towns gossip flies faster than the wind. The summer holidays had just started so I wouldn’t have to start a new school and meet new people for a while.

Just a week ago my mother received a message from my grandfather saying that my grandmother had died in a car accident; the car skidded off the road into the lake.  We always told her to get a new car but she wouldn’t listen, she didn’t like getting new things and she certainly didn’t like me when my mother brought me into the world.  I wasn’t a planned baby, my mother was a prom queen who got knocked up by a jock who left for college right after I was born and then we never heard from him again. I didn’t get my looks from my dad or my mum, both of them were blondes and my hair was dark brown, they were tall and I was short.

Another bump hit the car and I finally saw my grandfather’s house,  I remembered it quite differently, back when grandmother was alive there were flowers growing in front of the house and now the small garden was overgrown with weeds, the white paint from the house was slowly starting to peel off showing the wood underneath it. The trees weren’t so green as they always were, it was the beginning of summer but the leaves looked like they’ve lost the colour. Instead of nice red apples lying on the ground there were rotten apples that were circled by flies. The birds didn’t whistle as loud as they used to, either the nature was upset about Susan’s death or my brain was simply ignoring everything that ever made me smile. Everything changed in a short matter of time.

‘’Here we are!’’ my mother said cheerfully as if she didn’t care about her mother’s death at all but I knew that underneath that smile she still felt empty just as we all did. We all felt guilty for losing touch with each other and maybe if we haven’t lost touch then maybe we could all be here.

‘’Can I get your old room, Mummy? I want to play with the old dolls that you had, Can I? Please?’’ begged Aimee. I was jealous of how perfect she turned out, she had my mother’s looks whereas I didn’t look anything like her.

My mother parked the car right in front of the lake and I thought that we could have driven in it if she wasn’t more careful, After that accident I expected her to be more careful with everything but at the same time I just wanted her to let go of things. I couldn’t stand to see her hurting so much.

I stepped out of the car and looked up the hill to see the house that I haven’t visited for so long when suddenly a cold wet nose thrust into my hand.

‘’Robin! I’ve missed you buddy, how have you been?’’ I said as I was scratching behind his ear

The Old black Labrador tried to lick my face as I was trying to get some mints from my bag. He always enjoyed them when I was a kid.

‘’If you’re about to give him a treat then please don’t, the vet told us to cut down on the sweets’’ said a male voice.

I lifted my head to see a handsome boy standing behind Robin, His hair was blonde and his eyes were as grey as the moon, his jawline was the perfect shape and for some apparent reason his stare really irritated me.

‘’Oh and who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do with my grandfather’s dog?’’ I snapped at him.

‘’I see he hasn’t told you, well.. Um.. After Susan’s death he wasn’t able to take care of himself so he gave me the dog to look after’’ he said while putting his arms in his pockets.

I started into his eyes, everyone was perfectly able to talk about Susan’s death except me, I couldn’t let go of it, I felt guilty but I didn’t understand why, every time someone talked about it I felt like I was there and I couldn’t do anything about it.

I startled when my mother shut the car door.

‘’I see you’ve met Nathan’’ she said while dragging the luggage.

‘’Here let me help you with that’’ he said as he rushed up to my mother and took the luggage from her.  They walked ahead of me while I dragged my feet and looked at the lake to see the houses reflection  and instantly I knew that this was going to be a long long summer.