I stood in my doorway, looking over the threshold,
My whole life as I knew it, was about to change. The devastation of what was happening was about to hit me. I stepped into my room and walked the perimeter. I brushed my hand across the cheap, wood draws that Aunt Steph bought me when we moved in. I stepped across the thread bare used-to-be-pink carpet I'd had since 6. I checked my bedside table for things left behind, I got that just last year! I looked out the dirty window at the view that had worked itself into my mind over the years, never to leave. I felt a lump in my throat. I just realised, I really didn't want to leave! I sat cross-legged where my bed used to be and put my face in my hands.
I don't know how long it was until my mum found me but she yanked me up, painfully, by my arm and was yelling things. I don't know what it was, I was too dazed to concentrate. She pulled me through the apartment and ranted and raved. All the while tears were spilling down my face, over my fat cheeks and dripping off my pudgy chin. She let go of my arm at the door and said, a bit more softly. "Go say goodbye to your Dad." My head whipped up at the comment but she was gone before I could get a word in.
I blinked away the remaining tears and wiped the evidence from my face. My Dad came from the hall leading to the bedrooms. His hands were shoved in his pockets, face to the floor, unshaven. "Bye, then" I turned to leave but he grabbed me by the shoulder. "I've hardly ever spoken to you, Ellie. I know you don't feel that we're that close but I wish I'd had more time to make that better. Your my only child and it will probably stay that way-"
"You'll find someone Dad!"
He snorted. "Not looking like this!"
I smiled and looked down at the floor, the tears were on their way, again. "I love you, Ellie. Don't you ever forget that!" I burst into tears and collided with him. He smelt like soap and aftershave. He hugged me back gave a long sigh.
"Goodbye, my beautiful daughter."
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