Strings

Chapter 21

Rose's POV

It has been a month since that night where I told Chris about my body image issues. Everything is going amazingly. Ethan is moving closer and I am so excited. The guys are auditioning for X Factor this week and I'm so excited for them.

Right now I'm laying down in Chris's bed doing my homework and attempting to get him to do the same.

"Chris come on you need to finish so you can teach me the next part of the song..." I sigh as I write down the last answer.

"Mmm..." Chris mumbles into a pillow.

I put my completed homework in my bag and lift Chris's head up from the pillow and plant a kiss on his lips.

"Do your homework." I say as I pull away.

"I finished ages ago I just wanted you to come over and kiss me..." Chris smiles. I roll my eyes playfully and move to lean back against the headboard of Chris's bed. Chris gets off his bed and grabs his guitar and sits in front of me.

He begins to sing a song I didn't recognise. His voice was so beautiful I couldn't even believe it. Chris's mum knocks on the open door causing us to give her our attention. Ingrid smiles at us.

"Jakob's here..." She says as Jake walks in with a smile. We greet him and soon Chris and Jakob begin to harmonise together. Ethan was packing for the move so he wouldn't be here till tomorrow, the day before the audition.

We all hang out until Kian picks me up, I kiss Chris goodbye before he drives us home. We all sit around the dinner table, my mum was home early for once saying she had important news.

"Alright umm... So the news I had for you guys was that your father is-"

"He's no father to me..." I glare down at my plate.

"He's here..." My mum says as my 'dad' walks in. He looked hurt as he stared at me. I stand up.

"Hi Princess I missed you..." My dad says as he looks at me. I avoid his gaze.

All the memories of me and him flashback, hurting me all over again.

"Don't call me that. I'm sorry mum I can't do this right now..." I explain as I walk right past him without another word. I shut my bedroom door with a thud and lock it. Tears already in my eyes. I was crying out of anger.

How dare my mum invite that man.... No he's not a man because if he was one he wouldn't have just left us like that. I check my phone as it buzzes. It was Ethan asking to Skype. I accept and his face pops on the screen with a smile before frowning at my state.

"What's wrong Rose?" He asks. I hear a familiar voice in the background saying is that Rose.

"My dad's back."

Ethan frowns.

"You're kidding? Why would your mum let him in?" Ethan asks.

"I don't know I left. I couldn't deal with it right now." I say as I hear a shaky knock at the door.

"I'll be back in a minute..." I say as I hang up. I open the door to see my dad standing there with a sad smile on his face. His hair was still brown except now it had little grey hairs, he wore a suit as if he was professional and his eyes were like mine.

"Can I help you or are you here to come back and ruin our lives again?"

"Rosali-"

"Please don't call me that..." I grit my teeth. He gulps.

"Rose please here me out... I made a mistake. A horrible mistake which I regretted immediately so I decided to go out and make something better of myself. And I did and I finally got a hold of your mother and she and I went out for coffee to discuss it and we are back on speaking terms." He explains. "Also I'm sorry to hear about Noah was it?"

"How dare you!" I scream. His eyes widen. "Look I don't care if you are better now you have no idea what you caused cause you were not there so don't think going out and doing charity and earning money makes up for the lack of time you were there to support me over the years! You know I didn't ever get to see mum majority of the time after you left because she was so busy working, trying to earn money for her kids."

He goes to speak but can't form a sentence.

"Of course you didn't know because, YOU. WEREN'T. THERE! Also why do you think you can bring up my Noah. You never met him because you weren't there. He was the first person I ever told about you leaving us." I say remembering the day I told Noah. He cuddled me so much and said if my dad ever came back not to hold back tell him how I feel. I said it would never happen but once I again Noah has proven me wrong. I grab my phone and a random back pack and chuck some random clothes and my wallet in it and walk down the stairs my dad following me.

"I'm sorry..." He says. I turn to him and look to see my brothers and mum walk in to see what's happening.

"No you are not, you just are pretending to be. And I do not want to be here right now. I'm gonna go to Luna's, Jake's or Chris's whichever one let's me..." I say as I walk to the door. My mum starts to protest.

"Mum please just give me time to think..." I say as I shut the door behind me and pull out my phone and open to my contacts as I hover over my favourites section.

Who should I call?

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IMPORTANT PLEASE READ NOTE:
Here's an update also please comment who should Rose call and stay with?

Chris?

Jake?

Luna?

You choose! Thanks!