Chapter 20
1111 Words
Elaine's POV
I'm sitting in the back of a taxi, heading god knows were.
I haven't shead a single tear.
I still feel like everything that happened earlier tonight was nothing more than just an bad dream.
I'm brought back by the sudden jerk of the taxi stopping.
"Miss, were here"
I hear him say, and when I look up at the house, I suddenly feel sick.
It's my mom's house.
I've only heard my father speak of this place and seen it in pictures.
I remembered my father told me when I was around 15,that 5years after she had left us she had turned her life around and had gotten remarried.
He never mentioned any children and I never asked.
"sorry sir, but are you sure this is the address I gave you?"
The driver types something on his GPS than asks me to repeat the adress.
"yes, miss this is it."
I sit in the dark contemplating whether or not I should go in, but seeing that I have no where els to go, I ask him to wait.
I left without noting...
No bag, no phone, no money.
Walking up to the front door I pick my hand up to ring the door bell.
I feel very sick right now remembering what this women did to me.
To my surprise the door opened before I could even ring the bell.
As soon as I see my mom I froze.
It seems to me like she knew I was coming.
She wrapped me into her arms before I could even say anything.
I look over her shoulder still incomplete shock, than I see a tall man with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a strong aura head out past us.
I hear the taxi leaving before seeing the man return.
My mother pulled away from me for a bit staring at me before embracing me again.
This time I started crying uncontrollably and cling to her like a Small child.
Assuming the man is her husbamd, I feel his hand on my back helping me and my mom, now both crying in each others embrace into the house before closing the door behind us.
We sit in the living room for what feels like hours not leaving each other's embrace even for a second.
With my head reasting on my mother's chest I can hear her heart beating, it was very frantic at first but the more I calmed down the more her heart beat slowed down as well.
When I finally look up our eyes meet and the look in her eyes isn't the one I remembered, it was soft, and calm.
,"my baby's finally all grown up." I hear her say before she kissed the front of my head placings my head back on her chest and at this moment I feel as if we were never apart.
My mother's husband comes into the living room with a tray of tea and biscuit.
He plaed it down and was about to leave," Jack, this is my Elaine."
,, "Elaine this is my husband."
I now look at Jack and I see the same look in eyes as the one I saw earlier in my mother's.
I finally understood that he must be the reason for her change and when he heads over I jumped up and I hug him without any hesitation.
"Thank you, uncle Jack."
He looked at me with complete shock.
" May I ask for what I deserve a your thank, young girl"
I look up at him, with tears in my eyes.
"For saving my mother's life, when no one else's could."
I had heard alot of things about my mother from my father's family and they were always bad, my father never spoke ill of my mother infront of me, and instead told me that even though I wouldn't have remember, because I was so young, my mother had gone to the drug and alcohol Rehabilitation center numerous time before finally she and my father got divorced.
He always told me that I shouldn't blame her for what had happened to me as a child because at that time she was barely 21 when she had me so due to her age she was still immature and couldn't handel the pressure of being a mother and a wife.
He always blamed himself for being away on business trips saying if he had been around more often things would have been different.
We stopped talking about these things once my nightmares had stopped.
The psychologists felt I had recovered from my past so I was cured and suggested my farther not to bring up the past again.
And that was it.
After spending almost a week with my mom I finally asked her how she knew I was coming here that day.
"your father called me in a panic explaining what had happened to you and told me he was sure you would be heading to me, so I waited praying for your safety the whole time."
She seems to have read my mind when she answered my next question with me even asking.
" yes, my baby girl, don't worry I called your father the minute I saw the taxi outside that night. "
I felt relieved knowing my father knew I was safe but than I got scared thinking about the fact that he might have told Noah.
"Dont worry I asked him not to tell anyone where you are, not even his wife."
I couldn't believe this was Trish, my mother the woman I had hated all my life.
She was reading my mind like an open book, and I guess that was why she was my mother, because only they can hear your deepest most inner thoughts without you even saying a word. This reminds me of Aunt Lin.
She was the only other person who could read me like this.
Over the next few weeks I had spoken to mom and Jack about me living with them and they were over the moon.
I decided to go over to dad's with mom to collect my things before school start next week.
I needed to get away from my father and Aunt Lin and Noah.
I felt it was their influence that made me accept Noah's feelings even when I could clearly feel something was wrong.
Mom told me that she would go over alone with Jack because she had things to discuss with my dad.
I couldn't be happier knowing I wouldn't have to take a chance to see Noah by accident.
I wasn't ready to see him, not yet anyway.
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