Mom is Leaving Again
Lenora POV
Lenora POV
The cool wind blew in through the window that I had cracked open as I sat at my desk. I couldn’t bring myself to sleep yet, it had been 6 months since the accident and I had been given a leave of absence at school, but it was time to go back. I hadn’t wanted to go back in fact I had prayed every night the past month that I would find an excuse to not go.
I walked down stairs looking at the framed pictures of my once beautiful family. I could hear the snores of my mother Lena, who was laid out on the couch with lines of coke on the coffee table. I knew why she chose drugs after dad died, but I just wish she wouldn’t leave them out.
My younger brother Kolton was on a blanket on the floor, he was only 4 and had been through so much. The accident left him mute the doctors say it is from the trauma, but I wasn’t entirely sure. There was something that felt wrong with that explanation.
Picking him up, I took him to my room. The last thing I needed was for him to wake up and him to get into Lena’s drugs. and curled up with him, drifting off to sleep.
“Wake up!” I could hear my mother hollering from downstairs. I jolted up seeing Kolt still in my arms. I sighed in relief. Having him down there when she first wakes up is never a good idea. Her anger is explosive and she will take it out on anyone in her way.
The door opened to my room swiftly, “I left you money in the safe, I’m gonna be gone for the next few days. I'm taking Kolt so get him ready.”
“Where are you going?” I questioned as I gently woke up my brother. He pushed my hands from his scrunched up face.
“To Lucy’s,” Lena replied, turning around. “Have him ready in 30 minutes.”
Lucy was a good woman and she held our family together after the accident. I felt that Kolt would be safe so I didn’t mind it. I ran him a bath and sat him in the tub. “You’re gonna go on a trip with mom kiddo,” I smiled softly and plopped some bubbles on his head. He gave me a grumpy face but I didn’t want to speak about it any longer. I finished cleaning him up and got him in a fresh shirt and pants.
I could see the scars along his abdomen and I gritted my teeth. The accident had altered our bodies so much that it made me worried about his future. Packing him a bag was an easy task, a couple of each item and his little snow bunny stuffed animal that he said looked like me and it was done.
I could see fear in Kolt’s eyes after I closed the bag up/ “You’ll be back soon,” I promised him, but he shook his head. “I’ll video call you every night and make sure you’re okay.” I tried to reason with him and he gave me a small sad nod.
“Oh stop, he’ll be fine,” Lena huffed as she came into my room, picking him and the bag up quickly walking out of the door. I hurried after them wanting to make sure he was buckled correctly in the car. “Everything is going to be okay,” I whispered to myself as I waved bye from the open door as they drove out of my sight. I could help but feel slightly nervous, when Lena went off on one of her trips the time frame was never a sure thing. Sometimes it’s only a day, other times it’s a month.
I shuddered as wind quipped around, looking like a cold front had come in through the night of Woodstock, Vermont. Closing the door as the sun just peaked overhead.
I went back to my room and finished getting ready for school pulling on a pair of fleeced lines black tights and an oversized black hoodie that had a white bunny on the back. I pulled my hair into a high ponytail, the natural blonde beginning to pop out from me not touching up the black color I had in. I quickly drew on some cat winged eyeliner and put on a nude pink lipstick. You wouldn’t be able to tell how my body actually looked when I dressed like this and I wanted it that way.
I had curves in all the right places even if I didn’t have a flat stomach it all balanced out, my breasts were at a Triple D and my hips and thigh would make an adult actress blush. The problem was my back had been pretty banged up from the accident. The doctors told me it would be about a year for me to be at full strength again. The scars that line my body from surgeries were disgusting and I couldn’t stand the sight of them. I sighed looking at my soft gray eyes in the mirror, my dad always said they looked like storm clouds because I held the world on my shoulders.
I didn’t mean to do that, to be the person to make sure everyone was okay, but I felt the need to. Everyone in my life I would go out of my way to fix or help, my dad said it was a good quality to have but after I turned 7 he began to try to teach me that it was okay to just leave things as they were, and to not have to help everyone. I didn’t like it, it didn’t feel fair that my life was perfect and they were suffering, though I guess I should’ve been more selfish and I wouldn’t be in the situation that I am in.
I grabbed my bag, my spine already aching from the cold front, but I popped a Tylenol 3 into my mouth and decided to truck on. Thankfully I was still on track to graduate and found a homeschool program that I signed up for. I just needed to get through this week and I’d be able to unenroll myself from the god forsaken school I was currently at. I knew what I’d be facing when I got there today and god damn it did I not want to deal with it.
“It’s okay suck it up, only five days,” I put on a brave face in the mirror and walked out of the house.