Don't leave, please

chapter 4

Alyssa

My life was really boring before I

met Scott. I stay with my mum since

the divorce between mum and dad.

They use to love each other so

much, I always wanted to have

something like that I always fantasized about it.

But things started going wrong

when mum was at the peak of her

career, she was good at her job yeah.

she was a lawyer, dad was a

business man. He travels alot, I

barely saw him while growing up.

Sometimes I feel that was the

problem in their relationship, I

mean, from the perfect relationship

they had, I can remember them

making dinner together and mum

laughing at all his lame jokes.

sometimes I joined them laughing

because of how mum always laugh s

even if what he says isn't exactly

funny, watching her laugh was

always funny. But they were happy

and they loved each other. Not

until dad started traveling for

business deals, and sometimes he

comes back late at night, after

spending two weeks there, and the

next day, he's out again. they

started quarrelling alot when his

around, and it became too much.

mum decided to follow up her

career, and that was it for me. I had

only one friend, Avery, she was the

only

friend I had, but I couldn't bother

her with my family problems.

so I was always by myself.

Dad would go on business trips,

mum would come home late at

night. so I was always alone.

though Avery wanted to always

know what was wrong with me, but

I couldn't tell her.

One day dad came back from his

trip , and mum welcomed him with

divorce papers. they had so many

arguments after that, but after all

the arguments, they still divorced.

That period I didn't exist, they

didn't care about me, I was their

daughter for goodness sake,

but they were both heartbroken to care about me. so I was

always in my room. Dad left the house.

And I stayed with my mum five

years. it was until my senior year

that I decided to go stay with my

dad.

It took awhile before she accepted

for me to move, but I wanted to

spend time with my dad. before college.

Plus I missed him alot, though we

talk on phone, and he sometimes

comes to check up on me, I still

missed him. That means I had to

change schools, I wasn't ready

for the change, but I needed my

dad too. so when I got here to

London, it was strange for me,

since I've spent all my like in Chicago, with my parents, then my

mum. Moving here was difficult,

with the fact that I was leaving my

only friend behind. I suck at making friends so I wasn't really

having any intention of making friends.

so when I got here. They were

some changes dad made. Though

still traveled alot, but he had time

for me, and times when he couldn't

make it, he always tries to bribe me

with giftes. like the one he missed

my birthday dinner we planned, it

was my seventeenth birthday, and

he missed it. I was so mad, and

when he came back, he bought me

a car as a birthday gift.

Mum sent money to me, that I

should get any thing I wanted. If

there's anything I knew my mother

hated was having to get gifts for

someone, she never knows what to

get, so she ends up sending

money to them. But I was her

daughter or God sake. I made her

promise to get a gift next time,

which I knew she still wouldn't get

anything.

so dad bought a car for me, and

still took me out for dinner. i was

really happy for the car. At least I

could drive myself to school.

My new school is not compared to

my old school. Am scared I won't

fit in. I'll just be in my shell then.

That was till I met Scott or rather

he met me.