CHAPTER TWO
….. “Well please tell me again because I don’t seem to remember you telling me”, said Hilary half crying, half pleading with Liola.
Liola looked at he mother and took a deep breathe in “Ok mum you want me to tell you, well then I will tell you –“
“Wait”, said Hilary “Just lets go inside the house, its our first day, well night and we standing out on the lawn and yelling at each other, imagine what the neighbours will think of us”. she let a deep breathe out “lets just go nside and settle down and have this talk”, said Hilary.
“No, mum im sick of you caring about what everybody thinks about us”, said Liola. “We have issues mum, you have got to accept that we are not normal, okay and I am tired of keeping this all bunched up, I am gonna tell you everything now on our new lawn with tears trickling down my face and the neighbours peeping through their curtains, thinking that I cant see them. No mum I don’t care I am going to tell you now”, said Liola, her heart thumping so hard and so loud, her breathes uneven and her eyes full of rage and anger.
“Ever since this divorce thing happened my whole life changed, but did you care, noooo you were just to busy worring about yourself, you never cared, I have had a hard life mum, and I have lived through it better than most people did, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke, like most children in situation do. Then you decide to move, because you want to get rid of your past, did you ever think about me and how it was going to effect me? did you think about all my friends and how I was going to adapt to living some place new and goingi nto a new school, huh?” Liola took a breathe in, and carried on.
“But because I knew you really did want to move I didn’t make a fuss, and I thought that It could not be all that bad, but then you go and buy a new house and expect me to be all excitd about it, mum we have just moved I am still getting used to the idea of New York and a life without dad, and you suddenly go out of the blue and buy a new house, and in not any one of these decisions you never consulted me, never asked me about my opinion. Well guess what mum I’ve had it, I have been so patient with you and dad, I have been undestanding. But do you want to know how I feel, I feel unloved and unwanted, I mean I know what you guys must have been thinking, how life and the divorce would be so easy if I was not born, well sometimes I WISH THAT I WAS NOT BORN”, Liola screamed the last part out, and knelt on the wet grass and cried her heart out.
Liola managed to dry up her tears and say “how is all the furniture going to come huh?” and with that she ran into the house. it was cold and had the smell of an untouched house, to her surprise all the furniture from the old house was already there neatly set out, her bed was there along with the duvets ready to be slept on , Liola did not even care to wash her face she just jumped onto her bed and closed her eyes and prayed that she would dream of something other than her life!
Meanwhile outside still on the lawn, Hilary sat weeping to herself, she whispered to herself “everything was supposed to be perfect, but obviously that is not an option for our family”. And with that got up and entered the house.