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I Shouldn't Feel This Way- Chapter 1
Date: 6/8/2015, Categories: Taboo, Author: SweetestSins, Rating: 12, Source: LushStories
certainly wasn’t. “Yeah, that’s fine.” I didn’t want to beat around the bush. “Mom, I need to talk to you.” “What’s up?” She started putting some groceries away in the fridge. “It’s about Noah.” Might as well get straight to the point, I thought. “You know I don’t like to discuss your father,” she said. “He called earlier.” The eggs suddenly dropped and cracked around my mother’s feet. “Shoot! I didn’t mean to do that!” She looked at me with a worried expression on her face. “Could you pass me a rag?” I could feel this awkward tension creeping up on us, and it was making me uneasy. “I want to know exactly what happened between you two,” I said as I crouched down to the floor and helped her gather the broken eggshells. “Aria, I told you, we were a couple of crazy teens in love. I got pregnant with you, and he ran away from his responsibilities.” She wiped the laminate floor, cleaning the egg yolk before standing. “You didn’t tell me why.” “ Why ?” Mom repeated. “How should I know? Probably because of his psychotic family.” “How come you never talk about them?” “Because it’s a painful part of my past, and you were way too young to sit down and have a discussion about it.” “I’m not ‘way too young’ anymore. I’m seventeen and mature enough to know the truth.” “What did he want? How did he get this number?” “I don’t know—I was too angry to let him speak. I pretty much told him to go to hell.” “Good. I would’ve done the same.” She rinsed the towel in the sink and washed her ...