Prodigal

~17~

I woke up the next morning to find my mother sitting in a chair in the living room, drinking again from a bottle of vodka.

“Mom…” I sat down to ask. “Do you even want me here?” I asked.

“I mind if you’re here.” She said.

“But you don’t care, right?” I asked.

“I see you with that girl in the pool.” Mom sputtered, referring to that picture I put on Instagram of Gabbi and I.

“What about it?” I asked.

“It’s faaaaaaa-aaake.” She sputtered. “When are you going to just admit that you’re gay?”

That hurt, and I almost starting crying. “I’m not.” I said. “But even if I was, it shouldn’t bother you. It wouldn’t, right?”

“Wha…what do you want from me Emmett? Your dad blackmailed me when I wanted to abort your ass.”

“What?” I asked in horrific hurtful shock.

“Wha you want from me? You already have one parent that loves you why don’t you just settle for that?”

And I made Dad feel like thought he didn’t love me. I felt like crap. Did I hurt him? Did I make him mad? Does he even care about me anymore? Do I now have zero parents?

I got up to leave, ready to head to the airport to get the next flight back to Australia. Australia isn’t great, and I have a lot to deal with, but I have to deal with it. I ran to Canada to escape that, but Canada is worse than Australia.

I knew in order to get back, I’d have to hack into dad’s bank accounts to transfer money to my international debit card I brought the trip. That we he wouldn’t know I’d be coming home right away; I wouldn’t have to call him. I took money from the account with all my modeling money Dad set aside. (And when I say I “hacked” the account, I use the word loosely because all Dad’s passwords are either my name or my birthday.)

I had stolen money from Dad (which, technically, was my money) to come to Canada then stole more to come back to Australia.

Dad had left millions of texts and calls to me, all of which I ignored.

“Mom, did you drink when you were pregnant with me?” I asked. She didn’t respond. “Never mind, I don’t want to know the answer."

Notes

Just a gentle reminder that Emmett's mom is supposed to be Arzaylea.
Also damn I forgot that this is the chapter I drop the abortion bombshell.

So I've covered two controversial subjects today: 1.) Arzaylea and 2.) abortion
YAY!