• What Mommy Didn't Say

    It’s never been this quite in the house before. Usually it is filled with the chatter and laughter of many people but now it only echoes with silence. Silence that speaks every truth I’m too afraid to say out loud.

    Everyone is gone now, they’re to afraid to be near me anymore, I guess I can’t blame them; after what happened I’m afraid to be alone myself as well. I’ve been sitting on the floor in the middle of the living room for about five hours now I want to get up and do something productive, but I lack the energy to do anything but blink, breath, and think.

    Suddenly I hear the front door swing open and I am filled with hope; maybe someone doesn’t hate me, maybe they’ve come back to see if I’m okay, maybe they’ve come back to help me. I turn around to see who had walked in and find myself staring back at my older sister.

    Before I can stutter out any sort of greeting she says, “I’m only here to get the rest of Shawn’s things,” and walks off. Of course I should have known the minute I saw it was Amber, she had the strongest reaction to what happened. I slowly uncurled myself from the ball I had been sitting in for the last five hours and walked threw the kitchen to where Shawn’s room is…was.

    “So how is everyone?” I asked softly. Amber whipped around and gave me a fierce glare, “How the hell do you think they’re doing Kay they just found out that their daughter has been lying to them for years,” she spat. I flinched away from her not liking the harsh words on my sweet big sisters lips; I knew I deserved them but it didn’t lessen the sting.

    Amber finished packing the rest of my son’s things in a matter of minutes and without giving me another look rushed to the door. I stopped her before she could exit my apartment, “I know what I did was wrong but I never meant it to get out,” I say.

    She jerked her arm out of my hand and with out looking at me she began to shout, “So you were just never going to say anything?!? You were just gonna stand by and just continue to let it just happen? You disgust me Kathryn,” and with that she was out the door and out of my life.

    Closing my eyes I sighed and sat once more in the middle of the living room curled up in a ball. Is it her fault that her family hated her? Yes, she answered herself, it is but not entirely my fault, I couldn't’t tell them it would have been to dangerous.

    I couldn't’t tell them that the man that I have known all my life, who they trusted and loved as much as I did, was a murderer and a wizard. They wouldn’t understand, they didn’t understand, yes Nathaniel killed that man but only because he hurt me. He was protecting me so I am protecting him; my family had really loved Cedric they don’t know about the things he did to me they still don’t.

    It’s another thirty minutes before Nathaniel shows up at the door and lets himself in; of course he had a key no matter where I lived. He walked in and muttered a curse as he effortlessly lifted me into his arms. “Come on Kay lets get you ready to go get your kids back.”