Broken

Chapter 21

Lydia

The warm sunlight shines on my face waking me up. I don't want to get up so I just lay on my bed with my eyes closed.

What a mess I've made. Bringing the kid with me. What if he ran away while I slept.

I open my eyes slightly. He's not on the bed. He's sitting on a chair nearby with a paper in hand and Dialing numbers on the telephone.

Feeling relieved that he's still here, I try to go back to sleep.

WAIT...

My eyes shoot open and I quickly jump off the bed, falling down and hurting my arm in the process. Ow...

"You ok?" Liam asks looking at me while I try to stand up.

Walking over to him, I snatch away the receiver and put it back on the phone.

"What do you think you were doing!?" I snarl at him.

He seems a bit shaken by my outburst and hands the paper he was holding to me.

"I...got hungry so I wanted to order room service." He says looking away.

I sigh and look at the time as I calm myself down.

"When did you wake up?" I ask him, Looking at the menu on the paper.

"An hour ago I think" he gets off the chair and goes into the living room. It's big with violet and black furniture, white marble floor with a large purple rug and lavender coloured walls. It seems he was busy playing with his new toys.

"Liam, if you're ever hungry or want to call room service then you tell me ok? Don't do it yourself." I say to him as I walk over to the vanity table and take off my wig and wig cap, Letting go of my long hair. My head feels so free now that it's untied.

"Ok," he replies.

"So, what do you wanna eat?" I walk over to the telephone and look at the menu.

"Pancakes!" he yells excitedly.

I order pancakes and mango juice for him and scrambled eggs with toast and black coffee for me.

It was really hectic last night when we came home. After reaching the hotel it had already started to drizzle. Since I had lied to Liam that I had toys in my room, I had to actually run to a nearby store with him and buy a few toys along with some clothes from a retail store. Upon entering the hotel Liam was mesmerised by the luxurious and beautiful lobby of the hotel. He was running everywhere and wanted to touch everything from the flowers, Status, lights to the small fountain at the corner. After much effort of dragging him into the elevator, we went up to my room. I guess we were both very tired since as soon as I opened the door, he rushed to my bed and laid down. I too just fell on the bed and slept without changing or taking off the wig.

"When is the food gonna come?" He comes back into the bedroom with a superhero action figure in hand. I see he had already changed his clothes when he woke up.

"Soon. Just gotta wait." I tell him as go sit on the sofa. I pick up my phone and check for any messages. 6 miss calls from Zane. What's this about?

"What happened to your hair? It was a different colour" I hear Liam talking as he stares at my blonde hair. Oh right, totally forgot about that.

"That was a wig." I say.  Zane has messaged me too.

"What's a wig?" He asks curiously.

"Fake hair. People wear it sometimes when they don't have time to take care of their hair but wanna look nice when going out." I joke with a grin and point towards the wig on top of my vanity table.