Lost After Midnight

•Beating The Tree•

{•Edited•}
                         ~Amor's POV~

      Everyone looks at me when I come back inside. Zane is sitting on my dad's lap with her arms wrapped tightly around him as she glares at my birth mom, claiming what's hers. From what I know, my birth mom doesn't know how to keep her hands off what's not hers. My dad looks bored and tired, looking around the room like he's never been in here before.
     "Who was that?" My mom asks.
     "Adriel," I answer. She grins, happy that I'm finally being social with other people other than Nina who is family.
    "Who's that?" My birth mom asks. I sit back down, placing my hands on my knees to keep them from bouncing.
   "So-"
   "Her boyfriend," Zane says, smiling widely. My dad glares at her, not liking the sound of that.
    "He's not my boyfriend; we're just friends," I say. "Anyways though, why are you here?" I ask. She turns to face me more.
    "I wanted to see you. You couldn't get dinner a few weeks ago, so I just thought I'd stop by to see you."  Her heart is in the right place, maybe, but I didn't want to see her.
     "I'm sorry about that, I was busy," I say.
    "I know this is last minute, but I was wondering if you wanted to come back with me earlier this time?" She says, sounding extremely hopeful. I look back, my mom and dad. They look as shocked as I do. "I knew if I talked to you guys about this before, you'd refuse."
    "Yeah," my dad says angrily. My mom rubs his arm, trying to calm him. "She's not supposed to leave for another two weeks. That's against our agreement."
    "I don't want to go anyways," I say. They all look at me. "Like at all. I-I'm fine with you visiting, but I don't feel comfortable leaving here right now. It's best for me to stay close to my friends and my therapist. I'm not okay right now."
    "You're fine," she says. I look away from her, sighing. My mom and I lock eyes. Jax has always been like this with me. I can never show weakness in front of her unless she acts like that's all I am. "You don't need therapy for the last time."
    "You're never around her enough to know that," my dad tells her. "I wake up in the middle of the night and her light is still on in her room cause she can't sleep because of her anxiety. I hear her crying and can't do shit about it, and know that if I try to help she'll feel worse. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to send her to school because I know she can't handle big crowds. She sometimes goes days at a time without eating because of her depression. So don't fucking tell her she doesn't need help."
     "Well maybe if you helped her a little mo-"
    "I do everything I can!"
    "Stop!" I yell, tears escaping my eyes. "I'm not leaving with you; I need to stay here. And until you start being a decent parent don't tell him how to parent." I get up and walk to the door.
    "Where are you going?" Zane after me.
    "Next door."
    •••••••
    
        I've been whacking this tree with a bread roller for the past twenty-five minutes to take out my emotions. No luck has come with it, I still feel just as shitty as I did today at school when Adriel lost it with me. His whole explanation is still running through my mind and he's right; it's making me think too much.
      He might be a cocky, inappropriate, jerk, but he doesn't deserve what he gets. His behavior from the first time I met him finally made sense. My feelings for him are all jumbled up in a huge mess; part of me wants to be around him, so I can relax even the smallest bit, and the other part doesn't want to let him off the hook so easily.
     "If you break my bread roller, I'm going to cry," a deep voice says. I turn around to see Zurine. If there's any other person who has helped me as much as my dad and Dr.Luz have it's him. From the time I was very little, he would spend time with me, not caring that there was no blood relation. He was the first person who ever realized something was wrong with me and forced me to come out about it.
     "Sorry," I say. "It's been a hectic day."
     "Spill the tea."
     "The boy I kind of maybe like was a jerk to me out of nowhere, my mom showed up here unexpectedly, Jerk Face came over to explain himself, my mom started talking about how she wants me to leave early with her and that I don't need therapy. Then my mom and dad started fighting, so I'm here now beating the tree with your bread roller."
    He blinks dramatically, biting his lip. "Beat the tree all you want, I have a spare roller hidden."

AN: Finally got some Zurine in here, very much needed cause we all love him. I'm trying to come up with a ship name for Adriel and Amor, I'm leaning tired Amriel, but I'm not sure yet. Jax is still stuck on her bitchy ways and Zane takes no chances of Ever leaving her grasp 😂 I really hope you guys enjoyed it!
     Question: What would you like to see happen with Adriel and Amor? What side of him would you like to see? Protective, seductive, etc.?
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