To Call My Own

Chapter Four

"Sweetie, did you have a nice time?" My mom questioned, setting a steaming mug of my favourite peppermint tea on the table.

Eagerly I snatched up the warm mug, rubbing it between my hands to warm them. I smiled down at it as the memories flashed through my mind of earlier this evenining.

"I did, I really did." I told her, my voice was confident and for the first time I felt I was telling her the entire truth.

"Mila, I don't know what happened between you and Piper, but something tells me it was big." My mom said, taking a seat across from me at the table. Her statement was supposed to prompt me to explain everything that had happened. But I didn't have it in me to re live every moment. But she deserved to know the truth.

"It's just lately, she hasn't been treating me well." I quietly replied.

At this statement, my mom became even more aware. I could tell by her sudden change in posture, she had turned on her protective instincts.

"Sweetheart, I had no idea." She answered, reaching across the table for my hand. The sudden moment of emotion and vulnerableness made me feel like I was going to spill open. I hadn't had a good talk with my mom in so long, she had no idea what was going on in my life. "What's been going on?" She asked.

"Jada." I replied, a cool tear rolling down my cheek as I tried to fight it off. "And to make things worse, now Jada is back." I finished, more tears falling down.

My mom's face looked almost as hurt as mine was. My mom loved Bea and I one hundred times more than she loved herself. When someone hurt on of us, they did it to my mom.

We sat there talking for over an hour. Just talking about Piper and Jada and everything that had been going on. I let every little detail out about everything that had happened. I didn't leave anything out.

But slowly the conversation switched. Both of us had enough of talking about people who didn't deserved to be cared about. She started off with asking me about West. A tiny smile emerged onto my face as I told her how kind he had been to me, and his large personality and sense of humour. I told her how nice it was to have a change of pace in friends.

Then I told her about the rest of the gang that I had met. I talked about Brynn's bubbly and outgoing personality and Kent and Michael's obscurity. It felt good to talk about it again. But I only hoped that it wouldn't be the last time I got to spend time with them. I was starting to think of them as my own friends.

I lie in bed that night, replaying everything that had happened. And I only hoped I would get to feel that way again. Feeling like you belong without having to change anything about yourself.

The next morning when I awoke, I got a text from a girl that I sat next to in Chemistry. We talked and occasionally studied after school together, so I suppose we were sort of friends. But Piper never liked her, so we never spent too much time together outside of class.

Her text was inviting me to the school first home game of the season, she wanted me to come with her, her sister and her sister's boyfriend. I instantly replied yes, I never missed a hockey home opener.

I was completely ready to start a new chapter of my life and embrace new people, and that was a very hard thing to. But it was time. Eventually you have to walk away, just walk away.

On the way to school, I tried my best to try to think positive. I wasn't going to let two girls ruin my life when there were billions of other amazing people on this earth. They didn't deserve the satisfaction. Besides, I hoped with all my heart an apology would be coming from Piper.