Everything Is Alright: Chapter 15 ||Jemi Love Story||

[Fake Smiles]
Demi's POV
There was silence for a couple of seconds, and I peeked around the corner just in time to see Joe grab Selena by her arms tightly. He pulled her close to her, their bodies touching, and lowered his face so it was only inches from her.
Something poked at my stomach. Confusion. Anger.
"As much as you don't want to believe it," His voice was hard, almost with no emotion but enough emotion to get the point through, "I love Michael. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, it doesn't matter. He's my son too-as young as we are and as hard as you find that to believe-and I love him."
I heard Selena suck in a sharp breath, and peeked around the corner quickly again to see Joe release her with some type of force, almost sending her to the ground. Her arms still had the print that his fingers left, and she looked stunned. For a while they stood there, staring at each other. Battling each other's resistance out. But partly, Selena seemed to still be recovering from what just happened, from what Joe just told her.
I pressed myself harder against the wall when they started speaking again.
"Ok," Selena sighed, "Ok." Her voice broke.
"Don't cry." Joe said, a slight annoyance in his voice.
"I'm sorry." She croaked. "I don't know what I was thinking. I'm sorry."
"I forgive you."
There were no more words then, and I didn't dare peek inside this time to see what they were doing. Instead, I turned around and headed towards my room.
My safe place. Where I didn't have to listen to other's conversations, where I didn't have to prove myself to anyone or restrain my true needs. Where I didn't have to do anything.
Where it was just...quiet.

I should know, know better than anyone else, that quiet doesn't last long. Soon enough, after an hour of just lying on my bed playing with the many bracelets on my wrist and staring up at the ceiling, noises started to occur. The familiar sound of dinner being prepared-the bustling of pots and pans mixed with the sizzling of the stove and the silverware clanging together as the table's being set. The regular murmurs of my parents talking about how their day went, how their daughters are doing, and how they're going to pay the bills this month. Same old thing every night, every month, every year.
Except, this time, there was something different. Crying. Well...more like wailing.
Michael. He was new. The new sound added to the effect, mixing in with everything else gradually...along with the sounds of shushing and crooning and begging to just be quiet for ONE SECOND done by Selena.
"Demi! Dinner!" Mom yelled up the stairs, perfect timing. I sighed as I pulled myself up off of the bed and lazily stumbled my way downstairs.
Of course, Joe had already gone home, after discussing that he would only come over in the afternoon to help with Michael then around 7:00 he would go home, just when the sun was setting.
I sat down in my usual seat, on the left side of the table next to Selena as Mom and Dad settled themselves across from us.
"How was your day girls?" Dad asked, smiling brightly at us. The sad thing was that Dad usually had no idea what was going between the 3 of us, and to be honest, we mostly faked it around him.
So just like any other night, Selena and I faked it. We smiled our lying smiles at him, the ones that hid all the secrets and all the drama that was going on when he unaware and in our best "everything's good" voices we said,
"Fine."
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I'm not really stumped on TY&TH, I just don't know how to write this certain part. So I guess I'll be uploading that around Saturday? :\
Don't worry, I hate Finals too. :)
Jocelyn

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