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I cheer and pull her in for a hug, all of my dreams coming true at once. I don’t know how this is going to work, it could be absolutely mental, but I’m really looking forward to finding out.Chapter 14 – Kayla“What are you doing?” I cry out to myself as I speed along the road with my window wide open, the cool air washing over me as I go. “This is crazy, absolutely crazy, and I love it.”
Tim has completely turned my life upside down and made me see so many other things and I’m really not ready for it to end, which is why I can’t wait for the summer of fun. There’s no pressure, no stress, just driving and seeing the country. With him, the man who I am falling hard for. I can’t help myself. I mean, this could all be just because he’s the first person I have kissed and slept with as well. There is no getting away from the emotional attachment that will come with that, but perhaps a few weeks together will show us that and we can part without any regrets. I can get back on the right path knowing that it’s where I need to be.
It’s perfect. A scarily perfect suggestion and I can’t wait to get going. But I know that my mother won’t feel the same way. She’s going to have some serious issues with my plan which is why I have told Tim to give me twenty four hours before he comes to pick me up, just so I can smooth things over. I don’t want to leave with things on bad terms with my mother because she’s the only family that I have, and I am grateful to her.
But it will be one discussion where I get her to see my way of thinking and then I’ll be running off in to the sun set. Then my life will be turned around once more. Most people go on a ‘finding themselves’ mission and this will be mine. I won’t be able to learn who I am under my mother’s watching gaze and in a law firm office, but as I have already proven with how I’ve opened myself up with Tim, with him I can.
“I feel so good,” I laugh loudly, feeling like a wild person. “I feel comfortable, I feel free.”
When I think about the dance floors, the dates, last night in the motel room bed, I can’t help but smile. Yep, that was me, wasn’t it? It showed me that I can be more than I have always been before hand.
The happiness doesn’t even subside as I get closer to home. Usually, the closer that I am to my mother, the more anxiety I feel, but today I’m still buzzing, flying high on the way that Tim has made me feel. I can’t stop thinking of that gorgeous man, the one who I thought was an angel or a God when I first saw him… to have a man that good looking wanting to be with me is just phenomenal. I’m so lucky.
“I’m home!” I call out, allowing my happiness to shine through as I step through the front door. I don’t think the reality of the situation has even scraped through my brain yet. “Mom, are you here?”
And then she appears with a big black cloud hanging over her head. Her mood is thick with rage, and it causes my insides to sink a little bit. I must have forgotten how bad it is to be near her when she’s angry but now that I’m here again it has all come violently screaming back, shocking me to the core.
“Why has it taken you so long to get back here?” she growls as her arms fold across her chest.
“Because of my car… I couldn’t… get it fixed quick enough,” I stammer awkwardly, returning to the anxiety ridden girl who I have always been in a heart beat as if all that time with Tim meant nothing at all. “The guys at the garage did it as quickly as they could but they had to wait for a part to come in.”
“You look like you’ve been drinking.” Her disapproval tears all the way through me. “Who are you?”
“Mom, I’m twenty two years old. I’m an adult. If I want to go out, then I will. It wasn’t like I had anything else to do.” Oh God, where the hell did that come from? I haven’t ever been so brave before and that shows in the shock on my mother’s face. “I just… I had a hard time, so I met up with a friend.”
“A friend?” She’s actually shocked that I might have a friend. “What friend? And if I find out that you messed up that job interview which I worked so hard to get for you because of alcohol then I will be furious…”
