Wild

*Flashback*
It was late. At least one in the morning when she came home. She walked into the house giggling as a random man started to kiss her. I was sitting in the living room watching tv at the time and they hadn’t noticed me yet, but not for long. I was pissed. No. I was BEYOND pissed. How dare she cheat on my father while he was off risking his life every day as a cop. And with someone she didn’t even know.
“Hey!” I yelled, catching their attention.
“Babe, who’s the kid?” the man asked.
“Nobody. Just ignore her” My mother answered.
“How could you do this to Dad while he’s off risking his life on the streets as a cop! You cheating whore!” I screamed.
“Wait, you’re married?” the man asked.
“I-I...No! She’s lying! David, please”
“No. I don’t cheat. Especially with a cop’s wife, and with a kid. What the hell is wrong with you?!” He stormed out of the house and sped off in his car.
My mother turned to me with fury in her eyes.
“You little bitch! I knew you were a mistake! Why can’t you be a good daughter like everyone else!!?”
“Why?! So you can cheat on dad again?! By the way, I’ll be telling him about you sleeping around when he gets home tonight!”
Her hand connected with my cheek, nails drawing blood. Tears fell from my eyes at the burning sensation.
“You are the worst mistake I’ve made. Go ahead. Tell your father. I won’t be here. I’m going to find myself a better husband and an obedient daughter. One who isn’t like you. Who isn’t ugly, or a complete waste of space” I watched as she packed her bags and stormed out of the house.
The second she pulled away I broke down crying. Matt showed up a few minutes later and found me sitting against the wall crying my eyes out.
“Emily?! What happened to you?!” he asked worriedly as he looked at my cheek.
I didn’t answer him. I couldn’t. Her words were still ringing in my head. Adding to years upon years of bullying and name calling that I had been subjected to both at school and at home. I was broken...
~.:o:.~


“Emily! Darling! Give mummy a hug” I tensed as she pulled me into her arms.
Mummy? Since when did she decide she wanted anything to do with me? And who the hell is that girl with her? She looked about my age with blond hair and blue eyes. I was absolutely shocked and she took the chance to push past me into the house. I quickly snapped out of it and rushed into the living room where they had already made themselves comfortable.

“What is she doing here?” Jenna hissed at me.
‘I don’t know. Call Matt’ I wrote for her.
She nodded and walked into the kitchen to call him (he had gone out to get us some pizza for dinner), while I tried to deal with them. They looked at me with fake smiles on their faces.
“Come sit with me sweetie” My mom, Jill, said.
I shook my head, not moving from my spot.
“Alright then”
‘What are you doing here?’ I wrote.
“I came to see you of course. I heard about what happened and I was worried about you”
Worried about me? The only thing she had ever been worried about was that I would ruin her love life while my father was away. Why would she care now?
“Since your father is away on business for a couple weeks I wanted to come to take care of you” she continued.
‘I have Matt’
“He can’t give you what you need. You need a mother. I thought that you would like to get to know your sister, Bella, as well”
“I’ve been wanting to meet you. I heard you’re dating Harry Styles. I’d love to meet him” Bella, the girl she came with, said with a smile.
Jenna walked into the room and nodded to me, signaling that she got through to Matt and he was on his way.
‘I don’t want anything to do with either of you. Get out’
“That’s no way to speak to your mother!” My fists clenched together.
Did she really think that she could just walk in here and act like nothing had happened? I wanted so bad to just scream at her. Let her know exactly what I was feeling. I wanted her to know the pain she had put me through, but I couldn’t. I could try and try, but nothing would come out. And what was this Bella chick’s deal with Harry? I didn’t like the look she was giving me. It was like she wanted to steal him away from me. A car pulled into the driveway and moments later the door opened as Matt ran in. He paused in the doorway and glared at them.
“What the hell are you doing here?” he demanded. “You have no right to be here!"
“I have every right to be here! I wanted to see my daughter, and my son!”
“You stopped being our mother the second you walked out on us! A mother wouldn’t say all those things to her daughter or lay a hand on her! You have no idea how much pain you put Emily through! She was going through enough at school as it was and then you went and made it worse! Get out of my house and stay away from my little sister! You can all go to hell!” he yelled.
Jill kept her calm, but I could see that she was just irate with being yelled at by him.
“Come on, Bella” she said standing up. The two walked past me and Bella purposefully bumped into my shoulder.
“Keep that boyfriend of yours close” she said with a smirk.
I started to go after her, wanting to punch the smirk right off her face, but Matt stopped me. I turned to him and hugged him tightly. I fought back tears that were threatening to fall. There was no way I was going to break because of them.
“Did she hurt you at all?” Matt asked.
I shook my head.
‘I don’t get why she decided to turn up now’ I signed to him.
“Me either...But she won’t hurt you again. I promise” He kissed my forehead. “Now, let’s just forget about all of that and have some fun. I rented a bunch of movies for us”
“Yeah. Let’s eat some yummy delicious pizza!” Jenna said.
I smiled and nodded. As long as I had them, nothing would get to me.
~.:o:.~
The rest of the night was spent eating pizza and watching funny movies. I had completely forgotten about my run in with Jill and Bella halfway through our little movie marathon. Jenna and Matt made sure of that by acting all goofy to make me laugh. I loved them both to death.
“Hey, Emily. Didn’t you have a Skype thing with Harry at 10?” Jenna asked.
I nodded and looked at the time. 10:15 pm. Shit! I jumped up from the couch and bolted up the stairs to my bedroom where my laptop was waiting on my bed. I impatiently waited for the thing to turn on before quickly logging into Skype.
“Please still be there” I thought.
My eyes landed on his name and I sighed in relief when I saw he was still online. I clicked on it and seconds later his face popped up on the screen.
“Emily!” He cried happily.
‘HARRY!’ I wrote.
“God I missed you. It’s only been one day, but it already seems like forever! I don’t know how I’m going to stand being away from you for five months!”
‘We’ll make it. How was your day?’
“It was alright. It’s not the same without you here” He pouted and I smiled.
“HI HARRY!” Jenna yelled as she popped up out of nowhere.
I jumped and nearly threw the laptop. Harry burst out laughing at my reaction.
“Hi, Jenna!”
“What’s crackalackin?”
“Nothing really, just skyping with my beautiful girlfriend and her friend. What about you?”
“Oh, I’m skyping with my best friend’s boyfriend. He’s got hair like a mop. It’s weird”
“Haha. Very funny. Too bad no one cares what you think”
“Hey! Jerk! Fine! I’m not talking to you anymore”
Jenna stuck her tongue out at him and decided to play around on the keyboard I had in my room. I shook my head as she tried to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but failed.
“She’s not very good at that is she?” Harry asked me.
‘Nope’
“Harry!” Louis’ voice screamed from the background.
“Be right back” Harry said jumping out of bed and running off.
I waited a few minutes, wondering what was wrong with Louis. My question was answered when a laughing Harry came back into view.
“He found my amazing art work”
Harry turned the laptop around to reveal a very annoyed Louis standing there, hand on his hips, with weird and rude doodles all over his face. I laughed.
“Don’t be surprised if your boyfriend suddenly goes missing” Louis said.
‘Don’t you dare touch my Harry!’ I wrote to him.
“You’re Harry? Um, excuse me. He’s mine”
‘Not anymore, BooBear’
“That’s not fair! I’ll fight you for him!”
“Louis, who are you yelling at?” A sleepy Niall asked as he walked in. His eyes lit up when he saw me. “Emily!”
‘NIALL!! <3’
“Hey! How come you don’t write hearts by my name!” Harry said with a pout.
“Cause I’m her favorite” Niall said with a grin.
“Are not! I am!” Liam yelled as he ran in with his batman shirt, Zayn following behind.
“Hi, Emily!” Zayn said with a wave. We spend the next couple hours talking before Matt came in and told us to go to sleep. I laid on my bed for a while before finally falling asleep in hopes that the next five months would go by fast.

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