My Blue by Emery Jacobs

Author:Emery Jacobs [Jacobs, Emery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Emery Jacobs, LLC
Published: 2019-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Ella Blue

My phone vibrates in my hand, causing me to jump up from where I’ve been sitting on the couch. I’ve been subconsciously holding it for the last ten minutes or so, waiting for Leo to respond to my message. During this time, I’ve been trying to force my brain to remember something, anything that will help me retrieve the missing pieces of my life.

My lips curl up into a smile as I drop my eyes to the screen, expecting to see a response from Leo, but it fades quickly when I realize the text is from my dad. I’m not reading his text, at least not right now, because I already have one parent who drives me insane here in the house with me. I certainly don’t feel like dealing with the other one at the moment.

“Ella, are you okay?” Mom’s much too cheerful voice rings out.

“Yes, why wouldn’t I be?” I ask before blowing out an over exaggerated sigh. I force myself to walk into the kitchen just off the living room where my mother is doing what she does best—annoying me.

“I called out your name several times over the past few minutes and you didn’t answer me.” She turns away from the refrigerator, where she’s been putting away the groceries she brought with her this morning.

I sit down on one of the barstools in front of the island that separates the kitchen from the living room, and drop my phone on the countertop.

Why do I feel trapped in my own life? I want to get out of this place, go somewhere, live outside these four walls. It may sound silly, but I feel like cabin fever has already set in. I realize I’ve only been in this house for one day, but before I was here, I was on lockdown in the hospital, and before that…who the hell knows what I was doing?

“How’re you feeling?” Mom asks as she leans against the counter directly in front of me. She gently brushes my hair away from my face and then places a kiss on my cheek.

My mind flashes back to a time when I was five or maybe six. I’m lying in my bed, snuggled up tightly in my soft blanket. Mom does the exact same thing. She pushes my hair away from my face, leans over, and kisses my cheek. “I love you, Mommy.” She looks down at me and smiles. We’re both so happy.

Where did that happiness go?

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