Under the Peach Tree by Charlay Marie

Author:Charlay Marie [Marie, Charlay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2014-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Even though she was asleep, telling May about my past left me open and hurt and in need of speaking with my sister. I wanted to apologize for everything I’d ever done wrong. I hadn’t stopped to think about how she was feeling about everything. I was selfish. Not only had I betrayed Momma, but I betrayed Faith. Her life was probably as ruined as mine was. And I missed her. She was a part of me that I didn’t want to let go. She was my sister. It had been months since I’d last seen her.

When I got back to May’s house, I went straight to the phone and called home. When Faith answered, it was a whisper. “Hello?” I wasn’t able to say anything because my crying temporarily blocked my speech. “Hope? I thought I told you not to call.”

“I missed you, Faith.”

I heard her gasp. “After everything you did, you call to tell me that you miss me?”

“I do miss you and I’m sorry for everything!”

Faith paused, making me fear she had hung up, but then I heard her breathing. “John left. Hope, is the baby okay?”

“No, I lost it,” I said barely above a whisper, but she still heard me.

“I’m sorry.” She choked on her apology.

“It ain’t your fault,” I told her, but in a way, it was. She didn’t have to tell Momma that I was pregnant by John’s baby. She picked Momma over me, just like John had done.

“You’re right; it’s your fault. Hope, if you didn’t go sleeping with Momma’s boyfriend, none of this would’ve happened.”

“I don’t need you pointing fingers at me,” I told her.

She sighed. “Hope, you messed my life up. You messed everyone’s life up! I don’t know if I can ever forgive you.” She paused for a moment, and I heard commotion in the background. “I gotta go. If Momma catches me talking to you she gonna change our number. Don’t call back.”

“Faith! Who are you talking to?” Momma’s voiced crashed through the phone and then the line dropped.

I hung up the phone, but I also hung on to Faith’s last words.

Don’t call back.

My sister didn’t want to talk to me anymore. That fact alone hurt me more than anything Momma had ever done to me. At least I was used to Momma’s rejection, but Faith’s? I couldn’t stomach it.

Nothing was ever going to be the same.

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