Chapter 11

Irye is awake surprised by her mother's words. She waited for her and now right in front of her, she will be leaving.It's like she is already going through the same thing again. She gets down from her bed. Her eyes wide.

"Now?"She asks controlling her breath."W..why? I thought you would..."Realisation hit her. Her mom is not there to stay,she is not there to be with her. She lowers her head,eyes moving around as if to find somewhere to find refuge.

"Am not here because I intended to.I was just in the neighborhood"Abigail confirms.

Irye begins hurting. She swallows regulating her breath.

"W..why?"Tears fill her eyes."Am I that much of a burden to you? Did I ever ask to be born? Why didn't you just abort me if you never wanted me?"

She stops, hoping for a better explanation from her mother.Hoping she would just hold her and tell her it's all a lie, that she can't be with her because of a very big reason but her mom just stands there quietly.

"Tell me it's all a prank, th...that you won't ever leave me again."Irye walks over to her mom and holds her hand.

Irye purses her lips while she swallows.She takes a sharp breath.

"Please."she whispers. Her mouth now shaking. "Please tell me that"She pleads with her mom.

She tries to talk more but her shaky breath keeps stopping her. She bit her lower lip, holding her tears back but they couldn't be restrained anymore so they fell.

"There is something with you. She is in you. Even now I can see her."Her mom says quietly removing Irye's hand from hers.

"She shares your emotion and is waiting to become stronger"Abigail continues holding a hand up at Irye's right cheek, caressing it gently.

"What?" Irye asks faintly looking into her mother's eyes to see the sincerity in them."What..what do you mean she..she is in me? What is in me?"

Abigail turns her back."Why do you think I left you? Don't act smart,I know you can feel it by now. You are a curse to me."

"You are a monster!"she yells at her daughter now turning to face her."You never showed yourself until you were five"

Irye takes a step back. Her legs move by themselves and sit her on the bed. Everything sinking in, her dream, why she sometimes feel as uncontrollable of herself.

"I regret ever birthing you.I regret being your mother. Don't resent me. Its for your own good." Abigail says as she watches Irye break down in tears.

"You could have just left. Did you have to say all this so I just leave you alone?"Irye says quietly in tears."Did you really want to leave me that bad?"She shouts as she catches her breath.

Abigail sighs and goes out and to her surprise,her ex husband and Grams are down the stairs looking up at her.

Anger is perfectly drawn on Grams face while Richard stands still.

They overheard Abigail and Irye's conversation. Abigail pauses in her tracks looking down at them. She knocks off that guilty feeling she gets after seeing Richard and walks down the stairs.

"What are you doing here?"Richard asks as she passes by him.

Abigail just ignores and continues walking just to stop ten steps away from the door.

"You told me to leave first thing in the morning. Sorry for the commotion though"Her back facing them."You should look after her well"

She is about walking away when Richard speaks.

"Which mother are you? Are you just leaving like that after saying all that to your daughter?"

"Don't you ever call her my daughter"she turns to face them."She is cursed and so are...."she gets interrupted by something Richard says.

That thing Grams is stubborn on talking about. The same thing which breaks the last straw for Irye who has been hiding behind the wall facing her room. She intended on following her, to let her explain what she said.

"It's that why you left me for my brother?"Richard repeats this time louder.

The atmosphere becomes tense. The while house becomes silent suddenly as Gerrard and his cousins come out of their rooms upon hearing the noise. They meet Irye on their way to the stairs. She looks like a mess and mixed in emotions. She just learnt another truth about her mom.They stop and look at her anxiously. Not being able to hear the pain, she runs to her room before Evie could stop her.

"Answer me"Richard yells again in fury as he walks closer to Abigail.

Grams stops him before he does something horrible.

"Calm down"Grams tells him. The cousins are now with Grams.They figured Irye needed some time alone.

"We're blood brothers. You should be ashamed of yourself. Aside from being unfaithful, you are also heartless."Richard sounds very hurt.

Abigail looks away feeling guilty but Richard continues anyways.

"You could have taken Irye with you. She was still five. Knowing leaving would hurt both of us, you still left your little daughter and I behind"he breathes,clearly showing the pain he is going through.

"I got addicted to drinking whilst thinking of you that I couldn't take care of my little girl even when she needed me."Richard admits almost falling in tears out of guilt.

Upstairs, Irye who cannot handle everything she passing through now wanders in her room. Filled with mixed emotions, she throws a glass she sees on the drawer beside her bed.

The cousins hear the noise and turns to its direction.Another shutter and they rush up the stairs.

Irye scatters everything on her dressing table angrily and destroys the last picture of her mom. As she keeps on causing rampage,the cousins beg for her to open the door.

Grams is shaking with the thought of Irye hurting herself. She asks Gerrard to try breaking it down after severally trying to convince Irye to open up.

Gerrard hits himself on the door hard but to no avail. The two, Abigail and Richard look up at them trying their everything to break down the door.

On the fifth time Gerrard is about hitting the door, it clicks open showing a mess.

Irye's face is wet with tears and her hair is messed up bad. She walks past them and runs out of the house to her car.

"Irye"Grams calls as Gerrard follows her out the house.

Evie enters the room,looking at the mess Irye made in there when she hears a vibrating sound. She turns around in direction of it and notices Irye's phone ringing somewhere under her pillow.

She picks it up and looks."Blake"it says. She is about answering when it stops ringing."Seven missed calls"it writes.

Because Irye is too busy rampaging with pain and anger,she doesn't hear her phone ringing. Evie calls back and Blake answers.

"Hey, I've been calling you for some time now. Don't tell me you were still..."Blake is interrupted.

"Irye needs you"Evie says. "She ran out of the house and she took her car. She is in no condition to be driving now".

Evie is now walking out the room."I don't know where she could be now but.."

"At the summer house. She goes there often when she is troubled"Richard cuts Evie off. "It seems that place calms her down because it has many memories she made with her mother"he says glaring at Abigail before walking to his room.

"She is at the summer house near..."Evie gets cut off again.

"Oh I can track her car's GPS. Don't worry"Blake says and hang up.

Evie blinks a several times from the Blake's abrupt hang-up.

"Seriously, won't they let me end my sentence?"Evie scoffs before walking to the living room.