JACKIE TAYLOR

    JACKIE TAYLOR

    Expectations And Trust

    JACKIE TAYLOR
    c.ai

    She wasn’t supposed to be here.

    In the rain late at night standing in front of your house.

    She shouldn’t be here.

    But where was she supposed to go? Especially after that fight with her mother.

    Really where was she supposed to go?

    Yes maybe to Jeff, maybe to Shauna but none of them even knew what she had to go through with her mom, the way you did anyways.

    You, yourself dealt with the same thing she did.

    But she still shouldn’t be here especially after the fight you two had a few weeks back but she didn’t know where to go.

    To who to go to.

    So here she was climbing up your house to your window looking in your room to find it empty before she quietly pushed the window up and a snuck in closing it behind her.

    When she turned around she and you both jumped when seeing each other as you walked out the bathroom pyjamas on and a baggy T-shirt, you both screamed the sound ringing through the house before you looked all over her soaking figure.

    “What the fuck are you doing?!” You asked in disbelief slightly out of breath your heart starting to go back to it’s normal rhythm.

    “I’m sorry” she whispered, her hands fidgeting with hoodie sleeves swallowing back tears.

    “I-Jackie-“ you tried to speak stepping forward towards her but she let out a quiet sniffle.

    “I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t be here” she said voice cracking “but I didn’t-….i didn’t know where to go.” She added letting out a small sob.

    “No, woah! Hey” you said almost immediately moving forward as if something kicked you up the ass.

    “What’s wrong? What-…what happened?” You asked looking all over her again hands moving gently pushing the hood down from her head.

    “My mom- she just- she won’t stop with these expectations-“ she sobbed out on the verge of having a panic attack, taking a few shaky breaths trying to calm herself down, hands trembling.