Monday, March 2, 2015

A "Bea"trayal

"Shane is the father." June said with her eyed fixed in terror on Bianca's face.  "My father?" Bianca said her stomach flipping in her body, "Yes" June replied, "Bea, I'm so sorry, I...", "no!" Bianca shouted at her, "you don't get to talk to me now, theres...you can't possibly think..no, no this is impossible". Bianca was going to be sick she spun around and ran out into the front yard, June didn't follow her or call after her.  Bianca bent over and threw up, she threw up as if she could purge the news it's self.  June had been seeing her father, had been intimate with him. Oh my god Bianca thought, this is sick, they are both sick, she's like my sister, she's my age. How could this happen, she heaved again nothing more would come up.  Bianca felt dizzy, she had to get away from here from June, she didn't want to go home she didn't want to see her father, she didn't want to see him ever again.  All of the sudden this man she adored, who she knew inside in out, the man who raised her, who loved her mother. The man who didn't date this hero of her life was a stranger.  The man she knew would have never entertained thoughts of June Bettles as a lover, or even an adult. Bianca felt the void again, the one she had felt at her mothers burial but this time she didn't feel sad she felt furious, she felt the sick rise in her again but she stifled it. I have to go, I have to get away from here she didn't have her keys, she had left them inside she couldn't even turn to look at the house, my phone she thought she reached around to the back pocket of her jeans, thank god her phone was there she pulled it out and hands trembling dialed Tylers number "Hey babe" he answered on the second ring, the sound of his voice, so normal so familiar brought on her tears "Tyler, come get me" through gasping sobs she tried to continue "June, she..." Bianca couldn't speak it, her throat clamped around the lump that had risen up in it forbidding her to speak it, keeping the betrayal trapped beneath it Bianca gagged, other line beeped Bianca glanced at the screen of her phone "daddy" the contact photo was a picture of he and Bianca June had taken of them bowling one night "oh my gawwwwd" she wailed "where are you?" Tyler barked at her loud enough for her to hear with the phone in front of her instead if up to her ear "Bianca is June ok, are you hurt?!" Quickly Bianca returned the phone to her ear, she knew she had to pull it together to make sense "yes, I'm home I'm not hurt neither is she," not yet anyway she thought "I'll explain in person just please come pick me up" "on my way babe" Tyler said and Bianca hung up, she needed to figure out how she was going to explain this to him, lord only knew what was running through his head on his way to her but the urgency urgency motivated him to get to her quickly, she had never been happier to see that Honda Accord whip into the driveway. My knight in shining armor she thought as she ran to him.

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