Your Dad's Perfect (Ruby)

Throwing the clothes into the case, I grab the shoes.

"I'm back!" I hear Bex and watch her walk in. "Why are you packing!" She moves and pulls the shoes out of my hand. "Did you have fun?" I smile at her.

"Great, amazing. My parents were annoyingly frustrating, like my brother. Now, why are you packing?" She glares at me.

"I figured I would go to see my parents." She moves, and I dodge the shoe she throws at me.

"No!"

I laugh and pick the shoe up. "Bex, I'm coming back." She relaxes slightly.

"Okay, good. That doesn't mean you should go, though. You owe them nothing."

She's right. "I know I owe them nothing; things need sorting, though. In-person, not over the phone." At least this way, I know I tried.

"Well...I'm coming."This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Standing, I hug Bex. "Thank you for the support, but no. If I go with anyone, I will use them as a shield. Depending on how it goes, I might be back tonight."

"You realise running won't help?" I look at Ivy as she stands by the door.

"I'm not running." Running wouldn't change anything.

"Wait, you've still not spoken to Alaric?" Bex stands shocked.

"No, I tried calling, but it won't go through. I went to the house, and no one answered at the gate. I even went to his business and spent every afternoon there, but nothing." Bex nods. "And Jake?"

I shrug slightly.

"Ask Oliver." I look at Ivy, and she walks out, coming back with Oliver. Of course, he stayed again last night. It's been a week and he's pretty much moved in.

"I spoke to Jake three days ago, and he called off an unknown number. He sounded genuinely sorry, and like he realised, he messed up. I asked, and he said he wasn't coming back, this place and people here seemed to make him worse, he's got a job as well." Jake has a job? This, though, doesn't help with Alaric at all.

"He's still a jerk." Bex laughs, and I smile.

"Don't guys, there are things you don't know. It's also not my place to tell you." Oliver smiles at us.

"You're going to stick up for him as his best friend." Bex is right.

"No, what he did was shit, but you don't know everything. Anyway, that's all I know." He shrugs and walks out. Zipping up my case, I grab my jacket. "Ruby, are you really leaving?" Ivy stands in my way.

"I'm coming back." Laughing, I hug her. "You two need to calm it; if anything, I'm gone for the weekend, that's it." Hugging them both, I say goodbye and leave.

An hour later, I'm sat in the car outside the house. I feel like I should have called before coming, but they don't answer when I do.

Getting out, I grab my bag and walk to the door, knocking I stand and wait, watching as the door opens.

"Hi, Mum." I smile at her.

"Roy!" No hi? I stand shocked and watch my dad show up.

"Ruby, you shouldn't be here."

"I came to sort things." Sure I tried calling and sorting it, but that was my way to avoid everything.

"You best come in then." I watch them move out of the way. Walking in, I sit down. "You brought a bag?" My dad looks at me.

"I didn't want to rush to get it sorted." It's been over a year since I saw them.

"So you wanted to hide here."

"I'm not hiding, Mum. I came to visit and sort things out." Why would I be hiding?

"Ruby, we know you were sleeping with a married man." I laugh at my dad's words.

"I've not slept with anyone who is married!" That's a lie.

"He may as well be from his age alone." He looks at me, and I don't reply. "We got the video of the fight, Jake's father?"

That won't help with fixing things. I don't even reply because I'm stuck on what to say.

"You can stay tonight as it's late, but you need to leave in the morning." My dad stands.

"I made one mistake!" Just one.

"Sleeping with Jake was one thing, sleeping with his father was another, and using them for money was another."

"Sleeping with Jake wasn't a

mistake. We were in a relationship,

and I didn't use them for money. I got nothing from either of them."T will accept Alaric that was a

vernet

mistake. I don't regret it, but yeah, it was foolish.

"Are you staying the night or not? I'm not discussing this anymore, Ruby; what you did was wrong. Then you continued and did even worse, again and again." "Fine, I'll stay and leave in the morning." I watch as he begins walking out.

"You destroyed their relationship, Ruby, that's caused by you."

"I know that already. I also needed to let you know that I might be dropping classes." I haven't decided entirely yet, but if I do, that's nearly three years wasted. "Acting up won't make things better." My dad shouts, and I laugh.

"I'm not. I never enjoyed it, and it was

your choice what I did when I left school. It's not a way of acting up. just realised I hate it." The only reason Tam debating it so much is because there are only months left, and then I am done. So, should I wait until I have completed it?

"Do what you wanted, Ruby, you will anyway. Just keep your behaviour away from us. After you leave. tomorrow, don't come back." My dad walks out, and I watch my Mum

follow.

I guess there is no fixing things.