Tied To The Sea

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I tapped my fingers nervously on the steering wheel as I pulled onto my street. Fuck if I wasn’t jumping out of my skin and hoping I was someone else at that very moment; there’s no telling how my parents would react to the news about Atalanta.

I had called them an hour ago to tell them I was finally coming home and that I had news. They were relieved to get answers as to my whereabouts the last two weeks and said they were on their way back from the university.

Pulling into the driveway, my stomach sunk when I saw their car. It wasn’t that I was afraid to tell them what was going on. If there was anyone I could trust with this, it was my parents. But recounting what happened that night still made guilt flair in my chest, and I honestly was too exhausted to handle the storm of emotions that I was about to deal with.

I took a deep breath in and parked the car. “It’s okay.”

Climbing out of the driver’s seat, I stretched my stiff muscles and walked up the driveway. I didn’t even get halfway up to the door when it burst open and my mom came darting out, her long tresses of auburn hair bouncing wildly as she flung her arms around me.

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