Yeah, I Screwed Up... Again

Chapter 8

                “Juliette, I am so proud of you. You have grown up so much in the past couple of months. I love you so much, baby girl.” My mom said when she finally stopped crying, I had yet to stop.

                “I love you too, mommy.”

Jared’s POV

                After my parents and I left Juliette’s house, we went straight home. No one really talked on the ride home. When we got home, I quickly put my bag in my room and met with my parents in the family room.  

                “Mom, Dad, I am so sorry for the way I was acting before I went to Maine. It took me so long to realize that everything bad that happened to this family was my fault because of the way I acted. I know I royally screwed up you lives along with my own. I honestly didn’t think that you would want to even have me home. I can tell you that I have changed so much and I miss you guys so much. The thing is I want to continue to going to school in Maine. Juliette’s is my closest friend and she going through stuff right now and she needs someone there through it. I want to help her because I went through the same thing when I was first there.”

                “Son, I am so proud of the person that you have become. I’m still not sure about the whole thing with Juliette. The stuff that happened that led up to her leaving was pretty bad. She’s a magnet for trouble.”

                “Dad, she wants out of the life she lived while she was here. Right now she’s trying to get out of an addiction to alcohol. I want to be there for her, because no one was there for me when I was going through it. Do you have any idea how hard that is?” As I said this with a few tears falling from my eyes, my parent’s face’s fell.

                “You fought an addiction on your own and won?” my mom said with tears in her eyes. She moved to where she was sitting next to me on the couch and hugged me.

                “Mom, don’t be mad at yourself. It was something that made me a better person.” I said this with a proud voice, realizing what I fought and won. My dad just sat there, speechless. “Mom, I’m tired. I’m gonna go to bed. We can talk more about this tomorrow.” I kissed her forehead and went upstairs to my room and called Juliette. She answered on the third ring.

                “Hello?” she said in a lazy voice.

                “Jetlag?” I asked in a joking tone.

                “You have no idea. Oh, wait, you do.” She said with a giggle that sent butterflies in my stomach, how does she do that? I thought to myself.

                “Haha yeah. So how did talking to your parents go?”

                “It went really well. My mom kept saying how proud she was of me. I never thought I would ever hear her say that to me.” You could hear the smile in her voice, which made and huge grin stretch across my face. “How about you?”

                “It was interesting. My dad didn’t want me to be hanging around you and I kinda told them about your addiction and that I went through the same thing but I was alone, and that’s why I want to help you through it all. My mom understood but I don’t know about my dad.”

                “Oh, wow. Jared, I don’t want to start conflict within your family-“

                “You’re not. My dad is just stubborn. He will come around in the morning.” I said cutting her off.

                “Okay.” She said in a quiet voice.

                “Hey, do you wanna go somewhere with me tomorrow morning? I wanna show you somewhere that you probably have never been.”

                “I would love too. But right now, I’m going to bed.” She said and the line went dead. I just shook my head and thought about what tomorrow would bring.

Okay, so this is the longest chapter that I have ever written, sadly on Wattpad it’s gonna be at most 3 pages, but I can only do so much. I might post again later today because I’m already out for summer and staying with my cousins who are still in school, so I’m just sitting around the house doing nothing. Well anyways, I have no idea who should play the characters. If anyone has any ideas of who should play each character, private message me or comment. That would be a huge help. If you could also check out my other story, Helplessly in Love, and comment and vote on that one, that would be amazing. Also tell your friends about this story if you like it! Thank you some much loves!!!!