Fighting

...POV James...

I was petrified, They can’t be here.., I thought. “J-James, are you okay?” Adam asked. I had almost forgotten that he was there. “No. They can’t be here.” I said, I was dead serious. “Why? Why don’t you want your parents here?!??” Adam was so confused. “Can’t I just leave?” I asked, if they came and saw me... “James, just tell me why you don’t want your parents here” Adam said this so oddly calm, it sent chills down my spine. “Adam, you have to leave” I said, I heard them approaching and I couldn’t let them see Adam, or god knows what they would do. “W-what? Did I do something wrong?” I didn’t want to make him leave, if anything I wanted him to stay but that wouldn’t happen. “Or you could just leave the room, but not to the hallway or they’ll see you” I told him to hide. “Why?” Adam was very stubborn, I guess. Then the door opened, it was them. When I heard the door open I looked over, and sure enough it was them. My parents. “James, why do you keep dragging us out here?” My mother questioned. I know it was retorical, but she didn’t have to sound so cold. “You know we got you a therapist, how’s that going? Any progress?” My mother kept pressing questions while my dad just sat there, silent. “Well, probably not being as he had another panic attack” my dad answered my mom before I even opened my mouth. Adam was very confused, so he wasn’t saying anything. My mother noticed that, “Oh, and who’s this? Your new boyfriend? You remember what happened with the last one, right?” She was awful. “That was entirely your fault, none of it would’ve happened if you had just minded your business” I couldn’t believe that I had said that. She’s going to kill me, I should’ve just said nothing, ****. “That’s quite bold of you, when did you become like this-, oh it must be because he’s here” As she said this she gestured to Adam, who was from what I could tell worried and confused. “You know, your mother is right. You have no right to be saying that, it wasn’t our fault that he was like that. If he didn’t mean what he said or did that it wouldn’t have happened” My father was worse, he just agreed with my mom and backed up anything that she said. I hated them. I must’ve had a pained expression, because after they said that Adam whispered to me, “are you okay?” I slowly looked at him and shook my head slightly. I really wasn’t. “You know, he would’ve actually killed you if we hadn’t stopped him, we saved you” My mother just kept going. “Your mother is right, if we hadn’t-“ I cut my father off, “No, it was your fault he tried in the first place. *You* are the reason he was like that. You didn’t save me from anything. It would’ve been better if you hadn’t ‘saved’ me. You could’ve just let me die.” I didn’t think that I would say all that, I hoped Adam didn’t think I was crazy. My mother slapped me across the face, “You have no right to talk to your parents that way, do you know what we went through to get him to sign that restraining order?” I was furious, how could they just talk down to me like that? “You only had to do it because I couldn’t face him after that, you didn’t do shit. You just sit around waiting for me to end up in the hospital again, just so you can be like this.” My parents were pissed, “That is no way to speak to your mother!” This came with another slap across the face. “You should be apologizing right now, but you’re just sitting there thinking you’re so smug. Well, you’re not ‘smug’ at all, you are a disgrace to this family. What would Dave think?” Dave? Dave was my younger brother, the only one in my family who gave a shit about me. “Dave? Seriously? You couldn’t think of anyone else? Dave is the only one in this family who actually cares about me at all. Why not my sisters? Why not literally anyone else in the family? Like grandma, you’ve all made it very clear that she hates me” But seriously, why Dave? He looked up to me, so why are they acting like he doesn’t like me? I couldn’t believe what I was saying, but by the look on their faces I could tell, my parents were so much more shocked. But more than shocked, they were actually offended.(The dad here is James’ step-dad, he speaks Japanese to his mom and Korean to the step-dad)

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Authors note: I don’t really have much to say at the end of this, other than that this is part 1 of this scene and there will be a part 2 soon.

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