Seven

Lucy was at home, still living with her parents, she shook her head why she hadn’t moved out, yet she still didn’t know. Her mobile was downstairs she had nothing on it yet, Just Emma’s number. She felt so stupid still after dropping her phone in the lake. She laughed as she remembered watching James had jump in after it. He had tried so hard to get it before it sank. But it was too late. It was dead. She had popped the battery out and left it to dry in pieces over the course of the next few days, but she reluctantly had to go and get a new phone on Friday when she realised it was toast! Lucy heard the phone ringing downstairs and her mum walking across the hardwood floor to answer it.  Her mum walked aback across the floor and shouted up the stairs to her.  She got up from her bed and went downstairs. She picked up her mobile as she walked past it, maybe she should have kept this with her as she saw several missed calls.

“Hi” Lucy said into the phone receiver.

“Hey sweetie, I tried your mobile but got no answer, everything ok?” James said, Lucy smiled

“Yeah, I left it downstairs while I was sorting something out didn’t think about having it with me when I have nothing on it! Sorry” She giggled. She loved hearing her boyfriends affectionate voice, it made her all warm and fuzzy. With each passing day their relationship grew stronger. It had no bounds, just when they thought they couldn’t get any closer they did, something bond them tighter. Their bond was truly unbreakable.

“What are you up to on this find Saturday?” James asked,

“Nothing much, was hoping my Boyfriend was going to take me out but I haven’t heard from him so I’m at a loose end” She joked down the phone.  James grinned, how was this woman his? What did he do to deserve such a beautiful soul.

“Shame on him, well I best take advantage of that then and I’ll spend the day with you” They both laughed, the time they shared together was so special and it always went by so fast, there was never enough hours in the day. “So, fancy coming into town and doing a little shopping with me? I have to get a birthday present” Lucy smiled, he was so sweet and romantic, she believed, no she knew she was so lucky.

“What are you getting me?” She enquired; she couldn’t help but ask.

“Who says it’s your birthday present? James laughed, “I didn’t even know it was your birthday; we aren’t that close you know” James howled down the phone he couldn’t help teasing her. He closed his eyes so he could picture her expression the other end of the phone.

“Well, if you’re going to be like that!” She exclaimed trying her hardest not to laugh.

“I can’t tell you can I, or it won’t be a surprise. You will have to wait and see.”

“It’s a barbie dream house, I know it is I’ve always wanted one.” She giggled down the phone. James laughed. Then Lucys mum shouted through the house

“You still on that phone?” Lucy couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

“Yes mum” she replied softly. “Sorry James got to go!”

“No worries baby, I’ll call the others, and we can meet in the usual spot at eleven?”

“Yeah, no worries” You could hear the sadness that had crept into her voice.

“Lucy, Baby?” James said softly, he just wanted to hold her it ripped at his gut to hear her go from sounded so happy to so upset in a matter of moments, he knew there was issues with her parents, and she was stuck in the middle of it.

“Yes?”

“I love you sweet” Lucy smiled; this man was everything if anything in the world was wrong, he could make her feel good about herself. “I love you too James” she said quietly. They always took the time to tell each other; those three words were not just words to them it was said with so much feeling behind them.

“See you shortly James said. Lucy hung up the phone and went to locate her mother. There was no point in avoiding her. He mother would pick anything she could at the moment to pick at her. It was seriously time to get her own place.

“Well, who was that?” Her mother said as she walked into the dinning room to find her.

“It was James mum, Lucy said more annoyed than she meant too.

“well, he should be calling your mobile not my house phone, what if I was expecting an important call and you had the line tied up. I pay the Bill not him or you” Lucy stood with her arms crossed.

“Hold up, I pay you rent, and he tried my mobile, but it was down here. I’m an adult and I’m sick to death of you treating me like a piece of shit because you and Dad can’t decide to get on with your own lives. Do not take out your frustrations on me” Lucy snapped, she never spoke to her parents like this, but she had enough.

“If you’re such a Damn adult then move out into your own place your twenty-one, time to stand on your own to feet and stop being undermine” her mother screamed at her.

Lucy stood aghast for a moment, she shook her head, she would be the bigger person, she walked out of the room and went upstairs. There was only a two-year age gap between her and James and she was about to turn Twenty-two. Maybe it was time to move out and not deal with this at home anymore. She saved James number into the mobile and text him, she knew he would worry.