Your Dad's Perfect (Ruby) novel Chapter 38

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."

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.