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"Oh, and Aunt Alice said Gran and you had a fight? Why?" Carlie asked as they were about to leave.

Now why the fuck would Alice tell them about that! Has she ever used her brain even once? Well, I couldn't recall!

"Ummm..."

"I already told you, right? You should not worry about this. Aunt Alice was just... joking," Bella said.

"You're lying," Ness said.

"It was not a big deal," I said, "There is nothing to worry about."

I didn't give a damn about Mom anymore! We had a lot more serious things to worry about. She wasn't worth wasting anybody's time!

"Let's go to your room," Bella said to them, "You really have got nothing to worry about."

Yeah, they shouldn't worry about anything.

They were just... kids! They didn't have to worry about anything! It was our fucking job to figure everything out, and we would!

"But..."

"Let's go." Bella said and they left the room with her.

And I was back to the list of questions again!

What the fuck was I doing?

How could I fuck this up more than it already was?

And why was I focusing on the past? Whatever was done, it was... done! We wouldn't be able to change fucking anything! We needed to focus on the future!

And here I was... Doing the complete opposite!

I needed to stop thinking about all the negative things from the past... There were a lot of good things... I needed to learn to focus on them!

And shouldn't I be getting mad at... Angela, not Bella? What the fuck was I doing?

I didn't know how the girls were going to take this! I definitely needed to figure out my shit soon and talk to them in detail!

"What do you want to discuss?" Bella snapped once she came back after some time, "I'm fed up with you all. First, Alice posted a story on Instagram that Esme and you had a fight! Why the fuck would she do that! And then the girls! They ran towards this room as if they were five! And then... You! I managed to keep our issues from them for the past seven years, but you managed to reveal it just within a day!"

"I didn't realize it wasn't you when I heard the door open..." I said, "But okay, I agree I fucked up. I'm sorry!"

"And wait! Alice did... what?" I added.

Instagram? Like, really?

"She fucking posted a story on Instagram - "What's a family trip without some drama! Getting drunk tonight to get over my Mom and brother's dramatic fight! Cheers!" She shook her head with disbelief, "Why would she do it? And she should realize that girls would see it!"

I didn't have any words for that!

How could she do that!

"She is an idiot!" She said.

"That's what I always told you!" I said.

"She was the one who planted the seeds of doubt in my head that Angela meant a lot more to you than what you had told me. She told me you were kind of engaged. She told me..."

"And I told right at that time that you should not believe everything Alice says!" I said, "I told you that Angela was just my ex, and that's it! But no! You developed this fictional story in your head that it was some epic, unfinished love story or something!"

"But she said..."

"You should have believed me, not her!" I said.

"I fucking believed you! In fact, I had totally forgotten about her existence! But then years later, you came up to me saying you had slept with her!" she snapped.

I sighed. How could I argue that? I mean, she was not wrong! That's what I had told her myself.

"And what did you just say? You said we need a break from each other, right?" she said.

"Look... I was talking to myself and I was just trying to figure everything out... But..." I said.

"No, there's no place for a 'break'!" she said, "We need to end it all!"