Hurt again

“Ava,” I spoke as gently as I could. “You have to go back home, your parents need you now more than ever, you running away from them won’t help matters, it would only complicate issues.”

“No Robin, you also wanted to run away when you were in the State, you wanted to flee the State…”

“To my mother,” I cut her off, enough of her trying to compare her situation to mine. “I didn’t run away from home, I wanted so badly to flee to my mother and I am with my family, whereas I did not run away to a place where either of my parents knew nothing about, while I was with my dad, my mother know and now I am with my mother, my father know,” I told her sharply to take whatever thoughts she was thinking out of her head.

Ava was silent for a while as she looked at me, I could see the surprise look on her face. “You are not getting angry when you talk about your father and usually you don’t call him dad but his name…”

I withdrew my hand from hers, she was right, while I was in the States I called my