Disappointment [Xavier]

[/font][/font][/div]



“Whatever, I didn’t want you to come anyway.” Charlotte’s voice was harsh as she spoke into the iPhone she held up to her ear. She didn’t even wait for a response before pulling it away from her head and hung up. Charlie could feel tears beginning to sting her eyes, but she angrily blinked them away. She didn’t know why she let herself get her hopes up. Her parents could never be bothered to step away from their jobs to come visit her at any of the schools they sent her to. Why should something like parents weekend be any different? Except, she did know why she allowed herself some glimmer of hope when they had told her that they would try to make it. Charlotte knew that everyone else at the god forsaken school would have parents visiting in two weekends, and she would have no one.



The thought of being alone caused the tears she had been so desperately fighting to fall. Charlotte sniffed once, then gently wiped them away, doing her best to mess up her perfectly done make-up. Charlotte quickly scanned the courtyard she was sitting in, doing her best to detect any sort of movement, but was grateful to see that it was empty. She knew she should have waited until she was back in her dorm to answer the phone once she saw that it was her mother calling as she walked back from her classes, but Charlie had been so excited at the idea of her parents actually caring enough to visit, that she hadn’t thought of the possibility that they were calling to deliver bad news. And now, the last thing she wanted to do was run into her roommate looking upset and out of sorts, something Charlotte never let anyone see. Instead, she took a few deep breaths, stemming the tears that had been slowly dripping from the corners of her eyes, and gazed out into the courtyard, hoping that the fresh fall air and the beauty of the flowers would start to make her feel better. She didn’t need her parents, who clearly didn’t seem to want her. Charlie had her horse, she didn’t anyone else.




[/ul][/font]