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Roots Beneath Ideals

Trouble

The flight back home was less stressful than the one to New York. I also got to sleep without being harassed by Joe, or dealing with a crying Vic. It was sooo nice.
But nothing ever stays this clam in our group. Once we landed though, Tyson and I walked his parents to their connecting flight back to Houston, and then met up with the group at baggage claim.

"Keri what do you plan on doing when we get home?" Dad asked as we waiting for the bus to bring us to the garage.

I shrugged, "Ashley said that she wanted to hang out, but you know how she is. Why?"

He didn't respond.

Okay then...

"What are you losers going to do?" I asked.

"Sleep for all eternity... After I give mom the biggest hug and kiss." Mike replied.

I gushed, but didn't say anything, in fear of what he'd do.

"I'm right with Mike," Mitch said.

"We should all hang out; it's still early in the day to do something." Tyson suggested.

"Sounds good to me, I'll call Ashley now." I said.

"Anything he says sounds good," Vic mumbled.

I displayed an evil smiled and jumped on him, "What was that monkey brain?"

"Get off of me psycho." Vic said with a laugh. "You heard what I said."

I punched him in the arm, "Keep it to yourself next time."

The bus pulled up and we all piled on and I took my seat between my dad and Mitch, just to avoid Vic from glaring at Tyson. Once we were off I called Ashley to see if she was busy… I shut my phone releasing a sigh, which turned into a chuckle.

“What’s so funny?” Mitch asked.

“My best friend is “busy”, so I need to call her back in about twenty minutes.”

“With who?”

“How am I supposed to know, I’m not there.”

“What are you two talking about?” Dad asked.

“Daddy, you’re a smart boy, put two and two together.” I turned my attention back to Mitch, “Why don’t you call your girlfriend and find out, I’m pretty sure she knows.”

Mitch sighed and called Chloe.

“Babe-.”

I snatched the phone, “Chlo, who is your sister dating and why don’t I know, and if she’s not dating then who is she hooking up with?”

Chloe laughed, “I missed you too. Um I’m not one hundred percent sure, but I think it might be Craig.”

My jaw dropped, “No way. Tell me you’re joking.”

“No she didn’t tell you?”

“Clearly not, she’s too worried about my business.”

Chloe laughed again, “I thought you knew. Well you didn’t hear it from me.”

“Yeah, I heard it from her. Anyway we’re on our way home so start getting ready we’re all hanging out.”

“Okayyy, see you soon.”

I handed Mitch his phone.

“Thanks.”

“So who is it?” Vic asked.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” I teased

“I sure want to.” Tyson said.

“Its’ our friend Craig.”

Mitch turned in shock, “Really?”

“Yup.”

“Wow.”

The rest of the ride home was silent and kind of weird. From time to time we did jam out to a song on the radio, which annoyed Dad, but we all got a kick out of it. After getting home and relaxing for a bit we ended up in my dorm and did nothing.

“I’m bored out of my mind, can we watch Harry Potter?” Mike asked.

“No Mike.” I said.

“Why?”

“Because there are no Harry Potter DVD’s here.”

“I know that’s why I brought mine.”

We all groaned. Mike’s obsession with Harry Potter was cute sometimes, but other times I just wanted to shoot him.

“There’s a pool party down the street, let’s go there.” Ashley suggested.

“No one brought any swim suits sis.” Chloe said.

“Well I don’t know then.”

I rolled off of Tyson’s back onto the ground to where my laptop was.
“What are you looking up?” Tyson asked.

“Somewhere for us to go… That’s it; we’re going to play some lazar tag.”

Everyone started getting ready and we were out the door in a matter of minutes.
I wasn’t sure where the building was, but I knew the area it was in. Actually we got lost, so we parked along the road and walked around town. We went in and out of shops, trying on clothes and just having fun. Finally we found the place, got suited and began firing. It was a free for all, no teams, though we did make alliances which screwed everything up in the worst way, but was way too fun. After we did more window shopping, then club hopping and then nothing again. We just went home. Once we all got to our proper places, I suddenly felt really distant from…everything. I don’t know what it was, but I kept getting this gut feeling that I needed to cry, so that’s what I did.
Who does that though? Cry because they felt something was going to happen. Everyone of course, but for me to do it was strange. I sat on my bed, pondering why I felt this why, but nothing came to mind. Finally though my tears let up and just in time as a knock came to my window. I moved my curtains aside to see Vic.

“Why are you coming through the window for?” I asked opening the window for Vic to get in.

“Honestly I don’t know. Something just told me to do it, I don’t know. No I do, I had a feeling that something was wrong, but I didn’t know what.”

I curled my knees into my chest, “Oh.”

“Is everything okay with you?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. Jet lag is all.”

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a nice whiff of Vic and made me think of the days he used to climb through the window whenever he sensed something was bothering me. When I opened my eyes again, Vic’s face was only inches from mine.

“You know you can tell me anything. Isn’t that what friends are for?”

“Yeah, but after what we’ve been through I don’t exactly feel like I can tell you anything anymore.”

Vic sighed and sat back, but only for a sec before pulling me into a hug.

“What are you doing?”

“Hugging you, dumbass. It’s this new thing that friends do, when one is feeling down or is really happy. Even though you’re a heartless bitch at times, you should try it sometime.”

Slowly, I returned Vic’s hug and began crying again. A bunch of old memories came crashing down on me. The first day Vic and I entered school together, my first bully and Vic protecting me, our first fight, my first heartbreak, up to now. Everything. Vic has always been by my side with everything. Not once was he not there, but I always fought him, always pushed Vic away. For what though? Finally I knew why I was crying. I missed Vic. I missed everything about him. No, I just missed being with him. I missed our moonlight walks, hanging out at our park, falling asleep in his arms. I held Vic even tighter and cried harder, because I finally knew what was wrong. I’m such a heartless bitch in so many ways, but I wouldn’t admit it to myself. I wouldn’t let myself believe what I was doing was wrong.

“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to, but at least you’re letting your tears out… I have something to tell you.”

“I have something to tell you too, but you go first.”

“I ended things with Emma.”

I pulled myself out of Vic’s arms, “Vic-.”

“Wait, hear me out. I did it for a few reasons. Yes one of them is in hopes of you taking me back, but the others… Well that’s for me to know, but every time I speak to her now, I get a really guilty feeling and of course I should, but it hurts. I know that you could never forget, but I hope you could forgive me.”

“Of course I forgive you, I did the moment you told me the truth. My heart just hurts, still even now. I will always forgive you no matter how badly you hurt me. I just need to heal my heart first before I give it back to you.”

“So…”

I sighed, “Yes you still have a chance. But don’t push yourself on me.”

“I won’t I’ll wait for you as long as it takes.” Vic chuckled, “I remember the first time I told you that. Things turned out pretty well. Anyways I’ll stay out of your way, you have a good thing going with Tyson as far as I see and he really is a good guy.”

“That’s the thing…”

“What?”

“I… No, never mind.”

“Keri-.”

A knock came to my door and Mike walked in.

“Oh good.” I pushed Vic off my bed and out the door, “I need to tell you something. Vic we’ll talk later. I promise.” I shut the door before he could reply and turned my stereo on so Vic couldn’t listen in.

“This must be serious if you have to turn the radio on. You know this whole heartless thing you’re trying to pull off isn’t going to work if you keep crying.” Mike joked sitting on my bed.

“Shut up, because right now I really am.”

“Why, what happened?” He asked getting serious.

“I won’t let myself believe it, but I’m admitting it so I should.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I don’t like Tyson, not even a little bit, I’m only using him. I like the idea of him, he’s different than what I’m used to, but like I said, I won’t let myself believe what I think and it’s dumb and I’m dumb and Mike please help me.”

Mike laughed, “What am I supposed to do, break up with for you?”

“No. I don’t know just something.”

“My brother is finally getting to isn’t he?”

“Yes and that god damn fucking amazing song was the tie breaker.”

“It’s only been a month; I thought you could hold out longer.”

“Michael.”

“Alright, alright. Well the only thing I can say is… break up with him, that’s the only explanation.”

“Um not when you’ve shared so much already and his parents love you.”

”No one told you to sleep with him and no one told you to be a picture perfect daughter in law.”

I made up my face at his last comment, “I’m far from picture perfect and no one told you to be a snarky bastard either, but you are.”

“You love this snarky bastard and without him you would be nothing.”

I laughed, “Okay that maybe true, but that isn’t the point.”

“Yeah the point is, just dump him and explain to him why and that you don’t feel right about any of it and that you’re sorry. He won’t like it, but what else can you do. Just don’t go running back into Vic’s arms right after that though, give it some more time.”

“How much more tough.”

“That’s up to you sis. You have to make sure your heart will be ready for heartbreak if there is one.”

I sighed.

He was right.

“For a man whore, you give good advice. Too good advice sometimes if you ask me. Speaking of advice, have you spoken to Liz ever since she left?”

Mike blushed and turned his head, “I tried, but she doesn’t answer my calls. Have you?”

“Once in a while, she’s coming home for spring break. You know I really wish you would just admit that you like her and stop playing games. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t answer your phone calls. She knows how you are; she’s keeping her heart guarded.”

“I would never hurt Liz though. She’s one of the only girls- no she’s the only girl I would ever say that to… I miss her. I do like her- no love her. I was only trying to protect her from me.”

I smiled and reached for my phone.

“What are you doing?”

I hit Liz’s number and after three rings she answered.

“Hey girl I was just thinking about you. What’s up?”

“Eh nothing just hanging out, we got back home today.” I replied.

“Really, how was the trip, how’d the ep turn out?”

“Both great, but listen I need you to do me a big favor.”

“What is that?”

“Don’t hang up.” I shoved my phone in Mike’s hand.

He stared at me with his mouth open with nothing to say.

“Start by saying hello.” I whispered.

Mike swallowed hard and put the phone to his ear, “Hey Lizard, how have you been?”

I got off my bed and walked to the backyard to stare at the stars. San Diego was a beautiful city in daylight, but at night it was a whole different place. The stars made it that way. It made me think about going away for school and if it would be a good idea to try things again with Vic since I would be leaving at the end of the summer. I’d be even further and gone even longer and with the distance we were already he couldn’t make it work, so what would be different this time? I groaned and plopped on the ground. I had a lot of thinking to do in the next few days. I can tell right now that trouble is going to definitely take place.



Notes

This is probably one my favorite chapter I've written in this book, I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.

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