Chapter Two: Consequences

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I buried my face into the steaming sprinkles of water escaping the shower head, the feeling was soothing and calmed me a little. Struggling to release my mind from all thoughts of the event that took place fifteen minutes ago, I heard a noise coming from outside my house. I took a deep breathe, soaking in one last feeling of the heat against my skin before shutting the water off, and getting out of the shower. I then noticed what the noise was, it was the ambulance, and they were here. Right now. It was my fault. Surely Lorraine would blame me, no doubt, and then they will take me away. They were going to take me away from my family yet again.

I'm so dead...

I stood there for a while, inhaling the sweet fragrance of my strawberry body wash, staring. Staring into the mirror in front of me and wondering where all the anger in me came from. Was it because of my DNA? My father always told me he was a collected man, therefore if I chose to, I can be a collected woman, but I knew it was all bullshit. It was bullshit because he wasn't my real father, and who in their right mind would choose to sit back and take everything, when they can fight back instead?

All my life my birth parents weren't mentioned. When I asked they simply said they were unfit to raise a child, and that I was lucky the Lovettes were looking for a child the same time I was brought into the children's home. What a load of crap right? If these "unfit" people were the ones who created me then why can't I know more about them? I am grateful that there was somebody willing to take me in as an infant, but I wouldn't mind a little information on where I originally came from either.

A knock on the door broke my stare. I walked out of the bathroom with my towel on and waited. Another knock, this time accompanied with a voice.

"Arianna, would you please open up?" A man said, he sounded trustworthy but I still questioned the motive behind it. I hesitated a moment.

"I-I'm not dressed, what do you want?" I said nervously.

"Get dressed, quickly, and then meet us downstairs me and your parents need to have a talk with you." He said, then I heard footsteps walking away.

I paced the room. What am I going to say? Even if I say I didn't mean to they'll still blame me because I pushed her in the first place... I got dressed slowly, prolonging the inevitable as I pondered on what shirt to bless my skin with. When I was finally done I took a deep breath before making my way through the door and down the staircase where I met a tall, muscular man sitting along with my parents.

"Alright, look-" I began, but was quickly cut off.

"Arianna, it's time to listen not speak." Lorraine said before a young woman walked up to her to analyze her wounds. I almost lunged at her.

"She's right Arianna, we've had a conversation about your attitude toward your parents here, and I gave them a number they can call." He leaned forward, resting his hands on his knees "It's a number for a woman named Kayla, she's a close friend of mine and she runs a facility for young teenagers, like you, to help them with their problems."

My eyes darkened. Are they talking about rehab for teenagers? Seriously? That's taking it way too far.

"Rehab? You're seriously sending me to some shitty place to fix my problems? So now I have problems that need fixing? Wow." I raised my voice, folding my arms. "So what will my case be? I get angry? 'Cause everyone gets angry!" I shouted.

My dad stood, trying to calm me. "Honey, we love you and we think it would be a great opportunity for you to talk to someone about why you are feeling the way you do, and it'll better our relationship with you as our daughter because we raised you and we don't want you to be angry all the time, we love the calm Arianna." He looked at me pleadingly, as if saying not to lash out because he didn't want me in even deeper shit. I stood there in silence. Taking it all in. The man stood and walked over to me, resting his hand on my shoulders.

"Lighten up, the teenagers there are great kids who just need someone to talk to, someone who won't judge them. It's for the better, and we as doctors and nurses recommend that it would be good for your health to get away from here for a while." He smiled, shaking me a little. I had to give it to him, he was such a nice man that I didn't want to be a bitch about things. A tear threatened to spill over as I stormed upstairs, leaving them to further discuss my arrangements.

Stupid idiots. They have no idea. I never meant to hurt her and just because of this accident I get this!? Now I get to go to some "facility" full of freak shows just to prove I have my sanity. It's not like they will be able to help me, they won't get anything out of me.

I layed on my bed as the van drove off, leaving me to my thoughts once again. What kind of people will be there? When will I be leaving? How long does it last? Is it like school? How much freedom do I have? I was quickly interrupted by the jingle of my phone, it was Matthias.

"Hello Matthias, what do you want?" The words came out a bit meaner than expected.

"Hey, Arianna I just saw the ambulance heading your way, care to tell me what's up?" I could almost picture him smiling through the phone. "Don't tell me you killed Lorraine!"

I rolled my eyes. He was a great guy I just never found him interesting enough. He was tall, out of school, and was handsome I guess, but to me his 21 year old package wasn't what I wanted. I tried to see if I could feel something for him two years ago, but it was awkward because he was just a friend to me. 

Here we go. Time to explain.

"I did bad. Parents freaked. Mom uber freaked. I nudged her so she would let me go. She fell down the staircase and hurt herself. Now I am going to rehab." I said, trying to sum it up as short and bluntly as possible.

"What?! When?" He shouted into my ears. Just as I was about to say I didn't know, Bill came into the room.

"Hey...." he scratched the back of his head nervously, "their term started yesterday, but they allowed you to come late, we'll give you all of tomorrow to relax and then you're heading off the next day. Look I really didn't want to take it this far but you know who makes the rules in this house, and I think you could use some space away from your mom." He said, looking pitiful.

"Hold on Matt." I looked up. "Dad, I know it was probably never your intentions anyway, i'll be fine. Two days is really close though... how long will I be there?" I questioned.

"Sorry but the faster you go the better because you and your mother will just bicker even more. It lasts for about 2 months. Tell Matt I said hi, i'll be downstairs cooking.

I finished up my conversation with Matt and the night went by quickly. I ate dinner alone in my bedroom, listened to some music and then fell asleep dreaming a familiar dream. Two days....

 A/N

So I wanted to say that you will definately find out more about Arianna throughout the chapters. What do you think so far? Yeah these first chapters may be a bit boring because I gotta make my way into the drama but it'll get there shortly! By the way did you check out the cast? You may think Chris looks a bit old but I picture him in his more younger stages. I am so excited for Sam to be introduced, oh how I love Ash Stymest, he's perfect to play a bad boy!! It seems cliche I know guys but it will get better! Things don't always end the way you think ;)

Thanks for the reads and i'll write again shortly ! Merry Christmas!

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