Almost Stepbrother

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen

The days that passed from the party blurred together. My own mother doesn't realize how much it's affected me, she barely knows what happened. Steve was right about one thing, they were messing around behind my back. Everyone else saw it but I chose not too. Why did I choose not too? Was my trust really so high? But when did my standards become so low?

"Hey honey your still not up yet?" My mom distracted my thoughts by her presence in my room, "Alec's waiting downstairs to take you to school."

"I'm not feeling well," I grumbled and my mom came up to me suddenly feeling my head.

"You don't seem to be running a temperature, even if you were you'd always push to go to school. Is everything okay? Did something happen?"

"I just don't feel well," I pushed the covers over my head to make her accept what I had told her and to leave me alone.

"Kallie talk to me," she rubbed my back trying to make me open up, but I was just a closed book.

I knew she wouldn't leave me alone until I went to school.

"Talk to mama, come on Kals. Do you want me to call off work to take care of you?" she asked hoping I'd say yes.

"No, I'll go to school. I probably should anyways. If I start feeling worse I'll come back home," I moved my unmotivated body up and went to my closet as my mom sat on my bed thinking that this conversation still wasn't over. But it ended the second she walked in. Talking to her about relationships, especially about Will's and I's is a bad idea all around. She hated him the second he walked into my life, and she had every right to because apparently I was blind the whole time too.

"Kallie Bear, don't shut me out like you did your father," she said so gently that it almost didn't trigger my rage at the mention of my father but this wasn't a typical day for me.

"Don't you ever fucking bring up that son of a bitch like that! That bastard doesn't mean shit to me! He left, he fucking left mom! Get out! Get the hell out! Stop questioning me like I've done something wrong! Leave me alone! Do what you always fucking do and ignore me!" tears poured as I shouted and looked at her with so much rage, my hands were shaking and she looked surprised. I hadn't lashed out since the evening my father's letter came in.

"Kailen, baby girl. I have never ignored you, please baby girl talk to me. I'm trying to be here for you!" she raised her voice like I'd hear her.

"Don't, don't fucking say my name like it means something to me. You weren't there for me when dad left. Don't act like because life's different now we can be different," I walked out of my room while grabbing my bookbag and a box of all Will's stuff and deciding to go the way I was.

Alec's car was parked in the front with him in the driver's seat looking down at his phone, Charlotte was nowhere in sight though.

I got in the passenger side and didn't make eye contact with him, he wasn't bothered with it that much because he pulled out of the driveway instantly.

"So, how was your weekend?" he was making small talk now, he never made small talk.

"Good," I lied looking out the window.

"Considering you're still in the clothes I grabbed for you after the party on Friday makes me not believe that shit."

"Then ignore what I'm wearing and believe that I said I was good," I kept my eyes trained on the outside world passing by.

"Good thing I'm not Will then," Alec commented almost like he was trying to lighten up the car's negative vibe but failed miserably when he didn't get a satisfying laugh or chuckle, "right too soon for ex boyfriend jokes."