Sydney has a love hate relationship with her school's football team. They love her but are idiots so. Her home life is fucked LMAO her brothers an asshole but an asshole she loves. She has a hot and perfect best friend Carly. Will she fall madly in...
"So no Carly tonight?" My brother Eli asks, trying to seem nonchalant as he queues up music for the car ride.
"Now, now Eli, I know you have a little crush but let's not have this turn into a dependency!" I joke.
Eli and Carly, my best friend, have always had this weird unresolved sexual tension type thing going on. At first it was weird but now it serves as one of my main sources of entertainment.
"Shut up I just needed to know if I was dropping her off or not"
Oh how I loved to see my brother embarrassed. He proceeds to put on some obscure Nirvana song, which I'm sure he only listens to to look cool, and we pull out of the school parking lot.
I open up my phone, and tense at the sight of the top notification
Liam
"Care to explain? 1 attachment"
"Shit" I sigh out loud and press play on the video. I already know what this is. Eli glances over at my phone as the sound of 90210 by Travis Scott muffled by people talking plays through its speakers.
"HA I saw that video earlier today. Good shit Syd, what's your next move? Skinny dipping to Kendrick Llamar?" he laughs
"Oh shut up" I retort
"No seriously, all I could think while I watched that video was how proud I was to be related to you."
I roll my eyes and start to type my reply to Liam.
"Sorry, too much tequila haha. Guys got me down before too much came off so no need to worry"
Liam and I have a complicated relationship. We used to be super serious. Everyone loved him, he plays baseball and gets good grades. The problem was his anger issues. And the jealousy. Let me tell you, not a good combo. I was suffocated in that relationship. I had to watch my every action and word around other guys so that Liam wouldn't think there was anything going on. And if he thought there was, then came the screaming. Screaming became shoving and shoving became hitting. He was always very apologetic and I never blamed him. He really was a sweet guy, his anger just got the best of him sometimes. When we broke up I never told anyone about the violence, just that we didn't work out. Him and I are still friends and we still care about each other, hence the concern about the drunken stripping.
Liam
"Oh haha, just making sure I don't need to report anyone for child pornography! Hope you had good practice."
Eli glances over at my phone again.
"You're still talking to that clingy motherfucker?"
Eli had never warmed up to Liam, thought he was a little bitch. His words not mine. He all but cheered when I told him we broke up.
"I don't wanna hear it Mr. 'Dates The Clingiest Girls Ever'"
He has no right to judge Liam. Especially considering one of his girlfriends confronted me thinking I was some side chick of his since she saw me get out of his car. I've felt no greater joy in my life than the moment I told her I was his little sister.
We finally pulled into our empty driveway. It was kind of a sad sight to see our once beautiful house so lifeless. It really was a pretty house, a simple white with black trim, large windows, and some exposed wood. You couldn't expect less from my perfectionist parents. Too bad they were never around to enjoy it.
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(how I imagine their house)
Eli walks in front of me, unlocking the front door. We step into the unnecessarily large kitchen and turn on all the lights.
"You hungry kid?" Eli asks, opening the pantry.
"Ya but I'm gonna hop in the shower first. I'll have whatever you're having."
"Alright well we have absolutely no groceries. I'll order some tomorrow."
He turns around to face me and pulls out his phone.
"How does Chipotle sound?"
"Ooo sounds great, get my usual?"
"No problemo"
I head towards my room and toss my school and soccer stuff in the corner. I glance over at my clock, 7:00. How is it only 7? I walk into my connected bathroom and angrily strip off my soccer gear. There is nothing more frustrating than struggling to take off sweaty soccer socks that have been suffocating your feet for 2 hours.
I come out of my steamy shower smelling like roses, some may say it's my signature scent, and put on a pair of liams huge hockey sweatpants and some random black bra top. I know it seems weird to wear my ex-boyfriend's clothes, but it's not like that. They just happen to be the most comfortable sweats I own.
I head downstairs and grab my chipotle. I can already hear Eli in the living room yelling at the TV. I have no interest in listening to him scream at a TV referee for an hour so I run back up to my room. Sitting in my bed I put CodyKo on the tv and open my laptop. I spend about an hour and a half doing homework and eating my burrito while Cody and Noel scream something about cum powder in the background.
Before I know it, Eli's come up to say goodnight and I'm turning out my own lights. I scroll on my phone a little bit before finally shutting it off and trying to sleep. I'm brutally awoken by my phone buzzing on my nightstand
"What time is it?" I murmur to myself before picking up my phone.
"Hello?" I say groggily
"Heyyyyy Sydney. I have a huge huge favor to ask." I immediately recognize the voice
"What the fuck do you want James. What fucking time is it."
"Woah, someone doesn't like to be woken up. It's like 1 am and I'm with Cade and-"
"Its a tuesday night why the fuck are you with Caden at 1 am." Maybe I'm being a bitch but I very much value my sleep.
"Well Cade and I were doing a bit of drinking at the park. I mean we didn't want to get plastered, we were just bored after practice. I mean it was a hard practice and coach..."
"Get to the point James." As the sleepiness started to wear off I began to pick up on his frantic tone. "Well Cade got a call from Liv and let's just say it wasn't good." Liv, or Olivia, was Cadens girlfriend. Or ex-girlfriend? It was hard to keep track. They were very off and on again, very toxic. It physically hurt me to watch him date someone so bad for him. She didn't like me either which really sucked.
"They fought for like 45 minutes and then he hung up and he wouldn't tell me what was wrong and he downed like a whole bottle of svedka and I don't know what to do with him." James rambles
"And you're calling me about this because?" I didn't understand why I would be at all involved in this.
"Well I can't bring him home like this. I told his parents he was sleeping over at my house but my mom's gonna freak if she sees him. And I hate to do this to you but I know your parents aren't really around and- I'm so sorry Syd I wouldn't ask if I didn't really need this but do you think he can crash at your place?"
I was silent for a little while. James was the nicest guy on the team. Always looked out for his friends, good listener too. He was the only person, besides Carly, who I had opened up to about my parental situation. I couldn't blame him for asking but I really did not want to have to deal with drunk Caden right now. But he'd been such a good friend to me I couldn't just leave him hanging.
"Sydney?" He asks shyly, jolting me back to the present
"Yeah um.." I sigh, "bring him over."
Yaaas chapter 2. Even if no one reads this I'm still gonna write it lmaooooooo.
