Rebel Love Song

Cookie Monster and Peppermint Tea

Skylar's POV

I sighed as Andy left. Honestly? I had no clue where my hatred towards him was coming from, I knew it wasn't just because he looked like my dead twin, but I couldn't place it. I felt so damn guilty hurting him after he confessed how he felt and me knowing what he was going through. I plugged my headphones in and walked out of the bus. It took a while to find my car in the sea of cars and poeple. Seriously, the concerts over, go home.

I drove to Cuppa and immediately felt awkward when I saw Kayla. She laughed loudly when she saw me and I blushed as others laughed too. I was still in my Cookie Monster onsie. I nervously coughed as everyone stared at me. I sat in the booth I sat in last time and waited for Kayla. "Cinnamon Tea?" I heard a light voice say after a few minutes. I looked up and saw her blue eyes. "actually I want to try the Peppermint Tea with a chocolate chip cookie" she laughed lightly at the situation. Kayla took off and placed my order in a jiffy, a few minutes later I had a steaming cup of tea and three cookies. "Cookie Monster always has more than one cookie so I just stole two other flavors" I looked at her in amusement and nodded. I nibbled the double chocolate mint cookie and hummed in satisfaction. After I was finished with my mini meal I was full. Kayla soon appeared "Anymore tea?" I nodded enthusiasticly and she laughed "well you can order upfront cause I'm off as of 5 minutes ago" I laughed until a girl named Michelle came and gave Kayla a cup of tea.

"It's A Coffee Twist " Kayla answered to my silent question. Michelle nervously waved at me "first day?" I asked, she nodded shyly and scurried off. "Can I try some?" she passsed me the cup and the warm tea filled my mouth. Well shit. This tea tasted like coffee but it wasn't coffee! "I think I'll get one, this is really good!!" she laughed "Nonsense! We can share, it's more than enough for the both of us" she laughed nervously and looked at me through her chestnut hair. My heart accelerated at the thought of my lips being where hers were. It was almost, almost like kissing her. "Unless you don't want to?" I smiled "No that's fine!" I spat out those words a bit too quickly. As always she laughed her beautiful laugh with a little crinkle of her nose. Absolutely adorable.

At first I was hesitant to drink from her cup but after three more cups it became more casual. After an hour I decided to kidnap her. "Pleeaseee!!!" I begged "I-I don't know Skylar" I grabbed her wrist and ran. She followed as I lead her to my car. I gently pushed her in and ran starting the car and taking off before she could process what was happening. In no time we were back at the buses around 1:45 in the morning. Wow the concert ended at 11:45 12:00p.m , I spent an hour and a half away.

I wonder if they left without me to the new venue? What time did we leave last time? Worriedly I lead her to the area where the busses were. They left. The busses were no where in sight as I started to cry. They actually left? Abby would live out my dream instead of me and marry Vic all while she forgets about me and never calls again. My dreams literally slipped through my fingers all for some girl who probably isn't into girls like that. I sat on the ground like a five year old throwing a fit and just cried. Kayla tried comforting me but I cringed at her touch and scooted away. As I sat here crying on the warm gravel my head began to throb from crying resulting in a migraine. "What's wrong?" Kayla would ask through my crying and I would ignore her.

15 minutes later (at least that's what it felt like) I saw two busses pull into the parking lot. As I sat there sniffling, something inside me stirred. It was like a ball of anger that was expanding throughout my body till it consumed my whole being. Growling I got up and marched to the parked busses tearing the doors open. "What the hell?!?! Next time it'd be great to leave a damn message saying where you are!" I took a deep breath and continued, letting my anger out "I thought you freaking left me cause I left. I leave for an hour and suddenly you're gone without a damn word from any of y'all!" I was panting and I felt a hand on my shoulder, instinctly I cringed away hiding my face. I waited for a deafining hit but it never came, hesitantly I looked towards the hand and saw Kayla. She stood there frozen as everyone looked at me.

Jaime looked at me with so much pity I had to look away or I'd cry. My anger evaporated and I felt raw and striped of my emotions. Vic was looking at me with tearful soft eyes as Abby looked down. I knew she saw what happened, I felt guilty. I told her I was better. That I got over it. That the beatings stopped. I lied. And now she knew. I blinked back my tears as they burned my eyes and one bastard left a hot black trail down my cheek. "So gas prices went up 55 cents and that's pretty fucked up considering this thing guzzles gas like I guzzle whiskey" everyone looked at Mike, I stared in disbelief. He hated me, yet he changed the subject. Maybe he felt bad for me? Or maybe he was genuinely upset that gas prices went up. Sighing I went to go change out of my onesie and into something normal. As I exited the bathroom all the chatter stopped and suddenly everyone was focused on me. I walked out and plugged my headphones in, deciding to walk around the lot till things settled down, maybe even till we had to leave. I saw a lamp post and sat down closing my eyes. I let the music flow in me till it was interrupted

"Beautiful silence is frighteningly loud" I nodded in agreement not quite processing the voice "What's normal for the spider is chaos for the fly" I responded with a quote from a movie. The voice hummed in agreement "Normal? Normal is nothing but an illusion of society to trick people in becoming another robot" I turned my volume down as the voice intrigued me. Fascinated almost as the words spewed truth wrapped in wisdom "Sometimes when one can't place a finger on a certain emotion they misplace it turning the whole feeling into something it's not" I sighed opening my eyes to match the voice to the face. The words hit me deep and I had to know.

"you've got to be fucking kidding me" I said, he smiled, "Suprised?" I blankly nodded, how could he say things like that?