Life Gives Second Chances: A Stefanielle Story

Chapter 36: Trouble in Paradise

*as always. No proof read :D*

Friday January 14th

Andi POV:

The talk we had yesterday, somewhat helped. I managed to talk to Drew a little more and she and I are back on full terms. It was just the others I hadn't made up with. Also you may want some background knowledge but we'll get in to that later. Tonight was what I was worried about. Grandma Kathie, or Gigi as she prefers to be called, birthday is quickly approaching. And by approaching I mean tomorrow.

She's leaving tomorrow to go on a wellness trip with her friends so tonight we're having a family dinner. Gigi, Pops, Aunt Steph, Uncle B, Kaylee, Me, Mason, Mom, and Dani. It's only the 10 of us so how bad should it get?

We're currently in the car on the way there. I had my phone back now and was practically destroying Drew's phone with messages that stated how nervous I am. She keeps insisting on the fact that I'm going to be fine but I highly doubt that. Once we went inside my hands started shaking. "Andi darling!" said Pops as he came over to greet me in a hug, which felt needed right about now.
"How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while."
"I'm good. You?"
"Great! How's that head of yours?"
"Could be better honestly but it's ok."
"Kiddo, make sure you take care of it."
"I will."

Mason came over which distracted him long enough for me to escape his presence and go into the living room. Kaylee was sitting on one of the sofas talking her dad and the other one was occupied with luggage so I just decided to sit against the wall. "Andi you can come and sit over here." Uncle B stated. As much as I wanted too, Kaylee stared at me with a death stare. "Nah I'm good. The floor is good." He thought nothing of it and the both of them went back to their conversation.

"Dinner!" Was called out loud and so we all made our way to the kitchen. I sat in between both of my parents and just so happened, Kaylee sat right across the table from me.

Throughout the night there was different small talk. I barely ate anything but it was fine. I felt as if I couldn't eat anything with my cousin sitting in front. "Andi, Kaylee, how's school going?"
"Good." K says in the fakest tone of voice and I just nod in agreement.
"Anything interesting happened lately?"
I shook my head and Kaylee snarked at my action.

"What was that?" Her mom asked.
"Nothing." Was the first word to come out my mouth.
"Oh nothing?"
Don't start this now please, pretty please.
"Yea."
"If you say so." She rolled her eyes.
"Girls what's going on?"
"Nothing." I said once again.

"There's a little debacle in our friend group right now. Caused by a certain person." She just had to say.
"I didn't mean it." I mumbled.
"You didn't mean what bambina?"
"Nothing. It just slipped."
"Telling us all that we should kill ourselves and die, just 'slipped'?"

The whole table went quiet. In honesty I did say that but I was just in the heat of the moment. I didn't mean it about them honestly I wanted it to be myself, and before I knew it everyone turned against me. Which they had every right too.

My heart started racing and tears threatened to spew out my eyes. I just wish we would've talked about this privately instead of in front of everyone, but here we are.

"Andi.."

"I..um...I didn't-"

"You didn't what?" Kaylee snapped rather harshly.

"Kaylee stop it." I heard Aunt Steph say.

"Why?"

"Kaylee!"

"No! She started it! Telling people that 'they should die?' That's all the way messed up you know!"

"It was an accident."

"How was it an accident?! YOU clearly typed it! You knew what you were trying to say! Auto correct didn't change it, Casper didn't type it, and I know for a fact Mason didn't do it. It didn't slip. The only way you could text something like that is when your thinking about it. So clearly it wasn't an accident!"

"I-"

"Bambina." My mom said as she saw me clearly getting worked up. I didn't know if she was upset or if she was just confused and honestly I didn't care.

"I-"

"What Andi?!"

"Kaylee stop it."

"That's fucked up, Dude. You know that? I don't care what your going through, I don't care what you were thinking. I don't care about you anymore."

"Kaylee don't say that." Gigi pointed out.

"No. She's done. I'm done."

By this time, I was looking like a dumb idiot starring at headlights. I wanted to explain myself but my body couldn't force any words out. The room started spinning and I got dizzy. We both just so happened to get up from the table at the same time. I was trying to go outside and there was no telling where she was going. But as I was walking by, I guess she lost it and just roughly pushed me.

Me of course, lost my balance and fell on the floor and hit my head on the corner of the wall. "KAYLEE!" someone yelled. She just carried on up the stairs. I just bolted out the door. Not caring if my head was bleeding or not. I couldn't get control of my breath. I was crying heavier now. I just wanted to go home and lock myself in my room.

"Bambina?" I heard my mom say. "Hey, breath." She came over to coddle me and instead I pushed her away. "Bambina stop!"

"No! No! No! No! Ok! She's right! I said what I said! Those words I typed came from my mouth! There is no other way to explain it! I fucked it! I am a mess up, ok? And there's nothing that you can do about it! I'm the one who deserves to die! Hell in fact I'm the one I was talking about! I didn't want them to die or to kill themselves, I WANTED TO DO IT TO MYSELF!!" And by the time I finished that I wasn't even able to breath anymore. I was wheezing.

"Bambina you're over working yourself. I need you to calm down."

She came over and pulled me into her. As much as I tried to get away from her strong grip against me, I couldn't. I just cried as always, what's new? I don't think I've cried this many tears ever honestly. Soon enough I was calmed down enough for us to go back in the house. Everyone was still sitting at the table and just in shock. Standing at the edge of the table I began to speak.

"I, um, I'm sorry bout everything. The, the texts, the everything. I didn't mean to say it. In fact I wasn't talking about them, I was talking about myself. Hehe. Um, yea. Gigi I'm sorry bout ruining your birthday dinner. I doubt Kaylee wants to even see me so I'll just go back outside. I'm sorry, truly."

I had sat outside for a good amount of time. I wasn't bored or anything. Me and Drew had facetimed and I got to tell her about everything and she also had a bad night because of her dad so we both were crying on the phone all night. But every once in a while I'll crack a cheesy joke so that both of us would crack a laugh, which worked might I add. I just wished this night would've been better.

A/N: It's a short chapter ik ik but we got some drama finally hehehe :) but I hope you enjoyed and enjoy the rest of your day/night. -Shay :)