Destinations

Chapter Nine

"Please, Aery..." Aerona looked her crying, desperate mother in the eyes. She showed no remorse no sorrow, no nothing. Aerona was completely emotionless as her mother begged for forgiveness and money. Aerona chuckled sarcastically.

"Why should I help you?" She smiled with a harsh giggle, leaning back in the chair. "What have you done for me?" Aerona's heart was pounding and she wanted to break down in tears.

"You're all I've got, I'm alone and I gave you life." Chasity, Aerona's brunette mother cried.

"Alone? You better get used to it because alone is something you'll be quite often. Nobody will ever fucking love you let alone give you money to feed your addiction. You want some fucking coke? Get it your damn self, cunt." Aerona spat in disgust before standing up and walking away. She didn't even make it to her car before she was stopped.

"Listen here, bastard. I put you into this fucking world you better believe I'll take you out!" Chasity hoped that would scared her daughter into giving her money for some more drugs.

"You gave me life!? Is that what you call it!? Go ahead! Take me out of it! I would love that you crack bitch! Here! Here you fucking go! Maybe this time it'll be enough to kill you!" Aerona reached into her bag as tears began running down her face. She threw a plastic bag of cocaine at her mom before running off to her car.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Aerona thrashed around as she struggled to place her key in the ignition with her blurry eyes. She wanted to get completely wasted but she couldn't. She wasn't physically ready to drink down alcohol, she had something in mind but she needed to leave.

Luke finally found a job and was ready. He would be working as an assistant for a big record company CEO. He has a lobe for music and always wanted to be in that field but he knew that would never happen.

He was coming back from work as he saw Aerona walkingnonnthe side walk. He knitted his eyebrows and pulled up next to her. Aerona was about to take off running in fear but she noticed it was only Luke. Although she noticed she didn't stop walking, she didn't want to talk. Luke was worried and hopped out his car. "Aerona, baby?" He jogged to get to her. "What are you doing out here? Talk to me." He tried to hold her small hand but she moved it away. "What's going on with you?" He was wanting to know.

"Leave me the fuck alone!" She screamed at the worrying lovesick Australian.

Luke backed up a bit. "I just want to be here for you..." Luke tried to make her understand, his chest hurt as she pushed him away.

"Why!?" She cried.

"Because I...I love you." Luke said and looked into her eyes. It felt so good to have that off his chest but he was scared for the response.

"No..." Aerona didn't want this to happen. "You don't get to! You can't love me..." She said, her tears still falling and she sniffed up snot.

"Why not!?" Luke shouted, he was sick of the weird signals. "How come you get to be in charge of everything!? Yeah, I love you!" He pulled at his hair as his chest rose. His heart rate had sped up and he was breathing irregularly.

"Fuck you!" Aerona screamed and ran away from the crying male.

Aerona couldn't stand it anymore. Everything around her was falling apart, she wad falling apart. She couldn't handle everything going on internally and externally. It was suffocating her and making her feel stuck in a vulnerable stage, she couldn't comprehend everything. She wasn't made for this. She wanted to scream until her voice stopped working. She wanted to throw things and break things, she wanted to feel everything but she also wanted to feel nothing.

She's confused and hurt. She's emotionally and physically tired. She wants to be everywhere and nowhere. She wants just one person but she also wants everything. She wants to hurt everyone but at the same time just wants to hurt herself. She was going crazy.

Luke was confused, angry, tired and sad. He felt like he had everything in the world with one person. He wanted to do everything and nothing with her. He wanted to be someone she could run to and tell everything to, he wanted to talk to her about everything and nothing. At the same time he wanted to love her like theres no tomorrow but he knows he can't. He didn't understand his feelings for her the same way she couldn't understand her feelings for him.

Luke has never felt this way and neither has Aerona. They are confused about one another, each of them comprehending their feelings in different ways. Luke wanted nothing more just to be next to her but also had a feeling he shouldn't have anything to do with her. Aerona wanted nothing more just to leave him alone but she felt like she needed to be next to him. They were tearing at each other's heads and only Luke knew what his feelings meant.

"Shit!" Luke kicked down a fragile chair he had in the corner of his room. It broke but he didn't care to notice, he just let tears fall down his face and laid down.

"Fuck..." Aerona sighed before placing the acid in her mouth and swallowing it. She got lost in her drug induced world. The last sober thought was about Luke.

Neither of them could believe they were getting do overwhelmed with one another. They barely know anything about each lther. They don't know what's going on inside their young minds, nobody does.