happiness is a butterfly

anticlimax

Cassie, Maddy and Nate were all on a mission.

The weeks that followed Maddy's birthday party had been strange to say the least.

Cassie and Nate had fallen back into their routine of clandestine hookups behind Maddy's back.

With his father having moved out, Nate had taken on the role as man of the house and Cassie's sleepovers had become more frequent. He had finally felt freed of the burden his father had unknowingly placed on him all those years back. His mother, on the other hand, had been chain smoking and drinking herself into oblivion. And Aaron continued being the idiot he had always been, fapping off to porn while Nate screwed Cassie in the next room.

In the meantime, he tried to find a way to get the tape back from Maddy. Especially now that she was giving him the cold shoulder.

Maddy had turned the frostiness back on as far as anything Nate was concerned.

"I'm just so mad at him!" Maddy had not been impressed with Nate's attitude at her birthday. "If Nate thinks he can waste more of my time, he has another thing coming for him."

"What do you mean?" Cassie had asked, trying to gather more information from her enraged friend.

"I could ruin Nate and his whole asshole of a family ."

"How?"

And had Maddy been less focused on herself and her relationship with Nate, she would have taken more notice of her friend's sudden interest in her matters.

And had she taken notice of that, she probably would've been less likely to reveal the existence of the disc to Cassie.

"Does Nate know you have this?" Cassie had asked, her heart in her thumping in her throat at her friend's reveal.

"No, he would kill me. Cass- what is on this is really bad." Maddy had emphasised tapping her nails on the disk. "Like jail bad."

"I'm tying up loose ends."

"So are you going to blackmail him into getting back together?" Because what Cassie had against him was definitely not jail bad.

"Are you crazy? Nate can never know I have this." Maddy paused in front of her mirror, the one with the photobooth photo of her and Nate. "I just want to know he's going to change this time."

"You deserve so much more than him." Cassie felt her hands go clammy and the heart in her throat turn into bile.

And as she ran into her friend's ensuite to empty her stomach, she felt her head spin and her stomach churn. What are you doing Cassie?

"Bitch, if I didn't know better I'd say you were pregnant..."

If I'd have known what we'd turn out to be I would've never let you close to me 'cause all you ever did was let me down.