Falling Away With You

Six

Scarlett's P.O.V.

We were all fucking exhausted. Even Noelle, who didn’t even come out with us last night. But, we did force her to go get us breakfast.

We all gathered around Pipers living room and watched television, being hung over as possible. Thank god for fake i.d.s

Somewhere in the midst of the comfortable silence, I remembered Pete, and suddenly my happiness faded. How could it be right that I was having such a good time, when he was probably starving at home? Mason could barely feed himself, let alone Pete.

Kendall nudged me, smiling politely. “Can we talk?” she asked me and I shook my head no.

I knew what she wanted to talk about. “Maybe some other time…too hung over right now.” I dismissed myself and got up to get a glass of water in the kitchen.

I swirled the water in the glass for a while when Piper came up behind me.

“You can’t avoid her forever, you know.”

“Look, I don’t need a therapy session right now.” I told her and emptied the glass in the sink.

“I think you do.” She smiled and leaned against the counter beside me, patiently waiting for me to talk to her. Could I really trust her? Who’s to say she won’t just run off and tell Kendall right away.

I started walking away when Piper laughed. “Oh so now you’re avoiding me too?”

“No, you just need to stay out of my business.”

“Your business?! It’s all of our business when Kendall is out there crying.” She shouted at me and I flicked at the piercing on my knuckle. “I don’t need this right now.”

“I continued walking away, her following after me. “You can’t keep acting like this, you'll lose all of us.”

“Good, I don’t fucking want you! I don’t need any of you!” I yelled back and I looked at Kendall whose lip was quivering. “Especially you.”

I stepped out of the house and ran downstairs. Noelle was just pulling up with groceries and offered me a ride back but I just told her to fuck off.

Maybe in some fantasy world people could trust each other after only a few weeks of knowing each other but not with me.

I didn’t have to explain anything to them. Kendall may be my sister by blood but she’s done little to show for it. She grew up so privileged. Her parents own a chain of casinos and restaurants and Vegas, making several million a year whereas I was lucky if I made it into a home that wasn’t below the poverty level.

She has no idea what I went through, and worst of all, even with all of the money she had she never once tried to track down any of our relatives or even me.

Her parents had to have known I existed, they just never told her. But that doesn’t excuse her, or any of them. They can fuck off for all I care. I don’t need any more people promising me shit only to abandon me when things get tough. Not now that I can actually control my own future.

By the time I got home- the dorm- it had been only two hours. I stopped by the store first to pick up more microwavable food considering that was the only way I could “cook” food at the dorm house.

Piper had offered to have me stay in one of the spare suites but I didn’t take handouts that big, but I was afraid I would be spending my money on things too much too soon.

Around nightfall I decided to head down to the club, mostly in search of a way to get my mind off of things but also for employment.

I knew none of them would be there because we had uni tomorrow.