Best Life

15

I slept on it, I signed the paper, It's not like it will affect our friendship... I hope. I woke up to Ian watching the news, why would an 18-year-old watch the news?

"you're watching the news?" "Yea, your parents are coming up." He responded.

The blond newswoman started speaking. "Do you guys remember the boy who kissed Mateo at the award show and apparently they are dating? Yea so do I, well We found out a few things about the boy. His name is Lathan, fuck type of name is that? Anyways, his parents, Samantha, a Maine Resident, and Lathan, oh he's a junior, New York resident has been placed in prison for the murder of their friend of 16 years, Bryson. They have been given a 50-year sentence so Lathan Jr will be staying in foster care for the remainder of his childhood." Fuck type of news is this? That was a lot of bullshit she just said. 

"This brings us to our last thing about Lathan Jr, since he is staying in foster care we assume he is a minor and is dating Mateo, a 25-year-old man. More on this later at 6" A weird animation of the news channel appeared as it cut to a commercial.

"Anyways we got to get ready for school," Ian said, getting up. "It's another bathroom downstairs, I should have some old clothes that fit you." He said as I got up. Ian looked through his dresser and pulled out a shirt, and some matching sweatpants. "Here, you can keep em'" He handed them to me. "alright," I said as I left to use the downstairs bathroom.

After I showered and did my hygiene I put on the clothes Ian gave me, They were still a little big but it's fine. I didn't have any clean underwear so I'm freeballin' today.

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We pulled up to the school and I went to class. Something about school drains me, especially after my mom went to jail. I went to school so I could be educated, get a good job, make a lot of money and take care of my mom, but that now she's in jail and won't be out for years, I have no motivation.

I listened to the teacher and did the work today in first period. One girl, who was supposedly popular, started handing out Halloween party invitations to everyone in the class. Halloween is tomorrow, she should have handed these out about a week ago.

She got to me and shuffled through her deck of invitations, she didn't do that for anyone else. "Here, I hope you come," She said with a big ass smile on her face." I smiled back and read the invitation. "Halloween party. rsvp here." Pretty bland, I hope the party has more decorations than this. At the bottom in writing, it said."I hope you feel better abt what happened"  

At lunch, I didn't even bother getting a tray, I just went straight to the counselor's office. We talked about the news, Mateo, if we're still dating, and me not eating.

I actually like the counselor, she's nice. I walked into 6th hour, expecting a whole bunch of bullshit. I got the opposite, the class went by very smoothly, and before I knew it I was on my way back to the group home. Ian drove me because he has to turn in the paper that I signed.

"Um, Hi I want to see about being the foster parent to Lathan," Ian said to the front desk. "Oh yes! I remember you, did he sign the form?" Ian nodded as he handed her the paper. "Ok, we have to check your house, make sure he will have a room, and a safe environment, you know." She explained. I went upstairs to pack my stuff.

"Hi, Why are you packing? Are you leaving?" Ashley popped into my room. "Yea, I'm coming to say bye to you guys soon. Since you're here, Bye Ashley" I smiled as I hugged her. "Bye Lathan."

Soon after Ashley left everyone else came into my room. "So your leaving?" They all asked at once. I hummed and nodded. "Yep I'm leaving, so, bye guys, I'll miss you all," I said as we all had one group hug.

"Lathan we're waiting on you." The front desk lady said. I grabbed my bags and put the in Ian's trunk, getting in the back seat.

After she checked the house and concluded that it was safe enough, Ian signed some more paperwork and was officially my foster parent. Eventually, the lady left and I went to Ian's guest bedroom, which isn't a guest room anymore, It's mine!

Ian called his mom, I stood next to him, listening while it was on speaker. "Hi mom," "Hey Killian" "Guess what," He said to her. "What?" "I have a son!" He said a little too happy. "Bye, you play too much," she said, hanging up, causing us to laugh. 

As I unpacked I scrolled through Instagram, I noticed a new interview with Mateo so I watched it. He talks about how we are not together and I apparently lied about my age and tricked him into dating me, we broke up as soon as he found out my real age. This motherfucker really on here lying.

My Instagram and TikTok are blown up with people asking me to explain why I did "what I did" even though I ain't do shit. Oh so he wanna lie, I can do that too.

I posted a black screen with the caption saying "Ima' address this in a few hours." And after a few hours passed, I went live on Instagram, I made sure I had on my sad face. The live filled up with people fast as hell.

"Hi yall, So yall heard that interview and I just want to say, I NEVER lied about my age," I said in a voice that sounded like I was crying before. "I just want to explain what happened," I said as I sniffled. I should be a fucking actor at this point. "So I was leaving school and He was filming for this movie, It was called Love's Tragedies or something." Not or something, it was definitely called that. The movie hasn't even been announced yet, previews or anything. I don't care I'm taking down the movie and him, even his damn team.

"So as I was walking home, I guess I walked near set because he was there, He offered me a ride and I told him my address, Instead of taking me home he took me to his home right." I sniffled more, wiping my eyes. "I can't even talk about it, but he took me to his house and, he was feeling all on me, no matter how many times I begged him to stop" I started thinking of my mom in jail to start crying.

"I was raped that night and I wasn't allowed to go home, I was told by his team that I had to keep my mouth shut or." I took a deep breath and wiped my eyes again "Or they would kill me" I sniffled more. "Mateo would beat on me whenever I said stop or I tried to run away from him. That's why my face was always hidden by jackets when going outside." I let more tears run down my face. "He told me to kiss him before the camera came because he saw it come, My face was also filled with makeup to hide the scars and bruises he gave me from the night before."

"He had his team take me home the next day after we did some publicity stunts. His team threw me out of the car onto my mom's lawn that Saturday." I cried some more "I just don't know why he would lie on me after all that just happened to me, but it's obvious that I was just one of his victims."

I read some questions before I logged off the Livestream "Who is that behind me?" I turned around. "That's my foster dad, he playing the game," I answered. I wiped my eyes and sniffled one more time before ending the live.

"Finally," I said in a normal-sounding voice.

I headed to my new room, and on the way, I ran into Ian's parents. "Hey, your Ian's friend right? You need a ride home?" "No I am already home, I'm Ian's son," I said smiling, heading to my room. I heard some yelling upstairs and I got an unknown number calling me. I answered. "Hi is this Lathan?"

Who do you think is calling Mosey?

How do you think Ian's parents took the news?

How will Mateo respond to Mosey's allegations?