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Blue's Clues.

When I woke up, sunlight flooded through the car and I was in so much pain. "Where's my meds?" I asked my mom. Everything was on fire and if I didn't take those meds soon I would die of pain. "Alex has them. Wake him up and he'll give them to you." I turned around, wanting to scream in pain. "Alex wake the fuck up right now." I said shaking his knee. "Hmm?" He said squinting his eyes due to the sun blinding him. "Where the fuck are my meds? I'm gonna fucking die if you don't give them to me. Now." I said and his eyes widened. He dug through his bag looking for my medication while I sat there in fucking agony. "Here." He handed me three pills and I grabbed some water and swallowed them down in a hurry. "Thanks." I said and turned around back in my seat. "What time is it?" I asked, no one in general. "8:30" Ash said in a little voice and I reached my hand back, wincing, tickling his knee. He giggled "Stop sissy, my tummy hurting" He said and I laughed pulling my hand back. "How far away are we from grandmas?" I asked looking at my mom. "About 40 minutes." She said and I groaned. I needed to stretch. 

I grabbed a cigarette and lit it, needing that morning nicotine. I rolled down my window a crack and saw how pretty California was. I took a long sharp inhale of my cigarette and smiled. We were free and happy. Mom was smiling and laughing and Alex was playing with Asher, but not to distract him, to just genuinely make him laugh. I put my cigarette in my mouth and looked at my phone seeing Mary-Anne had texted me. I took a puff of my cig and put it back in my mouth. I opened my phone and opened my messages from Mary-Anne.

Mary-Anne😍

morning babe, how r u doing td?

good, i feel more...free lol. hru doin tho?

good thats good, i'm glad. and i'm actually doin rly good. I talked to my mom abt coming to visit u sometime and she said sometime this week i could😁

AHHHHH OMFG THATS SO FUCKING EXCITING!!!!!

IKR?!?!?! so does tuesday work bc i dont rly need to go to school.

yes hold on lemme ask my motherrrrr

"Mom?" I asked. "Yes honey?" "Do you think Mary-Anne could come visit me on Tuesday?" I asked praying in my head that she would say yes. "Yes, of course she can." My mom answered. "YES! OH MY FUCKING GOD! Thanks mom." I leaned over and give her a kiss on the cheek. 

Mary-Anne😍

okkkk

so...u can't

damn it fine. 

HAHAHAAHA JKJK I GOT U U CANNNN

AHHHHHHH (don't ever do that to me again) HHHHHHHHHHHHH. so only 3 more dayssss

yasssssss. i'm so excited.

same tho. 

try not to murder anyone at ur local mcdonalds

ok y's everyone so dramatic abt that? all i did was hospitalize her and get CHARGED with an attempted murder. i didn't even try to murder her, i was just trying to prove my point.🤷🏽‍♀️

she shouldn't have bullied alex nor ash, they're kids.

and ur not aria🤨alex is now 17 he's a big boy he can take care of himself. i understand y with ash but still same concept. 

yea but i love them and ash is only 8. she shouldn't have been bullying an 8 year old ESPECIALLY ash. 

ok, fair point, but alex is 17 and ur 18 aria. u could get like actual jail time and death penalty now. 

ik but still shouldn't have been picking on ANY of my siblings she had it coming 🤷🏽‍♀️

ok, ur crazy and i love but try NOT to get charged with murder. 

deal🤝

ok, i gtg but i'll text u later babe. love u❤️

ok, love u❤️

I closed my phone, happy that Mary-Anne would be coming to visit me in just three days. I pulled down the sun visor and looked at myself in the little mirror. I needed to clean myself. I looked like I just crawled out of a sewer. My wounds looked gross and I definitely needed to clean those. Speaking of wounds. "Hey mom, we gotta clean your cut today, it'll get infected if I don't." I said and put the sun visor up, not wanting to look at my disgusting self anymore. I would throw up if I did. "Look at you being a little nurse." She wiggled her eyebrows at me. We all laughed at that, because in the family I was the nurse. I had to be. "I guess. How far away are we from grandmas?" I asked. "About 15-20 minutes." "Ah ok." Me and Alex said at the same time. Everyone laughed again at that. 

I looked out the window and the view was gorgeous. There were palm trees and the sun was bright making everything look beautiful. "Where does grandma live" I asked not looking away from the window. "Beverly Hills." My mom answered. "OHHHHH. So she's rich RICH." I said laughing. I didn't know shit about Beverly Hills, only that I'd hear it in movies and that was a rich people area. My mom chuckled and I wasn't expecting her to laugh. "Yes, Ari, she's rich RICH." Alex let a snicker in the back and Asher piped up. "ARE WE CLOSE YET I'M DYING." He let out a little groan and rolled his little eyes. "IT'S NOT FUNNY!! WHAT IF I DIED?!?!" We died of laughter at his overdramatics knowing he wouldn't die. "How about we get McDonalds?" My mom asked and we all let a "WHOOOP" and hit the ceiling of the car laughing. 

My mom pulled up to a McDonalds and asked "Do you guys wanna go in or drive-thru?" "Go in, let's scare them and make them think we're zombies." I laughed but no one else did so I just cleared my throat and said "Maybe not the zombie part? I don't care but I need to stretch my fucking legs and take a piss." We all agreed and got out of the car. 

We went in and everyone looked at us. 'ugh guess I'll say something.' "If y'all take a fucking picture it'll last longer." I started laughing hysterically for no reason and I had to hold my stomach to make sure the stitches didn't burst open. "Oh man, I'm sorry. We just want food guys. So stop staring, it's very rude." I said and walked towards the bathroom having to piss. Some of the bitches stopped washing their hands and stared at me. "Oh my god stop fucking staring you whores." I said rudely and they wrinkled their noses in disgust. 'i might actually murder one of them.'  "Alright you stuck up bitches I just wanna take a leak." I said and walked to one of the stalls opening it and locking it. I pulled my sweats and boxers down and sat on the toilet. I let a sound of relief and I earned some scoffs in return, I chuckled to myself internally.  

I got out of the bathroom and went to where my family was, which was in the line. Alex was holding Ash and he handed him to me. "Hey buddy, what ya watchin?" I asked in a silly voice and he giggled and showed me. Blues Clues. 'good choice' I thought. "Mind if I watch it with you?" "No, you can watch it." He said and moved his tablet in front of me and him so we could watch it. I rocked back and forth like I did when he was a baby, putting my head on his curly locks of black hair, watching Blue's Clues.