Sunny heard a notification sound in his headphones and turned back to his PC, still in shock at what happened. He looked to his monitor and clicked on Skype's flashing icon.
Baisl Charron: hi sunny!! im home now!
Sunny began to respond. His hands were shaking.
Sunny Whitbaker: Hey, Basil. Let's call, I need to talk about something.
Baisl Charron: oh, ok, did something happen?
Sunny proceeded to click the call button. Basil quickly answered. "Hi Sunny!"
His cheerful tone was welcome, but also soon soured. "Hey Basil. Mari did something..."
Basil quickly caught on. He had some suspicions, too. "What happened? Did she hurt you?"
"She..." Sunny paused. How the fuck do you explain what just happened. "She tried to have sex with me..."
There was a lot more to it than just that, but it wasn't exactly easy to say out loud.
"She WHAT?" Basil had never had such rage in his voice. "What is wrong with her?! You need to call the police on her!"
After a moment of consideration, Sunny shook his head. "I can't. She's my sister... she saved me from drowning. I don't want to ruin her life like that."
"She's a monster. Anyone who could do something like that to their own family is." Basil denounced.
"She- She's not that bad..." Sunny wondered why he was defending her. Probably some stupid cognitive dissonance thing. He'd worry about it later.
Basil sighed. "Okay, look, I'll deal with her later if nothing happens, but at least tell your mom when she comes back. After that, I'll solve things." Basil spoke with conviction that made Sunny shiver.
"I think I might not play for today now... sorry." Sunny sheepishly said.
"It's okay. After what happened to you, I don't blame you. I'm always here to talk, okay?" Basil's tone returned to a lighter one.
Sunny nodded, before remembering his friend can't hear head movement and said a quick "okay" before leaving the call.
He was never great with goodbyes.
Right before he was going to take his headphones off, Sunny got another call. This time, from Aubrey.
"Sunny! You'll never fucking believe this." Aubrey began the call rather loudly.
"Yeah?" Sunny answered.
"Carrie fucking broke my Uncle's calliope. It's not even mine. And that bitch has the nerve to deny it!"
Sunny felt guilty as he remembered accidentally breaking it. Thankfully, she was blaming it on someone else, specifically someone who already did mean things to her.
"I'm telling you it was that emo dumbass you hang out with, not me, you dumbass slut." Carrie sarcastically claimed in the background
"Who are you calling a slut, you carrot-brained bimbo!" Aubrey shouted back.
Sunny cringed at the audio peaking, but also realized that Carrie saw him break the calliope... whoops... again.
"You only hang out with dudes, except Kim, which all the boys call Kim Jugs-Un! We all know you're a whore!" Carrie laughed.
"Go fuck yourself!" Aubrey yelled.
Sunny covered his mouth to stop himself from laughing. "Kim Jugs-Un" was so stupid he had to... then he got the joke the boys were making. Her "jugs" were as fat as Kim Jong-Un. That was a very original, if still very perverted and gross, joke.
Aubrey's phone made really loud sounds before they suddenly stopped. It sounded like Carrie and Aubrey got into a physical altercation, and she dropped her phone.
"Get off me, you fat pig, you're gonna give me crush syndrome!" Carrie yelled in the distance.
"I'm gonna fucking break you in half!!" Aubrey shouted. She was always kind of intense...
Sunny almost hung up but then heard Kel's voice out of nowhere. "Get off of Aubrey, you sonofabitch!"
In spite of the technical error of Carrie being a girl, therefore not a son of anyone, let alone a bitch, Sunny decided to stay in the call to hear Kel out.
"Go away, Kel! I can handle this bitch on my own!" Aubrey protested.
"Stop kicking my crotch, fuck!" Carrie said in pain.
"We got 'em Aubs!" Kel said. Sunny could tell he was holding his hand up for a high five. Aubrey left him hanging, it seemed.
"I didn't need your help, y'know. Plus, you're a guy, you're like, not supposed to hit girls." Aubrey claimed.
"Oh yeah, shit, Hero's gonna kill me." Kel muttered.
Aubrey seemed to be coming over to her phone, ending Sunny's eavesdropping.
"Hey, Sunny, sorry, I had to knock some sense into that redhead dumbass." Aubrey excused.
"Oh, hi, Sunny!" Kel said from the background. He sounded more cheerful than Aubrey.
"You okay?" Sunny inquired.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Got a black eye. It'll heal." Aubrey said casually. She sniffed in as she spoke.
"Jesus christ." Sunny remarked.
"I tore my shirt, fuck... or she did. I dunno. Fuck, my Uncle's gonna be so mad..."
Sunny sat quietly. He heard someone on the stairs, either going up or down. Sunny went on high alert.
"I'll call you back later, okay?" Aubrey asked.
"Sure." Sunny said inattentively. Aubrey hung up the call, and Sunny got off his PC, ready to investigate.
YOU ARE READING
A Cage with No Key
Fanfiction- AU - Sunny has been making his way through school as Mari has started her success as a pianist, playing for national events and concerts. throughout it all, she hasn't moved out, though. She says it's for Sunny, but it couldn't be for him alone, o...
