Meet Hayley Gallagher, a 22 yr old girl who grew up in the south side but now lives on the Dutton family ranch.
Having grown up without her parents around to take care of her and her siblings she had to step in as both parents, come along and read...
I groan after hearing my phone go off for the fourth time. I roll over to grab it and see that Beth's calling me again.
"Who the hells calling you at 4 in the morning?" Kayce asks from behind me, sleep noticeable in his voice. "Your sister" I say yawning and getting out of bed to answering her finally. "Finally you answer my call" Beth's voice comes through the line.
"Beth when I mean we go shopping I don't mean at 4 in the morning" I say grabbing some new clothes and throw them on.
"Well rip woke me up and I'm bored, there's gotta be a Starbucks or something open right now" she says. I put her on speaker so I can brush my hair and brush my teeth.
"Beth it's 4 in the morning you fucking maniac let us sleep" kayce says coming into the bathroom so he can have a shower. "Morning to you too" she snaps at him. I quickly say bye to kayce and end the call before I make my way downstairs so I can meet her.
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I catch Beth making her way to some alcohol and quickly make my way beside her. "It's not that kinda day cmon you wanted Starbucks right?" I say as I grab her hand walk out of the house and I walk down to my truck.
"Uh no we're taking my car" she says making me roll my eyes but I follow her anyway.
Skip to Starbucks, Beth puts the car in park and we make our way inside. They greet us and than take our order, we sit down and wait for our drinks.
"I heard you saw your dad yesterday, how was that?" She says. "Wait how'd you—" Beth interrupted me before I could ask. "kayce told me when I went upstairs last night" she replied.
We grabbed our drinks and headed back to her car and we started driving towards the mall.
It's not that I didn't want to talk about it to her, she's my best friend after all. But still I hadn't had seen frank on four years and I don't wanna tell her what he said or else she may just kill him before he kills himself with the alcohol and drugs
"So you gonna talk or am I gonna have to talk to my brother again?" she asks impatient. "What's there to talk about, he's just an asshole I shouldn't have even gone to see him" I say looking out the window.
"Are you angry at him for not caring or yourself for caring?" She asks as we pull into the mall parking lot, it's almost six by now.
"I don't know" I say almost as a whisper.
She brings up a good point, but now that I'm older I'd never admit I care about him anymore. In my mind I don't think he deserves it.
"He's still you're dad, I understand and it's me you can talk to me" she says kindly and puts her hand on my arm.
"I just wish he would care... Carl loves him and if anything happened to him he would be devastated" I say quietly. She's quiet for a moment before she answers "Carls gonna get to the age eventually where he's gonna see frank for who he is. Then he won't care."
We talk for a while more before we realize the mall is starting to open, so we gather our things and walk into it.
"What store do you wanna go to first?" I ask "Sephora. I have to grab some mascara" she says as we walk into Sephora.
After a long day of shopping I end up with a couple new pairs of jeans and flannels, well Beth got more dresses and some makeup.
It's already dark as we get back so I'm assuming the work day is done for the day. I get out of her car and grab my bags and we make our way back to the house.
"Thank you for today" I say as we walk back to the house. "Of course, plus I needed to go so minds-well have went with you" she says and I chuckle.
We say our goodbyes and I make my way to me and kayces room.
I walk in quietly and can tell kayces taking a shower because I can hear the water on. I grab my new clothes and put them in the drawers and take off the jeans I currently have on along with my belt.
I grab one of kayces shirt from his drawer and slip it on before walking over to the bed and slipping under the covers.
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I read my book to pass time as I waited for kayce to get out of the shower.
A voice snapped me out of my thoughts and I looked up and saw kayce smiling at me and walking to the bed.
"How was your day?" He asked getting into bed next to me. "It was good, I got some new shirts and jeans. How was your day?" I ask putting down my book on the nightstand.
"It was alright. Had to help dad deal with some shit" he said putting his one arm against my waist.
I hummed as a sign I was listening.
"I know you're dying to ask. Just ask baby" he says chuckling at me. This man could read me like a book.
"Did he talk to you?" I ask cautiously. I know carls still pissed at me, and when he's pissed at me he'd usually just rant to kayce about it.
"No, he was helping Lloyd and since I was with dad most of the day I didn't get a chance to talk with him. He might've talked to Lloyd though." He answers.
"I'll ask Lloyd tomorrow. Goodnight, I love you" I say kissing him and trying to get some sleep.
"Love you" kayce says back and I finally let myself fall asleep.
