Chapter Twenty Six.

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My team is losing, battered and bruising...
I see the high fives between the bad guys...
Leave with my head hung, you are the only one...
Who seems to care!

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JJ~

"SERIOUSLY bro...this is all very much messed up okay?" I say, shaking my head as we all watched Rory storm out of the Chateau after slamming the front door loudly. "You gotta choose and you are choosing Rory and Kie!" I added.

"JJ, it's not that simple, dude..."John B replied, recovering from his shock and taking a swig of his beer. "They all have to be in on it,"

"Okay, you are hurting Kie and Rory, bro...and for your information, you do not want a pissed off Ro on your back right now," I countered. 

"John B, I know who I'd pick...it's Kie and Ro. They have been here with us since the start...they are our girls, we can't just ditch 'em," Pope added, agreeing.

"Exactly, Rory's already going through some shitty stuff and now you've got her all angry...trust me, you do not wanna see how she is when she's angry," I rolled my eyes, tutting at him as I threw the lid of my beer bottle in the sink.

John B scoffs. "JJ, Rory's my sister, I've seen her angry...she's a tiny little thing who has the anger of a kitten, alright?" He rolls his eyes.

"Kitten, you say? Huh?" I repeated. "C'mon, c'mon you gotta see somethin'," I say as I grab his arm and make him follow me. I lead down the hallway to her bedroom which was still in the same trashed state from all those days ago. "Look at this shit!" 

"What the--" He stuttered, eyes roaming around the entire room. 

The only thing that was in its proper place was the bed and mattress and the desk.  All of her things; posters, the decorative vines and banners, the dreamcatchers, notebooks, pens, papers, all still scattered around on the floor. 

"What happened here?" He turns to look at me.

"Lili had a breakdown is what happened," I replied. "The day the DCS took you...she came back for her meds, and this happened..." I explained. "She's too tough and too fragile at the same time, JB...She tore apart her entire bedroom that day, took her meds, and then got high..." I said. 

"Holy shit..." He sighs, stunned at the new information.

"Still think she's got the anger of a kitten?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "You are hurting her right now...you are hurting both of them, and for who? Sarah?" I rolled my eyes at him as I began to leave Rory's trashed bedroom. "You've known her what? Two days?" 

"Look, JJ...I get it. I seriously do...Ro's in a weird place right now. She's hurt, she's angry, she's acting out. I know it, I see it...and it's all probably because of the anxiety and stuff, but there's no way, I'm not doing this without her." He replied. 

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