Dawn of a new era

Chapter 14

Her blood ran hot, her eyes were on fire, her chest was full. The male counterparts of her family tended to make her want to murder the entire male population with their moronic brains. Except lance, but lance didn't count as a man. She took a deep breath. 'Act your age' swirled around in her mind. Act her age? What the fuck kind of bullshit was that? She was acting her fucking age. Society set up stupid fucking standards for people in their twenties, and Dawn was known for fucking standards (not literally, she isn't that much of a failure at relationships)  and taking down those who tried to enforce them on her.

"I am acting my- Sarah do you cover your kids ears for curse words or just terms for gay things? Because this will not be pg 13" Dawn said, then looked back at her dad. "As I was saying, I am acting my bloody fucking age. No one has ever been me, Dawn Hunter, at twenty one, three months and four days. No one has ever had to deal with my boiling mess of a family at twenty one, three months and four days. No one has ever had to interact with your bigoted, homophobic, trash ass at twenty one, three months and four bloody days!" She yelled, sarah escorted the kids out of the room, she turned and raised her hands to cup her mouth, "Don't worry kids! Gay aunt Dawn won't be influencing you into her disgusting and disappointing love filled life!" She flipped off her dad and brother, took off the stupid heels she'd chosen, dumped them in Benedict's lap and stormed out. 

She climbed in her car, and sped away. About two blocks away she pulled over to the side of the road and screamed. No words, no semblance of words. Just pure anger and frustration and anguish. Her vocal chords vibrated with the power she could unleash. Except this was a rental car and she didn't want to pay more than she had to. She hated her father. Hated her brother. Hated herself. She hated all the secrets she was keeping from her mom and brother. She hated everything. She wanted the world to burn, starting with her so she wouldn't have to save it.

She didn't remember starting to drive again amongst all her hating, but she somehow wound up in the airport, dropping the car back off. She got on her flight back to croatia, not wanting to stay in the UK any longer than she needed to, knowing her mum probably already knew she was there. Halfway through the flight, she realised she'd started crying. She was so in her damn bloody head that she didn't have a handle on her stupid emotions. She landed, wiped her tears, and quietly thanked Max for making her take a commercial flight and not fly herself on Rise. She'd probably be at the bottom of the ocean if she had.

She grabbed a bottle of tequila, then turned around and bought another one in the gift shop before walking out to where Calypso had said she'd be waiting. "Hi, ma chérie- what's wrong?" She asked, when Dawn went straight for a hug, tucking her face into Cals chest. She didn't get answer, but she didn't need one. She lifted Dawn up and sat in the back seat of dawns car with her, stroking her back with her finger tips.

Dawn was mumbling, it wasn't really words. More like angry and sad sounds, disappointed sounds, destroyed, emotionally destroyed. She'd hoped maybe her dad or brother would have changed. She'd hoped Sarah wouldn't be such a bitch. She'd just.. put too much hope in people she shouldn't have. God, she wanted to call her mum, she wanted to call her brother. She wanted a Lance hug. But she couldn't have it. She couldn't see him and lie. She couldn't.. she was a horrible sister. Soon enough, she was sobbing into Calypso's chest, soon enough she was choking on her sobs, soon enough she was clutching her persons shirt in her fists and sobbing so hard she wasn't making any noise. Soon enough she had exhausted her body, soon enough her body was out of tears.

Calypso held her hurting girlfriend, she held her close, she stayed quiet, she thought of her dad. She thought of her mother. She thought of how lonely she was before meeting Dawn and Max. She thought of how she missed her parents. She thought of how lonely she knew Dawn was feeling even with her family only a phone call away. she thought of the lies she was keeping from Dawn. She thought of the way she loved dawn with her whole soul. She thought of how she needed dawn and dawn needed her. She thought of the absolute heartbreak the two would endure if she told her. She pulled Dawn closer and rested her chin on the crying girls shoulder.