Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Chapter 5

                  Rachels POV

I had to get out of there.

Away from them, Ethan and Stacey, my eldest siblings.

Away from the people i hate the most

Those fuckers

After all these years, they finally decided to show up.

Not a phone call, text, letter, nothing in 10 years, and now they just show up expecting everything to be how it was.

Expecting me to be the same little girl. Yeah right.

They clearly haven't lived in the real world in a long time, cause round here things are different.

I live in a poor neighbourhood. Most people in my building are drug dealers or users.

Cillian lives in a council flat like me, but his is a much better building. He doesn't have a building full of drug addicts and drunks. His is full of poor families, trying to get by.

Dylan lives in a terrace house with his brothers. He shares a room with 3 of them but he doesn't mind. It's better than my place. He's a bit better off than cillian and I but still poor. His parents both work but have 6 sons to feed, so money isn't exactly in plentiful supply.

Anna is the wealthiest out of all of us. She lives on the nice side of town, in a nice house. She has 2 older sisters away at university, so it's just her and her parents at home. Her dad's a lawyer and moms a real estate agent.

Even though I'm the poorest out of the 4 of us, my friends never make me feel it. We don't do expensive things anyway. The most expensive thing we do is go to the cinema which costs $30 at most.

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I texted the groupchat and told them to meet me at our beach spot in 20 mins.

Last year we found an abandoned skate park behind lots of trees at the beach.

It was fenced off by some company who owned the land, meaning to do something with it but they never did.

Dylan and Cillian cut a whole in the fence and now we use that place as our hangout spot.

Its our escape from reality.

Thankfully because of all the trees, others don't know about it and people on the beach can't see it, meaning nobody bothers us.

By the time I get there Anna and Cillian are already there.

" Hey guys" I greet them, letting them know I'm there
" Hey Rach" ," You good?" They both answer at the same time.

"I'm always good" I give them a weak smile, sitting down on the ramp across from them

" Rach, come on we know your not good, what's up?" Anna asks

" How was practice?" I reply with instead, knowing she's probably mad that I didn't go anyway.

I normally never miss practice, choosing to miss school instead, so I can work the day time shift and go to practice in the evening. Today that didn't happen cause the guys made me go to school. Dickheads