The Bolter | Walker Scobell

Chapter 8

Trigger warning:
This chapter contains alcoholism, if you're not comfortable reading about this I would advise to skip this chapter <3

"Mom stop it please" I got into the living room and saw Cassie standing in the middle of the room a few feet away from mom with tears running all over her face while her friends were standing a little behind her all with scared expressions on their face

There were broken pieces of glass all around the room and mom was holding a glass in her hand

"Mom" it was more of a whisper that came from me as I took a second to get the whole situation in my head

"Mel" Cassie looked at me now, everyone else doing the same while I just stared at my mother

"Cass take your friends and go outside for a second yeah ? There are some snacks on the table there" I tried very hard to stay calm to take the obvious fear away from the younger girls

Cassandra nodded and turned around leading the way to the back door and out into the backyard

"What are you doing here" she threw the glass into my direction but she was so drunk already that she missed me by a lot, I still flinched trying to stop myself from shaking, I had witnessed things like this happen too often to let it just affect me anymore, she grabbed the bottle from the table and took a drag out of it

"Mom I think that's enough" I carefully stepped closer to her and tried taking the bottle away

"No it's my bottle"

"Mom come on"

"Let go" she pushed me back, making me stumble and fall onto the floor, suddenly I was 8 years old again witnessing my mother be extremely drunk for the first time and trying to figure out why she was so angry at me, I was that little child again who was too scared to even move in fear of what her mother would do

"Mel are you okay ?" I blinked looking up at Destiny who crouched besides me

"Yeah I'm okay"

"You should put that bottle away Monica" Destiny helped me get back up while Cole tried to take her bottle away

"Why are you talking anyways ? You're not my child why should I listen to you ?"

"I've got this, you'll just make her angrier" I whispered softly pushing him a little behind me "You've outdone yourself again mom look at what you did" I gestured toward the room "You humiliated your daughter in front of all of her friends isn't that great ?"

"I didn't do anything, this is your fault Melody. You're just as pathetic as your stupid name. Oh how I wish I had a better daughter but instead I got you"

"That's enough mom- mom what are you doing ?" She stumbled past me and towards the front door

"All of it is your fault" I heard her mumbling while she kept walking, I knew there was no point in trying to stop her, I've witnessed this way too many times to do that mistake again so I just watched her leave

I felt horrible, like ripping my skin off of my body wouldn't be enough to make me feel better

This was my fault. I made her mad, leading her to drink and fuck up the entire night

I had outdone myself again, I could have just shut up and enjoyed having a nice caring mother but instead I fucked it up

"It's not your fault Mel" I didn't listen to Destiny but instead pulled myself together and went outside, Cassie was sitting on the step outside, an entire sobbing mess while her friends tried to comfort her, it seriously broke my heart to see her like that

"Cassie ?" She got up and ran to me, wrapping her arms around my torso and resting her head against my chest, I closed my eyes wrapping my arms around her too, placing one of my hands on the back of her head "I'm sorry Cass"

"Is your mother gonna be okay ?" I looked at the girl who had said that, smiled at her and nodded

"Yeah she's gonna be okay, she just had a bad day and this- this new medication that apparently didn't react well with her. I brought her to bed now she's gonna be fine when she wakes up, just a bad day" I had come up with this excuse so many times until I learned to stop inviting friends over while she was around

"Cassie ? We can leave if you want to be alone for a bit, it's not that important if we just skip one weeks sleepover" my sister let go of me and turned to her friends wiping her tears away and shaking her head

"No"

"Do you want to go home ? We can drop you off if any of you don't want to do this tonight, no questions asked" all of the girls shook their heads at me

"We didn't get to do the karaoke yet" one of the girls said making all of them laugh, I smiled a little too running my hand up and down my sisters back

"Alright then, let's do the karaoke. I'll just get the living room cleaned up real-" I turned around to find Destiny using a broom as a microphone to sing while Cole picked up the pile of glass on the floor singing along too

I always knew I had amazing friends but right now I knew that I couldn't have asked for better friends, these people had my back no matter what and I wasn't getting rid of them even if I wanted to, which I really didn't

"I'll get the microphones then and we'll leave you to your karaoke" I grinned as the girls rushed inside

"Can't you stay here too ?" I looked at the girl who looked at me with a smile

"Yeah, join us at the karaoke" another one of them nodded

"We wouldn't want to annoy you here"

"You're just scared that you can't sing" I looked at Cassie

"Oh is that a bet ?"

Authors note:
DOUBLE UPDATE WHOOP WHOOP
Again not fitting the vibe of the chapter at all 😬
My girls got bad trauma :(
I did drop her name though if you didn't notice while reading 🤭
I hope you enjoyed both of todays chapters and I really hope you enjoy this book so far 😆🫶🫶