You Can't Choose Your Family ➸ Demi Lovato

{Chapter 6}

Trigger warning (mention of eating disorder)

You know when you can sense someone watching you? Like you can feel someone's presence? Well you can when you're asleep too. I can vouch for that.

I woke up, screamed and fell off the bed. Maddie's brown eyes, however lovely they are, are pretty scary when their maximum 1cm away from you when you wake up.

I was too tired after last night's antics to climb back into Maddie's bed so I curled up on the floor. The carpet was quite comfy. I re-closed my eyes but I guess there was no chance of more sleep with Maddie cracking up laughing on the bed.

Oh yeh...let me explain why I ditched the blow up mattress...

Well after Maddie and I had pegged it back to her room we collapsed on her bed, crying of laughter. Busting Dilmer had been pretty fun. Luckily by the time I'd entered the room, both were covered. Thank the fucking Lord. I really didn't fancy seeing my naked half-aunt and her boyfriend. Even worse since I've only just met her...

Anyway Dallas and Marissa joined us not too much later. They had tear stained faces. At first I thought Eddie had shouted at them or something but they had just been laughing too hard. Turns out Eddie had thrown his hands up in despair muttering 'girls!' under his breath and left the room pretty swiftly.

Maddie, Dallas and I huddled round Marissa's phone to watch the recording. The first 15 seconds included a lot of flesh and... let's just say Demi was on top and oh my god this is weird I'll stop there.

Dallas then decided we were too hyped to sleep yet. Even though it was almost one in the morning and I actually kind of wouldn't have minded sleeping. But we ended up watching the movie 'LOL' with Miley Cyrus. Pretty trashy movie with a trashy actress. This family's way too obsessed with Disney.

I must've fallen asleep during the movie because the next thing I remember is falling off the bed and ending up where I am now. On the floor with Maddie hanging off the bed above me pissing herself.

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Maddie and I were sitting at the kitchen counter. Maddie was eating some sort of poptart but I settled for a banana. Maddie didn't question it but mom (who was also having breakfast) rolled her eyes at me and sighed. She's always pissed about my eating habits but they're not changing so she's learning to live with it.

She used to sit, staring me down until I finished my plate. But I guess I'm kind of stubborn because I still didn't eat the food. I let it go cold. Mom would give up after half an hour or so. She then tried to scare me out of it by giving me lectures about healthy eating and what not. I told her it was bullshit, not eating isn't going to kill me. It's going to make me skinny. She finally figured I didn't give two shits about what she was saying and yeh now she's succumbed to just rolling her eyes.

"Kia, I wanna go park." Aubrey tugged at my shirt. She still can't pronounce my name, even at five years old (cue eye roll).

Before I could snap back at my little half-sister. Note the half. I'm not totally related to my two little spoilt, annoying, whining (I could go on forever with these adjectives...) siblings. Well anyway before I could reply Maddie butted in.

"There's a park like two blocks down. We can go before lunch." Ah fucking brilliant. A morning in a fucking kids playground, bad enough without the temperature outside. It's like 60 degrees out there, I just wanna curl up in bed and be warm...

"That's a cool idea," mom said from across the counter. "Take Denley too, yeh? I could do with a break from those two munchkins."

Mom could do with a break from those munchkins?! Wait firstly a more appropriate adjective would be 'terrors' or 'gremlins'. Geez, what's with my excessive adjective use this morning?! And secondly, it was moms choice to have the darn children with her darn husband. She can't just dump them on me. I didn't want kids, she did. She can't just dump them on me.

"Sure Amber." Maddie smiled, jumping off the stool and picking Aubrey up. "Aubrey do you wanna go park?" She cooed, bopping her nose. My respect for Maddie was wavering...

"MADISON LEE DE LA GARZA!" A fuming, brunette bed head screeched as she half ran, half stumbled towards Maddie.

"I have a child, HAVE MERCY!" Maddie screamed, moving so the counter was in between her and the bed monster.

"Poor Marissa and Dallas suffered bruises this morning when they were actually innocent and it's all your fault and you forced them to take part or threatened to cut their nipples off!" The bird nested young adult (if you didn't realise yet, I'm referring to Demi) pointed her finger at Maddie accusingly.

I laughed. Cut of their nipples?!

"Shut it Saskia, you didn't escape unnoticed last night-" she glared down at me. I was actually kinda scared, not going to lie.

"What happened last night?" Mom asked. Always scraping into everything. Geez you're a middle aged woman, butt out. (Okay mom is actually 29 but still... oh and yes she did have me at 15 but that's another story). {A/N: I think Amber's 7 years older than Demi but I'm not totally sure so sorry for inaccuracy but just go with it 😅}

"These 4," Demi gestured to Maddie, I and Marissa and Dallas who had just appeared at the kitchen door. "Decided it would be funny to er- interrupt me last night." Demi cheeks blushed red.

Mom laughed. Ew mom you shouldn't even be thinking about sex at your elderly age. Disgusting.

"It was this one's idea!" Demi lunged at Maddie. I don't think any of us had noticed that she'd been edging closer to her. Tactical.

"Aubrey go to mom," Maddie literally dumped Aubrey on moms lap. Haha that kid deserves some dumping once in a while.

A full on chase erupted in the kitchen. Demi managed to grab Maddie's hoodie hood but Maddie shook her off causing Demi to completely loose balance and fall over one of the counter stools and fall on my lap.

"Hey!" I waved, smiling down at her.

"You!" She evilly grinned up at me, "are going down too!" She grabbed my waist and pulled me to the floor. She pinned me to the cold floor and sat on my waist.

"Prepare too-! Arghhhh Madison!!" Maddie ran full pelt into Demi causing her to slam to the floor. I got up, slightly bemused by being pinned down at 10am by an aunt I'd known for 12 hours, and helped Maddie pin Demi down. Maddie tickled her whilst I tried to stop her limbs from flailing wildly.

"Princesa!" A manly voice caused me to look up. Wilmer had entered the kitchen. "Your honourable prince is here to save you!" He raised his arm as if he was raising a sword. I chuckled. His acting skills were...well different. He ran over and grabbed Maddie and I in one arm each. He lifted us both off the ground. Wow, muscly man. I'm surprised he could lift me, not even mentioning he did it with one hand. He must be super duper strong.

Wilmer carried us all the way to the living room and dumped us on the sofa.

"And now for payback," he winked at us evilly. "Hermosa?"

"Coming!" Demi ran in, tripped over her own feet, re-caught her balance and ran behind the sofa where Wilmer had us trapped.

Suddenly it was snowing. Maddie screamed. I screamed.

"DILMER YOU DESERVED EVERY SINGLE SQUIRT OF WATER LAST NIGHT!" Maddie shouted. I looked over to her and collapsed into giggles. She looked like the abominable snowman! We were both covered in flour.

I reached swiftly behind me, where Demi was also suffering from a fit of giggles. I managed to grab her hand and pulled forcefully. She landed on top of me.

"KARMA'S A BITCH!" I screamed in triumph. Maddie raised her hand for a high five. I slapped her hand so hard my hand stung.

"DILMER VS MADKIA IS ON!" Maddie bellowed.

"It's on like fucking donkey kong!" Demi sassed, struggling a bit to speak through the flour.

Well this is going to be an amusing week... funny thing is I'm not even being sarcastic.