Broken Home (Michael Clifford)

Chapter 1

My name is Michael Clifford. I'm seven-teen years old and I live in Sydney Australia. I'm in a band called '5 Seconds of Summer' with my three best mates. I wish I could say that I have the perfect life but I don't. Everyone else seems to think I have the perfect life but boy are they wrong, they don't know what goes on behind closed doors. No one does except for myself.

All I could hear when I awoke was muffled screaming coming from down the hallway. What a great start to the morning. I threw my pillow over my head, covered my ears and begged for the screaming to stop. When it finally died down I took my pillow off my head and uncovered my ears. I just layed there. Will this ever stop? I got out of bed and made my way to the bathroom where I took a shower and got ready to go to Luke's house for band practice.

When I got to Luke's house Calum and Ashton were already here and they all started tuning their instruments, so I did the same.

After two hours of playing covers of songs from various artists like All Time Low, Nirvana, etc.. Luke's mom had went and gotten us lunch which consisted of three large pizzas from the local pizza shop from down the road. We devoured the pizzas and went back to rehearsals. We played about 5 more songs then called it a day. Calum and Ashton left because they had other plans but I'm staying at Luke's for a bit. I don't want to go home yet.

"So how's it going Mikey?" Luke asked me as he turned on his PS4 and handed me a controller.

"It's Okay." I answered.

"No Mikey. I mean how's home? You know I'm here for you right?" Luke pushed.

"Luke. Dude. I said it's okay. You know I don't like talking about this shit so why do you bring it up every time we hang out? Can't we have a normal conversation for once and not talk about my home life?" I snapped.

"Jesus Mikey! I'm just trying to be here for you. I know it's tough but it's better to talk about it then to keep it all bottled up inside. It's better to deal with things with people you trust not by yourself. It will literally eat you alive. I'm sorry for giving a damn about your well being!"

"Luke I don't need your help. I'm fine! I wish you would get this through your thick head. I'm leaving. Let me know when you don't want to ask me about my home life!" I yelled at Luke as I threw his PS4 remote down on the coffee table.

"Mikey come on! I'm sorry dude. I'm just worried about you." Luke pleaded.

"Luke I don't need you to be worried about me! Hell I don't need anyone to be worried about me! No one ever has been so why would I need someone to start now!?" I yelled at him as I walked out his front door and slammed the door in the process.

Jessica's POV

My name is Jessica Carter. I'm seven-teen years old. I was born in Sydney, Australia but when I was little my parents had gotten a divorce my mum moved to America and my dad stayed here in Sydney.

I live with my mum in Chicago. I like it here quite a bit. But I like Sydney a lot better. The people seem to be friendlier in Sydney.

I'm actually going to my dads in two days. I'm quite excited. I have not seen him in three years. I'm going to move in with him. To be honest I miss him quite a bit and I think it would be a great opportunity to meet new people and make new friends.

Here in Chicago I have quite a bit of friends. I guess you could say I'm your average high school girl that gets invited to all the parties and is known for downing the most shots at all the parties. I guess you could say I know how to hold my alcohol.

Actually tonight I'm going to a party that my friends are holding for me as their way of saying goodbye.

My friend Kaylee is coming over in a bit to hang out before the party tonight. Kaylee has been my best friend since I moved to Chicago when I was seven years old. She always has my back and I will always have hers. Everyone at school likes to make jokes about us being lesbians. Which we are not. We are just really close with one another, we are practically sisters.

I get out of bed to continue my morning by first taking a shower. I start to undress, I turn the water in the shower to a hot temperature but not to hot, then I put on my favorite music by the band All Time Low.

When I get out of the shower I get dressed. Today I decided to wear high waisted black short shorts along with a pair or fish net stockings. To accompany the stockings I wear my favorite pair of black Doc Martens. I put on an over sized sweat shirt that says 'Kiss the boys and make them cry'. Once I'm completely dressed I start to do my hair. I normally go for something fancy but today I decided to just straighten my dark brown hair and toss my favorite dark red beanie on top of it. I then continue on with my makeup.

By the time I finish Kalyee texts me saying that she's on her way. I make my way down stairs to search the refrigerator for some type of food I can shove in my mouth. After about spending 5 minutes staring into the refrigerator I only come up with an apple. I guess it will have to do.

"Hey girl!" Kaylee says excitedly to me as she walks into my house.

"Hey" I say as I walk over to my best friend in the whole world to give her a hug.

"So are you excited for tonight?" She asks me.

"Hell yeah! One last night to spend with all of my friends and kids from school." I answered truthfully.

"Yeah okay well do you want to head over there now?"

"Yeah sure"

At The Party

As we pull up to the party I see about 20 people in the front yard all ready plastered. 'Hahah. Light weights' I thought to myself as we walked past them and into the house to find about two-hundred more drunken teenagers.

"HEY JESS OVER HERE!" Someone yelled from my right. I look over to see my friend Casey. Everyone seems to think we are in a relationship but we're not. We just occasionally hook up. No harm done right?

"HEY CASEY!" I scream over the drunken teenagers and the stereo which was playing my favorite bands music All Time Low. I rush over to Casey. When I finally make my way over to him he lifts me up and I wrap my legs around his waist. We have a small make out session.

"Want a drink babe?" Casey asked me. I'm still on holding onto his waist.

"Sure" I answer back. He carries me with him to the kitchen where all the drinks are and he makes me mine.

After the party

"Kaywee I luv yoouu soooo much" I say to Kaylee as she's putting me to bed. Casey drove us back to my house.

"I love you to Jess. Now go to bed you little party animal." She said to me

"Okay mom" I said back to her as I tried my best to hold in my laughs but I failed miserably. Tonight was honestly one of the best nights of my life. I would never be able to thank Casey and Kaylee enough for throwing that party for me.

Now here comes the hard part. Moving across the world to make new friends and finally live with my dad again. I'm so scared yet nervous at the same time. I'm hoping they like me and treat me well. But hey they are teenagers and teenagers can be mean.

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