crossovers.

white lighters

|| college AU ||

there has been so much negativity going on in her life at university to last her a lifetime and having to carry grief on her shoulders made things worse.

violet exasperatedly rolled her eyes as her dad continued babbling about how disrespectful she is for disobeying his "no cigarettes allowed" zone in the house.

"listen to me, violet. you are not going to waste your life away on those...those sticks! do you hear me?" her dad's been temperemental lately as well so she understood.

"all right," she said calmly. disbelief wrapped her dad's face.

"no. no this - are you playing with me?" she shook her head and balanced her weight on one leg as she continued looking at him.

"give them to me." violet, now standing equally on both feet, crossed her arms, trying to hide her cigarette and lighter. "violet."

"fine." she handed him both and started walking out of his office.

violet was halfway down the hall when she remembered a great reply.

"you know what. when mom was alive she didn't care about these kinds of things."

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"i can't believe he would still keep bossing me around. like, uh, hello i can clearly take care of myself now. remember when you left to go to boston and we got attacked in our own home?"

violet plopped down on the bed as tate watched her face go all red with so much frustration.

"well, you got a point and he has his, so..." tate shrugged his shoulder.

the bottle of liquor sitting down next to the chessboard caught his attention and grabbed it, chugging a quarted down.

"give me some of that."

tate passed the bottle and just before it touches violet's lips, her dad came running through her door.

"violet! i've been calling your name for the hundredth time why aren't you -"

shocked and bewildered. soon anger flowed through him.

"get out, tate! leave us alone."

tate scrambled to his feet and shamefully left violet's room.

slightly tipsy and overly pissed, violet stood up and walked to the door.

"and where do you think you're going?"

"what else do you want to take away from me, huh? you took mom away. you took my cigarettes, which helped me with coping. and now you're taking him too? what kind of greedy little bitc-"

a hand landed on violet's pale cheeks and soon it was marked red.

"i'm so sorry, violet. i didn't mean to-"

"save your sorry for yourself, dad."

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it's been a few weeks since the incident in her room, but violet still hasn't hang out with tate. during lunch she would see him walking to their usual place, but he would swerve out of her way and pretend he hasn't seen her.

on a tuesday afternoon, a few minutes before her history class, violet spotted tate talking to someone in front of his locker near the office.

"hey, tate."

the familiarity of her voice made him jump and the girl he was talking to giggled.

"where have you been?" violet asked.

tate looked at the girl and nodded. she kissed his cheek and left, violet raised her eyebrows.

"impressive." she watched the girl walk past her and up the stairs.

"uh, violet. about what happened - uh, you see i think we can't hangout for quite some time 'cause you know." he motioned the stairs. it took violet a couple of seconds to realize what was happening.

"it's all right..i mean it's not like," she laughed forcefully. "but we're just friends, right? what's wrong with that?"

"i'm sorry, violet. i hope you understand." tate placed his hands on her shoulders for a few minutes and soon went up the stairs even though his next class was just next to the office.

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ever since that day, violet comes home with so much thoughts inside her head, trying to think of ways to blame his dad.

"what do you mean? i can't just tell him to stay away from you."

"well, you basically did. 'go out, tate! leave us alone.'" violet said, mimicking her dad's words in a higher octave, which pissed the man off.

"it was his choice to leave you, violet, not mine." he said and then continued on what he was doing earlier.

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A/N: this is kind of short, but i want to keep it like this so you guys would be able to create a new plot of your own ;)

11/30/2015

- lani