A/N Thank you so much to jessicx_nicolee who submitted the idea to me! Was great fun writing!
Christina's POV
Lately Lisa's been kinda distant, like she's not coming shopping with us anymore, she isn't pitching her brilliant ideas for the band anymore, she's not even painting her nails anymore and I'm getting kinda worried. Maybe I should ask Amy or Lauren, they're- or they were the closest to her before.
I went downstairs to find Lauren and Dani chasing each other around the island in the kitchen.
Before Lauren could slip passed me I grabbed her arm.
"Hey, I can't let Dani win again! Can you please let go of my arm." she says wiggling her arm trying to free it.
"Lauren, I need to talk to you!" I say seriously.
"Fine. Time out Dan! Chris NEEDS to talk to me apparently." she yells and agrees to follow me to the office.
"Okay, what's up?" she says taking a seat in a chair.
"Have you noticed Lisa acting weirdly?" I say pulling a chair closer to hers then sitting in it.
"Besides ignoring me completely? No." she says with an almost bitter tone.
"What do you think we should do?" I question leaning back in my chair.
"Why should we do anything? She's the one ignoring us, she should be the one doing something beside sulking in our room. Besides it's probably just another one of her fazes." she says clearly not caring and leaving the room leaving me stunned.
I've never seen Lauren act like this, she's always been the quiet, caring , loveable one. Something is going on with this family.
After the original shock from Lauren's sudden outburst wears off I finally get out of the office and go look for Amy hoping for a better reaction then Lauren's.
As usual, Amy could be found on the front porch on the phone with one of her many friends.
"Hey Ames, can I talk to you for a sec?" I ask.
"Yeah, give me a minute and I'll meet you in our room." she says and I nod heading towards our room we share with Katherine who is out at her friends house so we would have the room to ourselves.
After a few minutes Amy walks in and sits next to me on my bed.
"So, what's up?" she asks getting comfortable.
"Hey, have you noticed Lisa's been acting differently ?" I ask.
"Besides that she's been ignoring the world and barely letting Lauren and Dani into their room? No." Amy says rolling her eyes.
"So I'm assuming, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that you don't want to do anything about it." I say getting a little frustrated.
"No, she's the one who should be apologizing or doing something about it. We've done nothing wrong."
"Fine." I say getting up and leaving the room not being able to deal with anymore of her BS.
So the ones who were closest to Lisa don't care. Though they probably feel betrayed by her. Maybe Dani or Kath will care more.
I go downstairs and look for Dani since Katherine isn't here.
I see Dani watching a movie in the living room with Lauren and start to walk towards them and Lauren sees and rolls her eyes at me.
"Dani, can I talk to you?" I ask after Dani pauses the movie.
"Why? So you can ask me about my sister who is ignoring the world for almost a month like you did Lauren? No I don't want to do anything about it. She should be the one coming and talking to us instead of staring at a wall all day." she practically yells playing the movie again.
I'm genuinely surprised, I never expected Dani to snap at me like that. She's normally so respectful and understanding.
I go upstairs shaking my head in disbelief into my room where I just lay in my bed thinking.
Suddenly I hear a loud sobbing coming from Lisa, Lauren and Dani's room and since I know Dauren is downstairs it must be Lisa.
I slowly get up off my bed and go over and knock on her door.
"Lise," I say softly and I can hear her gasp and sniffle as if she's trying to hide her sobs or at least muffle it.
"I'm fine Christina." she says her voice cracking.
"Lisa, please just open the door. I wanna talk."
A few moments later she opens the door and I see her usual bright brown eyes bloodshot from crying and her usual slightly curly hair now all tangled and knotted and tears running down her face.
I pull her into a hug and she starts sobbing into my shoulder.
We let go and I gesture towards the bed and she nods starting to head towards it while I close the door then follow her.
"Lise, what's been going on with you? I miss seeing you 'round the house." I say reaching for her hand.
She looks down at her stomach and I finally realize what she's trying to tell me... her body image issues are back.
"Lisa, Michelle, Cimorelli. You are NOT fat, you are not ugly. You are beautiful, and even if you were a little on the fatter side, which you are not, that wouldn't matter. Wonderful personality, Your amazing smile, That contagious laugh you have, those are the things that matter the most." I say looking her dead in the eyes.
"Christina! We both know that's BS," she says. "I'm the reason we haven't done so many things."
"Lise, we have done so many things this year! We're moving next month-"
"Yes! We're moving next month because of me. because I couldn't continue living here with all these people around me with perfect bodies. We are moving from one of our little sisters favorite places in the world because of me! Moving further away from Nick then you already are! Don't you get it Christina! I'm the problem of this house! If I wasn't here, none of this would've happened."
"Yes Lisa! If it wasn't for you none of this would've happened. You made us our YouTube channel. You are the one who knows everything about the internet! Without you we would still be back in El Dorado Hills where no one knows us, Where we would still be trying to get our big break. If it wasn't for you, I don't even know where we would be right now. If it was any ones fault it was mine." I say looking down.
"How is this your fault?" she asks her voice soft and motherly.
"I didn't notice, like always. I don't notice details." she looks me in the eyes and pulls me in for a hug.
"Promise me you won't blame yourself for any of this and I promise I won't blame myself either." she says.
I nod and say. "I promise on the River Styx I won't blame myself." and Lisa repeats me and pulls me into another hug.
Lisa's POV
As Christina and I pull away all I can think is how lucky my family and I is to have her in our lives.
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A/N
Again thank you for the the idea @jessicx_nicolee
If you got the River Styx part I will love you forever and if you don't that just means you're not a nerd because that if from Greek Mythology.
As always Comment, Vote, Do What You Want.
Xo, Liz
P.S The second part to What Just Happened should be up next week I just wanted to post this! Hope you have a great day!
