metanoia - 5SOS

trente-six

x a n d e r

"Fuck." I whisper to myself as I accidentally stab myself with a screw driver. I scan my surroundings to see where Christopher had been, but he was no where in sight. I pull out my phone to see if I had gotten any text messages, which I had, but not from who I wanted to be. I read down the line all the different names that had popped up on my phone, Kayla, Josh, Amanda, Lauren, Hayley, Tessa, and one instagram DM from some random account. I just shut my phone off and lean back onto the teal Cadillac I had been working on for the past two hours, and not to mention how hungry I was. "Hello?" I heard a familiar voice echo from the garage door, I cock my head to see Brynn standing there with two bags in her hand. I jump up not caring how bad my finger had hurt, and make my way over to her. She gave me that none welcome look, as always.

"Where's my dad?" She asks, I look around as if I were looking for him, even though I knew he wasn't in the room. I just shrug my shoulders as she makes her way to the work bench and sets the bags down. "Well, you going to eat?" She asks pulling out a container full of food, guessing it were for me. I just make my way over to her and smile as I take the container out of her hands. "Dad?" She yells out, causing an echo sound effect, as she goes into the back office. I look down at the food that she had made for me and notice it was full of food I loved when she would pack a lunches for school. Turkey sandwich with light mayo and pickles, green tea, and carrots. I start to eat my food as I see Brynn and Christopher walk out of the back room.

"Xander, after you eat you can head out, I'm closing the shop for a bit, me, Carol, Kristen, and Kyle are going Georgia." Christopher stated. I could tell by Brynns face and posture that they had already talked about this and she wasn't happy. "Something happened to Carols mom, I'm sorry Brynn, we'll be back soon, and we can't leave the kids alone. So you can have the house to yourself until we get back." He added on as he grabbed his container of food. I just sat there with the sandwich in my mouth looking back and forth from Brynn to Christopher. Brynn hadn't said a word for a good five minutes until I had finished my food.

"Xander, you can keep the red car until we get back, we'll be taking the black jeep." Christopher offered, I just nod my head and accept his offer. "What about me?" Brynn finally speaks, "What about you?" I say smartly back, trying to get under her skin, but she just brushes me off. "Brynn you don't even have your license, so Xander can be your chauffeur." Chris says as he takes his food into the back office. I smile, not minding being her personal chauffeur for a couple days, even though that's what I basically am now.

"Why are you smiling?" She asks, but not in a bitchy way, she was more sad than angry. "When you're done with that container you can wash it. I'm going for a walk." With that she walked out of the garage, and the opposite direction were the house was suppose to be, where the hell was she going? I leave the container in the walmart plastic bag and run out the garage, but there was no sight of Brynn, the hell was she walking to? She's going to get lost, hope she has her phone. I follow the imaginary steps I assume she walked in, and scan my surroundings.

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c a l u m

Cheers surround me as I make the last pong ball into Luke's red cup full of straight vodka, it was more fun this way. I could tell we both were pretty messed up as he took the last shot, meaning I had won the game. Honestly forget how or why I was here, but I was, and It was time to do me. I wrap my arm around Luke's shoulder and try to speak clearly without laughing in between words, which was at this point, almost impossible. "Bro, do you see that?" Luke says pointing off in the distance, my vision was almost blurry but not completely, all I saw from the little bit of light in the room was wavy strawberry blond hair. Luke shoves me in the direction of where the girl had been standing, and my feet continue. I tap on the random girls shoulder causing her to turn around, I examined her body and it looked familiar from what I could see, but her face was a total blur, and had a red cup in her hand, assuming she was a bit intoxicated as well.