Wrapped Up

3 • Screams

  A bit of language and not a lot of sexuality in this one. There's enough to warn you, though.

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  Meghan's POV:

"Don't you say my name," I mumble with anger lacing my voice.

"We just talked earlier. What's your problem now?" he asked sounding more innocent than he actually is.

"I have had a problem since we talked earlier," I say as I try not to blow a gasket.

"You were all buddy-buddy with me earlier," he says.

I scoff and laugh at the same time. "You think that was 'buddy-buddy'?"

"Of course I did. With all the kissy emojis you were sending me," he said.

Ryan laughed, and I sent him a glare that basically said, do anything to show that you're on his side, and you die.

I scoff at his remark.

"Would you please get out of my house?" I say in a fake tone.

"Why? Who's gonna make me?" he spits back.

"First of all because you have no right to be here and I said so, and second of all Ryan will, won't you Ry?" I say as I raise my eyebrows.

"Look, I'm not getting in the middle of all this," Ryan says as he starts to stand up and walk away.

"Ryan! I am your sister! You're going to side with the jerk who broke my heart instead of standing up for me?" I scream.

He stands there speechless. After a few moments of silence, he curls his lips inside his mouth, and I realize what the answer to my question was. I start to tear up.

  "Jojo!" I scream through my tears.

  I hear a few thumps as Jojo comes down the stairs. She walks down the stairs as she is staring at her phone. She stops right in front of me and looks up from her phone.

  "Yeah–" she stops mid-sentence when she sees me crying.

"Meg! What in the world happened?" she says as she puts her hands on my shoulders.

  All I could do between my tears was point at Brooks and Ryan sitting at the table. Jojo turns, and I couldn't see her face, but I saw her clench her fists at her sides.

  "What the hell do you want?" she says as she walks up to him and grabs the collar of his shirt. He chuckles.

  "I want the beauty queen standing behind you," he says.

  All I do is scream into the arms of my shirt. I thought that I was having a seizer for a minute until I realized I was only shaking. I collapsed onto the steps of the stairs and put my head into my knees. If only Jojo and Ryan knew what he had done to me.

"She is a beauty queen, but you can't call her that because you've broken her! You are the reason she is sobbing on those steps! You are the reason she cries herself to sleep every night! You are the reason for this!" Jojo says as she walks over to me.

She takes one of my arms and pulls my sleeve down as she reveals my wrist. There are scars all the way down to my elbow, and Jojo gasps at what she saw.

"Meg, why is it this bad?" she whispered.

All I do is sob into my arm that she isn't holding. I couldn't hear much of what else happened right after that, but Jojo pulled my sleeve back down and gently placed my arm back in my lap. I eventually stopped sobbing, but I wish I hadn't.