Good or Bad

Breakdowns and Making Amends

>London's POV<

I woke up on a warm, hard surface and to annoying ringing. I groaned when I realised it was my alarm. I almost had a heart attack when I realized I was practically laying on Xander's sleeping form. I rolled off him and looked at the state of my bed. My laptop was on my chest that stayed in front of my bed, there was popcorn crumbs on my bed while the bowl sat on the floor. The finished box of Oreos was in the garbage, and a pizza box with a half eaten pizza sat at the edge of my bed.

I immediately shook Xander away and when he didn't wake up, I slapped him. He jumped up so quick he fell off my bed.

"What?!" he exclaimed

"You ate my pizza!" I yelled as I crossed my arms. He groaned and climbed back in my bed and cuddled one of my pillows.

"You better hurry if you don't want to be late for school."

"I should be telling you the same thing." he mumbled into the pillow

"I'm not going. I'm going to make my dad call and say I'm emotionally unstable."

"They'll never go for that." he said getting up.

"When it comes from a parent, it's always true."

"How are you going to get your dad to do it?" he asked disbelieving.

"Watch and learn." I head to the door not forgetting to pout before exiting. I can tell Xander is following as I go to my parents' bedroom. I think about dead puppies before entering to get a teary eye effect and see my dad laying in his bed. Xander is right outside the eavesdropping so I try to make this good.

"Daddy, do I have to go to school? All the kids are just going to stare at me and laugh and taunt me. I can't do that right now, I feel like everything is crashing before my eyes and I can't be worried about the other kids." I let a tear fall before continuing.

"I feel like I'm too weak for school, I feel like I'll break down and cry as soon as I'm reminded of the horror I came home too. Especially knowing if I hadn't gone out I could of stopped her and if I came home later than I did she could of been dead." I actually never thought of that before now and my fake tears became real. If I had stayed out all night like I planned my mother could of been dead right now.

My dad came over to me and hugged me. He whispered things like She's okay. You're okay. Don't think of what could of been, it's the past now. It's okay Princess. And when my crying sobered up I went back outside the room with Xander. He gave a hug and I gladly hugged him back.

My father was on the phone a little bit later. And Xander and I listened in.

"Hi, yes, I would like to tell you that London will not be coming in to school today." he paused for a while listening. "Yes, I believe after what happened with her mother, she's a little...um..emotionally unstable." he paused again. "Yeah of course, I'll let you know as soon as she is ready to go back. Thank you, have a nice day!"

He ended the call and Xander and I went back to my room. I laid back down and silent tears fell down my face. I closed my eyes wishing I could fall asleep and soon my dad walks in.

"Xander, I know you have school and all but I'm scared to leave her alone. Her siblings are at work and her other friends are on the other side of town. Please just do me this favor."

"No problem, Mr. Edwards. I've got it covered."

"Thank you. Just don't let her leave the house. Rome is picking up Blaine today so she won't have to leave anyways."

"Okay Mr. Edwards." my dad then kisses my head and walks out. I wait to hear him go downstairs before sitting up.

"I told you, I could do it."