Rebel Wrong

Chapter One: The Reason Why I Rebel

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Chapter One: The Reason Why I Rebel

Cade didn't bother waiting for her brother to pick her up after her shift at the diner was over. After three months of him being at least half an hour late, she knew it'd just be faster to walk home. A forty minute walk at eleven o'clock at night in the middle of December wasn't a dangerous thing at all for a seventeen-year-old girl.

Cade didn't mind though. She had been taking care of herself since she was eight. She was basically left to her own devices when Axel turned fourteen and was deemed responsible enough to take care of not only her, but ten-year-old Bianca as well. Axel's idea of babysitting was to lock himself in his room to play video games while he left his little sisters to fend for themselves.

Both of her parents were pretty busy with their new lives, after the divorce. They never really got to live their lives since they had Axel when they were still in high school and were coerced by their parents into getting married. 

After twenty years of her father sleeping his way through half the women in town and her mother taking every drug she could get her hands on to escape her life, one of them suddenly realized that their marriage wasn't working out. 

Now her father was married to some rich bitch in California and her mother was so drugged off her ass that she couldn't hold down a job, which forced them to move into Axel's two bedroom apartment just off the college campus. It was a mother-daughter slumber party every night. There was nothing like making sure a forty-year-old woman didn't choke on her own puke to make a relationship stronger. 

It was nearing midnight on a Saturday night and that meant the last half of Cade's commute was filled with drunken entertainment provided by the students at the local college. 

There were a few frat boys making a snowman stripper right in front of the statue of the founder of the college. The boys, themselves, were dressed in women's snow boots, banana hammocks, and ugly sweaters.

Tonight's entertainment was extra special as there were cops and even an ambulance present. It had been a while since an emergency rescue had to take place. A whole four days at least. She was internally laughing at the stupidity of college kids as she got closer to the scene and noticed that all the action was taking place at her apartment complex.

Her stomach started to twist into knots. She knew this had to do with her mother. It wouldn't be the first time that her mom had gotten in trouble with the law. 

Cade pushed her way through the crowd of people until she reached the roped off police line. She was worried. This was much more extensive than any of the other times that her mother had been arrested. There was a good chance that her mom had overdosed and this time she could actually be dead.

"Excuse me, but you need to step back behind the yellow rope," an officer told Cade as she crawled underneath 'said' rope. 

"Excuse me, but I live here," she snapped. She didn't have much respect for police officers.

"I'm sorry, you'll have to wait until this matter is settled," the officer replied. He adjusted his belt and stood up a little straighter. 

Cade was just about to tell him off when she spotted her brother coming out of the apartment complex. He was pretty easy to spot with the bleach blonde faux-hawk spiked on top of his head.

"Ax!" Cade ignored the officer as she jogged over to her brother.

"Cade?" He looked startled to see her, like he had forgotten that she existed right until that moment.