Growing Up A Graham

Chapter 12 Pt. 2

Melanie:

Tossing the dirty rag in the washing machine, I sighed out of tiredness as I walked into the kitchen to grab myself a bottle of water and possibly something to eat if dinner was ready.

"Hungry Melanie?" Leilani's voice inched closer to me

"Yeah," I said lowly

"I haven't decided what to fix for dinner. Any ideas?"

"Shrimp Alfredo sounds good," I shrugged nonchalantly

Inside I was giddy as fuck. Her shrimp Alfredo is actually heaven.

"Yeah, I could go for that, but only if you help me make it."

"I can do that," I smiled slightly as I watched her begin writing a list of all of the ingredients we were going to need

"Why are you being so nice to me?" I blurted out randomly

"What do you mean? I genuinely love you Melanie, even when you're a brat."

I didn't know how to respond to that. I've been so mean and ungrateful, I don't deserve this kind of compassion.

"I'm gonna go get Destin so he can come grocery shopping with us," I changed the topic of the conversation

"Okay, but before you do that, go in my room and grab the little book that's sitting on my nightstand."

I just nodded my head before grabbing it and then going upstairs to get Destin.

Curiosity got the best of me so I opened up the first page of the book. It ended up being more of a scrapbook of my childhood photos. I wanted to continue flipping through the pages of all of these happy times but Leilani was calling me to come on so we could go to the grocery store.

I miss all of those happy times and I can't imagine myself ever being able to reach that level of joy ever again since so much has happened.

I feel like I'm more of burden these days.

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Evelyn:

"I swear Evelyn, you're such a great friend," North groaned as spit into the toilet one last time

"Thanks," I said unamused as I let go of her hair

She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand before pulling me into an unwanted hug.

I cringed in disgust as I wiggled my way out of her grasp. After gong to her dads concert last night, we decided to hang out with Kylie and North and Quentin ended up getting wasted. This is now the aftermath and it has me feeling indifferent about both of them. North is just slowly getting on my nerves with her druggy ways and Quentin is finding new ways to surprise me. And not in a good way. I would've never imagined him to be the type to pop pills or drink. Yet, he does both.

Grandma Sandi told me that this should never be the type of company I keep. I need to find better friends.

After about 30 more minutes more of putting up with North's shit as well as getting my things together I pulled out my phone to call Miles. Hopefully he can pick me up from this place.

"Sup Evelyn?" King asked as he walked down the stairs

"Um, since when have you been here?"

"A few hours, I came to say what's up to Kylie and Bash since I didn't come to the concert last night."

Their relationship is.... quite weird. She broke up with his dad years ago but for some reason she still talks to King like its nothing. I'm not gonna question it though because I might find something out that I didn't need to know.