reputation [rɛpjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n];
the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.
brielles point of view
i sit on my couch indulging myself in a tub of ben and jerrys double choc fudge icecream. at this moment josh's funeral is supposedly finishing. to say i didn't feel guilty for not attending my best friends funeral is an understatement: i'm not sure if i can ever forgive myself. i am lazily sprawled on my couch, with a baggy black sweatshirt on and my fluffy pink blanket draping over my body whilst i'm watching a new episode of 'the bold and the beautiful'. i hear my phone vibrate and pull it out from the creases of the blanket and see a message from a private number. again.
"I'm still here bitches, and I know everything. -A"
"WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL!!!" i hear someone scream, and i flinch at the sound. i look up to see an enraged, red-faced abaset hovering of me, with alyssa and ronan running after her. i just simply roll my eyes
i may be hurting but she sure as hell wont know it.
"DO YOU THINK ITS OKAY TO MISS THE FUNERAL OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?" abaset screams again. i just take another spoonful of my ice cream and ignore her- until she then grabs my tub of ice cream off of me and passes it to alyssa, who just simply but sternly says
"abaset."
"you know what, if you three always want to be referred to as 'the missing and now dead boy's best friends' you can, but i want nothing to do with it. i am brielle not just merely one of his 'best friends' and i have worked so hard to get where i am today. he would find a way to ruin me if he was still alive, so i'm not going to let him find a way to ruin me in the after life," i simply state with a shrug of my shoulder.
"you're sick," abaset mutters. "miss the last chance to say goodbye to your best friend because of your reputation that you wouldn't have without him!"
"if you're done here, please leave, or will i have to call the police?" i sarcastically remark to them.
"oh, speaking of the police, they have a detective investigating josh's murder case, not missing persons. how suspicious must you look not arriving at your best friends funeral?"
abasets point of view
right after i read the message i have had enough. i start sprinting down to brielles house and push the door open. i don't care if ronan and alyssa are following or not.
the numbness is gone, now it's rage. a familiar feeling, but i won't let it control me like it controls my brother and my dad. i can't. oh, if only i could release all 16 years of held back anger, not just let a small bit of it leak out every now and again like when you turn the tap on slightly and the water spills out in a perfect, little line.
"WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL!!!" i scream with rage, and see brielle flinch. i don't care if i'm making a scene, i need answers. i see alyssa and ronan run into the room and brielle roll her eyes.
bitch.
"DO YOU THINK ITS OKAY TO MISS THE FUNERAL OF YOUR BEST FRIEND." i scream again. she just take another spoonful of her ice cream and without thinking i grab her tub of ice cream and pass it to alyssa, who gives me a look and says
"abaset." she is telling me to calm down. she's lucky i didn't throw the fucking ice cream across the room.
"you know what, if you three always want to be referred to as 'the missing and now dead boy's best friends' you can, but i want nothing to do with it. i am brielle not just merely one of his 'best friends' and i have worked so hard to get where i am today. he would find a way to ruin me if he was still alive, so i'm not going to let him find a way to ruin me in the after life," she states as if josh never existed, and she had not ever been friends with him.
"you're sick," i mutter. "miss the last chance to say goodbye to your best friend because of your reputation that you wouldn't have without him!"
"if you're done here, please leave, or will i have to call the police?" she says to me. she better not think this is over.
"oh, speaking of the police, they have a detective investigating joshes murder case, not missing persons. how suspicious must you look not arriving at your best friends funeral?" that got her.
"a detective for his murder?" brielle absently speaks.
"well, you wouldn't know, would you? seeing ice cream is more important than a lost life." i say powerfully, giving her a smug look but alyssa pushes me to the side sighing and says
"yes, he was murdered remember. also we all seemed to get a weird ass from '-A'. we are presuming you got one too?"
if only i could release this storm of anger, not just idly sit by and wait for it to tunnel back inside my heart.
ronans point of view
"yeah, i did. i also got one just now as you guys bursted in." i wonder what her former message said. "well, whoever this -A is, knows things that only i knew about." i speak worriedly.
"josh actually knew about mine," brielle speaks.
"mine only happened last night," alyssa mutters. abaset just stays silent.
"so are these things serious, because for me it seems as though someone is stalking me." alyssa speaks up.
"yeah, mine is," abaset finally replies.
"same," chorus me and brielle.
"-A? is that like for anonymous of something?"
"probably."
"well , i'm prepared to go to the police if you guys back me up," i speak confidently.
"i can't share mine, its personal," abaset quietly mutters.
"same, it might look bad on me if i share mine," alyssa contributes.
"then what do we do?" brielle asks.
"i'm sure its just a one off prank, to get us worried, lets just ignore it and if it continues we will take action." abaset says.
"okay, meet at the old spot tomorrow for a check up?" alyssa asks.
"yeah."
"sure."
"cool."
"alright then, if you don't mind, i have 'bold and the beautiful' to watch!" alyssa just rolls her eyes and walks out the house. me and abaset follow her lead, and we all end up going our seperate ways to our own houses. its unfortunate that from being so close, we cant even share our secrets to each other.
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