Costco Kisses

Another Fucking Fight?

White. Everything that surrounded me was white. The floors, the walls, the nurses shoes, the end of my cigarette.

Yeah, yeah I know I really shouldn't be smoking considering the reason that Kyla was here was because of these stupid burning sticks. I just was so stressed I didn't know what else to do. I took the pack I had grabbed from the grass from Kyla's back yard from my back pocket and walked outside. We were all waiting in the waiting room for non family guests.
Charlotte, Danielle, Miriam, and Juliana. Chloe and John, who recently started dating after Kyla and I introduced them, were out getting McDonalds for us, it would have been so much easier if they hadn't gotten rid of the McDonalds in the children's hospital we were at.

I walked far enough away from the entrance that I wouldn't be yelled at for smoking in front of a children's hospital. I lit up the cigarette as I watched Serra Mesa in the distance. The cars drove fast on the freeway past the parking garage, they had no way of knowing what grief I held at the moment.

I took a drag. The cigarette was torn from my hand and stomped out on the ground. I looked in dismay at the person who had taken my way of calming down. Purple hair. It was Miriam.

"Excuse me, what the fuck do you think you are doing?" She asked and shoved my shoulder and I looked back to the freeway, my eyes following a red SUV.

"Can you please leave me alone, I've talked myself into enough trouble me today," I said and slid down the wall and put my head in my hands.

"Well if we're gonna mope around then al least let me bum a smoke," she said as I looked up at her and raised one eyebrow.

"You smoke?" I laughed out and gave her one of the last few cigarettes I had left.

She brought her finger to her lips and shushed at me. I laughed again and for a second I forgot all the shit I had gotten Kyla into, and I just laughed. I lit her cigarette and she took a drag then passed it to me.

"I think I'm going to break up with Kyla..." I said and looked down in some sort of shame. Miriam took the cigarette back from me and smacked my shoulder.

"What the fuck did you just say? Why?" She said and smacked my arm again for good measure.

"I get her into so much shit, she's such a nice girl. She deserves more than a piece of shit like me."

"Well, I can't stop you but I can say, this is so not the right time, she just broke her leg and now you want to break up with her just because you 'fuck her up so much'" she said lecturing me, "plus if you break up I have to choose which of you I want to stay friends with."

"I just don't want to mess her up, when people hang with me I usually fuck up their entire lives," I said and self deprecatingly smiled at her, "Also you should pick me."

"Okay, I'll let you, but not now, she is in so much shit right now that it would just mess her up even further if you left now," Miriam said as she finished the cigarette and stomped it into the ground making the amount of ash on her boot two times worse.

"Hey guys I got McDonald's, let's eat inside," John said walking up the hill towards us with Chloe in tow. I stood up and I grabbed Miriam's hand to help her up. We walked inside and Charlotte had fallen asleep with Danielle on her shoulder, they were holding hands. Juliana rushed over and grabbed some things from Chloe and hugged her to the side.
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By now Kyla's sister, Naliyah, had showed up after getting a ride from her best friend Lucia. She was sitting next to Miriam stressing out while Miriam was rubbing her back in a comforting manner. We had all polished off our food in a few minutes most of us were stress eating which meant stuffing it in our faces as fast as we could. Danielle had left saying she had a date and the car that picked her up looked awfully fancy and John and Chloe were outside for fresh air.

"When do you think they're going to tell us what's going on?" Naliyah asked for what seemed like the hundredth time.

"She'll be fine it's probably just broken," Charlotte said reassuringly patting Naliyah's shoulder. Juliana came back from the bathroom and sat in the chair with the clearest view of the outside area.

"I can't believe they won't even tell us what's going on because we're not her 'guardians'," Juliana said and made finger quotes with her ringed hands.

"I know, but life's a bitch," I said and trailed off looking at a shine on the white tiles. Mindless Disney Channel shows caught my eye every one and a while but I was bored as all hell.

All of the sudden, Chloe and John walked back in with frightened looks on their faces.

"Um,  her dad is here." Chloe said trying to keep calm.

Oh fuck no! I thought as I got up angrily pushing my friends away from me.  I walked down the slight decline in the terrain and punched him in the face with as much power I could manage. He held his face.

"What the fuck? This guy is disrupting your peaceful establishment!" He yelled and pointed around then hit your chest with is pointer finger.

"You are the one who fucking pushed her out of a window," I said and he hit my mouth, I felt a twinge of pain before the adrenaline plus my heart beating a million times a minute caused it to be the least of my problems.

I punched him again, directly in the nose and he fell backward after trying to catch his step on a cooked piece of sidewalk.

I took this opportunity to get on top of him and punch him senseless while holding the collar of his blue striped polo shirt.

"Fuck. You. You. Piece. Of fucking. GARBAGE!!" I shouted, my voice straining between punches that left him a bloody mess.

He had stopped moving for a while and now I was just punching an unconscious body.

I started crying, hot, rage decorated teardrops moved skillfully across my dark skin and I kept punching pathetically with weak arms.

Finally one of my friends pulled me off of his body and I heard faint yelling. I looked around through blurry eyes and saw my wide eyed friends running and guiding me away from angry nurses chasing us.

I got pushed into the backseat of a minivan and many people climbed over me. The car started moving and I fell asleep with ringing in my ears.