Mourning Star (Sequel to Unbroken)

The Calling

(J’S POV)

I walk into the living room with Jayy and Dahv behind me arguing about something.  We just finished cleaning the kitchen and getting the pizza put away.  I looked over to the couch to see Blake lying with a red and white fluff ball on her lap next to her laptop, which glowed dully.

“Jayy, can you grab her computer and set it on the counter?” I asked him as I picked up Blake’s red Queensland Heeler puppy, Fire.  I took the puppy upstairs as Jayy came down the hall with a sleeping Blake in his arms.  He set her on the bed and I set the now awake puppy next to her.  Fire immediately curled up next to Blake as I took her boots and her glasses off of her and walked out of the room.

“Look at this,” Dahvie said as we walked in the room.  It was the screen for some online school.

“Do you think it was that bad?” I asked, worried.

“Probably, the school was smaller, she only had about a hundred kids in her grade I think.  That means more people to fear what they don’t understand and push her around,” Jayy said.  “She did tell me they were pretty bad,” he added.

“Fuck.  And you heard what she said in the school today,” I said, sitting on the couch and putting my head in my hands.

“Bitches that push her around and tell her she is a freak,” Dahvie whispered.

“And she said she should do the world a favor and…” Jayy trailed off, his voice cracking.

I looked over to the wall by the TV.  There was a picture of Carter, Meri, and I on our way to school in seventh grade.  That year, Carter had to leave early because of bullying, the stress of her mother, and her two closest family members’ passing.  They would hurt her so bad that some days she wouldn’t want to speak.  She would put headphones in and ignore the world.  Meri and I understood, we let her have her moments of solitude. 

One day, the day before she left, Deystinie Starx poured her milkshake all over Carter’s newly purple hair.  Deystinie and her goons then went the rest of the day throwing random shit at her and pushing her into guys, who would yell at her and sneer in disgust.  That was also the first night she tried to commit.

I sighed heavily as Jayy and Dahvie kept trying to get my attention.

“J,” they said at the same time.

“What?” I asked.

“We need to either find Blake a better school, a good online school, or homeschool her.  Which do you think would be the most reasonable?”  Dahv asked.

“I don’t know, honestly.  We could try homeschooling for the rest of this year? Then possibly enroll her in a better school? Possible a private school?” I asked, thinking of the school my mum sent Carter and I to before she went crazy.

“Okay, we could try that.  We will ask Blake in the morning, though.  I’m off to bed,’’ Dahv said, climbing the stairs.

“I’m off, too, night Cuz,” I said to Jayy, who mumbled a response. 

I walked up the stairs and into Blake’s room.  I sighed when I saw her and Fire curled on the bed together.  Blake has told us, several times, that although all of us are her family, Fire was her only friend.

I walked down the hall and went to my room.  I quickly changed and laid in bed, thinking of today.  Thinking about thanksgiving.  This year we were flying to Scranton to visit Motionless.  Last year we went to San Diego.  By ‘we’ I mean all of us.  Blake, Jayy, Dahv, all of BVB, Meri, Snow, War, Anthony, Savv, Satyce, Zaenne, Melody, all of PTV, all of OM&M, all of Motionless, and sometimes the guys’ girlfriends/wives.  This was going to be the first year with Blade, though.  Juliet left Andy a few months after Blade was born, taking him with her.  From what Andy said, Juliet has moved on and doesn’t want Blade anymore, so she sent him to live with Andy.

I kept thinking about Blake and what we were to do with her as I dozed off.

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