What About Love

After Nap

I woke up to what seemed like a million text messages. 10 messages. 2 Austin 6 Harley 1 Alex and 1 Robert. I read Austin's first.

~messages~

A: Hey. You there?

M: Yes I fell asleep.

H: Hey! Wyd? Hello? You there? Mariah!! Me and Austin are going to the park.

M: Hey I fell asleep. I'll be there in 10

A: Hey.

M: Hey

R: Hey wanna hang?

M: Meet me at the park

~end~

I got up used the bathroom and got a bottle of Gatorade. I got my house key and left. I walked to the park which wasn't too far from the house. I put my earphones in and listened to music. My favorite song Fall by Justin Bieber came on and I started singing it.

~Austins pov ~

Me and my sister Harley are going to the park. Harley invited Mariah but I dont know if she's gonna come. I really like Mariah a lot but I doubt she likes me. We got to the park and waited. "Harley has Mariah texted you?" "Yes she said she'll be here in 10 like 8 minutes ago." "Okay." Yes she's coming. I'm still really excited for Saturday which is in 2 days. Finally a date with her but not alone. I heard the gate door open and it was Mariah. I smiled and she walked towards us. "Hey guys!" "Hey!" "Hey Mariah!" "Hey Austin. Hey Harley!" Harley and Mariah walked to the swing set. I followed them and sat on a swing.

~end pov ~

We started swinging and then someone open the gate. Robert. Finally someone else who's not a girl. Robert walked over to us and said hey. We all said hey and Harley and I continued to swing.

"So what you guys been doing?" "Nothing really. We all just got here actually." I said "So what you guys wanna do?" "It doesn't matter to me r-" Harley was cut off by her phone. She walked off a little bit and talked to someone on the phone. We started talking a little bit about how we might get a new student. Harley came back and started talking. "Austin, that was mom. She said we need to come home and clean our rooms and do our homework." "Ugh. Okay well we'll text you guys later. Bye." Harley and Austin left and it was just me and Robert. "So what you wanna do?" "We could walk by the bay?" "Okay cool with me." we walked towards the bay and I took off my shoes. "So can you pleeeaassseee tell me who you like?" "Nope can't tell!" "Why not!?" "Cause if.......if I tell someone then I'm gonna get judged and people try to take the girl away to make me mad. And if the word gets out and the girl finds out then it could wreck everything I have with her if she doesn't like me back. That's why." "Aww. well I won't tell!" "NO!" "Give me a h-" My phone rang. My oldest brother Blake. I rolled my eyes and answered. Me and Blake don't get along to well after my parents divorced. Now its more like he's my dad than he is my brother. I finished talking to him and hung up. "That was my brother. He's such an ass." "Why what'd he say?" "He was like do you know where Jacob is and I said no he texted me saying he wasn't gonna be home till around 4. He was like ugh I'll handle him later but you need to get your ass back home. where are you. I was like at the park and no your not telling me what to do so he said you have 10 minutes and hung up." "does he know your not his daughter?" I chuckled and said I don't even know. When my brother called it was 3:45 so I had till 55. Me and Robert talked a lot and I had totally lost track of time. I looked at the bay and saw the sunset then looked at my phone. 4:46.! "Holy shit! Its 4:47 my brothers gonna kill me." I took off running without shoes on and ran all the way to my house. I felt bad leaving Robert but I was going to get in even worse trouble than I am right now if I wouldn't have ran off. I got home and slowly opened the door being as quite as I could be. I tried to make it up to my room without my brother seeing but of course my brother walks right out of his room when I'm walking in mine. "Mariah. What the hell are you doing almost 2 fucking hours after I told you 10 minutes?" "I I I lost tr-" "Save it. your so pathetic its not even funny. your dumb and no one could like you cause you never remember any shit." He lifted his hand and hit me right on my cheek. I fell to the ground hurt. He hit me again. Then kicked me. It hurt so bad I just felt like throwing up. The only thing that saved me was the phone rang. He left and I crawled to the door and closed it and locked it. I never seen my brother wanna hurt me in ages. I crawled to my bed and got under the covers and cried.

~1 1/2 hours later~

I woke up from someone knocking on my door. I got up and looked in the mirror. I couldn't see any bruises but my face was sore. And my sides, stomach, and legs. I fixed my hair and wiped off my dried tears. I was scared to open the door but I did. "Hey honey are you okay?" "Yeah I'm fine why?" "Blake said your stomach was hurting and so you took a little nap." I looked at the ground for a second and looked back up. "yeah I'm better now I guess." "Well that's good. Okay I got some KFC downstairs if you wanna eat." "okay. Mom, can I eat in my room? I have some homework I need to get done." "Okay just be careful." "I will." I walked downstairs and got my food and drink then walked to my room and ate.