Unloved - 💞ON HOLD💞

20 Bicker and Drink

Song above: Beyoncé - Drunk in Love.

Lester
I was flung back onto the cold, harsh ground by my dad, again. I groaned at the annoyed expression plastered onto his face, but his eyes gleaming with amusement "You think this is funny son? This ent no silly boot camp that you and your so-called friends always pull off" he shouted.

I pulled myself up and dusted myself off "Yes Sargent, I'll make sure of that" I remarked sarcastically.

He turned around and glared "Are you playing around boy?".

I rolled my eyes and muttered "Not at all".

He narrowed his eyes at me but said nothing otherwise. He continued to bark out his orders "Alright now. When we're on the battle field we don't show mercy, instead we loathe in our enemies blood and carcasses. We don't care how filthy we look because at the end of the day we know that we are hunting out for them as they us. We get defensive, and we fight for our country and we end it in victory".

I sighed "Dad, you've been throwing me all over the lawn for the past hour. Can't I just enjoy my Sunday for once? I'm only 18 and still very young. I'm not going to just fly off to college anytime soon. Come on, give me a break for goodness sake".

He stared at me intensively "Are you giving up sergeant?".

I grunted glared "No, I'm giving myself a long ass break that you won't give me, and that's all".

He was about to say something else before his phone began ringing. I used this as an excuse to escape my living he'll of a father. I sighed in frustration, sometimes I wished that life was a whole lot easier at times and was how it used to be, I thought to myself angrily.

While my dad was talking on the phone I went out for a short jog. The light breeze flowing through my hair and the robins singing their music back and forth made me able to relax my tense muscles. Jogging around the circular park 5 times and I still felt like I could do anything but go home and look into my father's face. I ran a couple more times before walking over to my favorite Juice Bar nearby, which was clearly open as always. Sigh, perks of living in Temecular.

Temecular Juice Bar

Patricia Birdsall Park

I walk in and was immediately welcomed with the sound of the electric blenders, the scent of the natural juices and the chatting of the intelligent people that chooses to come here. I walked up to the counter to meet one of my training buddies behind the counter chopping up ginger "Hey Lester!! It looks like you came back from another run. You want something different or you want the usual?".

I grinned "The usual on the spot. Thanks Zacc".

He smiled back and started working on my usual order here. I went to look for a seat when I saw Olivia sitting down slurping on one of their milk slushies, alone. I'm not really surprised since she doesn't really bother to make any friends besides Lizzy and myself. I walked over to her and took a seat, having her shocked and choking on her drink "Lester, what are you doing here?" she choked out.

I leaned back on my seat with a raised eyebrow "I usually come here Olivia, this is like my drinking heaven, besides Starbucks of course".

She shook her head "I'm truly sorry but I really didn't know about you coming here, this is actually my first time coming here but if I knew that yo-"

I rolled my eyes and cut her off "Would you quit your rambling? There's nothing wrong with you coming here and I could care less about you being here. If you like their drinks then I can't blame you because I love their heath smoothies".

Her eyes widened and looked down in shame "I'm sorry, again. And... I don't really like their smoothies much, I only like their slushies, including this green tea flavour, it's my absolute favorite".

I smirked "I would expect you to like that because of all the ginger tea you always drink at Starbucks".

She gasped and blushed "How did you know that?".

My smirk grew "I know everything Olivia, every single thing. And those things can never stay secret forever including when people always go to that place, heck, even Lizzy knows because she's obsessed with going that place".

She was about to reply when Zacc shouted out "Order 225 for carrot juice".

I got up from my seat and gave him a fist bump "Thanks bro".

He nodded "No prob".

I went back to my seat and took a sip "Now this is what I call tasty, want to try some?"

She cringed and shook her head "No thanks, I think that I'll pass on that one, but thanks anyway. I really need to get going, I now got a text from my mom and she freaks out very easily. Talk to you later?".

I nodded and smiled "Yeah, see yah".

She waved and tree away her empty container on the way. I sighed and groaned, great, just as I was taking my mind off my issues someone had to say the one and only word that I was trying to get away from.

Hey guys, sorry for the really long update but with school projects flying around, plus the fact that I was on writers block held me up. But I bet that you guys as well felt the same but I'll try to update as frequently as I can, promise.

So let me tell you what was mainly holding me up. For starters I didn't know what to write, I was editing some other book, I have a Science project on the human system, a Spanish project on Cinco de Mayo, an Art project on textures, a Tech. Ed project on future jobs and enterpenurs and an English group project for a play. So with all these things and helping out my little sister with work, I had absolutely no time to write anything, only read.

I hope that this chapter wasn't too short and I truly apologize for the late update. Please vote and comment on this chapter and I will hopefully see you all soon. Later 👋👋

RoseyJ12💋