Cry, Redemption!

Chapter 6

Chapter Six

Bullying and Going home

Confrontation is not something she's well versed in. But it's slowly becoming more and more normal for her to fly off the handle. She doesn't just freak out on the principal. She freaks out on Jeremiah as well. She takes the next bus home right after the incident in the principal's office and she's keyed up for a fight with her cousin by the time she gets home.

"Jeremiah!" She yells after slamming open the front door. "Where are you?!" Her voice echoes through the room and up the stairs. She knows he's heard her.

"Hello!" she screams when he doesn't make himself known. She stomps up the stairs and right up to his bedroom door when he still doesn't come down and react.

She pounds on his door so hard that splinters lodge into her hand. "Open up now!" she seethes. She wishes she had the strength to rip the door off of the hinges but she doesn't.

"I'm coming!" her cousin yells. He sounds like he's just woken up and that does nothing to make her feel any better. If anything it makes her angrier. He wrenches the door open and growls at her. "What the hell do you want Laikynn?" he asks. "I was trying to sleep!"

"You need to go to the school right now and tell the principal that you should be expelled for the rest of the year. It's the only decent thing for you to do," she says as she punches the wall beside his head. The sudden aggression that seems to be controlling her feels weird but it also feels nice.

"Do I look stupid to you?" her cousin asks as he looks at her as if she's lost her mind entirely. "I'm not doing that."

Laikynn closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before opening them again and immediately glaring at Jeremiah. "Stop being like this. You proved to me yesterday that you can be nice when you want to. So make the decision to be human and go tell them to expel you."

Jeremiah laughs and shakes his head at her. "Yesterday I had a lapse in judgment. I wasn't myself," he says.

"What does that even mean?" she asks. "Of course you were yourself."

Jeremiah laughs again, "No I wasn't. I was pissed about being suspended for five days and I was annoyed with my mother for being so loud when all I wanted was some quiet in this house."

He studies her face for a minute before he tries to shut his door on her so she won't be bothering him anymore. "What is wrong with you?" she asks as she holds up her arm to stop the door from shutting. "I'm trying to talk to you. I'm trying to get you to do the right thing."

"Laikynn I don't like you all of a sudden. Yesterday was a lapse in judgment. I don't actually feel bad for what I did to Tobias, he hit me and deserved what he got. I won't ask for the school to expel me I have to get into college with a clear record and the school is willing to make sure this incident isn't on my official record."

Laikynn can hardly believe her ears. "You can't be human," she sneers. "No normal human could be so heartless. I think you may even be worse that your mother!" She's in his face and she sweating so profusely she's acquired the shivers as the last sentence flies from her mouth.

Laikynn is thrown into the wall as her cousin charges her. He's growling and in the next moment has a hand wrapped around her throat. "Don't you ever compare me to her again," he growls as he tightens his hand around her throat. "Unless you want to end up like your friend... or worse."

Laikynn closes her eyes and tries to breathe through her nose so she won't panic. But his tight grip makes even that difficult. Just when she thinks she's going to pass out he lets her go. "Get out of my sight Laikynn," he says when she falls to the floor. "Don't bother me with your moral bullcrap again."