THE SPAWNS
The Responsible for all the Breaking
Chapter XXI—Lilibeth
© DarknessAndLight
I spent most of the night staring at my ceiling. Because of that I heard my brother, Maika and… Cole leaving. I heard the Jeep engine start and I heard the car drive away. There was only one reason for them to leave with the Jeep and that meant they were heading to the Dump Creek.
I didn’t remember one time where I hadn’t gone with them when they left for the Dump Creek. The realization had me almost crying, but I held in the tears because I didn’t even deserve to cry.
I had yelled at Cole that I never wanted to see him again. Why would I have been invited for a trip with them?
I couldn’t even feel bad for myself because I had brought this on me. I should have known that by rejecting Cole so heartlessly I wouldn’t be welcomed with open arms by the Three Musketeers. Of course they were kind with me and I was their friends, but growing up, they had gone to the same school while I was lagging behind because I was younger. I hung out with them outside school time, but I missed all those years they spent together in school. And I might have understood then and got along with them but I never got them the way they got each other. I was in the group but always slightly outside of the loop. And that wasn’t a wrong thing, it was a normal thing. And I should have understood that. I should have made friends instead of waiting for the time I’d get home to my brother and his friends. Because they were my brother’s friends—not mine.
I relied on my brother too much and I assumed that I would always have their friendship, and of course I would, but if they had to chose between me and Cole, Cole would win.
I should make friends—friends of my own that had no connection with my brother.
It wasn’t a question of picking sides, because I knew my brother loved me and if I asked him, he would include me, or he would turn his back on his friends and support me, but the truth was, I was the one in the wrong. I had hurt Cole. I had been mean with him. I had broken his heart along with mine. I was the responsible for all the breaking.
Cole wasn’t.
And I had to pay for it.
Still, there was truth in what I was realizing—I needed to broaden my horizon. I needed to find myself friends. And I probably needed to leave too. Because Cole would be back at one point and I didn’t want my brother to have to pick a side. I didn’t want anyone to pick a side. I had done enough damaged as it was.
When I finally fell asleep, the sun was rising. I slept like the dead, as dead as I felt inside, and when I woke up, it was past midday. I normally didn’t sleep in that much—it felt like I was wasting my day away when I did—so my parents automatically looked strangely at me once I walked into the kitchen.
My parents were washing the dishes—well Papa Was, Mama was just sitting on the counter, looking at him.
I waved a little, heading straight for the fridge. “Good morning.”
“Good afternoon, actually,” my father pointed out.
I nodded in acknowledgement as I drank from my bottle of water. Mama and Papa gave each other a look, and just like that, Papa walked up to me, kissed the top of my head, and headed outside, probably to his painting shack.
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The Spawns
Teen FictionThe Spawns are back in town. With Cole and Jayden freshly out of their first year of University, Lilibeth in vacation for the summer and Maika finally out of her boarding school, mischief is on the horizon. But their summer takes an unexpected turn...