Wishing I was 23

Dilemma

"Rachel?", she says.

I look up and met with her brown eyes. Beatrice.

"Hey beats", I scratch my head awkwardly. "Look, I'm sorry I spilled you tea. I'll get you a new one. There's a coffee shop down the road if you'd let me take you?", I offered as I pulled down my hoodie.

"Sure, it'll be great catching up", She responds. We walked to the coffee shop down the road in silence. We share looks with a smile.

When we're there, "I'll get our tea. The regular? Vanilla ice tea with whip cream?", I asked, recalling her favourite drink.

"Actually, I go with peach tea now but I'm glad you remembered my used to be favourite drink", she smiles and I returned it.

I went to order our drinks went my phone won't stop buzzing. I took a look at it and there was texts from the twins, Faith, the girls and Ryland.

I only could answer to Ryland.
👊Favbro💙: Rachel, how could you leave me with your friends and the girls. They're like arguing about you. Ty left with Lauren though. Come back please. You know it slipped, I'm sure they didn't mean it. Come on, it's youre the birthday. Please don't leave me here with you're friends🙏🙏🙏🙏😢
****pic of them arguing****
💙Rachylilsis❤: Well, I'll be back when the concert starts then. I just need time alone. Don't find me, I'm fine and I promise you, I'm not doing stupid things. I'm with an old friend, don't worry. Just cope with them and bring Riker if you must. Tell Lauren, I'll see her soon. Tell the twins and Faith that it wasn't their fault. I'm fine with it. Just next time give me a heads up if they want to announce my extra member👍😊
👊Favbro💙: Okay then, I'll see you tonight
❤Rachylilsis💙: 😊

I put my phone down and took our drinks to our table.

"So, how's your new life with the Lynch?", she starts a conversation.

"It's good, I guess. There's a lot of touring but I'm use to it. How about you? Are you all better?", I ask.

"Well, yeah. I got adopted from the orphange we went. The Hernandez Family. We live in Ohio but I came here to surprise my sister", she continued.

This is the story about Beatrice and I. We met when we were four. I was tge happiest kid there was. She was my bestest friend ever. My family called her family and she was excepted. Her story was not like mine. She was abandon since she was two days old. She's been in and out of foster homes. Then, one day my family took her in. When they past, in the attack, I knew to protect her but she was not in school amd taking care of Joy so it was fine. My instinct at that moment was save my siblings and the rest of the school. After I shot most of them down and the police came, Chris ran away to Singapore, l leaving Beatrice, Joy and I alone in San Francisco. The police put us in the orphanage there. Joy got lost when she was one and Beatrice and I did everything we could to find her but didn't. Beatrice and I gave up and spent three years there. I got out of four foster homes and got back with more than ten scars. I told Beatrice that I'll write her when I leave. She was the only one who knew. As a promise, we shared a passionate kiss. My first kiss. I don't know what happened but it was a great night. We were kids but I was muture and no what to do. No we didn't lose our virginity but there was something there. It was a final goodbye. I wrote her a few times but no reply. I thought she forgotten but I stopped writing after I got adopted by the Lynch. Since then, no one did anything and we just parted.

"So, what are you doing here in Colorado?", she ask. "My parents dragged me out of Maimi from Ryland and live here. I go to school here now", I explained and she nodds.

There was silence. "Okay, what are we doing? We use to be braggers and always talking to each other. What the hell happened to us?", she spoke up and threw her hands.