"Mom, what a pleasant surprise," I said sarcastically, opening the door to my apartment. I looked a mess; wearing Kells' shirt I threw on to answer the door, messy hair and last nights makeup after our date "Yes, well someone needs to make sure you aren't ruining your life. God knows what you do when I'm not here," she said. These speeches didn't phase me anymore; I already knew I was the disappointment in comparison to my wonderful brother Zack "Yeah, okay well my boyfriend is here right now so if you could just-" "Boyfriend? Oh Chloe I didn't know about this!" My mom said as she barged past me into my apartment. I cringed as she walked past a condom wrapper "Who is he?" "You already know him. It's Colson Baker from high school," Disgust reached her face "Him? Why?" "Thanks, Helen, I love you too," Kells shouted from my bedroom "Mom you should leave," "You should clean up," "Bye mom," I said before opening the front door. She left, I slammed it and proceeded to stomp back to the bedroom.
"That fucking woman I swear to god," "Yo be chill. Here you go," Kells handed me a joint and a lighter "Know me too well," I said as a lit it and began to smoke. "Your brother texted you as well," "Give me my phone," I said. I didn't bother to read the message, I just typed FUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK OOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF very angrily into my phone. "Hey what day is it?" "Sunday, why?" I answered "Fuck. I've got court today," "Court?! Why?!" "I gotta sign the last papers that get me full custody of Cas. If I don't sign em then she moves to Australia with her mom," he replied "Then you need to get up and shower. And stay away from me because I don't think they'll let you sign custody papers if you smell like weed," "Good point. Come over later?" "I would love to," I answered "Cool, see you then. And by the way you can keep my shirt,"
Once the weed kicked in and I was more chill, I read the message my brother sent me Family dinner next week? Mom, dad, me, Isobel and you? I replied back sorry was kinda rage earlier. Nd do I have to come ur dead ass girlfriend judges me Yes, and Isobel is great she's just not like you. Bring a date if you want idm K, cya perfect child Cya fuck up That was our little inside joke. Even though my brother was clearly favoured, we used to be pretty close and still had in jokes. Well, in jokes that were lowkey facts. I figured I should clean my shitty apartment, beer bottles and wrappers from; adult safety products, were strewn all over my couch and floor. I put on the bloom album, I had to admit he made some good shit, and got to work.
After I'd finished, I changed and showered. Kells had already texted me to say he was back and I could come over whenever. I did some natural makeup as I couldn't be bothered to do much else, and tucked his shirt into some black skinny jeans before putting on my beloved pair of white chucks:
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I then got in my car and drove to his place. I knew I had a shift this afternoon but I didn't care. Starbucks and their huge corporation could suck my ass.
I locked my car and started walking up his drive. Casie ran out of the house towards me and gave me a huge hug, which made my day. "Dad is looking after me all the time now and I won't have to go to Australia and I can see you every day and you can take me to school and it's going to be great! Hey doesn't dad have that shirt?" She exclaimed without taking a breath "It will definitely be great," I replied as we walked towards his house, I chose to ignore the last question.
We got in the door and I was dragged upstairs to play barbie with Casie because Kells "didn't do it right because he's a boy". I knew he was working in the study, I could hear him rehearsing lines for his audition, but he came in a few times. He also helped Casie with her homework, as I got the call I dreaded from work "Hello?" "Chloe this is Andrew, your manager. Where have you been? You haven't showed up for your last 3 shifts," "Yeah, well I've been really sick," I replied, coughing at the end to dramatise it "Well this is the third time you've been sick and not given at least 3 hours notice, so I need to fire you," "No, Andrew, no you don't. I can come into work tomorrow, Hell I'll come in right now, please don't fire me," "I'm sorry Chloe," "Andrew come on we're tight, you can't fire me," I begged "Thank you for your service," and the line went dead. I'd lost my crappy job. I was so fucked. Kells came in "Yo what happened," "Lost my fucking job," I said, pissed. I never thought they'd actually fire me, and I had no college degree (dropouts for the win) and clearly not a great reference when applying for new jobs "Oh shit. Chlo I'm sorry," "It's fine; I'll figure something out," I said, tapping -what was likely to be my last set of nails for a while- on the marble counter "Yeah you will, and I'll help you. Now come here," Kells said before pulling me into a hug. I sure hoped it would all work out, it had to. Almost 100 reads wtf. Ik that's not that much compared to some fics but fir me it's a lot so thank u all💕
