The Broken Ones

Chapter 10

Everything is alright,
With you by my side,
We won't say goodbye,
We'll stick together

Nya's P.O.V

The cold night air hit me as soon as I left the darkened room of the theater. "Whyyyyyy" Brooklyn complained, leaning on Evelyn as the four of us walked, "Why did he have to die?!" She pouted like a 5-year-old. During the movie, she cried an entire waterfall when Black Panther died. "You guys wanna visit the shore?" I asked, putting a comforting hand on Brooklyn's shoulder. "Why not" Said Rosalina, and she took off running, "LAST ONE THERE IS A THANOS SUPPORTER!!" I took off not that long after her and Brooklyn and Evelyn soon followed.
When we got to the shore, I was surprised to see that there wasn't really anyone else there, we laid on our backs and stared up into the star-filled sky.
"I'm kinda curious" Said Brooklyn, not that long after we sat down, "Eve, how did you get that scar on your face? It looks recent" I turned my head to look at Evelyn, who's eyebrows where furrowed. "I had a fight with someone" she said simply, "I don't really want to talk about it" the atmosphere soon became heavy, thinking of a way to loosen it, an idea came to me, "tragic anime backstory go" I said, as a smile formed on my lips. "Umm.. what?" Said a confused Rose, "tragic backstory...?" "Yup" I replied, and waited, no one spoke. "Okay pick a number one through ten" I said, hoping they would reply to that.

"Ten" Said Rose.
"Five" Said Brooklyn.
"Seven" Said Evelyn.
"Brook your first" I said, turning a little so my back could be comfortable on the squishy sand. Brooklyn took a deep breath and spoke, "okay, uh, I'm not so sure on how to start this but- i was bullied a lot as a kid" she said, squinting her eyes, "it wasn't just verbally, but also mentally and physically, every time I came home with a new scar or bruise, I would lie and say I saved a cat, or tripped" she sat up and hugged her knees, Evelyn sat up and gave her a side hug, to which Brooklyn greatly accepted. Rose and I sat up as well and waited for her to continue, "I remember once in 5th grade.." she bit her bottom lip, "there where these two kids In my class who where 'the kings of the school' one named Elijah and the other Kaiden, I had a guy friend named James at the time, and they would always pick on him" her voice cracked as she struggled to say the next part, "one day when I was riding the bus to school, I saw the principal in my classroom, her eyes all puffy and red, I didn't see James in our usual spot so I sat with my cousin Nicole, the principal was explaining to us that James was dead, no one knows what actually happened, but his cousin said he was hanging by the ceiling with a noose attached to his neck. I cried so hard that day, he was like the only person who actually understood me" Brooklyn had a tear making its way down her cheek, Rose gave her a side hug, Brooklyn inhaled a shaky breath before adding "when I rode the bus home, I opened my front door to see my mother crying, I didn't know what was going on, she was on the phone with someone and when I came in she cried harder, I learned that later that day my father died in a car accident, his car was bumped by the other side, and he fell off a bridge he was driving on, his feet where stuck under the dash board and he couldn't move" Brooklyn wiped her face with her hands, "he was in London at the time"
I leaned over and hugged her, "I'm so sorry Brook" I said, Brooklyn stopped crying, but her eyes where glazed over like glass. "You're next" She Said, pointing to Rose, "I wanna hear your story" Rose looked like she was lost in a crowd of people, "Why me?" She whined, "but fine I'll do it" she inhaled and stared out into the ocean, "when I was 9, my family and I got into a car accident, my parents and younger sister didn't make it, and I was the only one who survived" her eyes started to get watery, "I was put in a foster home and was soon adopted by the Parker family, I had a kind mother, a strict father, and a sweet little brother who sometimes can be a pain in the ass" she gave a small sad smile, "I loved them almost as much as I loved my actual family, and they loved me back the same way" she inhaled before continuing, "I wasn't close to my father though, he didn't exactly show any affection for me, sure there where good times, but as they say- good times don't last forever, he was always cold and very controlling, and I, have mixed feelings about him, but he's still my father..." she trailed off that last sentence before pointing to Evelyn, "your turn" she said, stretching her arms. Evelyn grunted and started talking, "when I was 11, my mother died of Diabetes, she forgot to take her shot one day, and we found her lifeless body in the morning" she looked down at the sand, "not long after that, my father made it big in oil and started several companies, which where all very successful, he then married a disgusting motherfucker by the name of Emily Smith" I playfully gasped, "My last name is Smith" I said, she smiled at me before continuing to speak, "she didn't marry my father for love, she married him for his money, Whenever we where all together or whenever she was with Erik, my twin brother, she would fake her disgusting little attitude and act like the perfect mother she isn't" I saw her curl her right hand into a fist, "one day we had a fight, a fist fight, she shattered one of my mirrors and punched me, which was how I got this scar" she pointed to her face, "I don't really remember the rest of it, except that there was a lot of blood- which wasn't mine" Brooklyn's mouth dropped open, "and I flew here and yeah you know the rest" she then pointed to me and said, "your turn"
I looked down, "I don't really know how to share mine, I mean- after hearing your backgrounds mine is kinda lame..." the three of them looked at me with a look that said "do it" I sighed and pulled out my phone, I showed them a picture of me, my older sister Kaitlyn, and my younger brother Sammy. "Whoa you had long hair?" Said Evelyn, looking at the picture more closely, "I did" I said, and pointed to the older girl in the photo, "that is my older sister Kaitlyn, me and her where close, one day, while she was teaching me to surf, there was a shark in the wave we where riding in" Brooklyn covered her mouth with both of her hands. "By the time I saw it it was too late, the shark literally swallowed her whole and took off as fast as it came, I screamed and swam for the shore" I took a breath, "on the day of her funeral, while everyone else was paying their respects, I was at home, going through my sisters room, and found her diary, I turned to the latest page an began to read:

''Dear diary,
Today I'm going to be teaching Nya to surf! She's been begging me ever since I won the 'surf's on!' Competition three weeks ago, something tells me she's gonna be a natural. Since her birthday is coming up, I thought I'd get her this nice necklace of a wave I bought, I even had her name engraved into it. She's gonna flip when she sees this!
K.S 💕''

I didn't notice the tears that where rolling down my cheek, Evelyn gave me a comforting squeeze on the shoulder. "Four months ago" I said, anger flowing through me, my jaw was set and my eyebrows where furrowed, my mother and father divorced" Brooklyn gave me a sad smile and Rose moved over and gave me a side hug, "Sammy was pretty shook by it, and my mother completely changed, I never spoke to my father again after that..." I said, bringing the sickening conclusion to my story.
Brooklyn stared up into the night sky, "we really are broken" she said, we continued to say silent for the rest of the night, not one of us daring to break it.