Everything at Once -- (Animal Kingdom -- Craig/OC)

Chapter 2

Thigh length black dress with a white collar, knee high socks and black heels. What was Smurf thinking with bringing me this for Julia's funeral. I stood in front of the bathroom mirror as I tied up my ponytail and applied light makeup when Craig stood there in the doorway. "You were asleep when I got back last night." He told me as I put down the eye liner.

"Well you took all night to do whatever it is you three did." I told him as I brought the liner back up. "I just, you look good?" He offered as I turned to him.

"Craig, we were never those people. Don't start with it now thinking this will go anywhere." I told him as he scratched his head. "Maybe if we were those people you wouldn't have left me." He whipped back.

"Craig, I overdosed and was in rehab for almost a year. I didn't leave you, because I wanted to. I left because I almost died." I reminded him, "And the only times you had ever called me anything but sexy was when we were fucked on coke. So please spare me this return to that."

He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned on the door frame, "Return to what, my time with you was always some of the best I've had. You're going to tell me you don't miss that?"

"I don't." I said to him as I stared at him through the mirror, this was a lie I had been telling myself since the day I left rehab. That I don't miss him, that I didn't long to be wrapped up in his arms on a couch channel surfing or eating pizza. That I didn't think about his lips, or his eyes every time I scrolled through pictures of us on my instagram or the gallery on my phone.

"You're still a terrible liar." He told me walking back into his room. I walked into Darens which was attached by the bathroom to Craigs. "What is wrong with me?" I asked him closing his door and sitting on his bed as he stood there half naked.

"Craig?" He asked me as he laughed sitting next to me on his bed. "Look, leave your scumbag boyfriend stay here for a while." He told me, "You thinking you want him back is probably because your boyfriend is scum and your missing out on something."

"It's not even Rafael, I never stopped wanting him back. Dating Rafael was just my way of trying to have a normal romance. Pope and I we were so innocent. Hand holding and movies, my first kiss but he was so much older than me and was also in love with Catherine." I reminded him as I sighed, Daren put his arm around my shoulders. "True, and Craig chased you for years trying to get your attention."

"When he finally got it we screwed it up every step of the way... on and off, drugs, god..." I said letting my hands cradle my face. "Probably didn't help that Smurf caught you guys screwing that one time."

"Oh my god.... That was my first time too, we thought we were so sneaky." I laughed, "Didn't even close the door..."

"I know, Baz, Pope and I even tried to stay at the beach to give you guys the place. Yet we all just forgot about Smurf." I smiled as he spoke, "I'll meet out out front, Smurf and that kid are probably waiting on everyone."

"I'll be quick." He told me as I left the room, Once craig was dressed we took his car with Craig to the funeral as Smurf drove the kid; Josh.

The graveyard was sparse, broken trees and tombstones littered the grounds. You would think there would be some upkeep done to this place considering it's owned by the city. There weren't many people around, a few people who weren't apart of the family which I assumed were either friends or neighbours which was nice to see she hadn't burned all her bridges from using. She was being buried under a tree, which was nice of Smurf to go so far as to give her a decent plot.

It was no secret to most of the family that Julia had pissed off Smurf before she had taken off, and it was even less of a secret that J was probably Baz's kid. We all knew what those two did behind closed doors yet, they were not related so no one really cared until he met Catherine. Smurf stood next to J, alongside who I was guessing was his girlfriend, Then there was Baz and Catherine, Pop, Daren, myself and Craig. As we stared at the casket where the priest was, was beyond me.