Apex- AU HS FANFIC

Chapter 1

"You going to the game tonight?" My brother, Joshua, asked as he leaned against my door frame, eating a bag of chips. 

"Yes, why?" 

"Stay safe, gracie. I mean it. Don't wander off with some boy. I don't want to have to worry about you while we're getting prepped for champs." He warned me, I rolled my eyes. My brother was the star quarterback of our high schools football team and was a complete jock meaning he was a complete asshole, even to me, his little sister. 

"I never do, Josh. I just go to support my brother and my team and hang with the squad. It's really nothing I do." Since I was Josh's sister I got a lot of attention from boys, his team in particular but I was off limits and everyone knew it, even I did. He's overprotective and overbearing which made my job ten times harder to live MY life under HIS rules to avoid problems. 

"Whatever. Don't fucking piss me off tonight. Also, don't wait up after the game we're going to hang out and celebrate the dub." He warned me before walking out my room. 

"Close my door!" I yelled, he ignored me and I screamed as I stood up, slamming my door shut in time to catch him laughing. God! I fucking hated when he entered my room, which he had to open the CLOSED door to and he could not have the damn decency to close it to its original state.  

I sat on my bed to finish the English paper I knew my friends had not done so I took the liberty of writing their papers, emailing it to them and signed into their emails using their saved profiles from my laptop, turning it in. It wasn't that much since I used a generator for all of it. 

I took a quick shower, putting on a pair of blue jean shorts with a white crop top before sliding my hair into a messy bun. I paired it all with my white vans and did minimal makeup since nothing could ever survive the humidity for very long, plus I'm lazy. 

"Alright baby sister I'm out. Behave and I'll see you at the game." Josh screamed through my locked door as he exited the house, slamming the door shut downstairs. 

"You look cute." My mom smiled as I walked downstairs to get a water bottle from the fridge. "Thank you. I hope Josh doesn't give me shit for it." I rolled my eyes, she did too. 

"He loves you. He's just looking out for you, as he should! You know Nick and Derek would kill him if he didn't." My two older brothers, Nick and Derek, are also protective of me since I'm the youngest but I didn't care too much since they're all grown and not my problem anymore. 

"Loving me and hovering are two completely different things. He doesn't allow any guy to come within 2 feet of me for longer than 30 seconds unless he's there. It makes it 200 times harder to find a date to prom because everyone is scared of him!" "You'll find someone that'll stand up to the big bully that you call a brother." My mom laughed, rolling her eyes. 

"Dad called." I scoffed at her, I did not want to talk to my dad. Not now, not ever. "I have nothing to say to him." "Grace, it's been 5 years. You need to talk to him." "No. That man can talk to me when he mans up and drives up here to look me in the eye and apologize for breaking my heart and yours. Not to mention our family." 

"Grace, I think you're being a little dramatic." My mom sighed and I shook my head no. "No, I'm not. I don't want to talk to him. Has he apologized for cheating on you with your best friend and getting her pregnant?" I asked and my mom sighed. 

"No but I forgave him." "You don't forgive him if he doesn't ask for it! He needs to apologize! I don't understand how my entire life I wanted him to be a father! I wanted to be his little girl but he never gave me that and to know that he gave all the things I have dreamed about to a little girl that I did not know existed and was with a woman who was not you fucked me up! He needs to look me in the eye and beg for forgiveness for breaking my heart before any stupid boy Josh couldn't protect me from could!" I was heavy breathing as my tears rolled out, my mom looked shocked. 

"Mom. Why didn't he love me? Am I fucked up? Am I not good enough? Am I not skinny enough like his new daughter?" I sobbed as she rushed over to hug me. I sat pathetically in my mother's arms as I sobbed a million forms of anguish into her pink blouse, tinting it red like the color of blood my soul wept. 

"There's nothing wrong with you mija." My mom comforted me as I sobbed endlessly into her like a child. 

"I love you." My mom sighed as I finally stopped crying. "I love you too." I sniffled, standing up when she helped me. 

"You're my baby. Forever and always and I didn't know he fucked you up this bad, mija. I promised nobody would hurt you b-" "You promised me that mom but you never took into calculation that the other person who was responsible for me would break me. It's not your fault." I hugged her tightly, standing on my tippy toes to hug her. 

"I love you. You don't have to see him. Not now or ever."