Beaten & Bruised

Bad News, Bad Attitude

When we got up the next morning everyone one was already on the bus waiting on us.

I guess our alarm didn't off or maybe we forgot to set it because I woke up in a panic running through the hotel room still naked from the night before trying to gather our stuff together.

"Kendall!" I shouted pulling a pair of pants over my naked butt without even putting a pair of panties on before hand.
"Kendall!!" I said again making him roll over and his blanket to fall to the ground.

"What is with all of the yelling Damn can you stop it's to fucking early for that shit!" He said when I went over beside him and moved the pillow from under his head.

"Don't get an attitude with me!" I said throwing a pair of Jean's and his boxers at him.

"We have to hurry or the bus is gonna leave us!!" I said when he woke up in a quick way after glancing at the clock.

"What the hell Trinity why did you let me over sleep?" He said finding any excuse in the book to blame me for us both being too lazy to remember to set an alarm.

"Oh no don't blame this all on me you didn't set the alarm Ethier!" I said shouting back at him.

He threw his wrinkly shirt over his head and yanked the bag I had rushed around to pack from beneath my feet.

"Whatever bitch I'm not in the mood can you hurry the fuck up" he said rushing me even more so than I already was.

I was trying to make sure we packed everything and didn't forget anything.

"You know if it wasn't for me waking up we would still be asleep maybe you should be a little nicer to me this morning!" I said when he grabbed my bag out of my hand.

"Yeah yeah lets quit the small talk and go.... I dont want to left in Georgia" he said moving me forward with the bags he had in his hands.

I was so fustrated I understand it was hectic the way we woke up but he was blaming me for something we both did.

I quickly cooled off when we got to the bus because I wasn't going to let him get us all fighting again on the 34 hour drive home.

When we got inside Carlos was playing a game with Logan and James was putting his stuff in his bunk.

"Bout time you two woke up!" Carlos said with a laugh.
Kendall snarled at him,"dont mind grumpy butt hes cranky" I said when Kendall gave me a go to hell look and plopped down across the entire couch closing his eyes again.

James walked back towards the front area when he got a phone call.

"Hello?" He said answering a number he didnt recognize.

"Uncle Ray? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. How have you been?" James said talking over the phone.

Within a matter of minutes his facial expression dropped and he almost collapsed.

"What happened?" He said only making me even more curious to what was going on.

"Oh my god!" He said with a single stream of a tear falling from the left side of his face.

"Thanks for calling..... and telling us..... we'll be home tomorrow" he said looking up at me. With a deepened undertone emotion to his face.

He hung up and not even a few seconds later I bombarded him with questions.

"James is everything okay??" I asked moving over closer to him. It was like he couldn't remember how to form a sentence. He kept opening his mouth but nothing was coming out it was a stutter of sounds until I asked him again.

"James what's the matter who was on the phone?" I asked begging him to answer me.

He looked at me with an empty expression and grabbed me and pulled me closer to him.

"Trinity.... that was uncle Ray..." he said letting out another sigh, I gave him a puzzled look we hadn't seen or heard from him in I couldn't tell you how long so why was he calling James now?

"Trinity... mom and dad.... they were in a accident coming home from the cruise" he said unwillingly refusing to let himself break down completely until he explained to me what happened.

"Yeah?" I said trying to get him to finish talking to me.

"Trinity they didn't make it.... Mom and Dad are dead" he said seeing my lips quivering and pulled me as close as he could get to me to hold me and console me.

He was just as upset as I was but he was being the best big brother he could be and trying to remain strong for the both of us. Mom and dad may have never been as involved as they should have, hell sometimes they didn't even deserve to have the titles of parents but they were still our parents none the less and no matter how broken up a home is they are the only ones you are given and when they are all of a sudden taken from you with no Hope's of them coming around one day to want to be apart of your life you can't ever get then back.

I cried out so loudly it got the attention of the whole bus, I was crying so much James's shirt was getting soaked but I couldn't stop it. When Kendall got awoken by my earth shaking sounds of how unbelievably upset I was he came over close to me to try and pull me away from James and into his arms.