Afterlife || irwin

[ 3 ] 2014

[ 3 ] 2014

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"Arthur's in critical condition. We need to go because this might be the last time we see him alive."

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Harley went straight to Billy's room ignoring her parents' greeting to find him playing Edge of Glory, a first person shooter game, online with none other than Luke Hemmings. It was one of the few times she had seen him playing the video game since their parents had gotten it for him as a present for winning the big game that sports season. He was almost always at some kind of sports practice or club meeting, and didn't have the time to play it. Though he irritated her sometimes, and went out to parties with the populars, he was more responsible than most boys his age. When he wasn't at one of those, he was at a club event, or a sports game. He hardly had the time to be a regular teenager and Harley almost felt sorry for him. He had a golden boy image to uphold and their parents were highly disappointed with even the slightest slip up from his immaculate grades. 

To top it all off, he had a charismatic personality, and everyone around him seemed to love him. Billy Quinn was the perfect Australian teenager. Harley was everything short of that, not that she minded.

Billy was the complete opposite of Harley, perfect in every way. Growing up, Harleen always compared them, asking her daughter why she couldn't keep up with Billy and his good grades. Why can't you do what Billy does? She'd ask every single time. She gave that up when she saw that it wasn't helping her daughter. Instead it was just making her slightly resentful of her older brother because he didn't have to try. He was just naturally good at everything, while Harley had to bust her ass to try and she just couldn't do what he could do. Sometimes she thought that maybe he was the one who was super human. And other times she thought maybe he was a shifter after all, and that his special ability was to be perfect in every way. But there was no way for that. Billy was Aaron's son. She knew by seeing her dad's pictures as a teenager. They were nearly identical to each other.

Her brother didn't even look up and continued playing his video game as Harley walked into the room. He was yelling curse words at his friend over the microphone, and he finally paused the game when Harley stood in front of the television, blocking his view. 

"What do you want, booger?" He asked her, voice laced with annoyance.

From his headset he could hear Luke calling out to him, cursing him out for leaving him alone in the game. He didn't know that Harley was in the room and wanted to talk to her brother about something very important. The seventeen year old crossed her arms over her chest, already decided that she would not falter in wanting to talk with him. He was going to hear her out whether he wanted to or not. "We need to talk about what you did to Calum at school today."

Billy rolled his eyes at her and let out a groan. "Not this again, Harley. I told you people were starting to talk about how he had finally gotten you in his bed. I had to defend my little sister from--"

"From the big bad wolf, Billy?" She scoffed at his words. When he said nothing to her and turned off the console so Luke wouldn't listen in on their conversation, she continued. "I can take care of myself. Your little show got Calum expelled from St. Genevieve's. This isn't a game, now all those football scholarships he was hoping on for university will go down the drain. How would you feel if that were you and your scholarships? You have to go talk to the principal and tell her you started that fight. You're a star student, and a star athlete. She'll go easy on you."

Her brother removed his headsets and tossed them onto the bed along with his controller. He got back on his feet, towering almost a foot over his younger sister. For most people, it would have been quite intimidating. But this was her brother, and she knew she could convince him to do anything she wanted. Deep down, Billy had a soft spot for Harley. She was his only sister and he cared about her. "You wanna talk about a show? How about when you made Luke punch himself in the face?" He accused.