Sunflower

14 - Munchkins

Theo

When I first laid eyes on Cath I knew exactly what type of a person she was. She resembled my older sister so well. The same blonde hair, the same aura around her that attracted people, the same fake personality that made me want to laugh whenever she talked, and the same demanding attitude reminded me of Julie.

It was like I was seeing her again after so many years. She had left me behind along with my older brother Julien long ago. They were twins who were adopted before me, but they gave no care that I was left behind at the orphanage we once shared in London.

It disgusted me when she forcefully pulled Micah down for a kiss. I know why she did it. She saw me, and she knew that she was losing him. She was losing her play toy.

"Why are you with him?" Her annoying, high pitched voice made me snap out of my thoughts.

"Who is him?" I was the him, but being the bitch I had become I couldn't help but enjoy annoying her.

Her disgust towards me made me want to laugh. How could I make people hate me from first glance? I guess I'm just talented.

"The school drunk." I noticed the poison, and I felt it too. She was a snake that wanted nothing more than to wrap around me and suffocate me until my last breath passed through my lips. It hurt, but I can't let things get to me, at least not from another whore.

She was just like Julie. However, the one thing both Julie and I had in common was that we were both whores. That would make Cath one too, and her desperation for Micah's attention as well as her control over him made her the perfect whore, just like me. It's not that I'm shaming her for being one, because I know damn well I am a worse person than Cath will ever be. However, her way of having this effect on people, her clear lust hidden behind the way she spoke and dressed so exposed by continuously pressing herself up in front of people, that showed who she really was.

"He's not a drunk." I let a grin slip at Micah's small comeback. He was trying to stand up for me.

"Did you see him this morning?" Well no shit honey, he's my seat mate and probably more of a valued and appreciated friend to me than a boyfriend to you.

The way she spoke made me want to bash her head in. I get she just wanted to get her way like she always did, but degrading me when I already knew of my circumstances wasn't a good alternative to choose when I am literally standing in front of her plastic face.

I was close to doing something I would regret once again, but Micah laid his hand over mine which made me stop and look directly at him.

Stop trying to fuck things up, Theo. My conscience told me.

"What did you wanna talk about?" Micah asked Cath who turned her gaze back to Micah, the poison she held for me gone and instead her controlling demeanor returned.

"Our two year anniversary is coming up, munchkins." I lost it. I laughed so hard that I thought my stomach was going to explode from the sudden fit of laughter that overcame me. Munchkins? Really? I'm gonna tease the hell out of Micah later.

He ignored my fits of laughter but I knew he was blushing.

"So I thought we would have a party celebrating the two of us." Sounds nice.

"W-where?"

"Your place, of course. It's huge in there, big enough to fit the whole school!"

I felt Micah's tension from the remaining grip over my hand. I knew he didn't want to agree, but he complied either way.

"Sure."

"Great! That's all I wanted to ask from you babe. Now, would you like to join us here?"

He looked up at me and I just smiled a bit. I was clearly unwanted, and I wasn't going to make Micah choose between his girlfriend and between me. I took my hand out from underneath his and put my hands into my pockets, strolling out of the café.

I heard some of the girls who were sitting with Cath start gasping and loudly chattering. Then the bell rang to the café and out walked Micah, alone.

"Why'd you leave?"

"The school's drunk didn't smell alcohol in there, my bad." His only reply was an annoyed scoff.

"She isn't always so rude to people, I'm sorry."

"Yeah she is, but I don't wanna fight with you right now, especially since you have quite the slap." I snickered, and he just nodded mindlessly.

After that we just talked until Cath and her friends were done, and they walked out. Cath gave me one more disgusted look before she forcefully dragged Micah along with her and her clique.

"Theo!"

"Have fun with your doll!" I yelled and walked down the other way, towards the sunflower patch. I stood before it, examining all the sunflowers that stood high and mighty. They were shining a beauty that couldn't be contained. I sighed and ruffled my hair before turning down another street. Sooner or later night was rising, the moon was shining in all its glory, and I was lost in Florida. I was still in whatever city we lived in, but I had no clue where I was exactly, so I did what I did best and asked around for direction, annoying some people on my way home.

I finally made it back to the school when I knew my way home, so I continued to walk down the now emptied neighborhood streets that resembled the ghost town inside Micah's home.

I arrived back at the place I was now supposed to address as home and sighed deeply before walking in. Linda and Jude were still out for another week or so, so I got the whole house to myself. I got all the alcohol and all the food to myself. I got all of their possessions here and I could easily steal them and run away again, but I didn't. There was nowhere to go. I didn't know America like I knew England. Yet, I knew why I didn't want to leave, because I had already found a piece of home here in this lonely Florida town; Micah.

"Fuck you Julie and Julien." I laughed at the memory of them. It still bothered me how similar Cath was to Julie. I just hoped I didn't find someone like Julien around, or I'd have to go into hiding again. Julien was like the nightmare everyone had when they were younger, except he never left. He tormented everyone and anyone around him. Not Julie though, because they were twins. He enjoyed hurting anything that held a pulse, and I was one of those things. He hit me. He hurt me to a point we're he took away my dignity with emotional torment as a child.

He was abusive, but my father and mother weren't. My parents only ignored all three of our existences, besides supplying us with only the needed food, shelter, and clothes. They had better things to do like sell drugs or get high. Julie and Julien raised me to be a monster, and Cath was like a second Julie.

I shook my head. Fuck you too, memories.

Time passed by and I cleaned up my room that still smelled of heavy alcohol. I decided to take a shower, but as I was pulling my shirt over my head, I got a text message from the only person who had my number.

'Can you come over Friday afternoon to help me set up for the party? Cath said she has other plans...' From Micah.

'Sure, munchkins.'

We're gonna have a hell of a time.

~ baba