The Devil's Sister

Chapter 22

I leave the mall with all of the piercings that I wanted. I got my third lobe and my three cartilage. Turns out, they did pierce with guns and needles, so I let them pierce my cartilage. I didn't have the money for it but Adonis forced me to sit in the chair and get the piercings while he paid for them. He just told me to look at the earrings that I liked and wouldn't tell me the prices of them.

"Thank you so, so much Adonis," I say for the tenth time as I'm looking in the mirror at the piercings. The diamond stud on my lobe and three small hoops for the cartilage.

Adonis rolls his eyes. "Stop thanking me."

"But you wasted your money on me," I said. "Wait, how much was it?"

"For all three, 150 dollars," he responds casually.

My eyes widen and my mouth drops.

"What!" I screech. "Why would you waste money like that? I could have waited and gotten money over the years. God damn it Adonis, I swear next time you're at eye level with me-"

Adonis pulls over to the side of the road and covers my mouth with his hand.

"You need to stop talking now, Mía Reginetta," he says.

I huff and furrow my eyebrows. When Adonis sees I won't try and talk, he takes his hand off of my mouth.

"I'm going to bitch slap you for spending so much money," I grumble.

"What?" He says, clearly knowing what I said.

I narrow my eyes at him. "Nothing."

•••••

It's Monday again and I had a feeling something was going to happen today. Nothing bad since there was no blue, just something.

I walk over to where Laviana and I meet and take a seat on the desk next to where Laviana sits.

"Hi," I say.

She looks at me and nods before looking back at her phone. I roll my eyes and just look at my phone. As I'm looking at my phone, my hair keeps getting in the way so I move it behind my shoulder. A few seconds later, I hear a gasp.

"Your mom let you get all those piercings?" Laviana asks, full of disbelief.

I furrow my eyebrows, but then remember she doesn't know anything. I nod quickly and look away from her. 

"You need to tell me the truth, Ky," Laviana says.

I look at her and then nod. "You need to promise you won't say anything." No sign of joking was on my face. "If you do, my family is screwed."

Laviana looks concerned but nods.

I take a deep breath and start explaining. "My mom and my brother were out and some truck driver hit them. The accident killed my mom but put my brother in a coma. The same day my brother was taken in, he died." I sigh. "Esperanza didn't want to risk her going back to Santo Domingo if Sebastián died, so she killed herself. I didn't want to say anything because if anyone knew, my sister and I would have been shipped off to Texas and Blaze, my nephew, would most likely go to a shit person."

I know that a lot of people wouldn't have just told someone something that personal, especially at school, but ever since my dad died, I let things out without caring much. Obviously, I know that certain things are meant to be kept to myself, and I never speak about those things, but death? It's easy for me to talk about, no matter how close the person who died was to me. It's a natural thing, nothing I could do to stop it and nothing I can do to bring them back. All I can do is live with the memories, and that's more than enough.