𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 | (𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘹𝘉𝘰𝘺)

7; Travis

I ran my fingers through my platinum blonde hair and sighed. I sat in a minivan with just my parents and myself, nothing special in that. I really didn't like going on family vacations, when I was little yeah, but now now it's just boring. This year they decided we go to California, nothing wrong with looking at hot chicks in bikinis while I was there. Most of the time I walked down Santa Monica beach and enjoyed the view, but I did get slightly sunburned from how long I stayed.
It was perfect there. I rested my elbow on the car window and admired the view as we went by. It was going to be a long car ride back to Nebraska, luckily summer was almost to an end and then I could get back to dealing. I always thought Josh was a mysterious kind of guy, awkward subject change but it's what is going through my mind.
I know he was the one that got us all into dealing, but the question was where in the hell does he get his stash? Josh never talks about anything that has to do with the main person that keeps him stocked up and I don't blame him. Sometimes people can be snitches and if you were to snitch on Josh i'm pretty sure he would kill you himself with his bare hands.
I stuck my earbuds in both my ears and listened to music, drowning out my parents as they argued on where we were and were the next Denny's would be. I rolled my eyes and thought about what my senior year would bring me, probably just as boring as the last year. In my opinion I feel like we all need a little change and spice in our senior year. I looked at my phone to change the song and saw that I had gotten a message from Brian. "How's the trip?" I furrowed my eyebrows, he has never messaged me that before. "Alright." was all that I messaged back and within seconds my phone vibrated again.
"Somethin' going on with Cole." What could possibly be going on with Cole, despite Josh and him. "Josh?" He replied with a simple "ya" "Don't get in their business Brian I know you care as much as he does, but it's best to leave 'em be" After that he didn't respond. What could possibly be going on with them two? I get that they dated and all, but Brian has got to chill when it comes to these types of things.
They were the only two that had a strong brotherly bond, but sometimes Brian can be a little overprotective no matter if he was a couple of centimeters taller than Cole. It usually got on my nerves since that's all I heard from Brian. It was either about Cole or his alcoholic father. I mean yeah he can come to me for his problems, but sometimes I just can't help but get annoyed by it.
Moving on from that subject. I looked at my contacts and saw CeeCee's. That girl held a special place in my heart, but I wasn't quite ready to settle down yet. With my senior year coming up I wanted to have fun and party, sure as hell was going to throw a huge party sometime during the middle of the year.
CeeCee was a different topic, she was a pristine girl that didn't do any drugs or anything and I wanted her to stay that way. I loved how her love for art grew once we got into highschool and that's when she started to do a lot of art. She joined an art class and I remembered every time I saw her her hands would have dried paint on them. I remember this one time in 10th grade she was finger painting a sky and took red and blue, mixed them together to make purple then added some white to it to make a lighter purple. She told me that color was Lilac and ever since then I always thought about naming my future daughter Lilac.
It sounded cheesy, but the simplest memories can have a deep meaning to them and that's what I cherished the most about our memories. I have to hold them close so that I never forget about them, knowing one day I probably will. Everything about her was perfect in my eyes and I feel like she doesn't see that.
Sometimes her deep red lipstick will feather out and it makes me chuckle a little. I might look like I will kill you, but some things will make me a sweet person I guess. I know one thing, I don't want anyone to know that I have a soft spot. If everyone knew that then my High School reputation would be over with.
I could already see it, drug dealer is a softie. Yeah not the best thing to say, but maybe one day I can look back and laugh at that title. As I looked out the window we drove by a little house and I saw two people moving stuff into a little car. I guess they were packing their stuff and moving.
I thought about why they would live out here in such a secluded area. I mean no one was around and if you were to be murdered out here no one would even know, but it had its perks. They lived around a forest and it looked like a nice place to just sit and think. Maybe that's what that kid did, sit and think about his life.
I could never live like that though, knowing me I had to have social interaction and have people from the outside world talk to me. Living in the southside had its perks, we had a skatepark and walked to school instead of taking the bus. Of course Cole and Josh skated and stuck their skateboards in their lockers.
I still till this day don't know how those things fit inside their lockers. Me on the other hand I kept to myself and walked, smoking along the way. The one time I had trouble with the cops was because Brian was drunk off his ass and was walking down the street sidewalk. I had to bail him out and smacked him in the back of the head for his wrong doings.
Since then the boy only drank indoors when his father wasn't at home or over at a friends, mostly at Cole's. Only twice has he drank over at my place and that was when I threw parties when my parents were out of town. Cole in my opinion is too easy on Brian, he needs to understand that Brian is an alcoholic and needs to fix his ways, not cheer him on while he is gulping down a gallon of Bud Light in the living room and ruining the carpet.
When I throw another party I should really limit that boy. Cole on the other hand does have a smoking problem. Evertime I see him he's smoking and during lunch we all usually hide behind a tree and smoke. Cole doesnt have a job and most money he makes from dealing he spends it on cigarettes or pays Josh for weed.
If he can smoke it he will take it. Ever since he was 16 he smoked and I regret giving him those things. If anything he could do weed and it would be less deadly, but of course he wasn't going to listen to any of us. His excuse for cigarettes was "Their a healer for me, just like music is for CeeCee"
It makes me frustrated when he always uses that as an excuse and hopefully one day someone will make him stop, ever since 16 I was the one who bought them for him and back then he used them because of his father and the memories he had of him.
When Cole was younger I was the one person he would run to, but ever since Brian made an appearance it is now always Brian. I wish he would come to me to so I could know what is going on, but maybe one day when he really needs my help he'll come around.
My mother turned her head to look at me and she smiled. I looked at her and pulled one of my earbuds out. "What?" I questioned her and her smile went away. "We're halfway there. Aren't you excited to be home and in your own bed?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Yeah I guess" "Travis, don't be like that. I'm sure your friends will also be happy to see you too."
I hope they will be, I haven't seen them in a couple of months. Surprisingly I haven't gotten any messages until today since I been in California. Not that I care I actually liked having no one texting me because I could actually have time for myself.
I'm just wondering what everyone has been up to all summer, but when school starts everyone will share their stories on the first day. I just can't wait to start making money again from dealing. Just going to have to see what my senior year brings me, hopefully it's not as boring as last year.