Skellingtons in the closet

Chapter 6: Whore!

"RIOT?! BRIONNA!?" I woke up to the famous screams of Chris. I slid my shorts on and my tank top and stuck my head out the door, Briar did the same, her hair in a frizzy mess, making me laugh at her.

"BRIONNA?! RIOT?!" Chris yelled again, he ran past me and Briar, down the hall. We chased after him.

"What's going on?" I ask after I catch up with Chris, he looked worried and stressed.

" I woke up and I couldn't go back to sleep, and I got bored, so I wondered if the girls were up to play air hockey..I went to their room and they were gone, I've been looking for them all morning," He explains.

"What?! We've gotta find them!" I exclaimed. We all rushed to the stairs and hurried to the door, stopping in our tracks as the door swung opened. It was the girls. They noticed us and stared as if they were confused.

"Were you two, we all got worried?!" I yelled.

"Sorry, we just went for a little morning walk," Riot says.

"Don't fucking do that, anything could've happened to you!"  Chris exclaims.

"Okay, okay, we're sorry,"

We all sighed and went our separate ways. My phone rings. I looked at the caller ID and hurried upstairs and answered the phone.

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Chris's Pov

I sat down on the couch, about to turn on the tv, until I noticed Liz near the stairs, her phone rings and she looks at it, and smiles. She looked around before she ran upstairs. I got curious and followed behind, our door was cracked open, and I listened to her conversation.

"Hello?..... I missed you!... Why haven't you been calling or texting me back?......we need to meet up somewhere, I wanna see you...it's been too long, when do you wanna meet up? No, Chris doesn't know...okay, I'll see you tonight, love you, I'll text you later, okay bye,"

I felt a wave of emotions crashing over me- anger, sadness, sorrow, and hurt. She was cheating on me. For how long? I could feel tears forming in my eyes, but I blinked them away, and headed downstairs to watch Tv, Riot was already in the living room, scrolling through Netflix so I sat next to her and pretended nothing happened. Although my hands were balled into a fist that may have gave way to my anger. Riot noticed and raised an eyebrow.

"Uhh...you cool?" She asked before clicking on some diva show.

"I'm fucking awesome," I responded. She stared at me for a few seconds and then glued her eyes to the screen.

Briar, Brionna, and Liz all came downstairs dressed in their similar looking black skinny jeans, and band shirts. Liz was carrying Tyler and stood in front of the tv.

"Hey, Riot, me and the girls are going to the mall, wanna come?" She asks.

"Hell yeah!" She responded.

Liz smiled sat Tyler in my lap.

"He isn't going?" I asked as normal as I could.

"No, you two are going to spend some father-son time for the afternoon, while the girls and I are out," alright, don't go cheating on me," I half joked. She sent me a confused look, and then nervously laughed before leaving.

"Dad, you look hurt. Are you okay?" Tyler asks.

"Yeah...just a little...down I guess. Wanna go play with your toys with me after you eat?" I ask.

He smiles and nods his head.

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Later that evening, around six, Tyler was in his room playing with his action figures, then we drew together, and just doing father-son things all day. By the time we got tired, we lied in his bed and watched spiderman together. I could hear the door open and close. The girls ran past us with bags in their hands, and Liz walked past us also with bags in her hands, but she was also texting.