The Misfits

•Chapter Fifteen•

friend
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noun
plural noun: friends; plural noun: Friends
a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations.
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Once arriving home the girls did not find their big break and they definitely did not find it how they left it. They dropped Kate home first because her house was closest and she said she couldn't wait another minute to pee. Julia and Laurie were gonna go back to Julia's for some tea and to watch some horror movies but Laurie got a odd text from her dad.

Sperm donator: Come home I need the truck.

Laurie: Why? I didn't think you were working over the break?

Sperm donator: Just get home Laurie otherwise I'll call the cops.

Laurie: fuck ok, I'll be there in five.

Laurie was shocked to say the least but none the less she stood up from her spot on Julia's couch and announced her departure.
'Slash his tires, but not all four otherwise he can claim insurance.' Julia said as she walked her to the door. 'No even better, do what they do in the movies and let it drive into a lake!'
'I am not sabotaging my dads ute I'll just take it home, I need fresh clothes and a nap anyway.' Laurie chuckled before she got into the car and let Julia Hotwire it.
'See yu than.'
'Peace ma bro.'
Laurie chuckled at her hippie friend and pulled out of the driveway.

Laurie's house wasn't even five minutes away. So when she pulled up and saw her dad standing outside she was worried he was gonna do some ass whooping!
'Dad what's going on?' Laurie asked Bo as she stepped out of the old ute.
'Nothing love, can you just help me put all these boxes on the back?' Laurie nodded and started hauling the boxes into the trailer. Without looking down she knew these were her fathers belongings, geez maybe if she had voiced her wish for her parents to spilt earlier than it could of happened. She sighed and looked over at the house she had grown up in, than she looked at her father that has helped raise her, than she asked the question that had been stuck in her head for months.
'Why.' The way she said it wasn't even like a question, more of a threat. And I guess it was. She needed to be told why all of this was happening, she needed to know why everything she knew was being torn away from her.
'Because Laurence not everything in life works out the way it was planned. Like you were supposed to be a boy up until the moment you were born, or at least that's what that doctors said. Or how Dusty was supposed to go to university and get a real job not do drugs behind the fucking high school.' Hi sighed and sat down on one of the boxes.
'Is that why my names Laurence, because I was supposed to be a boy?'
'Yeah, pretty silly hey, and now you're gonna grow up and go away to school and get a good dependable job!' Bo said it with a smile and Laurie just looked at her tattered old sneakers. No she wasn't going away to school she was going away to play music and live her life.
'Ok.' Was all she could say before her mother appeared in the doorway.
'Laur could you come here please?' Laurie got up and made her way to her mother who was standing pale faced at the house. 'Could you go in and make your brother some dinner, I've just gotta have a talk with your father.'
Laurie sighed and walked into the house to make some ramen and change her cloths.
'Where have you been these last few days?' Her bother James asked from his bedroom door.
'Out.'
'Dads leaving, for good this time.'
'Great, now I can have some real meaning behind my songs.' Laurie rolled her eyes when her brother started crying at how little she seemed to care. So she just pulled him into her arms and they just cried for a while. It was the first time in a long while Laurie had cried and she wasn't really sure why. Everything was looking up for her for once in her life and maybe she was crying because no one had helped her. She had gotten this far all on her own. But now she had her band mates, her friends, her real family and nothing would come between them.

So she picked up her phone, found Frank Buffalo's number and took the leap of faith.
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