𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍

06

❝ I was born without you, baby but my feelings were a little bit too strong. ❞

69 days of summer remaining 

"You called your mother a crazy bitch?"

June cringed as the words left his mouth, she had never called anyone out of their name before much less her own mother. Bitch, a cruel nasty word, it didn't sound right leaving her lips. "I've really done it this time." She sighed, wishing she could go back in time and rather slap her mother, even that would've been better.

"Well, . . . did she deserve it?" He inquired, staring up at the younger girl amused as she covered her face in her hands.

"Doesn't matter if she deserved it, I shouldn't have said it in the first place." June shuffled underneath the blanket throwing it off herself, feeling uncomfortably warm.

It being too earlier to face her mother at home, she lay in Jonathan's bed while he settled on a pallet on the floor. Neither Daphne nor Charlie had any idea about her earlier outburst, them both thinking she went home to a quiet house as usual. She could only imagine the look on Charlie's face if he found out she was sleeping mere feet away from his brother only a room away. She couldn't blame him, for her own face went up in flames when he suggested she stay the night at his house, something previously strictly forbidden from her. But she had no other choice, Daphne's mother would've wanted to speak with June's, forcing June to admit she was having problems at home, something she wanted to avoid at all costs. Plus Daphne would have never let her hear the end of it, June already had enough trouble accepting the fact she was sleeping in a man's bed she didn't need Daphne's teasing ontop of it.  With his dad being out tonight, Jonathan's house was the perfect solution - the only reason she had to sneak through the back door being that they didn't have to deal with Charlie's melodrama.

"Try to get some sleep alright?" Jonathan offered a smile, not sure on how to appropriately comfort the girl.

Juniper felt conflicted, not knowing whether she wanted to roll herself in a ball and cry or erupt into laughter at the absurdity of the situation she somehow managed to get herself wound up in. "Thanks again . . . for everything, you really didn't have to," She winced as she stared down at him on the floor, his pallet not looking very comfortable. "Sorry about your bed again."

He shrugged it off, his concern on other things than a hard floor. "It's alright, I hope you feel better."

"Me too."

Within an hour the two of them had dozed off, both feeling too silly to wish each other a goodnight - it being anything but a goodnight. 

✞

By the time June woke the next morning Jonathan was already dressed in new clothes, brushing through his long hair. "Hey." His voice knocked her out of her daze, not realizing he had caught her staring.

"Hi." Subconsciously she hid her face under his blanket, the only person ever seeing her so bare in the morning being her mother and Daphne, never a boy. Feeling a wave of insecurity wash over her, she hoped he leave the room soon giving her sometime to make herself look presentable.

"I'm going to wash up some in the bathroom, you can go in after me."

June let out a sigh of relief as the door closed behind him, finally having the room to herself. After remaking his bed, she sat herself in the stool in front of his mirror finger combing through her messy hair.

"Johnnie we got 10 bucks for pizza, OH! Sorry--What the hell?" 

Her head shot up at the shout, a red-faced Charlie seething in the doorway. Expecting his wrath to be taken out on her, she couldn't help but to stare gobsmacked when he turnt and laid it on Jonathan who abandoned the bathroom at the sound commotion. "I can't believe you!" Charlie yelled only to be silenced by Jonathan's hand clasped over his mouth.

A muffled argument vibrated throughout the tiny house, June having no choice but to sit there and listen.

"You've just got to take everything don't you?" She heard through the walls, the rest of the conversation too fuzzy to make out.

By the time Jonathan made his way back to the girl in his room the shouting had long passed. 

"Is he upset with me?" June asked when the door to his room opened.

"Oh god no," He assured, shaking his head wildly at the thought. "It's me he's angry with, he thinks we did something." 

Despite her rather prude-ish upbringing, she didn't need any other clue as to what something meant, the thought of it bringing a heat to her skin. "Oh! You told him we didn't right?" 

"Of course, he's just a bit dramatic."

June relaxed at that, feeling at-least the smallest bit better that the worst of it was over.

"Umm, I take it you want to get dressed," Jonathan picked himself up from the foot of the bed and made for the door. "Wear whatever, my shirts and things are the third drawer, bathrooms' across the hall, I'll be in the living-room."

Sighing to herself, she threw herself back onto his bed, wondering just how her life managed to change so drastically before her eyes.

( june's playlist )
wheels of confusion black sabbath • am i evil diamond head • no one like you scorpions • a national acrobat black sabbath • escape metallica • nib black sabbath • (don't fear) the reaper blue öyster cult • burnin' for you blue öyster cult

( daphne's playlist )
you don't own me leslie gore • twist and shout the beatles • bang bang my baby shot me down nancy sinatra • helter skelter the beatles • i can't get no (satisfaction) the rolling stones • pretty woman roy orbison • be my baby the ronettes • brown eyed girl van morrison

( jonathan's playlist )
comfortably numb pink floyd • black sabbath black sabbath • fortunate son creedence clearwater revival • hey hey what can i do led zeppelin • changes black sabbath • young lust pink floyd • tiny dancer elton john • carry on my wayward son kansas

( charlie's playlist )surrender cheap trick • you really got me the kinks • just what i needed the cars • painkiller judas priest • strutter kiss • iron man black sabbath • bennie and the jets elton john • stranglehold ted nugent