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Unfortunately we did not win the match as Kaleb somehow fumbled the ball right near the end but it was a good match and so I didn't really mind that much.
"Good game." Josie tells Dana as we have to pass each other in a line and tap hands, "Suck it, loser." She spits making me glare, "Not now, Dana!" Lizzie yells before punching Dana across the face, I notice Dana going to hit lizzie so I throw her a punch of my own, "she said not now Dana." I smirk as she looks up at me from the ground. Next thing you know everyone was fighting with everyone.
Dana jumps up and goes for us when all of a sudden Kaiara appears out of nowhere and tackles her back to the ground. My eyes widen as I watch my sweet pacifist sister brutally attack Dana I couldn't say she didn't deserve it but it was strange to see this side of Kaiara, I kinda liked it though.
Eventually the fight ends and we all get reprimanded, I didn't even care though getting to punch Dana was so worth it. I watched the mystic falls kids file into their bus, blowing Dana a kiss as she glared over at us, that bruise forming around her eye making the sight so sweet.
***
"When I said knock Dana down a peg I didn't mean with your fists." Mom scolds us, "she deserved it." I shrug making mom sigh, "violence isn't always the best option." She tells us, "maybe it was the dad in me, he was pretty violent wasn't he?" I question watching her face drop, mom hated when I spoke about dad because I hated him. "Arabella," I shake my head, "I mean it was just a punch mom, at least I didn't cut her spleen out because apparently that's a thing people do." I used to idolise my dad and dream of meeting him, but then I heard the stories about the monster he was kaiara didn't care she still loved him, but I knew that he was a broken defective witch and he passed that on to me and I hated it, unlike Kaiara I hated the similarities between dad and I.
When I was a kid I hated that she had gotten his blue eyes and I hadn't but now I was glad I didn't want that association with a sociopath who murdered his whole family. "Arabella, you never even met your dad, you can't make these assumptions." I shake my head, "so you wouldn't mind if I cut Kaiara's spleen out?" I question, "Arabella stop it," Kaiara scolds me also hating any ill words I had for dear old dad. "I hate him, He was a psycho k and you don't care?" She shakes her head, "he can't have been bad if mom loved him, he changed Arabella."
"Arabella go and get ice for your face and then go do your room, I'm done speaking to you on this, you were in the wrong and even if Dana deserved it you have to take responsibility for your actions and mistakes." Mom tells me avoiding my eye as I notice the tears in hers making me feel bad, mom was always so kind and laid back with us and I hated making her cry, dad was still a touchy subject to her even though it had been over a decade since she lost him. "Mom." I sigh, "go Arabella." I drop my head and leave mom barely used the stern tone on me.
I don't know why I got so mad about dad, but I just couldn't help it, I had heard the way that everyone else had spoken about him, he was messed up and he dumped that onto me.
When I get down to the kitchen I sigh at the figure already stood there. "Thought you might need some ice." Jed smiles holding up a homemade ice pack, I can't help the small smile that breaks out on my face as he takes a step forward to press it to my bruised face. I lean into his touch and look up at him, "you been arguing with your mom?" He asks wiping a tear from my cheek, "I don't mean to upset her, and seeing her cry because of me makes me feel like the shittiest daughter on the planet." I tell him making him wrap an arm around me and pull me into his chest, "you're a great daughter belle." He assures me pressing a kiss to my head. "I'm not J, I should be more like Kaiara." I sniffle feeling pathetic, I should not be crying like a child in my ex boyfriends arms.
"I should go." I murmur reluctantly pulling myself from Jed's arms, "belle." I stop and turn to look back at him inquisitively. "You're amazing, remember that." I nod a soft smile making its way to my face at his words, "thank you."
***
When I get back to my room Kaiara looks up but doesn't acknowledge me. "Kie." She sighs and keeps her eyes locked on the book in her hands, "Kaiara. I'm sorry." She looks up, "you hurt moms feelings again, why can't you just leave dad out of the disputes?" She asks me, "I don't know," she shakes her head, "well it's not cool, you know how mom feels about him." She tells me, "but you've heard the stories Kie, you know what they say he was like." She shakes her head at my words, "we don't know Arabella because we never met him, but mom did and she fell in love with him for a reason, mom knows what he was like, and I trust what she says." She says before looking at me harder, "why do you care so much?" She asks me making me shrug, "well there must be a reason." She prompts.
"Because mom says I'm like him, but I don't want to be like him because that would make me a freak, it would make me defective, it would make me a monster and I don't want to be a monster." Kaiara's face softens at my words as she stands from the bed. "You're not a monster Arabella and neither was dad, not all stories are true." She assures me as she wraps me up in her embrace.
