Young Adult

Chapter thirty two - Wren

A couple weeks have past by, after that night Ezra and I have agreed to take things slow, not much has gone on recently other than my brother who's flying to California to stay with us for a couple nights.

We weren't that close as kids, I was always with lily and Wren was always with dad. Wren told me that we became closer after I lost my memories but he always felt awkward with me then.

"Teddy!" Wren waved over to us as he left customs at LAX, "was your flight okay?" I asked him as he hugged me. "Yeah it was, hows living in California? You used to say that only actresses with no future or self respect would live here." I sighed, he's still as blunt as ever.

Ezra loaded up Wren's suitcases into the car and we drove off, "it feels weird not living in the same house anymore, I'm always at work now so I guess we would hardly see each-other even if we did live together." Wren pouted.

"Why did you even want to become a doctor? I thought that you wanted to take over dads business?" I asked wren in the backseat of the car. He rolled his eyes "dad wanted that, not me. Actually I was planning on doing that, but after your first accident I felt so useless, none of the doctors knew if you were going to wake up or not and I couldn't understand what they were saying, I guess I like being more in control of those types of situations."

I looked over at my now twenty two year old brother, when did he grow up and think about others? I still feel stuck, hindered in my own time.

"I've been meaning to ask you something wren," we both looked over at Ezra would started talking almost the silence, "you used to call your sister Addison, why do you call her teddy now?" Me and wren both chuckled.

"I called teddy by her name back then because it was awkward around her, she was basically a stranger. But now she's gone back to being my sister again, actually you're a lot more mellow than you used to be." Wren giggled.

Ezra raised his eyebrow, "actually I probably don't want to know about the nickname, I've heard of a couple of your sisters stories." I blushed, still embarrassed that Ezra knows those things about me.

Wren looked over at me, smirking like he was about to get me into some trouble. "You've probably only heard about what she did in her senior year, that was nothing compared to her sophomore year. Mom and dad had to bribe reporters to delete articles almost every week." He replied with an innocent smile.

"Have you been keeping this all in to embarrass me? I thought that you had finally grown up!" I turned over from my seat to pinch his cheeks. "What was your sister like back then?" Ezra asked sheepishly.

I turned back to face the front and to pout "it's all in the past and I learnt my lesson." Wren practically collapsed laughing at that. "Did you not tell Ezra how you met Charlotte?" I shook my head still pouting, "he doesn't need to know because it's not important."

Ezra gently squeezed my thigh, I think in a way to say that he was fine with it ... but I wasn't!

"Basically our high school worked on the basis of how much wealth your family had, our grandfathers businesses are no joke so Teddy was the queen bee, until Charlotte transferred and they hated each-other for a while. That is until they both had mutual 'enemies' and started to form cringey alliances. Eventually it got out of hand and they kept trying to undermine each-other in how over the top they could be. They decided to call it a draw and become friends after they spent thousands on a flight to the Bahamas, with a bunch of other trust fund kids, and almost dying from the alcohol and drugs they were competing with. Teddy got grounded for the rest of the year."

Ezra flashed a glance at me, I rolled my eyes "don't look at me like that, I regret it but I just did that to keep up my reputation. I couldn't lose at anything when people tried to bash a Robinson." I huffed.

He smiled and stroked my hair with his free hand, "as long as you don't do that kind of stuff now I'm fine with it." I tried to hide my smile with a pout. Whether that me is two years ago or eight it still feels like an eternity between me then and now, but Charlotte was still the same, dragging me around to clubs and bars that made me feel sick. Even after the incident she still always went to James' bar ... I wonder if Charlotte is still the same?

"Wren?" I turned to face him, still sitting in my seat. "Do you know how Charlotte is? I met some friends from high school a while back and they said that she went cold turkey like me, was she in the car too? I can't remember that much from that night still." To my relief Wren shook his head.

"After that night Charlotte completely broke down, she flew to somewhere in the Caribbean and partied until her parent hunted her down and placed her into rehab. I don't know how she is now." I turned back around after hearing this, it made me sick, it was such a Charlotte like thing to party away her guilt and feelings, I'm glad that she finally went to therapy though.

"We're here now, I'll help you with your luggage Wren. Addison you should get some rest." Ezra squeezed my arm to affirm if I was okay, I nodded and headed upstairs after I said goodnight to my brother.