Caught In Between

V. The Freshman

Standing in front of me on the other side of the front door was none other than Josh fucking Carter. I could recognize his face anywhere. He has nasty ass black hair that reaches his shoulders, and he's short and pale. He's literally my height. What a fucking midget. He's the reason I started getting into partying and other illegal shit. He's one of the reasons I was very excited to get out of San Francisco. We have quite a dark past. I never dated him, but he always asked me out. I've honestly never had a boyfriend because boys just piss me off too much, Josh included. Being single is great, you don't have to worry about some douchebag that will most definitely treat you like shit. Josh always said we were dating, but we never fucking were. I didn't ever want to touch his slimy ass. He was fun to be around at first because my sophomore-self thought he was the shit. I thought I was so cool for knowing a junior. He got me into drinking and vaping. Thank god I hated vaping and after one hit I felt like my lungs collapsed. I never touched that shit again. I don't need a nicotine addiction.

"What the absolute fuck are you doing here?" I ask him. I'm sure my jaw is on the floor. I never ever expected to see him again. I thought I left that part of my past in San Francisco.

"I wanted to see my favorite girl." He tried to look sly or something, but his face just twitched.

I looked behind me. "I don't see her. Bye!" I tried to slam the door in his face, but his stupid hands just had to stop me.

"Come on, Brooke. We used to have so much fun together." Not that kind of fun, don't worry.

"At the time, yeah. But I've grown up so much since then. So leave, get out." My voice was getting louder and louder and I didn't want to wake Tyson up.

"Aww, Brooke don't lie to yourself. You're still exactly the same as when you left. Plus, I know your secret. I'm not afraid to let this shitty town know every little detail about you." Secret. My secret. Of course he'd fucking blackmail me. He knows my deepest, darkest secret and he's the only one besides me that knows the full truth. The truth of just how fucked up I am.

"You seriously wouldn't. I know you enough to know that you wouldn't do that. You're pretty fucked up, but you wouldn't stoop that low. I know that." I tried to sound convincing, because honestly I had no idea if he would do something stupid or not.

"I thought you knew me better than that." He stepped closer to me until I could smell his mustiness. "I get everything I want, baby."

"What the hell is going on here?" I looked behind me and saw Tyson looking confused as shit.

"Ty, help me get this fucking pyscho out of here." I tell him. I look back over to Josh and send a quick punch straight to his cheek. He stumbles back a bit and out the door. Before I slam the door in face, he says one last thing that makes my heart drop.

"This won't be the last time you'll hear from me. Thanks for the warm fucking welcome to Hooverville. I start college in two days. Freshman at the University of Hooverville." He spits into the grass of our front yard. Fuck yes that punch made him bleed. Little bitch. I slammed the door and walked back to the living room and sat on the couch.

"Who was that?" Ty asks, looking concerned.

"Some psycho from my past." I answer honestly.

"Want me to go beat his ass?"

"Obviously, I can handle it. Did you see that? That was pretty fucking sick."

"Yeah, it really was. I didn't know you knew how to throw a punch, especially one that fucking powerful. Damn, remind me not to fuck with you." He chuckles.