𝐑𝐮𝐧 ✯JJ Maybank

𝐒𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 || 𝐈𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐞

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𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 always one to think that she had a lot of patience. Not many people would agree with her, but those were the people who crossed the line with her temper so many times that she couldn't help it when she snapped at them. Like the douchey kooks, sure, one comment about pogues she could deal with, but around four she could really feel the fire building up in her. Then once they hit the five mark, she'll lose it. Sure, other things could make her angry, but the negative comments about people from the Cut made her blow up quicker than anything else. Francine never thought she lost her cool often, but once she did, well, let's just say, you wouldn't want to be the person she was angry at.

     She also thought she could take a lot of stuff, and she can, the girl had to deal with Topper every day at school, and before he graduated, she had to deal with Rafe. It seemed that when it came to JJ's childish comments about her, she couldn't take it for too long, the girl couldn't even last three days. The fact that every chance he got, he was nagging at her about how she couldn't be trusted made her blood boil, and just like she did with the stuck up kooks, she blew up. It took a little longer for her to get so annoyed that she literally had to leave, but she still did. Francine didn't even do that with Topper and Rafe, which was saying something.

     She thought that it was mostly due to the fact that JJ used to be her closest friend, and now he didn't even want to be in the same room as her. It hurt her, a lot, but this is probably what he felt like when she moved to Figure Eight and began ignoring him. He probably felt worse and that thought alone made Francine's heart clench, thinking about the things she probably made him feel. She left him, by himself, most likely when he needed her the most. His dad was beating him, and his best friend just ignored him and treated him like a piece of dirt.

     That is what made Francine feel the most guilty about when she moved to Figure Eight, how JJ was. He was her other half, her brother. Hell, not even her brother, she was in love with the boy and she didn't even know it until her mother closed the door on him on that one day when they were fourteen. He was beaten and bloody, left in the cold rain in the middle of the night, how could her mother do something like that? Francine could see her mother taking in a kook whose parents kicked them out but she wouldn't help a pogue who's father just beat him and he had no where else to go.

Her strong feelings for the boy disappeared though, a long time ago. She knew that she probably would never speak to the boy again so she ignored them, until they just went away. Sometimes she resorted to that saying, 'ignore your problems until they go away'. She didn't like going by it, she actually hated it, she thought that you should always do something to fix your problems, but how could you just fix that? Fix the fact that you loved a boy in a way that was more than just friends? She didn't even tell him, too scared that he would reject her.

Ignoring the problem did help her though, which she was grateful for. When she began freshman year, she had forgotten all about how the boy made her feel. The nerves about going to a big private school took up all the space in her mind so that was the only thing she thought about. It was a distant memory and the only reason she thought about it currently was because she thought about how things have changed so much since she moved. Kiara finally got her braces removed, John B was no longer chubby and short, Pope was a finalist for a scholarship to college, JJ absolutely hated Francine, Katerina hated pogues, and Francine couldn't stand to be around JJ.

Everything changed.

Francine thought about all of this in the car on the way home, she took a long way, going through the Cut and around Figure Eight to get there. She arrived at her house about fifteen minutes after she left JJ's, when she pulled into her driveway, she saw her mother's truck. The dark haired girl groaned as she stopped the vehicle, letting her head fall onto the steering wheel. After the whole thing with JJ, she didn't think she had the patience to deal with her mother. But she had to go inside her house sometime, might as well get it over with.