Wait... What?

Chapter 20: Interrogation

Oh shit. That's my first thought when I'm practically drug down the stairs to be tossed onto the center cushion of the couch, I'm completely surrounded. Trapped. Fuck.

"You guys... This isn't cool... You can't be serious about this..." I say with my arms tightly across my chest, leaning forward, rocking slightly.

"Oh but we are!" Says Bryan, "we came up with the interrogation after Steve turned out to have so many issues." Bryan continues, Steve shrugs.

"Ok... So... I'm guessing you guys go around, asking personal questions until I get all the crazy out?" I mumble more to myself than to the group.

"Precisely." Says Brandon with a nod, "So. I'll go first. Why did you come live with your mom anyway?"

I groan, of course they'd start with that. Of fucking course. "I came here for stupid teen reasons. I wanted to have a relationship with my mom, escape my dad and his new girlfriend, and wanted 'adventure'" I make a snorting noise and scowl.

They sit and absorb this for a while before moving on. Adam pipes up this time, "So... You didn't like your dad? The girlfriend? What?"

I sigh, "I was jealous. It was always just me and dad and suddenly she appeared. So yeah. I like them both fine, just being..." I cut off trying to find the right words.

"A stupid teenager?" Bryan finishes.

I nod once. "Yeah. That."

Jil clears her throat, "So what about your friends back home?"

I plunge into this one, spouting the story quickly as I've already done it once or twice. "I didn't have friends til last year when I moved schools, I used to be bullied a lot, and they are wonderful and sweet and I miss them dearly. In all seriousness I wish I were there right now. I should be..." I trail off and shake my head.

"Did you have a boyfriend?" Brandon says so quickly I almost don't catch it. I freeze and look down at my cracked nails. I need to stop biting them.

"It's... Complicated."

"Well then you'll just have to stay another night." Says Jil, "because you're going to tell us everything."

I sigh and drag my hands from my forehead to my chin. "Ok... Well... There's Sterling... He was my best friend while I was... Dating this other... Guy... And we were really close... I even had feelings for him while with the other guy... But you know... I'm not like that. So when the guy dumped me... Sterling and I started dating... To be honest I don't deserve him. I've screwed him over so many times..." I cut off and look at them from under my hair, they're all looking at me intently, hanging on to my every word. "I tried to break things off at first... When I knew I was leaving... Because you know... Didn't want to hurt him and all that... But we just kinda fell back into our old habits... And we never really said we were dating... We didn't really need to... But... It's just... I hate being so far away from him... I never..."

I don't get to finish before Brandon finishes for me "never know where he is, who he's with, what he's doing, why he's doing it, or if he even feels the same way as he did before?"

I nod slowly, massaging my temples. "Yeah. Exactly... I love him dearly... And I can see us lasting for a very very long time but... That doubt will always be in the back of my mind."

They're all silent for a little while. Then Steve pipes up, "What's your favorite music? Genre, band, song, everything." I grin, grateful for the change in subject and launch into an explanation.

"Well ever since I was a wee baby I liked rock music. Earliest stuff includes: Green Day, The Offspring, My Chemical Romance, Sum41, Blink182, Aerosmith, Metallica...." I break off momentarily and bite my lip before continuing, "I've since then added stuff like Three Days Grace, Falling in Reverse, Fallout Boy, Panic! At the Disco, various youtube downloads...." I pause again, "My favorite band would probably have to be Green Day just because I was raised on them and it brings a lot of good memories back... Favorite song is probably... Ugh... It's a tie between a few."

Steve nods. "Tell me the songs?" He asks, "Sorry... I love Green Day."

I laugh and raise a finger, "first of all never say sorry for loving Green Day. Secondly: She's a Rebel, Peacemaker, Dirty Rotten Bastards, 99 Revolutions.... Crap... There's more give me a sec." I tap my fingers on my knee and bite my lip, "East Jesus Nowhere, Christians Inferno, Carpe Diem... Oh my God there's just too many!" I sigh throwing my arms in the air.

Steve laughs, "So you must really like 21st Century Breakdown then huh?"

I nod, "Oh yeah."

"I don't wanna live in the modern world." Steve says with a crooked grin.

I return the grin, "Mass Hysteria."

We bump fists and the other guys look at each other in confusion. Which makes us both laugh our asses off.

Jil clears her throat, "Hate to break up whatever kind of geek fest this is... But we still are in an interrogation if you remember."

I look down at my hands and pick at one of the calluses on my knuckles. "You know I could just tell you everything you need to know and save us all the discomfort and such."

"But that takes all the fun out of it!" Bryan whined. Jil glares at him and he shut his mouth. "Go ahead Cort." She said with a nod.

"Ok... So my parents divorced when I was seven, mom left when I was ten... I went to the same school from kindergarten to ninth grade, was bullied mercilessly, dad had a bunch of psycho bitch girlfriends and went divorce crazy. I kinda closed up, didn't talk about anything to anyone. Moved schools in tenth grade... Got friends, dad got a girlfriend. My relationship with him went to shit. Along with a few stupid incidents with asshole boys." I cut off and grit my teeth exhaling sharply through my nose, "and then I came here. I'm almost always depressed, I'm kind of a bitch. And I really don't want to talk about any of this anymore... Like ever."

We sat in silence for a few seconds before Steve laughed, "And you guys said I was fucked up!" I don't know why it made me laugh but it did. I was snorting and rolling around on the floor when the fatal chime from my phone sounded from my back pocket.

I grabbed it and sat like a stone in the middle of the laughter,

Hey sweety, we need to talk.
-Sterling

This chapter is dedicated to my weird love of Green Day. Just kidding!

HELL YEAH! I did it! I wrote another chapter! And I used his real name. Teehee deal with it.

Again I've gotta ask... Please vote... Or even just read T_T where the heck did all of you go?!?! *sniffle* I'm so lonely. Just kidding. Kinda.
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