one lie

Part 1

Kayleigh's P.O.V

"one, Two THREE" we fire a whole watermelon directly towards Michael, who just so happens to be my boyfriend, though I feel bad, he deserves it, I walked around the whole neighbourhood  half naked the other night because he took my clothes and wouldn't give it back until I caught him 

"what the heck you guys" he screams while we jump out of the classroom window

"that was hilarious, oh my gosh you should have seen your face, you were all like ahh then ohh" Ben said while making weird faces, we all burst into laughter, including Michael, he is trying to play it cool, as if it didn't hurt but you can see the pain in his eyes 

" you okay man?" Ash asked looking concerned for a minute until he burst into laughter once again

"yeah I'm good" I help him off the floor and wrap his arm around me "as my girlfriend you should have had my back and stopped them" he said looking at me as if he were disappointed 

" oh and as my boyfriend you shouldn't have let me walk around the whole neighbourhood half naked you dummy" I  fired back at him while he chuckled 

"hey and plus this wasn't our idea, it was Kayleigh's so don't involves us, we were just following the rules dude" Ben said

we have a set of rules to follow, In order to keep this whole thing under control, you see, we prank each other on a daily or most Fridays, you will never suspect if it will be you, we all became friends off of a gaming app called ranger, basically you get linked up with people who share the same interest with you, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, luckily for us it worked, we went to the same school but never recognised each other, except for me and Micheal, we knew each other mainly because of my brother 

they were best friends until my father and brother both died on a plane crash six months ago, they were on their way back home to see me and my mom after a 'bro-cation', they apparently needed a break from the girls and spend one on one time together as 'men', yeah I wish they didn't go, they would have been here if they stayed, but I guess this all in the past now. though it still hurts knowing they aren't here with me, physically 

anyways we had four rules to follow 

rule one: no family must be harmed in the process of the prank

rule two: no extreme pranks that can cause huge injuries to the person being pranked 

rule three: anyone new to the squad must be pranked before joining completely 

rule four:all pranks must one finalised by everyone who is participating  before done to the person being pranked

"whatever you guys, lets get out of here and get dinner before its too late" Trish said 

we went to johnnies breakfast and dinner  for about an hour and separated after we had our dinner, Micael took me home then left straight after, it took me thirty minutes to realise my mom wasn't home, she might be working a late shift again, she does that a lot to clear her head or to just be busy, my mom and I were very close before but the death of my brother and father hit home, literally, my dad left millions in his will for my mom but she refuses to use it until the time we need it most, he have a beach house four ours away, he always took us there during summer break, he took my mother there when he first asked her to be his girlfriend and when he proposed, it holds so many memories my mother and I both don't want to remember, mainly because we are scared, i know she will break down but its what she need in order to fully move on, I just don't want to rush her...

"hunny" my mom yells from the main door

'YEAH" I reply

"could you give me a hand"

"yeah sur...why is there a man who I assume is passed out, on your arm?" I ask her 

" what do you mean, this is your father sweetie, he just drank to much" oh no, its gotten worse, she was diagnosed with Schizophrenia after my fathers death, apparently she had it her whole life but the symptoms are only showing now, she looks horrible might I add, I know that's a bad thing to say but she does, did she not go to work today or what, did she have alcohol, I swear if she did I don't know what I'm going to do, I'm only seventeen until next week

"mom, daddy's gone, remember?" I ask her slowly so I don't trigger her

"no baby, daddy is right here okay" she said more like a statement than a question 

"maybe you should go to sleep and I will help..um dad out with some water okay?"

"thank you sweetie" she leaves me with this man and I have no idea what to do right now, so I decided to call Micael for some help

"hey um could you help me out with something right now?"

"yeah sure ill be there in five minutes" he hangs up and I wait about ten minutes for him to arrive

"hey sorry I'm late, I had trouble getting out the house" he said

"no its okay, um so..."I was interrupted my Michael

"whose the man on your couch ?"

"um, so, well, my mom brought some random guy here thinking its my dad and I really need you to help me get him out of here "

" it's getting worse isn't it?" he asked looking at me with sympathetic eyes

"yeah"I look down to my feet when I feel his fingers under my chin pushing it up slightly, with no force 

" its okay" he said trying his best to comfort me but only makes me angry 

"no its not, this shows that she wasn't at work today, and if you saw her she looked really bad and smelled of rotten apples, I don't  know what to do, what if she isn't going to her treatment courses?"

"lets figure out what to do with the man then we will figure out everything with your mom okay?" 

"okay, sorry for lashing out at you, I just can't handle this right now"

"Im here for you no matter what, ill always be here"

after about twenty minutes we finally got ride off the old guy, we didn't do anything bad but drop him off at the hospital so he could get checked up, I decide I will go sleep, its really late and I'm exhausted, hopefully my mom gets better, I cant afford to lose her right now, she is literally the only family I have left, my grandparents died four years ago and she was an only child in the family so no aunts, uncles, or cousins for me.

before I get into bed I check up on her to see if she is okay and still breathing, I know that's a little extra but she needs me and I need her, hopefully she can make it to my wedding when I'm older and with that I drift off to sleep