hold me, sunrise. [little talks spin-off]

8 // omg r u gay???

Twisting a strand of pink hair around my finger, I stared pensively into my cup of morning coffee. Heather, my cone-headed cousin from Kentucky, had texted me the night before. Apparently she knew a girl who knew a guy who knew a janitor in my school and had apparently heard 'scary things' through the grape vine. I hadn't talked to that bitch in four whole years. The last time we'd seen each other was at a family reunion, in which I'd accidentally elbowed her into a seven-foot-deep pool. And she couldn't swim at the time. (What seventeen year old can't swim? I mean, really!)

Anyways, our conversation had gone a little like this:

8:23 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved: 

omg r u gay???

8:26 PM, Text Message sent:

uhh who the f told u tht

8:30 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved:

i herd frm some1 in ur school. it's true isnt it? i could tell when u looked at my boobs four summers ago.

8:40 PM, Text Message sent: 

why do u want some?

8:42 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved: 

ew no you fucking dyke

8:50 PM, Text Message sent:

if you tell my mom, i'll tell yours that you slept with our cousin in the shed at great uncle bob's place.

9:00 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved:

he was our second cousin! and it was only once!

9:01 PM, Text Message sent:

dont you mean "she"? ;)

9:07 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved:

fuck you

9:10 PM, Text Message sent:

that's what i thought. now go pretend to like boys or whatever it is you do. 

9:11 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved:

FYI - i'm bi, asshole. 

9:12 PM, Text Message sent: 

doesn't mean your not a bitch

9:13 PM, Text Message from "stupid kentucky bitch" recieved:

likewise

9:14 PM, Text Message sent:

r u sure u know what that word means

9:14 PM, Text Message sent:

nighty night, dear cousin. think about what i've said. and don't you dare talk to my mom. i know where you live. 

9:14 PM, Text Message sent:

love u too

A secretive smile took over my facial expression, and I finally thought that maybe, just maybe, things were starting to look up.