Sassy meets Classy

Chapter Three

Amaryllis Burton

After two hours of sitting in a cafe, not ordering more than a cup of coffee, the attendant was already giving me the stink eye. I couldn't even blame him because I was giving myself the same stink eye too. I had gone through some crazy rounds of emotions in this past two hours, and I'm sure I've caused them loss of customers too.

Who would sit in the same cafe where a girl would burst out crying loudly, then start to laugh almost immediately after? Not a lot of people. So, before the guy could walk over to me and ask me to get out of his cafe, I decided to get a move on.

I knew I would still eventually have to call my dad (if I could still call him that) to come get me, because walking home would lead to my death. My school is totally not a walking distance to my house, and no amount of anger on earth would make me make such a drastic decision such as walking home. Nope!

I stared at my screen and saw five missed class, two from dad, two from mum, and one from Rose. They all knew me well enough to know that if they should bombard my phone with missed calls, it would infuriate me the more. The fact that they still respected my opinion even though they were trying their best to get a hold of me made my anger lessen a little bit. But, boy, was I still furious.

I had thought of every single scenario in life and only one thing just makes me want to hit my head against a wall.  WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME?! They have no bloody excuse! I've lived with this people for seventeen years of my life, they told me stories of how I was born! How I gave mum so much trouble in the belly and Oliver was a calm baby, who ended up a monster.

"Oliver!" Another round of fresh tears escaped my eyes upon the realization that Oliver wasn't my blood brother. The little boy whom I loved more than anything in the world wasn't my blood. The betrayal from life and my parents hurt more than anything I've ever experienced, and I didn't know when I crouched on the pedesterian walkway and cried my eyes out, with my hands covering my face. I could hear murmurings around me, and footsteps halting whenever they were within close vicinity but I didn't care. I couldn't care, my life was spiralling down at the speed of light and I could do nothing about it. What if the Lexingtons came to take me away? What if they tear me away from my parents? I might be mad at them, but hell I didn't want to live without them!

I didn't want to wake up to a day when dad wouldn't be there to call me the Queen and kiss me on the forehead like I was the only one who mattered the most. I wouldn't want to live a day when mum and Oliver won't be there to taunt me when they make me run stupid errands and wake me up in the worst of ways!

I knew what I had to do! I would go on my knees and grovel at the feet of the high and mighty. I would beg them to leave me with these people and pretend they never found me. They might have given birth to me, but they were not the one who raised me, and that's what parenting is. I stood up from my embarrassing position and hurried away from he questioning gaze that people shot at me.

I picked up my phone, and instead of dialing my dad, I texted Rose. She had a car, she could come get me. She replied immediately after, and in ten minutes, I was opening the front door of her car.

"You look like a mess and I can bet you're feeling the same way too. Wanna talk about it?" Rosaline doesn't know how to beat around the bush. If she wanted to say something, she would give it to you straight up. Consequences be damned. Not exactly the best trait but it wasn't bad at all.

"You wouldn't believe it. I can't believe it myself, Rose, but one thing I know is that my life is on the verge of being over." The worry that clouded her eyes made my chest tighten and tears gather in my eyes. If they take me away from here, I wouldn't get to be with my best friend. My best friend who loved me so much and would cross fire just to get me to smile. My best friend whose worry was the only one that could almost match mine because our hearts were intertwined.