6 months later
It's been six months since Granny let me stay with her. That's what I called her now, she insisted as she sees me as hers. She even got me my own flat to myself, and a job working at the diner. The people there were pretty great as well, Monty is hilarious and takes his job very seriously, hes like a living breathing SpongeBob.
Jacob is a 17 year old working the register and waitering, hes also pretty great, we have a laugh and joke about the customers sometimes and he lets me eat the extra fries at the end of the day if I fancy them. He was that type of boy, with flowy brown hair and adorable.
There are only a few other workers, but we haven't met as we all have different shifts and stuff. Ive loved it to be honest with you. Me and Granny travelled for an hour or so to the big shops, where I bought my own stuff for my flat, she let me borrow some money and Ive slowly been paying her back even though she says I don't have too. She is basically my granny at this point.
My flat looks really cool as well, with blankets and cushions everywhere, I got a pretty big flat as well which turned out to be like a luxury motel room, didn't even know they existed, it was pretty snug but that's how I like it, I hated huge and open houses that echoed.
I was sat down waiting for my shift when my phone rang. I looked at the called ID and my heart stopped for a second. Why the fuck was Stone calling me? I coughed and picked up.
"Hello?", I asked into the phone, trying to sound as confident as possible.
"Matilda Rushwood. Where the fuck are you?", He asked sharply, I could tell he was pissed of with the edginess in his voice.
"Why do you care?", I answered back matching his tone. I don't know where this sudden urge of confidence came from, but I was liking it. I hadn't told granny about my brothers or father, she only knows that my mother has passed away when I was born.
"Jesus, we've been worried all day waiting for you to get home for dinner with dad, hes pretty stressed out", He said half shouting causing me to just roll my eyes. Dads only stressed because they would find out that he let me leave.
"Look Stone, I left 6 months ago.", I said to him calmly, without a care in the world what they thought. He was silent on the other side, all I could hear was two sets of heavy breathing, meaning Ravy was with him, one of the most hated brothers.
"What.", He said slowly, as if trying to comprehend what I just said.
"Look what do you want Stone? I don't have time for this I have to get to work.", I said impatiently, then hit myself on the forehead for even telling him that.
"Work? Your 16! You cant work, last time I checked you could just about tie your shoes", He shouted into the phone, as I moved it away from my ear slightly.
"That's because I was around 4 when you last check Stone, now leave the hell alone and don't contact me ever again", I said calmly, already bored of the conversation. I was about to put the phone down when he called my name.
"Look Matilda, I get that you are rebelling cause you haven't had enough attention in your life, but come home, now, dad is worried sick about you, he drunk as hell, I had to come down and drop him off and you weren't here to take care of him", He replied in sharp voice. I was infuriated with him. How dare he!?
"Stone, do I have to spell it out, I. am. not. coming. home! I have a new home with people who actually give a shit about me, hes your father too, you take care of him, do something for someone else for once in your life", I said slowly, as if he was a toddler.
"I swear to fuck Matilda, don't make me come and get you, the others will come too, you cant live alone your a child for fuck sake, stop wasting my time with this silly tantrum", He said sighing in and out with fury, his breathing becoming uncontrollable. I just rolled my eyes again, He just never listened.
"Technically you cant do anything legally, so good luck with that, and I have a new family now, so go fuck yourselves", I said and slammed the phone down, slumping down onto the sofa.
"Ughh", I screamed into a pillow as loud as I could. There was a loud knock on the door swiftly after that. I went up and opened it to a very concerned Granny, she did just live next door.
"What's wrong? Are you sick? Did someone hurt you? Do you-"I cut her off with a huge hug in which she melted into.
"What's wrong Hun?", She said to me looking me straight in the eyes, concern filling her eyes.
"Well, that was ,um my brother", I said looking down, not looking her in the eye. She looked surprised for a second before it turned into curiosity.
"Brother? Is it just one or...?", She asked with her head slightly to the side, trying to look me in the eye, lifting my face up to look at her.
"I have 5 older brothers altogether", I said to her looking down once more as she gasped in shock, probably because I hadn't told her in the 6 months of knowing her.
"5? Jesus, no one must of-", She started to say but I swiftly cut her off.
"Messed with me in high school, they didn't really stick around long enough to see me in high school, at least not all of them", I said in a casual tone, though my voice cracked half way through. She gave me a sad smile before looking at me in the eyes again.
"What about your father", She asked slowly.
"Where do you think I got the bruises from?", I said jokingly but she just gasped again. What's with all the gasping?
"I thought it was from an old boyfriend or something? So they know you left?", She asked quickly, obviously worried about their reaction.
"Well technically, the only reason they found out was because my dad got super drunk and he had to get off his ass and pull the stick out of it to go get him, just so I could take of him. He was only pissed I wasn't there to take care of dad", I said to her, whilst pulling on one of my ginger locks. I looked at the time as my eyes widened.
"Shit, I'm late, we can talk after Granny but I really need to go", I said and grabbed my bag by the door, throwing it on my shoulder.
"Sure honey, I'll talk to you after work, Ill grab some groceries today as well from town", She shouted as I just put my thumb up to her.
"Alright I'll see you later!", I yelled back to her. I waved good bye at the bottom of the stairs and sprinted to the diner. I went into the back entrance and caught Jacob messing with the chopsticks, having them in his mouth like a walrus.
I stood and put my apron on really quietly, before leaning against the door way. I coughed and he chocked on one of the sticks as I laughed my head off, as he blushed and scratched the back of his neck.
"Oh hey Tills, um, tell anyone and Ill say you did something bad to Monty", He said looking really nervous, trying to seem threatening but he just looked like an idiot. I laughed at him for a few minutes as he just stared at me with a blank face.
"As if he would believe you, and of course, its out little secret Jacob Harvey", I said whilst smiling and my hands over my chest crossed over. He nodded and practically ran into the front, trying to get as far away from me as possible.
I started to prepare the burger buns and got set for a busy shift.
7 hours later
The shift was pretty draining , it was a 7 hour shift and that was considered short. I quite like my job though, I meet so many different people everyday. Dads and daughters having a birthday dinner out on the way to their mother home, a mum and her four kids who looks like she needs a few shots or so, grandparents, people on their own, students travelling on a road trip together, who by the way seem way to happy with life, it goes on and on with the variety of people who I wait on.
Me and Jacob are now round back smoking a joint. In my defence I haven't done it in a long time so I'm going to enjoy it.
"So, Granny said something about talking to you about something or something", He said, obviously high, I rolled my eyes.
"Well my brothers want me home for some strange reason, its like they suddenly care about me, they are just so confusing", I said throwing my hands up in the air, obviously annoyed.
"Will you go home with them?", He asked now sat up fully staring at me, watching me intently.
"No way in hell, why would I leave this life to go live my old one", I said sincerely, I truly didn't want to go home, I never wanted to see my father ever again, nor my older brothers.
It was wrong for a family to be this way, but it is what it is, I just never mattered to them before.
I was staring off into space when I saw Jacob just staring at me. It was like everything went silent for a moment as we both just looked at eachother. He started to come closer to me and was soon right next to me, with his hand placed on my thigh. He leant in slowly, until I pushed the final few inches and pushed my lips onto his.
They were softer than I expected. Warmer.
He kissed harder as we went along, he pushed me down with me laying as we made out. I pulled onto his hair to pull him closer, hoping to kiss him longer. He tried to get entry which I denied as I had never had someone's tongue in my mouth before.
Instead he bit my lip, which caused my mouth to open and he stuck his tongue inside, I fought for dominance but he won within a minute. His hands were travelling further upwards until he pulled away.
He just sat there for a second as I sat back up, wiping my mouth slightly.
"Wow", He said, breathless. I blushed and bit my lip, in which he put his thumb and stroked it. He gave me such a huge smile which made me return it.
"Ive been wanting to do that for months now", He said. I couldn't talk, I knew if I did it wouldn't be english, just blabber. I just nodded without a word and he chuckled, leaning back against the wall.
"Matilda? Are you smoking young lady?!", Granny yelled, storming towards us.
Oh shit.