*TW* Self-harm in this chapter
It took us a couple hours to unload the truck, Austin and ginny chose their rooms leaving me with the room infront of the house, the only reason I didn't complain was because it was the only one you could climb onto the room from
"How's the new place baby?" My dad's gruff voice asks through the phone, my legs fall down the side of the roof while I sit on the edge looking at the stars
"It's nice, in a good town" I respond vaguely, truth is is beautiful, its the type of place you could have your forever home in, that's what Austin says, everytime he moves he hopes it's the place we stay permanently, our forever home
"How's your mom?" He's regular with checking up on everyone, somehow it never hurts less telling him things I know he wants to be apart of
"Shes good dad, I think she made friends with the lady across the street not even an hour after we got here so I'm guessing in about a week she'll be running the entire town" I chuckle slightly
"Knowing your mom she's probably after the state" even though he let's out a small laugh, his sentence triggers the tears
"Do you know when your leaving yet?" I ask softly bringing my free hand to wipe my eyes
"I don't know baby girl, you know I wish more than anything that I was with you right?" I take a deep breath knowing there's not much time left and sobbing isn't going to do anything but make him feel worse
"I know dad I just wish, God I just wish I was doing all these things with you" I hear him sniff through the line making me heart squeeze
"Can I come visit you soon? Would that be okay?" I ask changing the subject slightly
"Of course, there's nothing I'd want more" I open my mouth to reply but the mumbled voices on the other line stops me knowing what's coming
"Baby I gotta go now, but I love you alright? More than anything"
"I love you too dad" I sniff trying to hold my sob at bay, once the line goes dead I put my phone to the side and drop my head into my hands as I silently sob. It takes me a while to get my breathing to regulate before I slowly make my way down into my room, once I turn to close my window I notice a boy across the street standing in the driveway watching me. I lean forward raising my eyebrows slightly, he gives me a small smile before shaking his head and skating down the road
"Peach I got you a present" mom says cheery coming into my room, but her smile drops when she notices my eyes
"What's wrong baby?" She asks dropping the cloths in her hand onto the bed before bringing my face into her hands gently
"I just spoke to dad" my voice cracks slightly as I try to hold in my sob, her own expression saddens at the mention of him
"Can I go visit him soon, please?" I ask wipping away the fee tears that stream down my cheecks
"Baby I will take you when ever you want to alright?" She asks tucking my hair behind my ears before placing one of her hands on my cheek, I give a small nod but don't even attempt at a smile knowing how pathetic it would look
"You look just like him you know that? Everyday you start acting more like him and I can't be more proud of you."
I take a deep breath wiping away my tears and slowly when I'm no longer a total mess I turn back to her
"Alright what's my present" mom gives me a small smile before reaching onto the bed and holding out a long sleeve crop top and skirt I can almost guarantee was mine before she stole it
"I was thinking about tomorrow and I know you're already stressed about it so I though I'd take one thing off your plate" She says excitedly, moms got the most expressive face and the most emotional voice, watching her talk about things that make her happy is one of the most beautiful things a person could ever witness
"It's perfect mom, thank you" I say wrapping my arms around her shoulders
"Always peach, now I got a lot of work ahead of me so I'll see you later alright?" She says giving my shoulders a squeeze
"If you need any help call me" I say placing the top and skirt onto my desk, I turn around to go to bed but accidentally knock a box over. Dozens of books lie scattered across the floor, I quickly reach to pick them all up but stop as I look each one over, my dad sends me a book every two weeks, signs them in the front and annotats each one before sending them to me. I slowly stand back up and lock the door with shaky hands. I reach into the side of one of my bags and pull out the blue razor, the same razor I've used for ever single one in the past, you could say I'm sentimental like that
You'd think after being the new kid 6 times you'd get use to it, you don't. New faces and names and classes and halls, it's all frustrating and overbearing. I would give anything to have worn pants today, any type of pants as long as there's pockets to hide my shaky hands
I close my locker as the bell ringing taking a breath to somewhat prepare myself for my next lesson
"Jesus christ" I all but scream, when I notice a brunnette boy leaning against the locker next to me, the same brunnette who was watching me last night
"You're new right?" He asks casually,
"Just moved in across the street?" My brows scrunch slightly but I dismiss his question when I notice his shirt
"Shouldn't you come with braids and an amputated hand"
"Never heard of the band Wednesday?" He asks playing with a pen while he continues to lean on lockers
"Nope" I respond
"Well neither have I, hey I met your mom last night" his small smirk tells me she did something that could potentially bite me in the ass
"Yes well she can be very friendly" i state cautiously
"She asked me for weed, wasn't that friendly" he responds bluntly, I let out a sigh of relief knowing it wasn't anything too drastic
"Well charged her next time" I state
"Next time? Theres ganna be a next time?" His eyes widen slightly
"Yup" i say giving him a small smile
"I'm marcus by the way" he introduces
"The stalker from last night?" The confident expression doesn't change from his face but his cheeks redden slightly
"Well from my point of veiw" he starts scratching his chin slightly
"Mmhhm" I nod crossing my arms over my chest
"I saw someone on a roof and I was doing my neighborly duty in being a witness incase disaster struck" I shake my head slightly when he looks all to impressed with his explanation
"I'm Charlie" I introduce
"Tell me Wednesday, are there any good coffee spots around here?" I ask
"Yeah there's a great one, I can take you after school if you want " he starts
"That would be amazing!" I say, he gives me a small smile and nods before turning to leave
"I'll see you later charlie" with that the stalker neighbor disappears into the crowded hallway
"You are Charlie" a new voice says startelling me once again, what is with these people and their need to sneak up on everyone
"I'm Abby, your sister said you were around here and I've come to introduce you to your new best friends" Abby is around my height with brunnette hair
"Is that right?" I ask opening my locker again and grabbing my phone
"Yup" She says before walking down the hall, I stay rooted in my place against the locker as I watch her retreating figure, she's a weird one, I like her
"Are you coming?" She turns to ask, I think it over for a second before closing my locker and following her
"You are ganna love your new friends" She says a Metter of fact
"You mean the people I've never met?" I ask with a raised brow
"Exactly, your new bestfriends" She says with a giddy expression
"Okay, okay!" She closes her hands together excitedly
"That's Nora, that's Jordan, that's brodie, thats hunter, that's max and that's ginny" She points out each one, they all I've a small greeting as introduced
"Huh you look familiar" I say bumping ginny slightly, she gives me a smile and nods to the spot next to her which I gladly take and Abby quickly occupies the spot of my other side
"This is Charlie and im inlove with her so be nice" She says, I don't know how to describe Abby she's done some very energetic things in the few minutes I've met her but her all together vibe is very chilled
"Thier my new neighbors and their from texas" the girl named max says from infront of me, my eyes widen slightly at all the information, I turn to ginny quickly for an explanation wondering if this school is just crawling in stalkers
"She asked where were from" she shrugs,
"You're our neighbor too?" I ask max
"Yup live right across the street" for some reason I let out a sigh in relief
"Marcus is your brother right?" I ask taking one of ginnys fries
"Yeah, why? What did he do? I know he's an asshole but I swear just because we're twins doesn't mean we're the same" my eyes widen in shock at how quickly she talks and how much information she manages to get out in a breath
"He, uh, introduced himself" it comes out as a question when her eyes stare at me unblinking, I look to Abby for help but she just waves it off, so it must be normal
"We saw eachother yesterday I guess he wanted to meet the new neighbor" I let out a breath when she blinks again and leans back in her seat
"That's odd" She responds
"Are you straight?" Max asks changing the subject completly, this girl is extremely straight forward
"Um yeah my response causes her to let out a groan
"That's a shame there are no good gays here" I let out a small chuckle before I go back to eating ginnys fries hoping the attention gets put onto someone else
"Whyd you move to Wellsbury?" Max asks, I nudge ginny quickly
"Our um step-dad died" She replies, max leans over the table and takes both our hands
"It's fine" I reasure her, God if only she knew how fine
"Well how did he die?" She asks
"Car accident" ginny replies, after I finish ginnys fries I lean back slightly looking over everyone at the table, my eyes stop at hunter, the way he looks at my sister makes me grimace.
"Well heart attack then car accident" ginny quickly adds
"That's horrible was anyone else hurt" max asks, her eyes look from ginny to me so quickly I start feeling dizzy, ginny opens her mouth to respond but turns out max wasn't finished
"Was he on the highway? Was he on a motorcycle?" She let's out a dramatic gasp before falling back into her seat
"I saw the most gruesome motorcycle accident one time, this guy's arm was literally four lanes way from the rest of him" everyone at the table seems unbothered showing this is normal max behavior
"You know what, my stupid idiot twin he's probably ganna end up the same way, because he bought a motorcycle which is more pathetic than it sounds because our birthday which isn't u till December is when he could ride it, and by that point, the roads will be all incy. He'll probably just die immediately" my body is frozen trying to digest all the information being thrown at me
"Chill max" hunter says, I grimace again and the weird look he gives ginny even worse she blushes
"You want some of my yogurt?" She asks randomly, ginny and I look at eachother wondering who she's talking to
"You're right food here is crap, let's sneak off campus and get some tacos" max says dropping her spoon and standing up
"Come on" She says
"I'm good thanks but you go" I say nudging ginny slightly she looks to me slightly panicked but I wink and send her a smile before she follows the crazy brunnette out the cafeteria
"Dont worry you get use to it" Abby smiles