Chapter 7

Claire and Jessie put aside their differences.

Chapter Seven

 

 

"Hey, it's me, Claire." She said testing to see if my door was locked, which it was.

"What do you want?" I asked leaning against the door.

"To talk to you without a door in my face," She said impatiently, I opened the door a little but I didn't let her in due to paranoia.

"Look I know I've been a b***h to you but I'm a b***h to everyone so there's no reason to act like I'm going to hurt you. Trust me I'm just as bitchy to you as I am to just about everyone I don't treat you any different."

"I know that, I accepted that fact a long time ago."

"I don’t hate you, I never hated you. I just followed what they did because I thought that’s what you’re supposed to do. Dakota’s an a*****e, I'm sorry he hit you like that, and he's wrong for doing it. I figured it would mean more if I said it than if mom or dad said it since they have to apologize for Mara and Dakota's constant f**k-ups so it probably doesn't mean anything to you anymore. Oh and Mara wasn’t thrown out, she was told to leave because there would have been a bigger fight if she stayed in the house. She took a walk around town and she’s staying with her friend Holly for a while. Holly’s moving so she’s going to help her move."

"Did someone pay you to apologize to me?" I can't believe this girl expects me to believe she cares for me, after all these years of being a b***h and insisting that I'm always wrong and everything had to be my fault, she's finally admitting that for once I didn't do anything.

"Who the hell would pay me for this? Mom and dad wouldn't bribe me like that, you know they wouldn't bribe me at all otherwise they'd have done it a million times!" She finished her speech. She was right about everything the apology meant more coming from her than it did coming from my parents, but it would have real meaning to it if Dakota and Mara apologized and actually meant it.

"You didn't have to apologize for them, but thank you for doing it, since I know they would rather die than be nice to me." I caught up with her at the bottom of the stairs; I had to thank her for trying to be humane towards me. It would be horrible if I didn't say anything and it's not like I didn't want to thank her, I just wish Dakota and Mara were the people apologizing.

“Wait Mara wasn’t thrown out?” I asked in shock.

“No, I don’t know who told Dakota she was thrown out.”

I was beaten for no reason. Mara can come back on her own free will so what did Dakota beat me for.  Why did he choke me, why did he hurt me like that? My head began to spin. I grabbed the banister as if my life depended on it.

I’m not sure how much worse this day could get.

 

 

Author's Note

Kind of short but I just typed the chapters recently.