couldn't help the feelings inside of me. I felt strange all of a sudden and I felt goosebumps

me feeling I always felt on my birthdays. Loneliness. I shared a huge mansion with an extended family yet

with her as I grew older but I don't exactly have any choice or any say in my life. The people around me pretty much run my life for me. My mom who irrevocably tells me what to do, what to wear, what to eat, what to sa

l I wanted right now was to get inside and

hen I heard my name. I stopped opening the now slightly a

it up!" He

stood facing him. "Patrick

e asks as he stopped in fron

liev

old my arms across my chest "we ju

e to apologize

'm probably just getting too hard

lied "it's okay, Patrick

eetly "did you have a n

told him,one hand on the doorknob

y, obviously sensing the urgency in

replied, pushi

g the door close as the same time. His body is right in front of mine, almos

e said and I scoffed

nymore, I told you already. I me

aid.

verytime. When you beat up a kid, you're sorry. Wh

never wanna do anyth

ever do is so different from mine! You never even consider my feelings for once.

's no

e, isn't it? I told you in school earlier that I couldn't go out to

adache, you were gonn

my mom because you knew she'd make me go with

sorry

better if I had spent the day with Ashley rather than

u even upse

k at the quarter? Hitting tha

s about

I never hang out with you. Beatin

"I knew there was something off about how you de

. Now, are you gonna keep talking about him? c

didn't mean for any of that okay? N

ou never change, Patrick. And I've had enou

lease just give us one last chance and I promise you..... e

ng that to myself, Pat? To yo

Leesh

k last two weeks, I thought things would finally set straight....

ng up with me? You k

shoulders "I just

ent and I slowly starte

p for school tom

ought me back ever since we started dating. Although it wasn't entirely a good idea for him to still drive me to sch

ile appears on his

ed inside, my eyes shut close

of peace and quiet and I turned quickly to see my uncle, Joxer standing at the foo

omen who crosses his path run for his bed. He was a player and doesn't waste

ow he hated me staying out late at nig

ake him forget that I'm 'home late'. Who am I kiddi

this late hour? It's...," he holds out his wri

my forehead as I casted my gaze

looked up to see her walking down the stairs, a h

, I'll be e

ls beside Joxer, her perfectly poli

irstyle, cutting sharply just above her shoulders. She looked like someone you'd mistake to be my twenty-five-year-old older sister.

atrick, darling?" she ask

tly go up to my room before the other m

the stairs too "I don't think Alessia should be stay

epalm but I stay put, avoiding making eye contact with

"My mom replies sweetly "and am

cause she can take care of herself"Phil replied, addin

rily "you cannot tell me what I can and ca

lls "don't talk

l's eyes in mine "

r, Leesha and you have

And he is not and wou

to my bedroom door. I angrily pushed the door open only to see my cousin, Allen c

g in my room?!" I screamed

e of the sweetest people I've known. Scratch that. He's the sweetest person I know while b

nly, tucking his hands in

get

ender "why so cranky? Are you at it agai

unbelieva

" he continued "it's Patr

tried to push him out

at him from your window some minutes ago" he t

id am

ole family ganged up on you again, didn't they?" He started to lau

creamed, pushing hi

nd I slammed the door on

e bathroom, I stripped my clothes and took a quick shower. Slowly, my anger began to subside but I cou

s my mom's words flashed through my mind