Mia decided it would be better to just get it out of the way as soon as she got home. She knew if she put it off, she may end up bottling out of it altogether.
When she got outside her room, she took a deep breath before gently rapping her knuckles on the door.
“Yes?” Came from inside.
“It’s Mia. Can I come in?”
There was a brief pause. “What on earth makes you think I’d let you in here?”
“Please Savannah. It’s important.”
There was movement, and then the door was being swung open. Mia had to stop herself from letting out a small scream. Savannah was standing there with a lurid green face mask.
She must have caught on to Mia’s surprised expression, because she rolled her eyes. “I wouldn’t expect you to know a good skincare routine if it hit you round the face. And mine needs a little extra help at the moment!” She spat.
Mia wondered briefl
“Come on Savannah. Can’t we just talk about this?”He’d managed to convince her to speak to him after football practice one night, although their conversation was being overseen by half the team and cheerleading squad. That was the problem with having such a high-profile relationship. Everyone was always watching.“What do we have left to talk about, Ryan? You have feelings for my freak of a step-sister. Why would I want to be with you after finding that out?”Ryan ran his fingers through his hair. If he was truthful with himself, he wasn’t even sure why he was fighting for Savannah. Yes, they made sense. But was there really any compatibility there? Especially when she was looking at him like this with that sour face. But he’d been happy before Mia had come along. Everything had made sense. He just wanted everything to go back to normal. His home life was so messed up, that he just wanted this part of his life to
Two weeks went by. Two weeks where Ryan didn’t even acknowledge her existence. Mia was trying to get used to it, she really was. But every time she saw him, her heart hurt. She couldn’t understand what was going on. Savannah didn’t even appear to be with Ryan anymore, so why was he ignoring her? She understood that he wasn’t interested in her romantically, but she didn’t think their friendship had ended. Especially since she’d helped him out by giving Savannah the message.She was by her locker when he walked by again, suddenly pretending to be interested in something in the opposite direction. Her brow knotted together. Enough was enough. She was going to confront him and ask what the hell was going on.She was just about to call out when someone gave her a sharp tap on the shoulder. She turned round to see the unimpressed face of Brook. She did her best to withhold the sigh that wanted to escape.“We need to talk,&rdqu
Ryan couldn’t quite believe it when he read the message in front of him. He read it again another three times just to be sure he was reading it right. He was.She actually wanted to talk? And at her house? Without an audience? This had to be something.These last two weeks had been awful. Trying to stay away from Mia had been horrible. A few times he’d caught her hurt expression, and he’d almost caved. But maybe it had all been worth it to prove to Savannah how much he wanted her back.He had decided that if Savannah was going to take him back, he wanted to be honest with her about what was happening with his homelife. Right now, his dad was behaving, but he knew it was only a matter of time before he went back to drinking. When that happened, he hoped Savannah would be there to support him. After all, it had been nice to have Mia aware of what was going on. It had brought them closer together. It was only fair to give Savannah the same opportu
It hadn’t been right. The whole time, Ryan felt as if Savannah had been putting on some kind of show. Now they were finished, she had put her clothes back on and was scrolling through her phone as if nothing had happened.He turned onto his side and placed an arm over her. “So…how was your first time then?”“What…oh yeah. No great babe. Really great,” Savannah soothed, placing a kiss on his cheek.“Are you sore? I tried to be as gentle as possible.”“Errr…yeah a little bit. Not too bad. You were great.” She went back to her phone. From this direction though, Ryan couldn’t tell what she was doing.“Good,” he said.A silence fell over them. Or more Savannah was too preoccupied with the device in her hand.Ryan decided that this was as good a time as any to talk to her about everything with his dad. She’d just shared something with him that
It was the banging that woke her up. Her head felt heavy, and it took her a few moments to realise her face was pressed against the desk. She groaned. Why did her mouth feel like it was made of sawdust?“Mia? Are you up yet? You’ve not come out all morning!”The sound of her mom’s shrill voice sent shockwaves through her head. She manged to sit up but regretted it when her stomach flipped with sickness. She looked through narrowed eyes at the now empty bottle of vodka beside her. Damn. She’d gone hard.“Mia?!”Mia shook herself, if she didn’t respond her mom would come in here. It probably stunk of vodka and she likely didn’t look too good either.“Yes, mom! Just wanted a lie in.”“It’s noon, Mia! Get up!”Mia’s eyes cut to her alarm clock. Damn. It must have been really hard.“Yeah. Just let me get up and shower then I’ll come
The first thing she did was find Brook. She had to know why she’d published this. She’d asked for a draft, not the final revision! She found her in the room set apart for the class paper, shuffling through different documents.As Mia made her entrance, Brook looked up. “Ah. There’s my star writer. That article sure is making the rounds. I’ve never had so many requests for copies!”Brook looked genuinely chuffed. Did she not get the drama this was causing?“What the hell Brook? I thought we said a draft! I didn’t know you were going to publish the damn thing!”“What’s the problem? You were obviously happy with it. You wouldn’t have sent it otherwise.”Mia put her head in her hands. “I was…a bit drunk. I never would have sent it otherwise.”“Ohhhh,” Brook tapped the table. “That’s why there was so many spelling and grammar m
“You alright, honey?”Mia looked up to find her mom standing at the doorway.“I did knock…but you didn’t answer.”Mia took off her headphones. Since coming home from school she hadn’t moved from her bed. “I’m fine,” she lied.Carla cocked her head to the side. “Okay. You don’t look fine.”Mia scoffed. “Thanks.”Carla sighed and pulled out Mia’s desk chair before sitting down. “You know I didn’t mean it like that. Come on. Tell me what’s going on. We never talk anymore.”“Yeah well…we argue after most of our ‘talks’,” Mia grumbled. She knew she was being belligerent, but her mood was too bad to be nice.Carla cast a glance outside of Mia’s window. She wasn’t prepared to give up just yet. “I know we haven’t been as close recently, and I know we’ll nev
Mia had woken up earlier than usual. If she was going to pull this off, she had to be one of the first people in school.When she appeared at the breakfast table 30 minutes before the usual time, her mom raised her eyebrow.“Are you okay? You’re never down here this early.”Mia grabbed a piece of toast and coated it with a quick swipe of butter from the dish before taking a chunk out of the corner. “Yeah,” she said through a mouthful of crumbs. “Good. I need to get in early this morning. No time to stop.”Carla followed her daughter to the hallway, watching Mia place the bit of toast in her mouth so she could use both hands to pull on her shoes.“Does this have anything to do with the grand gesture you’re planning?”Mia grinned. “Maybe. Anyway. Gotta go.”Carla waved her off and hoped that whatever Mia was planning, it wasn’t going to get her into too much t