Astrid POV

We waited in line for about 30 minutes. Free food was always me and Ruffey's thing, especially when I didn't want to spend money. Paying the rent was already a struggle. $780 a month was my whole paycheck and part of Ruffey's.

"Ugh! Come on people! How long does it take to get 2 pizzas, some macaroni, and a fruit?" Ruffey complained.

I elbowed her in her side and gave her 'The Glare'. She only looked down at her feet and stayed quiet the whole time.

It didn't take long for us to get our food, but when we did, we immediately went home. It was basically night and I needed to sleep for tomorrow.

"So," Ruff started as she unbuckled her seatbelt," I heard that you broke up with Scott."

My attention quickly shot to her when she mentioned it. "How did you know?"

"Girl, you leave your door open all the time and you love to yell. How couldn't I know?"

A surge of anger rushed over me as I remembered last night when I called him. "You wouldn't believe it Ruff! He cheated on me with that nasty ass bitch! The one that he "always" had to go study with for class!"

Ruff must've seen that anger come out of me because she quickly hugged me from the other seat.

"Forget about him, Astrid. He's not worth your time." She pulled away from me with a mischievous smirk one her face. "He'll regret playin' with you like that once I'm done with him."

I gave her a small smile but I was still pretty pissed of about it.

Then my phone started ringing. I looked at the screen and immediately picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey! It's Henry."

"Oh hey. What's u-"

Ruff interrupted, whispering,"Who's that?" When I mouthed Henry she said,"Put it on speaker."

I looked at her for a moment and pressed speaker on the phone.

"Sorry Henry. My roommate needed something. What's up?"

"So you know how I said I was supposed to be going out to dinner with my girl?"

"Yeah?"

"Well turns out I won't be going anywhere."

I paused for a moment to look at Ruff and she had the same look as me. "Why? What happened? Did she chicken out or something?"

"N-No. I end up breaking up with her."

Me and Ruff gasped at the same time. Henry actually broke up with someone, let alone dating someone. Ruff was about to ask the question but I beat her to it.

"Why did you break up with her?"

"Well lets just say she cheated on me…with Scott."

There was an extremely long silence that lasted for about a good 3 minutes. Scott cheated on me for Henry's girl?! Oh hell nah. I'm pretty sure my face was a deep red they way Ruff was looking at me.

"SO THAT BASTARD HAD THE AUDACITY TO, NOT ONLY CHEAT ON ME, BUT TO TURN ON HIS COUSIN?!"

I was fuming at this point. Both Ruff and Henry knew.

"Astrid calm down. I know you're mad but you can't let the anger get to you. And you know why."

"SO IM JUST SUPPOSED TO IGNORE IT? I WASTED MY TIME AND MONEY FOR SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T EVEN CARE! FOR SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ME! AND YOU WANT ME TO IGNORE IT? HELL NO!"

I got out the car without even grabbing anything and stormed into the apartment.

The apartment was bigger than average and even had an basement where Ruff stayed. The walls were painted light blue and the floor was a light tan color. The kitchen was huge. It was so big that they could probably fit 50 people in there, shoulder to shoulder. The living room was huge as well. A 60' inch TV stayed on top of a stand the also held an Xbox and a Wii. With, of course, a glass coffee table and a big dark blue couch.

I stormed straight to my room and started breaking everything in sight. My lamp, my pictures, my mirror, I even attempted to break my desk. I couldn't think straight. All I thought about was how people were traitors and selfish. Too many people in my life have bailed on me and Ruff is the only one closest to family. I couldn't take anymore of things like this.

As soon as I was about to throw a chair across the room, Ruff ran in and pinned me to the ground.

"ASTRID, STOP!" She had my arms behind my back in the most painful way. I grimaced as she pulled them tighter.

"Control yourself, girl! Henry said he was coming since he heard you slam the car door."

I started to scream into the floor for no apparent reason. Good thing our apartment is sound proof or else everyone would come knocking at the door angry.

I screamed for about 5 minutes when Henry came rushing in. "Why is she screaming?"

"I don't know. She started doing it when I mentioned you were coming."

Henry came over to us, stepping over the broken glass on the floor. He gestured to Ruff get off me and sat me up, still screaming.

"Astrid, you need to calm down right now." He said quietly regarding that I was still screaming.

Surprisingly, I heard him. I didn't want to stop for some reason but I also didn't want to annoy him and Ruff for so long. I stopped a little after he said it and started tapping my finger on the ground.

Tapping always soothed me. Usually when I'm about to go into problems like this, I start tapping on anything. Ruffey's mom told me she taps on things just break a silence. For me, it was this.

"Feelin better, Ash?" Ruff asked moving closer to me.

Before I responded, I opened my eyes and surveyed the room. It was a complete mess. It hasn't been like this since- No, you just calmed down. Stay away from the memories. I finally stood up after a bit, brushing the hair out my face. "Yeah. I'm okay now."

I was immediately pulled into a bear hug from both of them. It was nice that at least someone cares about me.

Henry was the first to pull away from the embrace. He had a face of disappointment and sorrow. "Don't scare us like that again." Poking my nose.

"Yeah, we don't want you tuh…ya know." Ruff pulled away and started towards the door. "Now let's leave this landfill called 'a room' and eat some pizza."

I nodded my head, accepting that my room is a landfill, and followed her. Only for Henry to stop me and whisper something in my ear.

"What goes around, comes back around, Astrid." Then he winked at me before he left the room.

What was that supposed to mean? Then I suddenly got an idea of what he meant. I knew that there was gonna be conflict in the near future.

"Oh boy."