Here's the second chapter! I haven't even gotten a single review for it :(
[Alex's POV]
We pulled up to our parent's house to say goodbye. Heather got out of the car after me. We walked slowly up the path to their house.
I had kind of felt sorry for my parents. I mean, their first child turned out okay. The second one killed himself. The third one became a stupid musician (hi, mom), and the fourth one is becoming a musician and abandoned them for her.
I mean, Heather is really independent. If you left her alone in a room for ten hours, you'd come back and she'd be having a ball of fun. We walked in. On the table was one of Mom's home-made chocolate cakes. "Mum! Dad! We're home!" Heather said. They looked up from the table.
"Alex! Heather!" Mum said.
Okay. I have to explain. I lost my British accent years ago, when I was about three or four. But even though Heather was born in America, both our parents were British. So she has a British accent. Mine shows through when I get mad or start screaming. It's weird but awesome.
"Welcome home, guys," Dad said. I shook his hand.
"Hey, Dad," I said. My mom gave me a squashing hug. I made her pull away. She pinched my cheeks.
See? This is why I moved out the moment I turned eighteen. Literally. Rian, Kara, and I found a place and moved in the second Rian turned eighteen, too. Before that I moved in with Jack and his sister May. (A/N: Jack does have a sister called May)
"Let us dig into the cake!" Heather said. Mom and dad raised their glasses.
"To music and our children!" dad said. He was so old school. I took out the old record player and put in one on our album So Wrong, It's Right.
[Heather]
Alex and I said goodbye to our parents and got back in the car. I played with my hair and almost put on more makeup, but he stopped me. "You look fine, Heather," he said, grabbing my arm. I put the concealer back in my pocket. He pulled up into the parking lot. Zack and Peter were talking in the sea of old shopping carts, while Rian was nowhere to be found.
Jack was saying something to May. He held both her wrists. May looked down as if she was afraid. They talked in hand gestures. The song on my ipod playing was Liar Liar by Christina Grimmie, which kind of made me a little depressed.
In a couple of minutes, he left. May reached out for him, but he only looked back and kept walking. I could see a tear make its way past his water line. Jack slammed the door to the bus and walked inside. Alex went over and gave her a hug. She tucked her dark hair behind her ears and got in her SUV, slowly driving away. It stopped at the end of the driveway as if to come back, but left anyways. I watched as her headlights drove deeper into the road, slowly disappearing into the street amongst other cars. Soon I lost sight of the car.
"Don't ask him about it," Alex said, taking my hand. We went into the bus. I watched in the window as the crew members and workers tried to get everything together. Rian was still nowhere to be found.
"Looking for Rian?" Alex asked. I nodded and pulled the curtains back. He gave a small grin.
"Yeah. Where is he?" I asked. I sat next to Alex on the leather couch. He took both my hands, as Jack had done to May.
"He's still with Kara. You know. She's pretty torn, I talked to her this morning," he replied.
"But… she could have come with him, right? I mean, I came with you," I said.
"Yeah. But you're my sister. You're different. And you know Rian, he won't leave until he knows she's okay."
There's the typical Rian Dawson for you. Your everyday nerd that just happens to be really awesome. Yup, that's him. Just about. And really talented. He taught me to play the drums.
Rian showed up in about five minutes. He just went straight to his bunk, hands in pockets, head down.
Was it always like this? Alex never showed it. But he was a stronger person. He was stronger than anyone else. He had to be stronger than anybody else. He had raised me since I was about nine, practically single-handedly. Well, if you don't count Rian, Kara, Jack (he's probably the reason I'm so messed up. Sorry, Jackie!), and Zack.
Wait. Where am I going with this? Ah, I don't know.
Okkkkkaaaaayyy. I'm done with this chapter! I don't think it was a good as the last one. Sooo… yeah!
I'm not getting any reviews, so I don't really know if people like it. I'd really appreciate it if you took the 15 seconds!
~ Emmz ~
