So, this one kinda goes along with my first chapter too, but I wrote this a LOT more recently without even considering that oneshot, so the timeline doesn't quite fit.
Hope you like it!
Each member of the gang was in charge of something.
Jade was in charge of the thoughtfulness.
Sometimes she was all snark, but usually she let enough thoughtful comments slip that she left the group thinking.
Don't spend all of your money on the safe, Andre.
Vega, you just think you're thinking. All you're really doing is rearranging your prejudices.
Cat, a little bit of inaccuracy sometimes just saves a whole lot of explaining.
Problem was, they thought so much after she talked, they didn't notice her slipping away. But then they did, and it was too late.
Beck was in charge of the trust.
They knew they could depend on Beck for anything. He followed through with his promises. He was the one who kept everyone open. There was so much hurt sometimes, it took him a while to bring back the trust.
He never did with Jade. The mistrust and fear built up every time he saw her. When he saw anyone.
He couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, he didn't even know what he was saying.
One day he heard a voice.
Don't make promises you can't keep, Beck.
Andre was in charge of the honesty.
Andre was always honest. He confessed when he cheated on a test (it was ONE time!), he admitted that he was wrong (too many people were too proud of being stubborn), and he had firm beliefs (my grandma made me promise that I would always be a good person).
But then he started lying. " Hey, Tori, could you lend me some money? I need some for lunch." He was really going to buy some weed. But no one would have given it to him if he'd asked, right? He had learned from his mistakes. And he had jumped into the wrong crowd while doing it.
No one saw truthful Andre again after that.
One day he passed Jade in the hall.
Life is a one-way street, Andre. Once you go far enough, you can never turn back around.
Tori was in charge of the hope.
She was a fixer. Always making things right. She could find her way out of so many situations, it gave everyone else hope that they could have a happy ending with their messed up lives.
After the group started falling apart, she tried sosohard to let everyone have hope again. But even she didn't have any hope left. She turned to making herself perfect, starting with her body.
She ateateateand then she purgedpurgedpurged. No one noticed how skinny she was getting, her getting so weak she didn't go to school half the time.
Even when everyone else is weak,, be strong, Tori.
But if Tori never got a happy ending, why should anyone else?
Robbie was in charge of the kindness.
Robbie was never mean. Well, Rex was. Everyone knew Rex was the way Robbie channeled his inner frustrations out. And they ignored how wrong, how sad, it was, because Robbie knew more of the world than most others.
Robbie cared about people, and he did everything he could to make people's lives easier.
But no one thought about him, how things affected him.
He had stopped trusting after Beck had stopped trusting himself.
He cried when Andre gave in to the badbadbad things in the world.
He never hugged Tori anymore, it hurt to even look at her without seeing the skeleton she was.
When he threw Rex into the garbage one day, no one cared.
Even he didn't care. He was alone.
Robbie, the only thing harder than being sane is staying sane.
He knew all about that.
And, of course, Cat was in charge of the smiles.
Cat, with her sweetsweet smile and her big brown eyes. The one who told crazy stories about her brother, the one who could always squeeze a smile out of someone. She was the one who knew just what to do when one of them was about to cry. And, surprise surprise, she's the one who held the group together.
Don't waste your smiles, Cat. One day, you might just run out. And those words were what she would think of, just for a second, before falling with all the rest.
I haven't updated in FOREVER because my computer turned to shit in like a week and it's really slow and horrible and I got a new Mac! But... for now I've lost all of my documents except for 2 for this story (including this one)... so there might not be more than one more update for the next month or so when my dad gets to moving the documents.
Hope you liked it!