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Chapter Six

Confessions That Break Down Concrete Walls

wolfram approached the Honda, inspecting it shortly and coming to a conclusion. He chuckled to himself, "Well, you need a wax." He took out his notepad and pen, writing down some numbers and waited for the customer to respond.

"Excuse me?"

wolfram looked up, noticing that his customer was the same girl from the baseball field. Tapping on the driver's door with his pen, wolfram acknowledged that the girl still had on a confused expression on her face. Smiling, he said, "I meant the car."

yuuri blinked for a moment, realizing it wasn't an insult. "Oh. Fine." she said, rummaging through the many shopping bags in the tiny car. Where did my purse go?

wolfram watched in amusement as the young lady was trying to locate something in her cramped and crowded car. He was about to ask if she needed any help when two very familiar volkswagens parked in the gas lines. Their car horns blared loud and wolfram had to cover his ears just to save them from bleeding. "wolfram!"

wolfram turned around, looking back to the black hair girl for a moment before attending the annoying duo. "Hi!" shouted harper, smiling wide and her eyes looking perky. grace soon caught up with her sister, catching her breath before realizing that wolfram von bielefeld was right in front of her. She smiled, "Hi, wolfram!"

The blonde teen smiled a weary smile, non-enthusiastic that he had to deal with more of his "popular" classmates. More fangirls? "We need our cars washed." grace said quickly and eagerly. "Yeah! Look! Dirt!" harper squealed, grinning a grin not fit on her face.

wolfram stared at them for a minute. Geez, it's like they just found out there's a sale going on at Juicy Couture from down the street! Gesturing his hands to calm down, wolfram smiled a fake smile, "One second ladies. All right." Turning back to the girl in the Honda, wolfram poked her shoulder, grabbing the girl's attention. Ripping off a small slip of paper from his notepad, he grinned, "Take this inside when you're done. And thank you very much!" He turned around, smiled an uneasy to harper and grace and walked inside the car wash offices.

Once he was inside,grace and harper started freaking out; you could call it "fangirling" to the extreme.

"Oh my god! He's a God!" squealed harper.

"He's so cute!" giggled grace, jumping up and down in her spot.

"I know!

Noticing that her step-sisters were there, yuuri squirmed her way out of the tiny Honda and shut the driver's door. Leaning on the driver's door with both of her arms crossed over her chest,yuuri said, "So who'd you guys pay to make your cars so dirty?"

harper and grace stopped their fangirling fest and looked annoyingly at her step-sister. "Excuse me? Like what are you? The dirt police?" grace spat out, giving a glare towards the bored tomboy. harper laughed, "Yeah! The dirt police! Like, excuse me, miss, do you know how fast your dirt was going?" She giggle-snorted and hiccupped. grace gave a disgusted face, shoving harper a way from her and scoffed. grace gave an annoyed look, "You should've stopped with the dirt police.""

harper widened her eyes and fumbled crossing her arms over her chest, adding in a smug look to yuuri for an extra measure. The yuuri just raised an eyebrow, looking uninterested like always whenever the twins were in her presence. Show no emotion when it comes to grace and harper,yuuri thought, it always works.

"You should get going, because our mom's looking for you." harpe said, looking at yuuri up and down. She chuckled at the yuuri's choice of clothes for the day; a white t-shirt with yellow bolded writing saying "I Only Date Bad Boys" and a pair of jeans, followed by her signature side ponytail and her black converse. So simple. And yet so ugly! screamed grace's thoughts. It definitely suits a bitch like her.

yuuri blinked, her eyes widened a bit. Pushing off the car door, yuuri spoke, "Well, where is she?"

Karen answered. "She's at home, baking."


Basking in her own tanning bed, Molly was relaxing. Wearing the tanning goggles, she was laying down with the neon blue lights hitting the surface of her "imperfected skin", releasing all of her stress out and relaxing her entire figure. Yes, today just couldn't get any better-

"You wanted to see me?" yuuri said, patiently waiting for her to get out of her reverie. Molly furrowed her eyebrows in irritation and spoke in a peppy voice, "Yes."

Pushing the top up, Molly reached for her towel. Looking back up to Molly,yuuri widened her eyes and turned her head away, "Oh my-!" yuuri turned her head just in time to not have a scarring image for all of eternity. Seeing her step-mother naked wasn't the best sight to be welcomed with.

Ignoring yuuri's gasp of surprise, Molly wrapped the hot pink towel around her body. "Did you finish your errands?" she said, ripping off the goggles and looked at the blonde expectantly. "Because I need you to head to the diner and take the night shift."

Recovering from the initial shock, yuuri looked up to Molly, then to her feet. She squirmed under the intense stare Molly was giving her and played with her fingers for a bit. They seemed so interesting at the moment that yuuri couldn't rip her eyes away from the slender, cream phalanges that were calloused at some fingertips. Finding the words to say, yuuri lifted her head and spoke with an edge of nervousness and uneasiness. "T-tonight's my night off and it's the Halloween dance at school, so-"

Picking at her nails,Molly interrupted yuuri, "I know, but you need to stop being so self-centered and start thinking of others. And others need you to go to the diner and mop the floors tonight." Looking back to yuuri, she flashed a smile.

"But I really need to go to this dance, Molly. I have to."yuuri whined, having a feeling that this would ignored her plea and grabbed the crackers on the table, munching on one. In a muffled voice, Molly said, "You need to earn your tuition money." Shaking her head, she looked up to yuuri, "You gotta bus a lot of tables."

Now on the verge of tears, yuuri tried a tactic shinou would always say in order to convince her; point out the positive points of your argument. Thinking and racking up some points, yuuri quickly blurted them out, "I'm a straight A student. I'm working seven days a week and I'm taking extra AP classes. I never asked you for anything. Please let me go to this dance!"

Molly stared at her for the longest time, minutes flying by. After what felt like an entire hour of just staring, Molly sighed and shook her head. "Sweetheart, now that you're old enough, there's something I've always wanted to tell you, and I think you're ready to hear it." Molly said, smiling at the girl in front of her. A budding flower of hope bloomed in yuuri's chest. yuuri's eyes lightened and were eager for her answer. The very first compliment coming out of Molly's mouth and I'm here to witness it. yuuri thought. How ironic.

Molly took a deep breath,closing her eyes and slowly opened smiled to yuuri "Sweetie ..." yuuri leaned into Molly's bubble, eager to hear what she'll say. "You're not very pretty and you're not very bright."

All of yuuri's hopes of Molly went down the drain once the devil woman uttered that sentence to yuuri.

And only to yuuri .

Tears swelled into yuuri's eyes, No. Molly smiled, relieved to get such a confession off of her chest. Sighing, she flashed a smile to yuuri, "I'm so glad we had that talk." Standing up, she closed the tanning bed and walked past yuuri, their shoulders touching for a brief moment before Molly pulled her shoulder away from yuuri's.

Pulled back from reality,yuuri blinked multiple times to see only that her vision was blurred and her eyes felt like an ocean wave hit her over and over. Her tears, now flowing and cascading down her slightly blushing face, were warm and left a trail of moisture on her cheeks. Rubbing her eyes, yuuri didn't sob or cry, but the sound of sniffles from her runny nose were heard. She didn't want to show Molly or her two rotten step-sisters that she was weak. She was stubborn and refused to show any signs of impuissance in front of them. Besides, if she did, that was her breaking point. Her wall of confidence was crumbling down into nothing but rubble and debris.

And at the rate she was going, her wall wasn't gonna hold up anytime soon.