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Chapter Ten:
I watch as Sam and Dean greet Bobby. He looks angry and they're desperately trying to make it look like nothing is happening while I play with the bandages on my arm.
"Hey, Bobby. Where's Ashley?" Sam asks, and I stand and walk over.
"Right here." I tell him, keeping my face emotionless.
"Did you get that ghost, munchkin?" Dean questions and something inside me snaps. I look down.
"Two months." I whisper. Dean leans in closer to hear me.
"What?" My head snaps up and my eyes are blazing with fury.
"Two months! You left me at a school while you two jerks drove off in your car! It's Dad all over again! You never even called, Dean! Only Sam, and he forgot my birthday! I became friends with a monster who tried to kill me because you two weren't there. I thought we had each other's backs. I was wrong. You two got tired of babysitting the little sister you never wanted, so you ditched me! Well, you know what? I'm done! And something else? I can't find it in my heart to hate you. You're family. But I'm certainly upset enough to do this." I pull back and punch each of them in the face before running to my room, crying silently.
Meanwhile, downstairs...
Bobby helps the two boys to their feet and gives them each a beer to hold to the rapidly forming bruises. The boys sit at the kitchen table, hearing Ashley's gut-wrenching sobs echo from upstairs. Sam keeps standing up and sitting back down, and Dean clutches the bottle so hard his knuckles are white.
"What did you two do?" Bobby whispers, staring at the ceiling, horrified.
"Can you tell us where we went wrong, Bobby?" Sam asks, staring with him.
"You broke the heart of someone who's been defending you for ages." The boys look shocked.
"What?"
"She used to call me and tell how John would rant about you two and she would tell him to lay off. They'd argue over you. No matter what you did, she'd take your side. Even when Sam left, she kept defending you. And you took her heart and threw it at a brick wall." He tells them, before storming out of the room.