I bit my nails nervously as I sat in a chair, waiting for Mr. Suoh to call me into his office. I was told to wait for him while he finished up lecturing a student from class D. I usually was never nervous when I was sent to the office, I was always smug and didn't care about whatever punishment he was going to give me because of my actions, but I was never worried about getting expelled. It never crossed my mind that all the shit I have done could actually get me thrown out of this school, I should've known from Ouran being the most prestigious school in the country that they wouldn't put up with it, but it just never crossed my mind because I was too worried about Kaoru's safety more than my own.

The only sounds the filled the quiet room were the typing on the keyboards and the ticking of the clock on the wall, which actually was making more nervous by the sound of the time passing. I was terrified, not from being expelled, even though it would greatly affect my school records, but I was scared about going home after the meeting. I knew the punishment was going to be brutal. It wasn't going to be the usual yelling and hitting that I'm used to receiving but far worse. I subconsciously moved my hand to my scar over on my lower left abdomen as I anxiously thought anout what will happen tonight.

My eyes immediately shot over towards Mr. Suoh's office when I heard it open and saw the student from class D storm out. Oh shit, it was my turn now. My heart began beating hard in my chest and I could literally feel my body sweat in terror as I saw Mr. Suoh walked out of his office and held the door open as he stared at me, telling me silently that it was now time for our meeting. I gulped and got up from my seat before heading into his office and sitting down in one of the chairs in front of his desk.

He sat down in his chair and laced his fingers together as he stared at me with a stern glare. I tried my best to keep my composure, trying not to let him see that I was petrified, but with each passing second, it was growing harder and harder as he continued to stare at me.

"You know why you're here, don't you Mr. Hitachiin?" I nodded, not looking up at him as I looked down at my hands.

"Yes sir…" I responded in almost a whisper.

"I told you when I assigned you a tutor that if you didn't take this seriously I would expel you, and by seeing that your tutor has quit it looks like you haven't been taking this seriously at all." I clenched my hands into fists as I prepared myself for the words 'you're expelled' to come out of his mouth, but they never did. "However," he said, causing me to look back up at him, "by what Miss Fujioka has told me, you have actually been cooperating with her, and by how your grades are improving it seems as if you actually have been taking these sessions more seriously than I thought." He smiled at me as he leaned back in his chair. "I'll tell you the truth Hikaru, I never thought I would see the day where you're no longer getting into pointless fights and finally ditching that leather jacket most days for the school uniform. Whatever Miss Fujioka did to change you, I have to say she's a miracle worker." His smile then fell and his serious expression returned. "But what I don't understand is why she suddenly decided to quit if she had nothing but good things to say about you whenever I talked to her. She even said that you two have become friends. Was there a falling out recently?"

"Yeah, I guess you can say that?" I mumbled sadly, avoiding eye contact as a small blush tinted my cheeks as I remembered what Haruhi and I did only a couple nights ago.

"Would you like to tell me what happened? I might be able to fix your guys relationship if I do."

I didn't respond to him as I laid my head on my knuckles, staring at the wall instead of him. What was I even going to say? 'Haruhi and I caught your son cheating on her and we then got drunk and slept together, so that's why she wants nothing to do with me anymore.' Yeah, that'll go over well.

He sighed at my silence. "Alright." He leaned forward so his elbows could rest on the desk. "I'm not going to expel you Hikaru."

I looked at him in shock. "You're not?"

"No, Miss Fujioka specifically asked me not to expel you, and since I saw the major improvement these past two months in both your grades and attitude, I agreed."

I'm not going to be expelled?

I could feel the smile itching my lips, but I wouldn't let myself show how relieved that I was, but in reality, I was so happy that I actually wanted to cry from not being expelled and having to face my mom's wrath, and it was all thanks to...Haruhi. She may hate me now, but it felt good to know that she still cared about me after what happened between us.

"However," Mr. Suoh said, causing me to break out of my thought, "since your old tutor left, we had to find you a new one. Luckily it wasn't that hard to get them to agree but I heard that you have a history of teasing him quite a bit."

I forwarded my eyebrows in confusion. I've never teased anyone, granted I was a far cry from being the nicest kid in the school, but I wasn't some elementary school bully.

"Who is it?"

"Kazukiyo Soga."

...Ok, maybe I did tease him a bit when we were younger, but not anymore. He was terrified of me shitless ever since he saw me beat the shit out of our classmate in middle school, so why him of all people would want to tutor me? He would most likely just say all my answers are correct because he would be too terrified of what I might do to him if he said I was wrong.

"I don't understand." I finally spoke up. "Why would Kazukiyo of all people agree to be my tutor if he's terrified of me?"

"He only agreed to it because I promised you would be nice to him and not hurt or threaten him. If I get complaints that you are being rude to him I'll give you a warning to get your act together, but if it continues," he made a small slice motion with his hand, "you're finished and you'll immediately be expelled. You got that?"

I gulped and nodded. "Yes sir."

"Great, you'll be meeting him today in the library after school at the same time as before." He smiled at me again, almost as if he was a proud father. "I have to say that I'm actually proud of you Hikaru. Your personality and attitude almost did a complete 180. You've still gone certain places to improve on, but you're not that shitty arrogant kid that was sitting in that chair every week a couple months ago. Hopefully, this improvement continues."

I didn't know why, but it actually felt really good to hear him say that he was proud of me. Maybe it was because I haven't heard it from my own mother in a long time or my dad since he's been missing, but it actually made me want to at least try to improve myself more...but I don't know how hard it would be without Haruhi…

Haruhi completely ignored me once I made it to our second-period class. She wouldn't even look my way and just paid attention to the teacher's every word, just like she did before we became friends. It was painful for me not to talk to her or playfully tease her like I usually did. I tried my best to pay attention to the lesson to get my mind off of Haruhi, but I just couldn't. All I could think about was her and how much I just wanted to talk to her and feel her touch.

When lunchtime finally came I just left the room without waiting for Haruhi to get out her lunch like I usually did. I just went to the lunch line and waited my turn to order. I looked over towards the Host Club's table when I heard laughter from female students and saw the members were there entertaining female guests, but without Haruhi, which I wasn't surprised by. None of the club members seemed to mind her absence, probably because today was usually one of the days she would have lunch with me. I glared darkly at Tamaki as I saw him laugh at what a female student just told him. He was such a fucking flirt that it was sickening to watch, and he most likely didn't care who saw, which is why he's openly flirting right this second.

"Next."

My glare fell and I looked forward to see that it was my turn to order. I walked up to one of the waiting chefs and ordered what I usually did before handing him my debit card. He swiped the card and a small buzzing noise that I never heard before came from the computer.

"Your card has been declined." The chefs said as he handed me back my card.

I looked at my card confused before looking back up at the chef. That can't be possible, the last time I checked I had a shit ton of money left, and I didn't spend any Saturday night so there was no way all my money was gone. "Can you try again, I think the computer must've read my card wrong."

The chef did as I asked and swiped my card again, but it only resulted in the same buzzing noise.

"Nope sorry, your card still isn't going through." He said as he gave me my debit card back. "If you would like you could pay for your meal in cash."

I didn't know if I had enough cash on me to pay for lunch. After buying two motel rooms, the snacks and drinks Haruhi wanted, and the big tip that I left the maid I didn't know how much money I had left. After I put my card away I looked in the section of my wallet where I kept my cash and saw that I only had a twenty dollar bill, great...That wouldn't even pay for half of my meal.

"Can you hurry up please?" A student complained.

I glowered over at them darkly, which caused him to hide back within the line once he noticed that it was me. I huffed before pocketing my wallet.

"Forget it." I grumbled before walking away from the line and out of the dining hall.

I took my time as I made my way to the courtyard where I usually ate lunch at. I went to shove my hands in my pockets as I walked down the hall but hissed as I felt a sharp pain in my left arm from bending it. I carefully felt around where the wound was to make sure the wound hasn't reopened, which luckily it didn't. I had to change the dressing this morning because it almost bled through the bandage when I woke up, but I was able to slow down the bleeding enough to bandage it up again. I really hoped that it'll heal properly on its own, but by how deep the shard went in my arm I'm not fully sure that it will, and with my card for some reason not working I wouldn't be able to get it stitched up. I sighed as I walked out to the courtyard but as I turned the corner to where I usually sat I immediately saw Haruhi, who had turned the corner opposite of me. We stared at each other for a few moments in silence before Haruhi turned away.

"Sorry," she said in a weak voice, "I forgot that this is your spot."

"Wait, Haruhi…" I tried to call out to her as she began walking away, reaching my hand out towards her, but my voice was quieter then I wanted it.

She either didn't hear me or just ignored me as she continued to walk away and turn the corner. I let my arm slowly fall back to my side once she was gone and let out a sigh as I leaned my back on the wall, sliding down to the grass. I stared out into the courtyard, seeing other students with their significant other's or group of friends, causing my chest to hurt seeing how happy they all were. This was why I didn't want any friends. All that ever happened whenever I had a friendship with someone, it always ended up burning to ashes. The first friends that Kaoru and I ever had were the Host Club, but that friendship ended in shit for me.

After the shit that happened with the Host Club, I didn't go out of my way to make friends, but there were some people who I did grow a liking to. I wanted nothing more than just being friends but some of the girls I tried to be friends with thought I was making a pass at them because I was being nice or some would try to take advantage of me to take them out on dates or get me to buy them items. At first, I gave in to their requests and did almost whatever they asked, but once I found out that they didn't want to be my friends and just wanted to use me I instantly dropped the friendship. As for the guys, it was a different story. Either they were terrified of me or put their guard up whenever I was around, which made it extremely difficult to make friends, so I soon gave up trying.

"Now why is a handsome guy like you sitting all by yourself?"

I growled at the sound of their voice. Of course, this day just keeps getting better and better.

"What the fuck do you want Mari?" I grumbled as I glared up at her.

She sat down on the grass beside me and smiled, which caused my glare to harden. "I saw you sitting here all by yourself and you looked so lonely. So, I thought it would be best if I sat with you so you wouldn't feel as lonely, and who knows," her smile turned flirtatious and she ran her fingers along my right arm, sending an unpleasant shiver down my spine, "maybe we can get to know more about each other." She purred.

"I'd rather die alone and be tortured in Hell then hang out with you." I hissed as I went to get up.

But before I was able to fully stand up, Mari grabbed my arm and forced me back down, causing me to gasp out when my injured arm hit the wall behind me once I was back down. Mari hugged my arm to my chest and put her head on my shoulder, but I was in too much pain to care at the moment.

"Come on," she pouted, "I know we started off on the wrong foot, but I really want to be your friend. Believe it or not, but I have a lot of trouble making friends."

"Oh, I can believe it." I grimaced in pain.

"You're step-dad also promised my parents that you would accompany me at school until I was fully settled into school. You can't back down on his promise."

I scowled at her and was about to tell her I didn't give a fuck what Isao promised her parents and I didn't owe them shit, but the sight of her lunch halted me from doing so. I was starving. I hadn't had a real meal since two days ago. I was too hungover to eat anything yesterday and I was in too much of a rush to have any breakfast this morning, and now with my card for some reason not working, I couldn't get any lunch. Mari's lunch wasn't one of the items that I particularly liked, but I was so hungry that I would literally almost eat anything.

Mari followed my gaze and when she saw that I was staring at her lunch an evil smirk spread across her face. She put her head back on my shoulder and hugged my arm tighter to her chest.

"How about this? If you spend the rest of the day with me I'll give you some of my lunch. Do we have a deal?"

I really wanted to refuse her deal, but just the look and smell of her lunch almost made my mouth water. It was roasted chicken breast with a small side salad and roll. It wasn't the best meal here, but right now it smelled so fucking good. But was it really worth spending the rest of the day with her? It was already halfway through the day, so I wouldn't have to deal with her for that long.

Finally, I gave in and took the roll from her lunch tray and began eating it while she whispered "Yes!" happily to herself, causing me to roll my eyes.

God, I have a feeling I'm going to regret my decision.

Haruhi

After running into Hikaru in the courtyard, Haruhi decided that she would just eat her lunch in the classroom of her next class, just like she used to do at the beginning of the year last year. However, she didn't really have the appetite to eat. She just picked at her lunch, only eating about half of it when the lunch period was over. Laughter from a female student caught her attention and she looked towards the door where she saw Mari latched onto an irritated-looking Hikaru's arm as they walked into the classroom.

"Oh Hikaru, you're so funny." Mari giggled.

"I didn't say anything." Hikaru grumbled as he made his way to his seat next to Haruhi.

"I know, but I'm still laughing at what you said during lunch."

"I told you to fuck off." He then ripped his arm out of Mari's grasp. "Which I still would like you to do."

Mari giggled again, which was starting to piss Haruhi off. She barely knew Mari, all she knew was that she was Hikaru's new neighbor, but from what he told her about Mari she wasn't the great person, far from it. Haruhi could tell that the giggling was fake and could feel a strong hatred coming off of Mari and directed towards her. She even caught the smirk that she gave towards Haruhi's direction when Hikaru wasn't paying attention as if she was trying to get a reaction out of her. Was she trying to make her jealous? It wasn't going to work because Haruhi wanted nothing to do with Hikaru, but it for some reason irked her. It might have been because Hikaru and her were close friends just a few days ago and she still felt like she needed to be protective over him, but she wanted Mari to leave him alone.

"I'll see you next passing period." She beamed before giving Hikaru as a hug from behind as he was sitting in his seat, causing him to exclaim out in pain which caught Haruhi's attention again immediately.

Once Mari let him go he hunched over in his seat as he grabbed his upper left arm, his face was scrunched up in intense pain. Mari didn't seem to notice his pain and blew him a kiss before heading towards the door, giving Haruhi another smirk along the way as they made eye contact. Once Mari left the room Haruhi looked back over at Hikaru and saw that he now had his head on the table as he still held his arm. His breathing was quick and sharp through his nose as if he was in intense pain, which Haruhi knew he was by the way his face was scrunched up.

She really wanted to ask if he was alright, but she kept quiet as she remembered herself that he wasn't her concern anymore, but she just couldn't help but worry if it was his mother to blame for his arm. It didn't look like it was broken, and his shoulder couldn't have been dislocated because he was grabbing his upper arm. Maybe she hit him with something when he got home, she didn't remember him calling his mother while they were at the motel, so maybe he got punished for that.

Soon students began flooding in the classroom as the bell rang and Haruhi immediately looked away from Hikaru as soon as he opened his eyes, so he wouldn't notice she was staring at him.

'Remember Haruhi, he's no longer your concern. He's going to be fine.'

She gave him one last concerned look as he sat up straight, probably so he wouldn't let people know that he was in pain.

'God, I hope he's going to be fine.'

Hikaru

I stared down at my English assignment angrily as I was starting to get fucking frustrated that I wasn't able to understand it no matter how many times my new tutor explained it to me.

"S-So, do you understand now?" Kazukiyo nervously asked.

"No, none of this makes any fucking sense to me." I growled angrily as I clenched my hair as I began to get stressed. "What the hell even is an attitude word and where the fuck do I even put in the paragraph? Why does the works cited have to be in that fucking order and how do I get my computer to do whatever the hell reverse indentation is?"

"I'm sor-sorry, I'm trying to explain it to you the best I can."

I glared up at him but once I saw the terrified expression on his face it caused my glare to fall. I knew he was terrified of me, but not this much. He looked like I was about to pull a knife out on him if he didn't help me understand the assignment in the next few minutes. Was my reputation that bad that people actually thought I would just hurt anyone? Yeah, I have gotten into fights over stupid shit in the past, but they were always with people who could defend themselves. Even if I did hate Kazukiyo's guts, which I didn't, I wouldn't try to fight him because I knew that he would definitely lose in a matter of seconds.

I sighed as I rubbed my temples. "No, I should be the one that's sorry. The past few days have been complete shit and I'm taking it out on you. I know that you're trying your best, so don't be sorry." I laid my chin in my hand as I looked back at him. I could tell that he was still nervous, but he was also in complete shock that I was actually being nice to him. "You don't have to be afraid of me. I'm not going to hurt you."

"You-You're not?"

I shook my head. "You did nothing for me to hate you. I know you might think I dislike you because I've teased you in the past, but that's not true. From what I see in class you're actually a really great guy and I guess I didn't know that when I was poking fun at you in the past I was actually hurting you. I'm an asshole and I'm sorry about that."

Kazukiyo's expression remained the same for a few seconds until it finally faltered and he gave me a small smile.

"You're not a complete asshole." He said, which I quirked an eyebrow to. "If you truly were you wouldn't be apologizing to me and mean it. You may have teased me in the past but I knew you were joking. I only grew afraid of you because I saw you beat up that kid when we were in middle school and your personality just suddenly changed after that. I thought that if I said something that you didn't like, you would do the same to me. That's why I was always so nervous around you," his smile widened, "but now I see that you're mostly still the same Hikaru that I knew before." I just stared at him completely speechless which caused him to laugh. "Now we got that you're not going to hurt me out of the way, how about I continue to try and help you understand the assignment."

I just continued to stare at him in shock but what he just told me. Then slowly, a smile began forming on my face. Does this mean that we might be friends again? We were in middle school but we stopped after I began shutting everyone but Kaoru out. I knew Kazukiyo and I would never be close enough where we would hang out outside of tutoring, but he could be someone I could actually talk to in school while Kaoru was away. He might not be able to replace Haruhi, but at least I technically had another friend.

"Yeah." I said as my smile grew. Kazukiyo pointed to the top sentence of the assignment and was about to re-explain it to me when his smile suddenly fell and he seemed to grow concerned about something. "What's wrong?"

"Your arm," he answered as he pointed with his pen to my left arm, "it's bleeding."

"What?!" I quickly looked at my arm and grew horrified when I saw that the upper part of the sleeve of my blue blazer was soaked in blood. Fuck, my wound must've reopened. "Shit!" I hissed as I shot up from my chair and grabbed my bag. "I'll be back as soon as I can."

I dashed out of the library without waiting for Kazukiyo to respond and made my way to the closest bathroom, which unfortunately was a pretty far distance away. I dodged out of the way of people as I continued to hurry down the hall and finally made it to the bathroom. Luckily, no one was in the bathroom when I got there and I closed the door so hopefully, it would indicate to people not to enter. I walked over to one of the sinks and placed my bag on the floor before I began digging through it.

"Come on, come on. I know I put in here."

Finally when I found what I was looking for I pulled out the small first aid kit and stood up. I opened the kit and then took off my blazer. I ignored the sharp pain as I unbuttoned my shirt halfway so I was able to just slip off the left sleeve and then began to unwrapping the bandage. Almost immediately as I took off the bandage blood started dripping from my wound and into the sink. I tried to use paper towels to stop the bleeding but the blood would just soak through each of the towels, turning the white paper almost fully red in a matter of minutes.

"Why isn't it stopping?" I began to panic.

It wasn't even close to this bad this morning, it stopped after a few minutes, so why won't it stop now? I went to grab another paper towel but my elbow brushed up against the first aid kit, making it fall on the ground and all the content to spill on the floor.

"No!" I whispered as I got down on the floor and began packing everything up.

I tried to get everything picked up with one hand as quickly as I could, but some of the items rolled out of arm's reach from me and I knew if I tried to reach for them my arm might begin to bleed even worse, so I had no other choice to use my other arm that I was using to try and stop my wound from bleeding. I removed the paper towel and almost immediately blood began dripping onto the tile but I ignored it for that moment as I began reaching for the rest of the supplies. Once I finally gathered everything I picked up the first aid kit and brought it back up to the sink to continue to try and patch up the wound, but before I could even reach for another paper towel I head the door to the bathroom open.

"Hikaru?"

I whipped my head towards the direction of the door and saw Kyoya standing there with a mortified expression on his face when he saw the blood in the sink and on the floor, then it soon turned to a furious glare as he walked up to me. "Explain to me right now what the fuck happened and if your mother did this to you or not!"

"I-I," I tried to stutter out a lie, but no words would come out as I felt like a little kid being confronted by a teacher.

"Don't lie to me Hikaru, please…" His expression softened and turned worried as he stared at my bleeding arm. "Did your mother do this to you?" I let out a sigh, knowing there was no point in lying to him so I just slowly nodded. "What did she do?"

"She tugged me away from the stairs and I landed on a vase. A shard went into my arm and no matter how much I begged she wouldn't take me to a doctor so I had to bandage it up myself. I got the bleeding under control yesterday but right now it won't stop no matter what I do."

"You shouldn't have removed the bandage." Kyoya said as he walked over to me and began getting some supplies out from my first aid kit. "Even if it bled through it would also help the bleeding stop faster because it was applying pressure." He grabbed an alcohol wipe and a wound pad then began cleaning the blood outside the wound, causing me to bite down on my finger so I wouldn't grunt out from the pain. "Sorry, I know this hurts, but I just want to see how bad the wound actually is because I know you're not going to have the nurse check it out, am I correct?" I nodded, biting down harder on my finger almost to the point that I was breaking the skin as he cleaned closer to the wound. "From what I see you're going to need stitches. The wound is too deep to properly heal on its own."

"I can't," I hissed out, "my card isn't working for some reason at the moment and if I got to our regular doctor and my mom finds out she's going to get mad, especially since she wouldn't take me to the doctor yesterday."

"Why didn't you call me like I asked?" He questioned as he put down the wipe and applied the wound pad. "I told you and Kaoru when you stayed over at my house that if your mother severely hurt you two you had to call me. I know you may not think we're friends, but I want to help you."

"You're right, I don't think of you as a friend." I heard him let out a sigh as he grabbed the bandage wraps and I looked over my shoulder at him as he began wrapping my arm. "I think of you more like family."

Kyoya paused bandaging my arm and looked up at in complete shock. "Huh?"

"After everything you have done for Kaoru and I, taking us into your home and having your family take care of us really meant a lot to us. After Kaoru confessed everything to you, you could've just let us go back to our house with our drunken abusive mother but you helped us and kept us safe, probably even saving our lives, and we're very grateful for that."

I could tell that Kyoya was at a loss for words, he probably thought that I dropped our friendship after Kaoru and I went back home when mom got sober, which I hadn't. I just never liked being around anyone besides Kaoru at school and if I did want to hang with Kyoya, he was always around Tamaki, so I just left them alone so I wouldn't have to deal with Tamaki.

"Then why won't you let me help you know?" Kyoya asked.

"Because," I said as I faced away from him, "I want to try and help her get sober on her own. I'm afraid that if she's placed into rehab she'll just go back to drinking afterwards once she gets out and I'm also afraid that the press will find out about her drinking."

"That didn't happen before. She avoided alcohol at all cost when she got out last time, and we made sure that the press wouldn't know that she was in rehab by keeping her check in a secret."

"I know," I sighed and I felt him resume bandaging my arm, "but I just don't want to take any chances." I looked at his reflection in the mirror. "Just let me try to get her sober for a few more months until Kaoru comes back, and if she's not better I promise we'll leave."

He let out a low growl, which told me he wasn't happy with me but he then met my eyes in the mirror. "Fine, but if you get severely hurt before then or she lays a hand on you or Kaoru once he gets back I'll drag you two out of that house by force if I need to. Do you understand?" I nodded. "Good, I'm glad we were able to come to an agreement."

Once he finished bandaging my arm he cleaned up my blood that dripped on the floor as I carefully put my left arm back in my shirt and rolling up the left sleeve to my upper arm before buttoning it up. When Kyoya was finished cleaning he handed me my blazer.

"Come on, I'm taking you to one of my family hospitals to get your arm stitched up."

"But what about my tutoring lesson? If I leave I might get in trouble with Mr. Suoh."

"Don't worry, I'll talk to him and your tutor and I'm positive he'll let you leave."

He began walking towards the door, but as he grabbed the handle I stopped him. "Kyoya?"

"Yes?" He asked as he faced back to me.

"I…" I held my blazer that was draped over my arms closer to me. I wasn't good at being nice to people, even the ones that I cared about, but just the thought of Kyoya helping me, even though my reputation here was shit actually made me grateful for something in my life. "Thank you, for everything."

He smiled at me. "Hey, that's what family is for." He said, which caused me to smile as well.

After I got stitched up at Kyoya's family hospital I made my way home. The house was quiet when I entered but I knew mom was home because I saw her car out front. She must have left work early or decided to stay home today, probably because she felt too drunk to leave. I didn't want to talk to her, I just wanted to go grab a quick snack before heading up to my room, but I had to tell her that there was something wrong with my debit card so it could be fixed.

I heard movement coming from her office, so I placed my blazer over the couch before making my way over there. Once I got there it seemed like she was working on a new design for her new clothing line that was scheduled to be released in the spring. I had to give her props, no matter how drunk she was she still was able to come up with extraordinary designs that put other fashion designers to shame.

I knocked on the door frame lightly with two of my fingers to get her attention, which by the glare on her face she wasn't too happy that I interrupted her.

"What?" She asked curtly.

"Um," I started in a small voice, trying to upset her any further, "I just wanted to tell you that there's something wrong with my debit card and I wanted to know if you could try to call the card company to have them fix it."

"There's nothing wrong with your debit card Hikaru." She grumbled as she went back to sketching her design.

"But when I tried to buy lunch today at school my card wouldn't go through."

"That's because I called the company today and had them freeze your card."

I forwarded my eyebrows. "But why would you-"

"Because," she interrupted me, "you clearly showed me yesterday that you're irresponsible and I don't want you wasting the money that I work so hard to get on the stupid shit you want to do."

"But what about lunch at school or gas for my car? I need money for that."

"Not my problem." Mom replied, not even bothering to look up at me. "Once you show me that you'll be responsible enough to be trusted with money again I'll unfreeze your debit card, but for now I don't want to hear any more of it."

"But mom…" She looked up at me with a dark scowl, causing me to feel only a few inches tall. I knew better than to try and convince her when she was in a bad mood so I just gave her a nod. "Ok…"

I turned and left the room without another word, knowing it would only lead to her yelling or hitting me. I didn't bother getting a snack and just went up to my room. Where I mostly stayed for the remainder of the day.

Hey guys, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. I'm sorry if there was a bit of a wait, I've been really busy these past few weeks with finals and my dog being really sick and I'm scared we might have to put him down, but hopefully, it won't come to that. I also started a new story called Secret Rendezvous, which I hope you will check out. Please Favorite, Follow, and Review. Until Next time.-HH1957