Chapter thirteen
By Pippie
(Dusti's POV)
I sat on a stool at the kitchen counter flipping through a magazine. I had a towel around my neck having just bleached my hair. Jack walked by me nonchalantly eating an apple and then he froze, nearly choking on the bite he just took. He turned around and went up to me with wide eyes.
"What do you want Jack?"
"Y-your hair!"
"You want my hair?"
He shook his head "No… your hair is so… so… white."
"Yeah? So?"
"It used to be really dark."
"Um, yeah that's what happens when you bleach your hair."
"Why did you bleach your hair?"
"Why are you such a little dork? Get out of here."
I shoved him away and then went over to the sink to wash out my hair. As I was drying it my dads came into the room. They were in the middle of a conversation so I made it seem as though I wasn't listening. From what I got from their conversation, I think they were talking about the possibility of my dad, Jimmy, becoming pregnant again. I had no idea they even thought about having more kids. They continued their conversation until they noticed me and my hair. They did a double take and their eyes widened just like Jack's did.
"What happened to your dark hair?" Bam asked, stunned
"You had all this beautiful dark brown hair and then you ruined it with bleach! What's the matter with you?" Asked Jimmy, just as shocked as Bam
I rolled my eyes "Why is everyone so surprised that I bleached my hair? It's not going to stay white like this. I'm adding color to it."
"Which color?" Bam asked, sounding a little scared
"Blue and purple. I got the dye already."
"Why are you dying your hair blue and purple?" Jimmy asked
"Why not?" I shrugged "Oh I'm going over to Andy's house. I should be back on time for dinner."
"Um… alright. Just call if you need anything."
"I will."
As I left I could feel Bam and Jimmy staring at my hair. I didn't think that me doing my hair would be so shocking to them. It's kind of funny.
It felt so good to spend time with Andy, just the two of us. Whenever things get really crazy around here, Andy has always been able to help me relax and forget everything. We sat on his living room couch talking and smoking a joint together. I told him about how my dads freaked out when they saw my hair and we both laughed. Andy said how he would have liked to be there to see that. As we sat there talking, we got a little cozy. He held his arm around me and pulled me closer. That's when he kissed me. I have to tell you, I almost wasn't expecting it to happen. But it felt so right.
(Andy's POV)
I couldn't believe that I was kissing one of my best friends and I wasn't even nervous about it. I couldn't believe even more that I had taken so long to even kiss Dusti since I've wanted to kiss her for such a long time. I know now that the next time I ask her out I'll have a better chance of her not saying 'no'. In a way I thought that she was going to pull away from me when I first did it, but she didn't. It was like she was waiting for it.
I'm glad that my parents weren't home when me and Dusti started making out on the couch. That would have been so awkward if my naked dads came out into the living room right in the middle of it. But almost as quickly as it started, our make out session came to an end. Dusti sat up and straightened her clothes out and then looked out the picture window across the room.
"Oh dude. It's my cousin!" She shrieked
"What?" I brushed my hair out with my fingers
"Jeremey's here! What the hell?"
Jeremey knocked on the door as he stood on the front porch. I got up and answered the door, allowing him to come in. He had a backpack in his hand and explained to us that he had run away. At first I thought he was going to ask me if he could hide out at my house for a while but he just asked if he could borrow one of my sweatshirts. While I was talking to Jeremey about why he was running away and where he had planned on going, Dusti had got a call. She jumped up, still with her phone up to her ear, and the look on her face looked like she had seen a ghost.
"Ho.ly FUCK!" She shouted, nearly dropping her phone
"What's the matter, Dust?" I asked as I went up to her
She quickly hung up and put her phone in her pocket. She looked right at me in the eyes and began shaking. I held my hands on her shoulders to steady her as best that I could.
"Dusti what's the matter? Tell me what happened."
She looked at me and then over at Jeremey "Hanna called… she said… she told me…"
"What did she say?" Asked Jeremey
"Aila had an abortion."
Jeremey and I both dropped our jaws. No one had any idea that Aila was even pregnant so this was a big shock to us all. Dusti told us everything that Hanna told her over the phone. It turns out that Aila told Ville and Jussi that she was pregnant and they freaked out. She was really scared to have the baby and her dads practically forced her to go and get an abortion. This was completely insane. The three of us just stood in shock for a little bit.
How could anyone even think about having an abortion? I understand that Aila had to of been scared shitless but… wow. I really had no idea that she would be the type to do something like this, especially since she has said how she wants kids one day. After everything that's happened lately, this was the biggest shocker of them all.