Troy's POV
I walked into the living room. They were waiting on me. I sighed loudly, wondering how long they would yell at me. I noticed Katherine curled up in an armchair, she seemed oblivious as to why she was there. Katherine just turned fourteen, she had lost her innocent child look a long time ago though, she was beautiful now, long brown hair, piercing green eyes, she was about 5'5, and she had a pretty smile. I hated her boyfriend, he was a dick, he was a year older than her, a sophomore. He was on the JV football team. (AN: I AM NOT SETTING UP FOR INCEST JUST SO YOU KNOW, I wouldn't do that to Troy)
My mother was the first one to speak. "What is going on here, Jack?" So I guess no one seemed to know. "I think it's time we talk about the limits with our children Anne" he said in a formal way. "What do you mean?" she asked, truly confused. Katherine had perked up a little, wondering what was up. "Well firstly, lets begin with this, have you seen your sons wrists recently?" a horrified look came over her face, Katherine's head whipped around to my direction. My mother immediately flew across the room and practically tore the sleeves off just as my father had. Her jaw dropped as she saw the black on my wrists. She trembled a bit, I wasn't sure if she was relieve, or just plain frightened. You couldn't really tell what each wrist had on it, my father certainly hadn't. Katherine had sat next to my mother, staring at my exposed arms. "W-what is it?" she asked, then quickly said, "Never mind, I want to see it myself." Her hand reached for the paper, my heart raced. "Wait, no, let me do it…" I said pushing her hand away, one at a time I revealed the black hearts on my wrists. My sister had been biting her lip of anticipation. My mother squeezed her eyes shut and moved back to her chair across the room.
"Oh, but that's not it Anne, lets move on to Katherine, we'll get back to Troy later." Katherine's face went white. My blood boiled, if that quarter back jackass had laid a hand on my sister… My mom's face just went a little blank. Katherine looked like a deer in the headlights, "Well yesterday, I had walked into Katherine's room after school, to see her and that boyfriend of hers making out on her bed," he paused, both me and my mom knew there was more, "with his hand up her shirt." He finished and I felt chills run through my body, I was gonna kill that asswipe. Katherine had lowered her head now she seemed very guilty. "Getting back to Troy, I found these in his room." He held up a baggie of the white pills. I remembered one night, I accidentally left them out. Fuck. "So Troy, you gonna explain what these are?" I said nothing. "Tell us now son" he said, his voice stern, "What is it? Heroin, Cocaine?" he asked, I shook my head, "Ecstasy" I said with a quiet low voice. My mom now had tears streaming down her face, why the hell would my dad do something like this to her? I know we were doing wrong things, but why the hell would he make my mom take all of this at once. "And Katherine, would you like to explain this?" he held up a piece of skimpy lingerie, (AN: Hope I spelled that right!) it was definitely not considered something you would buy just to sleep in. Katherine gulped. My mother finally said something, "We're taking you to a gynecologist, and you," she said pointing at me, "If I find any more of that in your room, I will punish you" I was a bit surprised at my lack of consequence. "Mom! That's not fair, he's the one who could end up dead by O.D'ing!" mom squinted at her, "And you're the one who can end up pregnant!" she said storming out of the room, My dad seemed to look at me in a way that seemed like he did that all to make me feel guilty, before he followed my mom. "This is all your fault, if you hadn't gone off to get some ink in your veins, we wouldn't be here!" Katherine screeched at me, "I'm sorry, its my fault that you let that little prick get into your pants, you slut" she blinked, probably on the verge of tears, "Me? A slut, you're the one whose been sneaking around like a little man-whore, drinking, screwing random girls, doing drugs! You are just trying to get attention aren't you!" she yelled. I had no idea she knew about the drinking and the girls, she continued, "What? Surprised that I knew about you fucking practically half of the school population! The word has long gotten out!" I began to get angry, she had never spoken like this before, "Like it matters, why don't you go put this on, and dance for your little boyfriend like the whore you are!" I said throwing the red satin thing at her. She ran upstairs in tears; I locked myself in my room. I turned up my stereo as loud as it would go, and screamed, screamed until my throat was too sore to scream anymore.
The next day I awoke on the floor, I got up and walked down the hall, I knocked on my sisters' door. "Mom! I told you I am not going to see that lady!!" she screamed. "Katy, it's me" I said softly. The door flung open, "What do you want, you addict" she stared angrily at me, I wanted to say she looked skimpy in her PJ's but I didn't need another fight. "I just want to talk" I said, she didn't budge, then after a few minutes she left the door open and sat down on a chair. I walked in and sat on the edge of her bed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said, it's just, with everything that I heard, and saw, I honestly would have believed it considering you're dating that jerk" she glared defensively, then softened. "I know, I've been meaning to dump him…" "Thank god!" I sighed, she laughed. "You've been right from the beginning, he only wanted to get in my pants…I told him I was so not ready and he got all mad." "Good thing too" I said agreeing. "So will you forgive me?" she asked, I smiled, "Only if you forgive me" she put a devilish grin on her face, "Only if you explain what's been going on with you lately." I then sighed, I really didn't want to explain but I had to tell someone. "I don't really know where to begin…" "The beginning is always a safe place" she said smirking. "Well, Gabriella and I were finally talking, after she had broken up with Ryan," she interrupted, "so this all has to do with Gabriella then?" she asked, "Yes, anyway, she broke up with Ryan, and then she found out about how I was sleeping around when she left, so I was unhappy because she wouldn't talk to me because I…" I paused, "I love her" I said. "Oh." She said like it was no big deal, which, now that I had said it out loud, it didn't seem that bad. "Why don't you just call her and tell her that you love her" she asked, I laughed, "That's not how it works-" she cut me off again, "Yes it is, you just have to get it over with, you never know, she could love you too, now out, I have to go dump my boyfriend" I left the room thinking about what she said, she could love you too.
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