Chapter 13
"His sister?" Maxie asked realizing this must have been what he left out when he told her about his father leaving and his mother throwing herself into work.
"Oh. He didn't tell you he had a sister? I'm not surprised considering he got into the army and left me to deal with our mother who had been consumed with her work for six years," Chasity said sending a glare in Cooper's direction.
"Chas," Cooper said quietly.
"Don't---don't call me that, you lost the right to call me by my nickname when you left," Chasity said hoping the anger in her voice made the sadness less noticeable.
"Look we should go upstairs and talk about this okay?"
"Fine," Chasity said reluctantly after a few minutes and started up the stairs.
"Do you want me to go upstairs and be back up?" Maxie asked.
"No I think I can handle it, but can you meet me back here in a little while?"
"Sure," Maxie said.
Cooper headed up the stairs a few minutes after Maxie left.
Once upstairs Cooper got out the key to his room and unlocked the door.
"What are you doing here?" Cooper asked once they got into the room.
"I came here to see you, what do you think I'm doing here," Chasity said plopping down on the bed.
"I mean why are you here instead of in school?"
"Spring break,"
Cooper nodded.
"Does mom know you came here?"
"Like she would really care," Chasity replied sarcastically.
When Chasity knew she wasn't going to get a reaction out of Cooper with her comment she spoke up again.
"No, mom doesn't know I left but she will eventually,"
"You know she'll be mad when she finds out you left," Cooper pointed out.
"It won't matter anyway because she's grounded me already,"
"What did you do to make her ground you?" Cooper asked.
"Of course you would assume I did something bad,"
"Okay, what happened?" Cooper asked.
"It was stupid,"
"What did you do Chasity?" Cooper prodded.
"You know how she was; she only acted like a parent when she thought she had to discipline one of us or when it was convenient for her. You know how once I was older and I liked to sleep in late but I couldn't do it on week days because of school? It was one of those things, she got mad and grounded me from going to this thing I had wanted to do with my friends and she grounded me from the phone,"
"But you would've know what happened if you had been there, but you weren't because you left with your best buddy Logan," Chasity added feeling herself get more defensive.
"I know you're mad and you have every right to be but you knew I couldn't live at home forever,"
Chasity gave a frustrated sigh.
"I know that, but you could've but you could've at least lived in the general area you didn't have to go as far away as you did,"
Cooper was getting ready to speak but Chasity cut him off.
"Don't say it was because the army thing either, you were in the service for two years and it's been three since you left you could've at least contacted me,"
"I know I could've and I was wrong not to,"
Chasity crossed her arms over her chest and tried to choke back the lump in her throat, she didn't like the fact she was almost crying over this because that meant she wasn't as mad at him and she was remembering how much she missed him when he first left, she found it easier to stay mad at him because that way if he left again it might not hurt so much.
"Look can we talk about the rest of this later?"
Without a word Chasity left Kelly's but not before body slamming a guy and almost spilling his coffee.