A/N Kaylee finally tells her uncle how she feels only for the drama to be kicked up a notch and the tension between her and Randy gets worse. Can Stephanie reach her after this or is Kaylee's mind set on destruction? Thank you guys for the reviews! :)
Randy's head pounded along with the music the teen queen insisted on blaring as he drove them along to their next show. He'd had the worst morning ever beginning with him puking in the toilet and now he was stuck with her for the next couple of hours and he was ready to lose it.
"Turn the fucking music off!" Randy snapped making Kaylee stop suddenly in the middle of her very poor dance routine in the front seat that looked like something from the 70's. Reluctantly she turned the music down to a barely audible level as she sat in the front seat bored.
"So what did you drink last night?" She asked hoping to hold a conversation with him to pass the time. She'd called her Uncle to see if she could ride with them but him being the dickhead he was told her she was Orton's responsibility.
"Tequila because it's the only thing strong enough to get me drunk without making me violent." He said recalling numerous times he'd tried to drink vodka only to get kicked out of the bars for fighting.
"Yuck, Tequila is gross." She said.
"How would you know? You're not even old enough to drink." Randy shot back at her and noticed her coy smile out of the corner of his eye.
"Legally at least. Wanna know how I remember not to drink tequila?" She asked smiling.
"Not really but you're gonna tell me anyway." Randy sighed. He just wanted some peace so he could make it to the next location without getting into an accident.
"I don't want tequil-over the next morning." She said and started laughing. "Came up with that myself."
"I really don't get it." Randy said as his thought process tried to stay focused on one thing at a time.
"You know to keel over instead of tequila? Because tequila makes you puke." She said trying to explain it to him.
"That's just stupid." Randy said and Kaylee rolled her eyes as she sat back in her seat and crossed her arms.
"I'd like to hear you come up with something half as smart." He heard her mutter under her breath.
"Are you calling me stupid?" He asked getting defensive.
"Well I ain't calling you intelligent so put two and two together unless you can't do that either." She shot back t him and randy began seeing red.
"I am so close to pulling over and making you walk your ass the rest of the way there." He said.
"Then fucking do it. Grow a pair and fucking do it." She challenged him and randy swerved to the side of the road to her surprise and even reached over her to open her door.
"Get out then." He said which pissed her off and now to his surprise she actually got out and took her luggage with her before slamming the door. "Kaylee get back in the car." Randy said out the window as she began walking along the side of the road. She couldn't believe the nerve of him. After last night she thought they were finally getting somewhere only to end up back farther than square one again the next day. "Kaylee would you get in the car!" Randy yelled out as he drove slowly behind her.
"I understand you're hungover Randy but you're still a fucking dick. I'm trying to make civilized conversation and you're biting my fucking head off." She yelled back at him as she continued on her way. Finally he stopped and got out of the car, grabbing her around the waist and picking her up. There was no point in arguing with her because she could fight back, but this way she couldn't even though she did struggle.
"Quit being so dramatic!" Randy said as he opened the passenger door and shoved her back into the seat before running back to the driver side.
"You want dramatic? I can show you dramatic!" She said in a raised voice that made him want to tear his ears off so he wouldn't have to listen to her screech.
"Do you like hearing yourself talk? Because that's all you seem to be doing! Can you just shut the fuck up until we get there so I can get a single fucking moment of peace? I have never met someone so fucking annoying!" Randy yelled back at her and it made her go into a stunned silence and, once again hating to admit it, Randy hurt her feelings. All she wanted to do was talk to him and it ended up like this.
"Are you crying?" Randy asked as he heard her trying to hold in her whimpers and she turned her face away from him so he wouldn't see her struggling not to cry. Nobody ever wanted to listen to her or have anything to do with her for that matter and it really gt to her. Her mother was always busy with her younger twin brothers, her sister moved out, her father was gone and even her uncle pawned her off on someone else that she knew wanted to be rid of her. She just wanted one person to care and pay attention to her instead of passing her around like she was a fucking disease.
"N-no I'm not." She said in a shaky voice and shook his head as a pang of guilt hit him making him pull the car over.
"Kaylee, I'm sorry." He said as he put his hand on her back but she used her elbow to try and push him away.
"Just fucking drive." She snapped at him and Randy sighed as he put the car back into drive. The rest of the drive was silent and it unnerved him.
"Did you want to get something to eat?" He asked her as he walked around to her side of the car but she only glared at him before shoving past him. "Take that as a no." He said before grabbing his things and following her. "Are you really giving me the silent treatment?" He asked her as they entered the room and she threw her suitcase on the bed before going to find Stephanie. "Dammit!" Randy yelled in anger as he threw his bag at the wall and listened to it make a loud thud. What he needed was a good nap to help relieve him of his hang over and then he would work on making things better between the two of them, even though he didn't know why he felt that he needed too.
"Aunt Steph can we talk?" Kaylee called though the door as she knocked.
"She's gone out for a minute, what's up?" Paul asked as he opened the door only for her to glare up at him.
"Just tell her I'm looking for her." She sad through clenched teeth as she turned to walk away and Paul just looked after her shocked.
"What the hell is with the hostility?" He asked as he walked after her and she spun on her heel the look still on her face.
"Do you really need an explanation? I'm still fucking pissed off at you for this stupid arrangement with Randy." She said and Paul pointed a scolding finger at her.
"Watch you're mouth young lady and you should be happy. Do you see everything that's going for you? You get you're own job and to be seen on TV by millions." He said thinking that should be enough to make the teen smile.
"Are you kidding me right now? I should be happy because of a job opportunity that is basically benefiting you more than it is me? What would make me happy is actually having my family be there for me. A job isn't going to listen to me when I'm sad, millions of people won't know my accomplishments and a TV sure as hell isn't going to show me the love I want. But hey, at least all of those things are more reliable then my own family is." She said before turning away and leaving Paul standing in shock. Is that the reason she was acting out? Because she wanted love?
"Kaylee I do love you, you mean as much to me as my own daughters." Paul said and this time she whipped around looking absolutely livid.
"I mean as much to you as you're own daughters?" She hissed repeating the words to him. "Would you do this to your daughters because you couldn't handle them? I sure as hell wouldn't especially if I knew how miserable they were and they made it known. And don't you dare say you love me, because I haven't seen a single bit of that love you claim to have." She said and Stephanie was just making her way down the hallway when she heard what her niece was saying along with the sadness and desperation in her eyes.
"Kaylee, what's wrong?" She asked as the teen hung her head and walked away quickly to hide her tears. "Paul what the hell happened?" Stephanie demanded as she looked at her husband with disappointment.
"What does it look like Steph? The only thing that kids seems to know how to do." He said and Stephanie walked over and slapped him hard across the face.
"She just bared her soul to you and you have the audacity to say something like that? That girl has so much potential and so much emotion that she seems to be wasting on the wrong people. I think it's now clear why she does what she does and you just gave her one more reason to keep doing it. You should be down right ashamed." Steph said as she turned to go find and comfort the teen.
"Don't baby her Steph!" Paul called after his wife as he gently touched his stinging cheek.
"You know what Paul, screw off. Maybe that's just what she needs." Steph said not losing a step as she rushed to find her before she was gone.
Randy watched as Kaylee ran from the hotel in tears as he was preparing to go and get them both something to eat for when she returned as an apology and he ran after her concerned.
"Kaylee?" He yelled as the crowds swarmed the busy street and his eyes darted boy ways hoping to see which direction she'd taken off in but it was no use.
"Kaylee!" He heard Steph yell from behind him and he turned to see her wearing the same mask of worry.
"She's gone." Randy said as the panic in him set in.
Kaylee needed to be alone because that was exactly how she felt. She'd drink and she's already tried most drugs the world had to offer at least once because it numbed the void inside her that swirled around like a black hole sucking the life from her and she craved that numbness once again. Her mother sent her there to get better but so far she felt like she was only getting worse and it ate her up. For someone who had little athletic experience she'd managed to make it pretty far before having to stop and catch her breath. It all caught up with her as she bent with her hands on her knees and gulped air into her burning lungs. She considered just disappearing right then and there and not looking back but her mind trailed back to the story line. As Kaylee straightened herself up and wiped the tears from her eyes she vowed that even though it would be just a story line, she was going to put her uncle and Randy through hell both on and off the screen while taking her life back. This was the last straw.
