Sonya walked into her flat exhausted from a long day from school and work. Velvet padded over to her at the door and pricked her ears forward expectantly. "Hey my sweet girl." Sonya said while reaching down and rubbing one of those tan ears. She walked into the kitchen and the dog followed. "I'm home!" She called out, awaiting a response.
"Hi girly!" Avery called back from the living room. Sonya set her things down and gave Velvet a bine before walking in and plopping on the couch beside her roomie. "What's crackin' chica?" The other girl asked.
Sonya yawned. "I am just tired and want to relax." She answered, cuddling up in the cushions.
"Well why don't you take a nice hot shower and then we can watch movies or something?" Sonya agreed to her suggestion and came back a little bit later clad in cotton pjs and snuggled back into the couch.
Avery had a goofy grin on her face. "What?" Sonya asked, slightly taken aback.
"Oh your boyfriends just been blowing up you phone." She answered and Sonya looked at her phone. A couple texts and a missed call, not exactly blowing up but it's no surprise; Avery likes to exaggerate. "That boy must really love ya." She shook her head. "I'm jealous." Sonya stifled a laugh and sent a text back. "How long have you been with him again?"
Sonya shrugged. "Two years or so give or take."
"I think you are the first chick I met that doesn't know the exact date." Avery raised her eyebrows.
"Nope. I remember where and how and whys and everything else." She said and started laughing.
"Oh?" Avery turned towards her. "How did that go anyways? You never really told me this story of you and him."
Sonya waved her off. "It's nothing really."
"Phhft. I know that is not true! C'mon screw the movie I wanna hear this story. In detail!" Avery wriggled her eyebrows and Sonya couldn't help to bust up laughing.
"Well... Where do I begin? The beginning? Okay if you say so. Well I guess I can say I met Nathaniel in high school. For basically forever, as you know, it was always me and Castiel against the world and that's how it was when we got to high school too. Just the two of us for a while. I think it was probably the first day when I met Nathaniel but there wasn't much to it. For a long time he was just another school acquaintance. Yea, believe it or not.
He and Castiel didn't always hate each other, but they were never exactly buddy buddy and since Cas is my best friend... well it didn't put me in much a place to Nathaniel. How did that all change? One very bad day for me..."
This day was just starting out horrible. Nothing is going right, starting with me waking up late and being late to school. It didn't help that last night my nonexistent father tried to get a hold of me and there was so much tension and drama between him and my older brother that my whole night was miserable and I was a wreck.
It was well into my first class when I finally arrived and here came the long lecture about tardiness, ugh. Only when I turn to my seat do I see Cas is not here. Just great. We had the most of our classes together and I needed to talk to him. Today I needed my punching bag and he had abandoned me. Sure it was more than likely unintentional, but it sure felt like abandonment.
Living through the first few classes was tough, but then came a very lonely lunch. Oh yea and there was also that mean girl. I barely knew Amber, nor did I know she had a brother and that that brother was Nathaniel. Not until high school anyways. I only knew for some reason or another when we were younger she "fell madly in love" with Castiel and ya know hates my guts because I'm the closest person to him.
She normally left me alone on most days but she had an easy opening today and she took it. "Aw, what's the matter Sonya? All alone today? Where did your best friend go?" She asked in a fake, sugar sweet voice as she came up to me outside where I normally was for lunch on nice days.
I looked up at her with annoyance. "Ya know some people do get sick, Amber. Where are your little followers?"
"They're getting lunch." She replied while flipping her hair. How annoying. "You poor thing though, having no real friends and having to sit all alone."
"Uhm, I do have friends, or did you forget?" I raised an eyebrow.
"It looks like he isn't here either." She laughed. "Shame. No one here wants you and I hear not even your family can tolerate you either." She kept laughing and started walking away. I wanted to throw something at her, and that big rock next to my foot looked tempting, but her words had hit home.
It was honestly true that not even my family wanted me. My father was never around, my mother was a cheating and lying whore and my brother was slightly on the abusive side; excused as over protectiveness to keep me from being harmed like he had been. The only person who knew it all and understood wasn't there when I needed him and I hadn't felt so completely alone in a long time.
I suddenly wasn't hungry anymore and to top it off just like in some sappy little movie, it started to rain. Fantastic. At this point, I didn't give a crap and I stayed slightly sheltered under a big tree, sitting against a stump with my arms around my legs and my head on my knees. I didn't cry; I don't cry. It's weak and pathetic and I want to be anything but. So here I stayed, drifting in and out of my negative and hateful thoughts in the rain for the rest of the day.
"If this is the part where you are going to ask me if Nathaniel found miserable, soaking wet me, then yeah, you are correct. It wasn't exactly pleasant to have him tap me on the shoulder and me glaring at him through the now pouring rain. He was generally concerned and started going on about how I was going to get pneumonia or something like that and I that I was stupid and senseless. I wasn't mad at him for saying it though; I mean it was the truth.
He offered to help me then. He asked if I wanted to come back with him and he could dry my clothes while I borrowed some from Amber... that so wasn't happening. So he said he would take me home but I protested that too. No way would any boy ever come to my house. The only ever time Cas was at my place was because he snuck in. I was either with him or we were both out and that was the end of it. Sadly there is literally no arguing with this guy and we ended up back at my place and fortunately it was deserted.
He demanded I immediately remove my soaking wet clothes and dry myself till I was relatively warm and then take a shower while he insisted on throwing my clothes in the dryer. I didn't argue but I did question him being so nice to me. I mean we occasionally talked and stuff but we weren't exactly friends, really.
After I was both dry and warm in pjs and with a blanket, we sat in the solitary confinement of my room. I know he was looking at me, knowing something was wrong and that he was waiting for some sort of an answer."
I am not entirely sure what came over me all of a sudden but I just started talking rapidly, blurting out my entire day, not leaving anything out, which included the parts of what his sister said about my shit hole family. By the time I was done I felt even more exhausted but relatively better for having released it all. Before I could look at him for a response, he reaches out and pulls me into his lap and hugs me close, and oddly enough... I let him. He is just so warm and comforting.
I feel better when it is time for him to leave. No one is home yet and we spent a lot of time going back and forth between comfortable silences and talking. He didn't let me talk all about myself, he told me some things too and then we talked about random things as a distraction. All in all, I am in a much better mood then how I had started my day.
"After that we talked to each other often. He always asked how my day was, how home life was. He really showed that he was concerned and care and I don't know; we just... grew closer. Though during that time period, it also pulled me from Castiel. It's not like I stopped telling him things or anything really changed between us, we just distanced there and thinking on it now, it was pretty horrible. I made friends with others after that too. At the same time Cas found Lysander, which was a good thing I guess to have a guy and not just me all the time. Things stayed rough I guess for a while until sometime when Nathaniel and I actually became official. Then it got worse before it got better."
This has been absolutely the most awesome day ever. I didn't have any worries about anything at home and I spent most of my afternoon with Nathaniel. For a while now I have heard people talking about us; saying how cute we are and we should so be together and all this other stuff. I never really put too much thought into it though I couldn't deny I was absolutely crazy for the boy. It was plain to see and finally, it was official. The two of us. Man I was probably gushing like such a girl right now that it was ultimately gross. Castiel would be highly offended. Come to think of it, I haven't heard from him in a bit. Then of course, just as if he was reading my mind like I used to joke he could do, he was suddenly calling me. "Hey, long time not talk."
"You and him? Seriously? You couldn't even tell me either?" His sudden outburst surprises me.
"Hello to you too." I answer back gruffly. "Seriously yes and this only just happened."
"Yet here I am calling you about because I heard about it elsewhere when you couldn't tell me for yourself."
I rolled me eyes. "Well excuse me for just having walked in my door. What's the big deal because I highly doubt it's about me not telling you first?" I know better than that.
"Why him of all people?" He asks.
I frown even though he can't see it. "What's wrong with him?"
He seems to be trying to figure out what to say. "He's just... he's I don't know!" I rarely found him at a loss for words.
"What does that even mean?" I winced at the high pitch in my voice and curse girls for having high voices when angry.
"You're just so opposite. He's so perfect and you're so..." He stopped.
"I'm so what Castiel? Say it." I challenged.
"You're so... like me." he finally said though I know it's not what he intended.
"Well whatever the hell that's supposed to mean." I roll my eyes again.
He sighs. "I didn't mean it like that." He sounded upset now but I didn't really care at the moment.
"Whatever. I gotta go, later." I said and hung up tossing my phone on my bed. I followed after it and covered my face with my hands and let out an aggravated yell.
"So we had a pretty big fight but it wasn't the worst. Neither of us talked to one another for a while, we're both pretty damn stubborn. Eventually we just got the hell over it and never spoke of it again. You're right though; he did have a point and still does. Nathaniel knew then and still knows now how I am not perfect nor am I really all that good. Okay I know; it's not like I am a bad person. I just don't always make the right choices. I've been better since I've had him though. Ya know me and Cas tried everything together. We go through everything with one another, and experience it together. First taste of alcohol... yup. Then one day we both just get mad at the world and get drunk together. It's the first for it all. Well not like that... it's never been that way.
I try not to do so many stupid things anymore, but that's mostly because I'm growing up. I do know Nathaniel wasn't always a good kid either and he secretly has it still in him. Yes I know, don't look at me like that. I'm the only one that ever sees it though. I tell him it's not a bad thing. I like to call it adventurous; as long as it hurts no one and is legal. You know though. That's basically how it all started."
"So can I ask you some personal questions now?" Avery asks once Sonya is finished with her story. The thought sort of scares her but she nods. "So you two... you know?" Sonya nods again. "When did that happen?"
Sonya sighed. "A few months or so ago, before I decided to move out on my own and live my own life."
"So how did you convince him? What happened? Was it like romantic or anything?" Avery had this look of an eager child.
Sonya waved her hand. "No you are not asking such things! I'll just say it's because we really love each other and it's been awhile we've together."
Avery nodded. "Are ya gunna marry him?"
Sonya widened her eyes. "I don't know! I'm still in freaking high school! I have never thought of that stuff."
"Oh come on!" Her roomie rolls her eyes. "Every girl dreams about their wedding day and shit like that."
"Do you?" Avery shrugged. "Well I am not every girl!" Sonya retorted.
"Apparently." She waved her hand dismissively. "Fine then, enough of that. I just have one more question. How the hell do you manage keeping both those two boys who hate one another's bloody guts?"
Sonya laughed. "I make sure they're both always as far from one another as possible."