“Crystal, you can’t keep yourself locked in there forever!” Jake yelled as he bang on the door to his bathroom repeatedly, she didn’t come out to him, even though he had been asking her nicely to come outside and he had apologized to her countless times too. She had locked herself in his bathroom, ever since their small squabble, he would admit to the fact that he had overreacted. “Alright, fine, I was wrong, Crystal, I promise to not hit you again, so please come out, I am sorry.” He heard the locks on the door and it opened slightly, she stared back at him dead in the eyes, her lips pursed together stubbornly. “Crystal…” he reached for her face but she slapped his hands away in anger, one half of her face was swollen so badly, and her lips were busted too. It seemed like he had used a lot more strength than he had intended. “…I am sorry, I-I was drunk.” “You were drunk?” His lashes drooped down when he noticed the sarcasm in her voice. “You hit me because you were drunk

“How are you feeling?” Paige asked Crystal who stared blankly at the ceiling, even though she could see Paige, she couldn’t speak to her, there were a lot of things she wanted to say but it was as though she had been stripped of her strength. “Crystal…” Paige called again, hoping for a response of some sort but Crystal simply blinked back at her, that’s right, what does she except? Crystal had just woken up from her coma, it has been five month since she was unconscious and she woke up about three days ago, it was natural she was still unresponsive. Paige glanced up at Cassandra and shook her head; Cassandra stepped towards the bed eagerly. “Crystal, can you hear me?” She asked reaching for her hands on the bed; Crystal just blinked back, tears welling in her eyes, tears that would later stream out of her eyes. “Why won’t you say anything?”The frustration was evident in Cassie’s voice, she wanted to hurl up her sister and shake her back to reality, a lot of things had happened to

Kayden got out of his bathroom, with a towel draped around his shoulder, he had been unable to sleep as well, scrolling through the internet looking for hate comments, so he could report the account and watch it get taken down. If none of this had happened, he would probably be done with work now and he would be preparing to sleep, this was the second time he was taking his shower that night because he had been restless. He glanced at the piece of metal that was sitting on the bedstand and the screen reflected the lights to his face, it belonged to Crystal, Paige had given him the phone because she thought it would be best if he kept it instead. He strolls towards the bed running the towel into his wet hair since it is too late to use a blow dryer, he picks up the phone from the small table. His eyes inspected it, it was small and from a brand he had never heard of, she probably got it cheap or second-handed; he didn’t even know phones like this existed. That woman, Crystal even t

“I’m sorry, but we are not hiring.” The middle aged man clarified with a small frown on his face, Jake’s eyes narrowed when he noticed the man’s judging stare. “I read it clearly on the notice and it says you’re looking for a store attendant.” Jake argued with him, not that it would do him any good, he didn’t just want to leave like he would usually do, but everyone on this street knows him already. “How come you are not hiring all of a sudden?” It was pointless trying to fight them anyways, so he just left, he knows the reason why he was being turned down, and everyone in the neighborhood must have heard the gravity of his crimes to stigmatize him like that. “How did it go?” His mother asked as soon as Jake came inside the living room, the smell of the familiar, beef stir fry he enjoyed eating as a child wafted into his nose as he walked in, at first he ignored his mother in the room and he went in search of the person cooking his favourite delicacy, he peeped into the kitche

“I told you not to worry yourself too much about that, Lilah.” Karina yelled as she dragged her friend towards the ice cream vendor across the street. It was a long day at school, the noise, annoying teachers and the crazy boys in her class, everything just everything sets her at the edge…as if her day couldn’t get any worse, Delilah is still melancholic about the photos of the celebrity’s wife that got leaked. “Unless you were the one who posted it, I don’t see a reason why you should still be sad about it.” Karina added when she didn’t get a response from her friend. “This is the reason why I wanted to wait for Lucas.” Delilah grumbled out the words, Lucas, her cousin, would understand why she was worried, she gaped at the ice cream man who was already grinning openly at them, then she glared at Karina. “Is this the reason you dragged me out of school in a hurry?”“Two scoops of chocolate and one Vanilla for me, and for her just make it three scoops of strawberry flavor.” Kari