Carley
“You did that! I almost got sent to juvie because of you!” Arson roars at my twin who just shrugs his shoulder with an unapologetic smirk on his irritating face. When his drink ran out, he made the mistake of going with ‘Truth’ so Uncle Ryder made answer his question. My hands move to touch Arson’s face to keep him in place. “I want to kill him, again,” Arson pants heavily attempting to reign in his fury.
“I know, Air Bear. I know. It’s in the past now. It doesn’t matter and you didn’t go,” I coo reassuri
Weston I don’t like Carter or Carson, whatever his name is. He betrayed my friends/brothers, so many times in the past. They all forgive him. I don’t get it. He framed Arson, which came out tonight when he lost a round of the Circle of Death. Lachlan told me about the time he left Ransom to get caught smoking weed after school underneath the bleachers of the football field when they had both been there and Carter warned Ransom but didn’t. Jase got charged with assault when Carter lead the teacher straight to him, pounding the kid who was talking about doing some depraved things to girls and what he was planning to do to our girl. Then there is Lachlan who got a beating from his mom when Carter sent a photo of him and Ransom kissing Carley. He had thrown every single one of them under the bus at one point or another, and yet he left such a large hole within the group at his passing. They shouldn’t be hugging him and smiling at him as they reco
Weston“Who thinking about putting a bullet in now, Wessie?” Lachlan asks, draping his arm over my shoulders and leaning against me. My best friend can read me like a book. Though I’m fairly certain my resting bitch face is none existent, my face shows exactly what I’m thinking.“You know who, Lockie,” I reply to him. He hums under his breath.He sighs. “You’re biased since you're my bestie. Car is harmless,” he slurs nonchalantly. I don’t agree with him, but I’m going to tell him that.Carter was once Carson, his best friend. He isn’t anymore. That man had a new life with a new family, leaving his former life completely behind until now. The fact he is just now trying to insert himself into their lives sets my gut clenching. Something isn’t right and my family I’ve found with Chaos will be the ones to pay the price. I have to protect them.“W
Weston, sixteen-year-oldProm night was supposed to be fun, and it was until I came home to check on my baby brothers, who are both almost ten years younger than me. We share the same mother, but their father, the man who raised us, isn’t the guy who donated my DNA. My mom doesn’t even know who the guy was because she was high off her tits and screwing around with multiple guys.I walk into the house to find her off her tits again, clawing at her face in a manic panic while dad is passed out on the floor in a pool of his own vomit with a wet spot on the front of his ratty jeans.Dad is part of the local gang, so that’s the only way he makes any money, which isn’t a lot since he is a low-tier thug. Mom makes most of the money working the night shift at a convenience store, so it’s not a lot.I’m the one who makes the money just to clothe and feed my baby brothers. I’m the one who has raised them si
Weston,sixteen-years-old,continuedI turn back to the dilapidated house with its peeling beige paint and junk littering the front yard. My parents, who intoxicated the most precious thing in this entire world to me, are waiting inside.I walk in to find Jase standing in front of them while Ransom has his guns trained at the back of both their heads.
CarleyWhen I come awake, I’m facing Weston, who is lying atop the covers.Lachlan rolls over with a groan, looking at his phone. He lays back against the pillow. He turns and pulls me against him so that I can feel his early morning hard on. “Go back to sleep,” he murmurs against my shoulder.“Why is West in bed with us?” I whisper to him while gently petting Weston’s chocolate hair.“He had a nightmare. He only climbs into bed with me when he has them and the kids aren’t home,” he says and then yawns.“Does he have them often?” I wonder.“Mostly when we’ve been drinking. If Preston or Stetson are home, then he’ll go snuggle with them like he did when they were little. It took over a year to get him to sleep in his own bed. He was afraid to walk in one morning and find one of them dead. That wouldn’t happen with all of us here, b
Ransom“The bastard son I raise ended up being nothing like me, but in you I see it. You have no empathy for those around you. No pesky feelings of sympathy. You can’t love. Everyone is just a pawn in your life, a useful tool to benefit you. Otherwise, you would have no use for anything. Your psychological diagnosis is all that I’ve hoped for, a true psychopath, like me,” Gerhardt Fuchs says like some demented, proud father.We might share genes since his sperm helped bring me into being, but I much prefer the drunken gambler who raised me as his own. He is my father, not this psychopath before me.“My bastard cried about everything as a child. I had to break him and even then, it didn’t work. He might be a sociopath, but he still had a bleeding heart that needed to be severed.I cut him off. I removed him from my board altogether u
LachlanI was just ‘good boy’d’ like I was a dog by my girlfriend. WTF. I’m flabbergasted. I don’t even know how to process that or how it made me feel. Someone has not praised me like that in my life. I’m used to Jase saying that to Ransom but not having used it on me. “Breathe, Lockie,” Weston says with a chuckle when he takes the door from me. I take a deep breath now that I notice my lungs were burning for air.
Weston The sea water is cold but exactly what I needed this morning. One side of South Madre Island is the gulf, and the other is the ocean. The ocean side has the best waves, which is where I currently am sitting on my board and bobbing along, waiting for the larger waves as the sun rises. It’s so beautiful out here. I miss this, just not the rest of the memories that I have of my time spent growing up here. I have been raising my brothers for almost ten years now with the help of Chaos. It’s been that long since I’ve had a getaway without them. We usually bring Preston