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Demented ➳ h.s [Editing Starting Soon]

Broke With Bills

CHARLOTTE'S POV
SATURDAY

I'd forgotten again to accept Samuel's kind offer to go on a date but it didn't bother me much since the bills were somehow starting to pile up. Neither Liz nor I knew how since I kept all the money in a stash but the money just keeps disappearing. Liz seems to not be making money anymore even though she goes to work everyday and hasn't had a sick day in two months.

I tried putting the stash in a different place she couldn't find just in case it was her sneaking off with the income but that income soon stopped coming in on her half. This means no food because my paycheck can barely pay the bills. We can't move to a cheaper place because there's no money to pay the movers.

And because there couldn't possibly be any cheaper places anywhere remotely close to work. It's far enough to walk now, I can't imagine moving farther. Elbows rested on the wooden dining room table and coffee in my hand, I imagined life back in America. It was hard, honestly.

Everything was so good with Frankie always around but when he moved out, everything just progressively got worse. Many of the students at school seemed to become homophobic overnight and the taunting and teasing started literally the day after his last goodbyes. Nothing physical but enough words to want to be near suicidal.

No one cared really. Teachers were sworn to care and protect students but they didn't care anymore about me than they did about Jonathan Gibber's missing toe. I was the gum on the ground that every stepped on and took advantage of.

Vulnerable and scared were the two adjectives that described me throughout all of high school. No one wanted to be my friend nor did guys want to be my boyfriend. The guys that did like me didn't say anything until they were sent off to college where I wouldn't have proof that they liked me.

Clicking of heels brought me back to reality and Liz walked to the door with her hand on the handle. She would have left had I not looked up from the paper stating that electric bill was due in a few weeks. My eyes traveled up and down her attire. "What aren't you wearing?"

"Excuse me?" She was clueless and when she turned around, she looked dead. Her makeup was a desperate attempt to hide the imperfections on her face that had recently turned up. Under the clumps, I could see bags under her eyes that were bloodshot red while her nose was red and irritated.

"You heard me, you barely have any clothes on. It's cold outside. You look... sick," she scoffed at me and started to turn the door handle. "Liz, go to bed. It's too late."

Her eyes looked at me with evil implanted in them. This wasn't the Liz I was used to seeing and I didn't want to have to adjust to it. I could only imagine what I looked like. My hair was starting to fall out from stress, making me have to always wear a ponytail now in an attempt to grow it back.

There was no makeup present and pimples were scattering over my face, probably also from stress. I haven't properly slept in a week over making millions of scenarios in my head of what could happen in the long run. One included moving back home, one thing I didn't want to do.

"Fuck off, Charlotte."

"Listen, I know it's you taking the money and using it to buy whatever the fuck you want. We need that money, Liz. We're going to lose the electricity and water if I don't pay these bills. We're running out of money. Think about us," I pushed. She wasn't having it. And with that conversation dragged to a close, she scoffed again and walked out the door. After the slam of the front door, I locked it and returned to my frustrating position as the responsible one.

Being the responsible one meant finding where she was going, where all our money was going, and still staying sane. I sighed, it's too late to want to even move right now so I made the rash decision to follow her the next time.

The two bills stared up at me and watched a single tear stream down my cheek. Thoughts pounded my head, if I couldn't do this by the end of the month, bye bye England and hello America. Never thought those words would be placed back into my jumbled mess of a mind.

How could I when everything seemed to be going fine. Sure, we don't have the best food or best living space but it was something away from the judgmental punishment it was living at home. I miss my family back home but I was done taking their shit. You would be too if that shit was being flung at you in every direction which forced you to the only way out, moving away.

Notes

tried to make it longer, came out as a bit of a filler
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sorry for disappearing.. didn't mean to <3
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Comments

@Hopeless Directioner
Actually, the whole summary is different. I made up a quote that may or may not go into the story and just the basic summary isn't even a summary, it's suspenseful. Again, I hope you like the new version as much as you liked the old.

svmmertime svmmertime
5/18/14

@Hopeless Directioner
Some will be minute but most will be obvious. Some conversations are edited so that Harry is more closed up. All in all, the story will be longer. There is a new introduction and just a bunch of things I wasn't comfortable with. A lot of editing was needed and the cover was terrible. And so, the edited first chapter is up along with a new introduction. I really hope you like it, darling x

svmmertime svmmertime
5/18/14

@wonderful .
I'm excited to see how it'll be revised! Will the changes be minute or obvious?

@Hopeless Directioner

I will be editing and taking out and adding in parts. Honestly, Demented went waaay too fast in my opinion, and with the plagiarism and all, I found that I really want to rewrite it anyway. I will obviously be keeping this version up but I have already started the new version and the whole first chapter is different. I just think the story could have stretched at least to 35 chapters or more. Again, this WILL stay up, but the new version will be posted separately. Mind you, it will take at least a few months for me to do it since I have other stories, but I'm sick from school today so I'm going to continue. I was hoping everyone would like that it's being revised and bettered a bit, do you?

svmmertime svmmertime
5/16/14