Torn

SARA'S POINT OF VIEW

"And we just want you to know that-"

"What?" I stand up from the table, my chair making a loud squeak. My foster parents- Sorry, former foster parents, stare at me, worried for my reaction. "You still love me?" I raise my eyebrows. "Is that why you're getting rid of me?"

"We're not getting rid of you Sara, we're sending you to another home-"

"Which is getting rid of me." I nod. They don't say anything. I scoff. "You love me." I repeat. "Bullshit." I huff, and run back upstairs. I slam the door and collapse on my bed. My phone starts ringing, so I press call and roll over onto my back. "What."

"Nice to hear from you, too." Morgan laughs. "What's up?"

"Nothing much. My foster parents are sending me to Texas."

"Whoa, whoa, what?"

I scoff lightly. "I'm moving to America. Texas, to be more specific... They found a family who're ready to take me and want to. Soo.."

"When are you leaving?"

"Dunno. The family hasn't decided which day is good for them, so they could really just send me away whenever they want."

"And CPS is okay with that?"

"Unfortunately."

"Yikes. Sorry, Sara." Morgan says. She starts giggling and whispering 'stop I'm talking to Sara', and then I hear 'come on babe, please?'. I know after Michael saying please Morgan was going to get off the phone, Michael saying please is Morgan's only weakness. "Sorry hun, I have to-" She starts giggling some more, "go."

"Kay, see ya. Have fun."

She laughs, "Byye." She hangs up, and I'm left alone in silence and boredom. I sigh, and roll over onto the floor.

"Ow." I groan.

ASHTON'S POINT OF VIEW

"Do you even know what happened to Jess?" I ask Calum. We're sitting in his basement, getting high as kites.

"No, she just took my car and disappeared." Calum smiles, about to laugh. "Why, do you?" He wiggles his eyebrows at me.

I roll my eyes. "No." He looks at me. "Maybe." He keeps staring. "Probably?"

"Ashton! What did you do?!" Calum yells, flailing his arms around completely aware of his over exaggeration.

"I.." I sigh, "I sorta had sex with her."

"Sorta?! Ashton," Calum bursts out into a giggle fit, "did you, or did you not have sex with Jess?"

"I don't know!"

"You don't know if you fucked your best friend? Ashton!"

"No, no, okay, yes, I had sex with her." I laugh.

"When?"

"A day before she left." I bite my lip.

"Bruh." Calum says quietly. "Did she leave because you-"

"I don't know."

"What if she hates you now?"

"She said yes though. A lot." I grin.

"Ew." Calum pauses and looks around. "Why would she leave the day after that, though?" He laughs, which just hurts my feelings. I feel like shit because of her leaving, especially since I'm probably the reason she did so.

"Dunno." I mumble.

CALLIE'S POINT OF VIEW

"Morgan!" I scream more than I should've. "Dude! Bro! Homie! Fren! Psycho! Sister from a boring mister! Pal! Bitch! Dawg! Best-"

"What?!" I hear from the hallway. Michael's house is cluttered with boxes so I needed a way to find where they were. What better way to do that than annoying Morgan? I walk over to the hallway, stepping over boxes.

"What's with all the stuff?" I ask. I look in the room behind Morgan where Michael is taping a box shut. I smile at him, and he returns it.

"Well I told Mikey I'm good living here, but he's convinced I want a bigger house, so. We're moving into a penthouse, I guess." She snorts. I raise my eyebrows.

"Where?"

"In the city." Morgan shrugs. Oh thank god, Sara's already moving to Texas, I don't want to lose Michael and Morgan. "It looks like one of those rich person houses." She laughs.

"Babe, you are rich." Michael laughs from a different bedroom.

"Unfortunately." Morgan huffs.

"I thought your parents won't-"

"Yeah but I used to have this uncle who adored me for some reason, and he died a week ago, and apparently left literally all his money to me." Morgan laughs.

"Are you serious?"

"Yep."

"Lucky." I follow Morgan to the kitchen and sit on the white counter.

"Yeah but hey, you're living with Calum now." She pours water from a pitcher.

"And you're living with Michael."

"But you and Calum are like. I don't know. Different." She grins, "Special."

"We aren't even dating." I laugh, and feel a sudden pang of sadness at the fact that I'm laughing about it now.

"Maybe not right now, but you're clearly meant to be together." I don't say anything.

Notes

-bh