It's been 2 days since my mom's murder. Apparently, my father, in a drunken rage, beat my mother until she fell out of the window and into the concrete. They took him for questioning and I was sent to my home to gather my belongings. They asked me if I had a place to go, Adagio and Aria said I could move in with them.
I said yes on the spot.
I unplugged the PS4 and stuffed it into a bag. I grabbed the games along with it. I saw an old photo of me, my dad, and my mom. I pulled the photo out of the frame and ripped my father out of the picture. I put it back into the frame, and into my bag. I finally grabbed as many spare clothes as I could.
"You ready?" Aria asked me.
"I'm ready." I said as I placed the bag on my back and headed back to the truck.
"What happens now?" I asked Aria.
"I don't know, what do you want to happen?" Aria asked.
"First thing's first: I'm NOT going to Crystal Prep tomorrow, the next day, or ever again. I'm done being beaten from them. If any of them touch me after this, I'd kill them." I said to Aria.
"I'll stay home too." Aria said quickly after I finished my sentence.
"Okay... why?" I asked.
"Your mother just died, I don't want you to... have any thoughts." Aria said.
Aria...
"I... alright." I said.
We got into the van and Aria drove us back... home.
"After we take over the world, I wanna find him." I said.
"Then?" Aria asked.
"...Then, I'm gonna kill him."
After we went back home, Aria volunteered to share her room with me. I didn't try to debate, and I started setting up a side of the room for me. I'm not going to say that it was a mess, but it was pretty stuffy. I found a good place to set a bed, but until everything else was brought in tomorrow, I had to share a bed with Aria.
Good God...
I found an outlet for the PS4 for when the T.V was brought in. I placed my bag in front of it and I started looking through my bag.
"Um... Autumn?"
I leaped back and saw Aria with a controller for me.
"You can take that T.V. if you want..." Aria offered.
Me and Aria were deep into a round of COD: Zombies. Aria was doing pretty good, actually...
"Did you play this before?" I asked.
"Sonata always did. I was forced to watch her play, and she always wanted me to play with her, so I-- CRAP!" Aria said as she was pinned.
I ran to get her, but the zombies got me first.
"Well, good game?" I asked.
"Yeah. Good game." Aria smirked.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing..." Aria said.
"Hey! Want to eat or what?!" Adagio called out.
"We should go." I said.
"Sure." Aria said.
We both headed out and started eating.
"Look, Autumn, about your mother--" Adagio started.
"I'm fine. Just don't mention it yet..." I said as I took a bite.
"Okay..." Adagio said.
"How about Sunset?" Aria asked.
"Fire away." I said.
"How did you two meet? How were you drawn to her?" Aria asked.
"Well... I met her on my first day. I was 16 at the time. She started talking some shit, but I thought that I saw right through her. I thought that we had a connection. But after she left me for Flash, the whole thing came apart... She started blackmailing me to keep our night a secret. One day, I was ratted out on dating her. I was soon kicked out after some things Sunset did and blamed me on. Now..." I said.
Aria didn't say a word. She held me in an embrace. Adagio joined a second after. We held it for what seemed to be an hour. I noticed that Aria was holding the tightest for some reason...
"Um... Aria? You're kinda getting a little tight here." I said.
"Hu-- OH! Sorry..." Aria said as she and Adagio quickly let go.
Well, there goes that moment.
After we ate, I decided to call an old family friend.
"Frank?" I asked.
"Autumn? What is it?" He asked.
"Mom died a few days ago." I said.
"Yeah, I know. I wanted to talk to you about that. You're always welcome to live with me." Frank said.
"Thanks, but I already live somewhere else." I said.
"Well, if you can, can you look for Scootaloo for me? I- I know that I ask every phone call, but... please?" Frank asked.
With everything happening, I comepletly forgot about Scootaloo. According to Frank, he abused her in an orphanage before he "found Jesus".
"You got it." I said.
"Thank you." Frank said as he hanged up.
"Who was that?" Aria asked, nearly scaring the crap out of me.
"Aria! That was just an old family friend. Frank." I said.
"Well, sorry for scaring you. I just wanted to say that we should turn in. Big day tomorrow..." Aria said.
"Yeah, Adagio deciding we should start making plans and all..." I said as I yawned.
I turned around and quickly remembered that we'd have to share a bed.
"Um... you take left, I take right?" I asked with my face quickly turning red.
"Sure..." Aria said.
After we got ready, I went in first. I faced the wall and Aria went in next. As soon as the feeling of her back hit me, I felt flushed.
"Please try not to crush me back here." I begged.
"Sure..." Aria said.
We tried sleeping for at least an hour, but no luck.
"You still up?" Aria asked.
"...Yeah." I said.
"Autumn?"
"Yeah? I asked.
"Can... can you turn around for a minute?" Aria asked.
"Alright." I said as I turned around.
What I didn't expect was the long peck on the lips from Aria and the embrace that followed.