“Nothing. Just hung out on the bus.”
“You didn’t go anywhere? Do anything?”
“No, we didn’t. But would it matter if we did. You had your freakin’ thing and we weren’t included.”
“I told you it was Rod who’d fuckin’ arranged it. It won’t happen again I can fucking promise you that.”
“Oh yeah, and your promises are good?”
“What the fuck does that mean? I’ve never broken a promise to you.”
“Friends forever? Remember that one?”
“Yeah, and we’re still friends.”
“You think it can be the same now? After yesterday?”
“Sweets, nothing’s changed, I’ve always felt the same. I’m sorry you have a crush on me, I never wanted to hurt you.”
“Fuck you too,” she snarled and stopped walking. “You’re an asshole you know that?”
“What did I ever do other than try to take care of all of us?”
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, except fuck a bitch on your bus. You going to tell her she’s just like a sister to you too?”
“What Cynda and I do is none of your fucking business. If you hadn’t started with her yesterday, none of this would’ve happened. I’ve known you since you were twelve, we grew up together, it’s totally different.Youare like my sister. Why is it so hard for you to see that?”
“Bullshit. You go ahead and tell yourself whatever you want, but you’re gonna realize you made a huge mistake.”
“Are you threatening me?”
She smiled, but it wasn’t happy, instead it gave me the creeps. She was up to something.
“Not me, I’m Sweets remember. My sister and I are just your dumb backup singers, we don’t count for shit.”
“Stop, just fuckin’ stop it. That’s not true and you know it.” Fuck, I was yelling and we were in the middle of the parking lot. Everyone ahead of us stopped and watched the entertainment. How was I going to fix this? Was it even fixable?
“Whatever. Just leave me alone, okay?”
She ran to catch up to her sister. Candy turned and gave me a nasty look. Fuck. What a friggin’ mess.
I lagged behind the rest of them. I didn’t really want to hear any fucking crap. I’d figure out a way to fix this, it’s what I did best. I was a fucking fixer, that’s how I’d come up with the idea for the band. Fury and Rage had started getting into trouble after school, and we’d decided to come up with a way to keep them out of jail, or getting tossed out on their asses. That’s when RainingChaos was born. It worked too, it brought us closer together and kept us out of fucking trouble. It’d been really rough in the beginning, but forming the band changed everything. Hopefully this thing with Sweets wasn’t going to ruin it.
Success definitely came with a price. And a lot of pressure we never expected, not that one of us would give it up for a minute. It just made everything more complicated and living on the buses wasn’t going to help.
Hearing Cynda’s voice I looked ahead. Thank God she was back. She was talking to Joe and turned with a smile on her face to say, “hi.” She must have seen Sweets because I watched her smile fade but neither of them said anything. Sweets and Candy continued walking to their bus.
“Hey, Cyn, everything okay?”
“Yeah, why wouldn’t it be?”
“I don’t know, I figured you’d be here when we got back.”
“I went for a walk, it felt good to get off the bus and be in the sunshine.”
I nodded, what could I say without sounding like a fucking douchebag.I was worried about you. I thought you’d be waiting. Yeah right, that would be fucking brilliant.
“We’re going for cheesesteaks wanna come?”
