c h a p t e r • 2

-no one is stealing our food Aunt Levi-

Lili's PoV

"Honey, your father is sick. Please come back. We need you." My mum says on the phone.

"How sick is he?" I asked concerned.

"He has cancer." My mum says.

"I'm coming back home." I say and hang up.

"Aunt Levi!!!!" I yelled as I rushed downstairs, almost tripping on my own foot.

"Yes?!" She yells from the kitchen.

"Emergency!!!" I yell back.

She emerges from the kitchen waving her spatula around.

"What happened?! Are you okay?! Who's stealing our food?!" She shouts.

"I'm fine. No one is stealing our food aunt Levi." I say.

"Oh, then what's the emergency?" She asks.

"My mum just called and told me my dad is sick and he has cancer. I need to go back." I say almost bursting into tears.

"Oh shit. How bad is it?" She asks me.

"I don't know I hung up before I could ask anything else." I say.

"Okay then, you should go and pack your stuff Lili. Do you need any help?" She asks.

"No. I'm fine." I say sniffling a little.

"Don't worry, honey. Your dad's a strong man."

"He is. I'll go pack my stuff." I say and head upstairs.

I walk into my room.

I look around. I'm gonna miss this room. I might not come back anymore and I might as well just continue life at California.

I mean, I've been gone for awhile. I guess it's time to finally go back to that hell hole. I mean school.

It's in the middle of the year, those idiots won't know what's coming.

Muahahahahahah! I'll be like one of those stories where the ugly, bullied nerd, comes back as a hot and sexy badass.

Oh right, I need to pack my stuff. Which is going to be a hell lot of boringness. Is that a word? Well, it is now.

-•-

4 hours later...

"I HATE PACKING!!" I shout.

"LILI ARE YOU DONE?!!" Aunt Levi shouts from downstairs.

"YUP!" I shout from my room.

I bring like 5 of my bags or 6 downstairs. You're probably wondering how I did that all on my own.

It's easy. All I did was slide my suitcases down the stairs. Except for the ones with my electronics. I'd be left with pieces of my MacBook if I threw it down the stairs.

"That's my girl." Aunt Levi says as she sees my suitcases sliding down the stairs. I just grinned.

"Come on, let's go the airport." She says sadly.

I looked at her sadly.

"Okay."  I say.

We get in the car, bringing in the stuff as slow as possible while chatting about everything.

-•-

We arrive at the airport and do all the stuff.

"I'm gonna miss you so much." Aunt Levi says while hugging me tightly. I do the same.

"Me too."

"Don't forget to text me and visit me sometimes." She says.

"I won't. I love you so much and say goodbye to Stefan for me." I say. Stefan is Aunt Levi's husband but he was on a business trip.

"I will. Take care. And if anything happens please call me." She says worriedly, only because she knew what had happened to me but I've changed. I can handle myself now.

"Don't worry about me. I'll just punch them in the face if they try to do anything to me again." I say. She looks at me with a stern face.

"And most importantly, don't get into trouble." She says. "I lost count on how many times I had to pick you up early from school because of the trouble you made. I'm surprised they didn't expel you."

"LILIII!!!!" My friends screamed running towards me like maniacs. My eyes widened as they jumped on me and tackled me to the ground.

"Took you guys long enough." I chuckle.

"I can't believe we have to say goodbye. Why did it have to end like this?" Lara said dramatically. She was always the most dramatic one out of the group.

"I'm gonna miss you so much. Just, yesterday we were hanging out at the ice cream parlour not expecting this and today we're seeing you for probably the last time." Pepper says.

"True." I say.

"I'm gonna miss having Miss Troublemaker around." Nick says giving me a charming grin.

"And I'm gonna miss having Mr. Prankster around too." I say and we stared at each other. I hugged him for probably the last time. I'll be lying if I said I've never had feelings for him before. He was my first real crush. (Forget Mason the dickhead.) But soon, I came to realise we were better off friends.

Everyone else joined in on the hug. Including Aunt Levi. A tear escaped my eye. I haven't cried that much here. Except for a period of time.

"I love you guys so much." I say.

A chorus of 'I love you's and 'me too' came from the group.

Soon, my flight was being called.

"I have to go now." I say sadly.

"Whyyyyy??!! Nooooo!!!!" Lara screams and some heads turn towards her dramatic behaviour.

We hugged together again before I had to leave.

Everyone was here.

But him.

-•-

"We have landed at Los Angeles City. Thank you for flying with...."

I sighed and realised it's time to face reality.

I brought out one luggage with me and the rest had been delivered to my house earlier.

My phone rang and it's my mum.

"Hey, mum." I greet her.

"Hey, honey. Have you landed yet?" She asks me. I was literally talking to her on the phone. If I was on air, why would I answer the phone.

"Yes, mum. I've landed" I say.

"Oh good! We're waiting at the greeting area." She says and I hear my brother Oggy. I missed him a lot.

"Is sissy coming now?" I hear him ask. He sounds older now.

"Yes honey your sissy's coming home." My mum says and I felt like crying.

She hangs up and while walking I managed to almost trip on my foot. Luckily, no one saw it. I think.

I walk to where everyone was either waiting for their family or friends or people saying goodbye to each other.

I spot my family and probably didn't recognise me because they were still looking at the place where everyone was coming out of.

I walk up to them and Oggy was the first one to recognise me.

"Sissy!" He says and runs up to me. I crouch down and open up my arms. I engulf him in a hug. One that I have been waiting for.

"Lili?" My brother, Kyle asks.

"Hey, Kyle. Hey, mum. Hey, dad. Wait, dad? Aren't you supposed to be at the hospital or something?" I ask.

"Oh, honey I've missed you so much!!!" My mum says and hugs me tightly. Too tight.

"Mum, I can't breath." I say struggling for oxygen.

"Oops. Sorry, honey." My mum apologises.

"It's okay mum." I say smiling.

"You look different." My brother points out.

"I missed you too, Kyle." I say sarcastically.

He hugs me. "You have no idea how worried I was when I saw your stuff gone."

"I'm sorry." I say. "Anyways, why is dad not in the hospital. Didn't you say he was sick and had cancer?" I narrowed my eyes at my mum.

"I'll explain later. Let's just go home now." My mum says and we all head outside.

-•-

"I'm going to my room. We'll talk later." I say.

I walk into my room and honestly. It looks like shit.

All the rainbows and butterfly walls makes me want to puke.

I should really redecorate this room.

I check my closet and sadly. All my ugly clothes are still there. I should burn it.

I went downstairs and my luggages are in front of the door.

"Hey Kyle!!" I call him.

"Yes?" He says emerging from the living room.

"Could you be a gentleman and carry these bags upstairs? I'm too tired." I ask pouting my lips.

"Fine." He says and takes two bags at a time. "What do you own, woman?" He exclaims and I just laugh.

Now, dear mother....

"Hey mum." I say in a sweet voice as I walk into the kitchen where my mum is eating some cookies and not sharing.

"Oh, sweetheart. How are you?" She asks nervously.

"I'm great. Now, tell me? Is dad really sick?" I ask.

"Of course. He just wanted to see you so much so he snuck out of the hospital." My mum says. Let me rephrase that, lies.

"Oh really?" I ask. And just in time my dad comes in with 2 bags of chips and a can of soda.

"Oh, hello there father? How are you feeling?" I ask sweetly.

"What are you- oh I feel so tired all the time and occasionally feel like throwing up and I keep getting contractions-" He says which is obviously lying.

"Damie, that's pregnancy symptoms! Not cancer!" My mum whisper shouted but I heard it.

"Aha! I knew it you guys were lying to me!" I smirked proudly.

"I'm sorry honey. It's just that we missed you so much and wanted you back home. Oggy kept asking where you were and we just needed you." My dad admits.

Oh great, thanks for making me feel guilty, parents.

"I'm sorry, mum, dad. It was hard here. I needed a break. School was hell here. Everyone bullied me. No teacher cared." I say sadly.

"Why didn't you tell us?" My mum asked.

"I didn't want to cause trouble-wait, where did dad go?" She shrugs and we walked to the living room to see Dad and Kyle huddled together.

"Okay, I'll get a gun and you'll get the shovel. I'm gonna get someone to find out who did that to-" I cut my dad off.

"What are you guys talking about?" I ask raising an eyebrow. They froze.

"Oh, you know, football and stuff." Kyle says.

"Yeah, and since when did football included a gun and shovel?" I ask.

"Hello? I said 'stuff' too. It could be anything." Kyle says.

"Like hurting anyone who hurts my little princess." My dad murmurs.

"Guys, it's in the past. Forget about it." I say.

A chorus of disagreement came from them but I have them a glare that would shut them up.

-•-

A/n: Hey here's another one!! Hope you guys enjoy it!