FM December Topic - Shhh

[last_to_believe]

"Shhh," I said, when Jude protested the new job I'd gotten. He kept insisting that he could take care of me. Kacie was never at the beach house, so even if his parents ever did decide to come home from Europe, I'd still have a place to live. He said that he'd pay my cell phone, and buy me clothes, and take me out to dinner every night so that I was

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[last_to_believe]

Pretty intense? Snow brings out the truth? Well then I guess we're going to need a freak blizzard every time I need to know what's real about something. How could he not have told me? Especially after I let him in on all the Slayer stuff, and stuff about Lexi. He had the perfect opportunity. Many opportunities, actually. So how could he just keep this from me?

"You guess that you should have told me all that 'stuff'? You guess?" I shook my head, throwing the spoon I used to measure the alcohol with right into the blender. I still hadn't figured out my own strength, 'cause the force of it made the expensive glass of the blender shatter, hot chocolate spilling all over the counter and the floor in a wide splash.

"Jude, this is about your life. This is... this is so important. I mean, it's too important. I get that you may not like talkin' about it. And there's a lot of things I don't like talkin' about. But if it's important, I tell you. I'm supposed to be your girlfriend. I'm supposed to be the person you talk to about the things that are hard or that you don't like to talk about." I insisted. "I'm not supposed to be the person you hide those kinds of things from."

I turned my back, crossing my arms against my chest again. This was our first fight. And to make matters worse, we were stuck right here. Without any room to breathe.

[wage_this_rage]

This definitely wasn't going the way I thought it would. She was really pissed about this! I didn't realize it was such a big deal. My eyes went wide and I took a step back when she threw the spoon in the blender causing glass to shatter everywhere. Woah. That was intense.

Lacey started going off on me, like really going off. I just stood there quietly, staring at her as she pointed out how important this stuff was. I should've told her. She was right. But it's not like my dad really talked much about it. He was pretty vague with the details and he didn't really like to talk about it either. He never used his powers, I don't think I've ever seen him use them in fact. So, I just grew up not talking about it. It was something you stayed quiet about.

I sighed as she turned around, scratching my head and looking back into the living room at Caleb. He was just sitting there, staring out the big windows at the beach. I turned back to Lacey and frowned. Was this a fight? We haven't ever been in one.

"Lacey." I said quietly, walking up behind her. "I'm sorry, okay?" I shrugged. "I wasn't trying to hurt you by not talking to you about it. I just...." I scratched my head again. "I've never really talked much about it. It really wasn't something open for discussion around here. It wasn't on the approved list of topics." I grinned, trying to use a little humor to deflect. "I don't know. You're right. I should've. But it's just never been something I've been comfortable talking about."