Selena's pov
Teen life is annoying, we are disturbed from all sides. Our parents fail to understand us and the stage we are at and how demanding it is, and friends and school mate, they always find a way to ridicule you.
I know that am been too much and too rude, but I just can't control it. And my friends, well I don't like them all, I like some but not all, especially Megha, she is the most annoying one out of them, always ridiculing others to make herself better.
I understand Stevie's anger, and I know am underage for a boyfriend, but Joshua isn't that bad, he only looks bad, but he is actually a very good person on the inside.
I am trying to control myself and fit into everything that is expected of me. A growing girl, a good daughter, a cool friend, a good student, good sister and what not.
With time everything is becoming more heavy to deal with. I got trolled in the school group about dressing like a little girl and my dad controlling my life, so I decided to stay away from school for a few days as well as the internet, in this days Joshua had been a great help, offering a listening ear and some advice, infact he told me to forget about all this annoying friends if ours and maybe give my time to my family and sister.
With that in mind I decided to play with lily. I so much loved playing with her before, even now, just that some things hace changed in my life. Our parents were not back home yet so we decided to play scavenger hunt.
I asked lily to get fetch three apples from the kitchen counter while I go and find another item in her room.
I didn't know it would get dangerous for her, she accidentally broke a glass and it gave her a deep cut on the hand.
" Oh my God lily what happened" mom's voice rang from the door as she rushed to lily who started wailing.
" Sweetie what happened, how did you get hurt" Stevie asked as we all crowded lily. I rushed to get the first aid and mom treated her wound. After she calmed down and stopped crying min asked again.
" How did you get hurt dear,what took you to the kitchen?".
" We were just playing scavenger hunt with sister and I ended up breaking the glass by mistake" she explained. Mom looked at me furious, " Don't you know the limit of a game, see how your sister got hurt because of your unserious behavior" mom scolded.
" But Mamacita this was just an innocent game, I never meant her to get hurt" I tried explaining. " Just go to your room, you have anyways been behaving so badly with everyone so obviously you wouldn't take good care when playing with your younger sister" she scolded me which I found really unnecessary at the moment because I wasn't my fault.
" Aria calm down, you are scolding her unnecessarily" Stevie said but I was already angry and just walked to my room, whatever I do is wrong, even if I was just playing with my sister, and the next minute she would turn to scold me for nig having anytime for my sister.
I saw Joshua's call and my mood levitated a little. " Hlo" I greeted sulkily. " What's up, how are you doing" he asked. " Guess" I replied. " Let me guess, it's another miscommunication with your parents and you are now sulking away in the room" he answered. That's what I like about him, he always understands me.
" Yeah, lily got hurt while we were playing and I was blamed for it" I replied. " Hope you didn't take the scolding to heart. You know whenever parents scold us or punish us fir something it's out of love. If they don't love us they would let us ruin our lives because after all it won't directly affect them. Yes I understand in our stage right now our parents are not always right and we are not always wrong, that's why we need to be empathetic to one another, okay" he reminded me.
" Yes, you are right, I just tend to lose my cool sometimes and act like a brat and the pressure to fit in as well is hitting hard, but I would try to see things from their perspective" I said.
" Very good, you always told me what a happy family you four were, so don't let this age, people and whatever it is destroy that okay" he said. We chatted for some more time before he ended the call.
And no sooner enough megha face timed me.
" Hey megha what's up" I asked kinda annoyed.
" Hlo sely, I wanted to check up on you, you haven't been to school for three days now" she said faking concern. " What is it you what to say" I asked her.
" I wanted to show you my new car today, but you didn't come so I face timed you. It's the latest car released by your mother's company last month and my dad got it for me now" she said with a proud smile I didn't understand where it came from.
" And so" I asked. " And so, am just trying to say even thou you cohld get the car as it's from your parents company you can't because you are still a baby while I got it. Or maybe because you aren't Mr Stevens biological daughter, ma sure if it were lily she wouldn't have to ask" megha taunted.
" Shut up megha, it's none of your business and I can assure you that my parents love me so much more than your parents do " I said shutting her up.
" Oh really, then I would give you a bet, when you are coming to school next come with your own car, from your mom's company, then we would discuss this further" she said and cut the call.
Furious I nearly broke my phone. I walked out and found mom cooled down reading stories to lily whole pops was working with his laptop. I got out and told the driver to take me to our favorite restaurant. I ordered our favorite pizza that we always loved and bought it back home.
We sat down putting down our differences and enjoying a meal with laughter. Soon a delivery guy came and it so happened that mom had ordered lily the latest doll house which costed well over $10,000 as it's usually custom made.
" Mamacita, I also want something, can I get it" I asked. " What is it" she asked looking at me with a smile.
" I want the latest car you released last month" I asked with puppy eyes. " No you can't have it, I only changed your car last two months, why want a new car now. Wait till you are of age to have your driver license then you can have any car you want" she said all in one breath.
I took a deep breath and closed my eyes determined not to create a scene I would regret in the future.