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five - backup

We pulled up to our driveway and I felt a massive lump in my throat. Blaze looked at me and said, "you ready to do this?" And I nodded with reassurance.

Blaze got out his keys and opened the front door. I heard footsteps scurry down the stairs and surprisingly it was my dad. "Well well well, did we enjoy our little getaway?" he asked, "your mother is upstairs waiting for you." We both slowly walked upstairs with anticipation. We saw her perched on the side of the bed, I looked at Blaze anxiously "talk to her first" I whispered "no you" he whispered back. We both disagreed to take the daring decision to talk to her first. "Rock paper scissors? Best out of 3 doesn't talk to her first" Blaze suggested. 

  i know we're childish as fuck but this was our only fair resolution.

"Ha, you have to speak to her first," I said menacingly. Blaze took a deep breath and walked in the room while I followed along. "H-hey," stuttered Blaze as he nervously walked into the room, she looked up and smiled. "Look who's back from their little teenage rebellion road trip," she said as she stood up slowly. 

"Look, we're here to apologise for how we made you feel but we're also here to talk about the hurtful stuff you said to us yesterday. I know me and Blaze can be a pain the ass most of the time but we have feelings and we're going through some pretty hard stuff right now. I mean, you never seem to talk to us and ask what's wrong and on top of that, you're dumping these expectations on us. We're not perfect and you need to underst—"

 and at that moment, i was rudely interrupted by the dumbest fucktard known to man, blaze kurt fallon,

   "Yeah, yeah enough with this sappy shit, me and Juno went on a little road trip to get away from your bullshit, we obviously didn't approve of the crap you said to us like what the fuck do you think I was gonna' let you call me all that shit without doing anything? No. So yeah I guess we're sorry, but you should be too" shouted Blaze.

I stood there. Frozen like a statue and completely clueless on what to say, my mom was too. "Well, thank you for that Juno and thank you so much for disrespecting me Blaze. You obviously have taken me for an idiot and think you can leave this house whenever you please. You think you can leave this house and go out to do stupid shit, I'm not a dumbass Blaze, you smell like fucking cannabis and as for you Juno, your eyes are dilated which signifies that you've been taking some sort of drugs yourself, haven't you? I honestly don't know where I went wrong with you kids, I gave you everything, everything. Juno, Blaze, you're both grounded for 2 months and I'm not going to go easy on you this time, so hand me your house keys and all your electrical gadgets because you're not leaving this house unattended, now, get out of my room" she said firmly. 

Blaze and I walked out and shut the door. I was furious, I wanted to strangle the fuck out of Blaze. I pushed him into my room and slammed the door behind us. "What the actual fuck is wrong with you? Why did you say that to her!" I screamed, "She needed to know how I felt, she's in the wrong too Juno" he replied "yeah I know she is but you talked to her so harshly, I had everything under control and you had to fuck shit up for us! Now look at what you caused we're grounded for 2 whole fucking months!" I exclaimed with pure anger. "We're just gonna' have to suffer the consequences," said Blaze. "Really? You think I'm going to stay in this house for 2 months. I have two fucking Frank Ocean tickets and you think I'm not gonna' go? I'd rather drink fucking ass juice than to stay in this hell hole for 2 shitty months" I said. Blaze shrugged and walked out of my room leaving the door open,

   "We'll figure something out love," said Blaze casually

There's no way I'm staying In this house for 2 months, especially when I have 2 tickets to go to the concert of my dreams. Oh shit, speaking of that, let's see if my ball of paper mush has transformed into 2 decent looking tickets. I went to the radiator where I left them there to dry and they actually looked okay. I took them and put them in my bag. I laid on my bed, bored and upset and then I remembered my secret stash of old iPods and phones, after handing mom my house key and my beloved iPhone 6 I did have a backup. A backup that can be my only way to freedom,

Freedom.

   "I'm sneaking out" I whispered to myself.