forum "I'm a star!" "If you don't gET OFF MY CABLE-" // OxO // Closed

Started June 08, 2022 by @Elder-God-Jacks347

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"Well I don't know if you can it's kind of illegal. " she said laughing

"Not if no one can prove it. It's only a crime if there's evidence."

"Oh come oooon your so up tight you should loosen up. "

"Around someone like you? Yeah, I don't think so."

"Aw why not do you not trust yourself around me? " she said keeping her tone

"Not particularly. I'm not exactly privy om sharing secrets with a prideful loudmouth. I don't exactly want to know what'll happen if I do."

She arched a brow "Well what do you expect to happen after wards? And I wouldn't describe myself as a loud mouth when it comes to secrets I have a few of my own~"

"I don't know, mostly for the whole theater to know in less than an hour. Any kind of information on me would be an absolute shock to anyone there."

"Oh well now I'm curious.. " she let out a soft hum willing to listen if Cassie chose to confide in her

"Of course you are. Which is why I would never say anything. I know how people work, especially those who love attention. I'm not being the target of gossip."

"You really think I'm going to gossip mouth breathing brats that are fresh out of high school? " they're was a hint of annoyance in her voice that she didn't mean to draw attention to but she did anyway

"A bit, yes. Besides, the secrets I have to tell are…" She tightened her grip on the steering wheel. "Not ones I should have."

Ash huffed a bit rolling her eyes at Cassie's accusations "I was in an abusive family.. " she blurted out a little surprised she had said anything

Cassie didn't react, just glancing over at Ash momentarily. If Ash wanted to tell her story, Cassie certainly wasn't going to stop her.

She sat there quietly not wanting to seem "weak"

After a few moments of silence, Cassie spoke. "Oh, that's it. I thought I'd get the full story but okay."

She gave dry humorless chuckle "okay I tell you what I'll tell you my story if you.. Tell me yours. "

Cassie shrugged. "There's not much of a story to tell. Dumped on the orphanage doorstep as a baby, adopted at seven, got taken my CPS after like three years of negligence and abuse, bounced around foster homes like a Christmas sweater no one wanted until I was adopted again at fifteen and yeah, that's where I stayed until I moved out."

"Oh. That's sounds rough, my parents never wanted me and always treated my siblings better, I was like their maid I was told to clean after them and cook for them and if I did something wrong I was beat and you know in their eyes I was always doing something wrong so I was always being beaten I finally had enough and I started hitting back and um… " she paused taking a deep breath and closing her eyes letting the memories consume her

"And…?" Cassie motioned for Ash to continue like this was a totally normal story for someone to tell.

"I almost died, I suffered severe head trauma multiple broken bones I was taken to the hospital after I didn't wake up for a few hours and I was put in the icu they told the doctors I tried to kill myself I went through physical therapy and after I was okay to leave I was admitted into a mental hospital for a year and a half….. I was 13 years old. "

"Yeah, sounds like what a lot of the older kids back at the orphanage used to go through. I can still remember their screams waking them from the night terrors." She shuddered at the memories.

She sat there looking down at her lap an continued talking she didn't hear what Cassie was saying she wasnt being rude she was just reliving her trauma "I ran away when I was 16 I never went back and I never contacted anyone in my family there wasn't even a missing person report for me they didn't care that I left. "

Cassie took one hand off the wheel, reaching over to cover one of Ash's. "Family isn't always the one given to you. It's the one that you choose to make."

Ash looked up from her lap to look at Cassie and cleared her throat before plastering on a smile " yeah well there's no point in dwelling on the past I'm here now and I'm perfectly fine. " her voice cracked a bit at the end of the sentence but her smile never faltered