ZACK’S POV
Someone was dragging me from the sand to the shore and was struggling way too hard to just do that. Both me and Mike were knocked out and never realized that it was midnight at all.
Then came the attack which was more like a cold bucket challenge when that someone poured a whole bucket of sizzling cold iced water onto my head so savagely that I literally jumped in shock when my body froze like it was drowning in the Antarctic Ocean. That was so damn cold for a very cold night!!!
“What the fudge?” I screamed like a wobbly tone and my eyes were blurred and mostly blacked out for the night. But luckily, I was able to realize that the someone I was talking about wad my mother who was so fucking outraged by my guts to be drunk when it was illegal for an 18-year-old to get alcohol!!!
“What on world am I blessed with that I had to see this day" I was able to partially hear my mom scream on me while she was very much caring and concerned for Mike whom she thought was heavily drunk because of me while it was all the way around.
“Get you dumb ass on the car Zack " she was yelling at me nonstop and I was on my legs, walking like a zombie and got in the car. I then saw a very blurred scene of mom was carrying Mike to the car and somebody else was also with them and how could I not identify who that was. It was Zoe, my wise buddy!!!
“Hey Choi. Wachu doing here?” I smiled like a puppy and asked her as she helped mom and we all got into the car. Mom was still fuming in rage and it was going to be so deadly for me once we got back home but me, I didn’t care about that at all.
“Zack. Shut up. You’re too drunk for anything” like mom, she also began to advise me and it happened.
Normally, it is a very well-known fact that when a person gets too drunk, they end up blurting things that they never would have dared to speak being sober and those things are so true that no one could take it to be a drunk man’s bluff. That’s what happened to me. My depressed face had resurfaced somehow and I badly wanted to scream my heart out to my mom though I knew it was the worst time to do that!!!
“Mom, you have any idea what is happening in my life?? You have any idea why I’m so fucked up?” I asked her in semi crying tone and she, upon hearing me blurting things out, didn’t even dare to start the car and utilized the chance to understand me well.
“Oh boy this is no excuse for what all you have done" mom was both concerned and mad at me because she was the one who least expected to see me grow more like the one who always does the mistake.
“Get over yourself Zack. It’s no time to repent" Zoe was also scolding me but I was freaking adamant to pour my heart out to these ladies.
“Then spit it out. What more do you want from me?” Mom was so worried that she was almost at the verge of a breakdown and poor Zoe was the only sane one among us.
“I don’t want to live with Caroline. She can never become the girl I want now” I confessed to them and they were shell shocked.
“Shut up Zack. Never forget what you have done to her" Mom was so angry that she simply wanted to throw me out of the car and scrap the shit out of me.
“Ms. Stella. He’s drunk and I promise you once he gets sober, he wouldn’t even remember all these things and what if he’s just bluffing?” Zoe tried to help me out and calmed mom down and I laid on her lap like a crying baby.
“She manipulated me mom. She used me and then when I needed her the most, she left me and Zoe picked me up" I cried in un drunkenness and mom was way too shocked to hear the breakup story. Well, I had done the very bad move I would definitely regret in the morning!!!
“What? When did that happen? Why didn’t you tell me and how dare you lie to me" she screamed on top of her voice and I was at the peak of knocking myself out again.
“Zoe…...she’s…...too…good…for…me….” in a low-key, I blurted out and then slipped into a dark world on unconsciousness leaving the ladies wonder struck.
The next morning, I woke up pretty late and it was the weekend so wasn’t big of a deal for me. But after the sun shone right on my face and I woke up, my head was burning like fire and I felt it was going to burst any moment!!
That was not it, I breathed out and suddenly realized that I was not alone in my bed. Someone else was sleeping next to me and had arms around my waist and also was resting on my arms. What the fudge?
I turned to see who it was and it was a shocker for me to find Caroline in my arms. I jumped from the bed startled and made a held my head which had no idea what was going and in my sudden jump, I had woken up Caroline.
“What happened?” she woke up in a second and came to me concerned and I shoved her away.
“What the fuck are you doing in my bed when I had clearly told you to stay in your room?? How dare you lose your rule on me?” I screamed at her with no mercy for breaking her limits and it had pissed me off.
“Listen to me. I didn’t come here on my own. You are the one who pulled me to the bed, Zack " in her normal self, she should have blasted on me for shouting on her but this Caroline, she again came to me and calmly held me and told me this. I mean, who is she?? Where did the bitchy Caroline vanish to??
“What do you mean? And where’s Mike? I was with his last night and how did I come back?” I had no memories of the last night and was going crazy. I was going even crazier after knowing Caroline was in my arms the whole night and I had no idea about it, like seriously, when did I start becoming so dumpster??
“Last night Stella and Zoe had come looking for you in the beach and found you drunk like last time. Zoe took Mike home and Stella brought here and when I came to check on you, you pulled me to bed and slept of without leaving my hand" she told me what all happened last night and I didn’t feel anything at all because all I could remember about last night was hoe much fun I and Mike had. It was epic!!!
“Zack, come downstairs” I started to chuckle after getting sober and a scream from downstairs worried me. It was mom and she was sounding too furious for anything!!!
“Get back to your room and take rest" I apologetically told Caroline not wanting to think more when I had pulled her to bed because I had a mom to take care of.
“Mom” I came down and saw that she was seated in the table and I must say, the expression on her face was not good at all!!!
“When had you started drinking??” she didn’t even look into my eyes and I had mine hung down. I had done something which wasn’t taught by my parents and I was in guilt for getting caught. One time, she had forgiven me thinking it was because I was not able to adjust to my unexpected new life, but I committed the same mistake in full sense and she wasn’t going to forgive me for that.
“Since funeral” yes, that was the first night I had got drunk in depression and no one who because I had sneaked those in from dad’s locker. I did that because I miserably missed that man and it was something that lessened my pain!!!” I screamed at him.
“Are you aware of the fact that it is illegal for your ages to get drunk?? People will do anything for money but how dare you forget which family you come from" she directly hinted on dad and his teaching because me being an athlete had to put a ban on alcohol and other stuffs to maintain my fitness about which I didn’t care about anymore. Everything had changed completely for me.
“So what? I didn’t murder someone that you lash at me like this mom" seeing her grow furious on me for no better reason, I lashed back at her and she was shocked.
“Am I hearing a tone here young man?” she was ready to battle me and so was I. This matter will end right here and I made it cent percent sure!!
“Yes, you are. And what’s the big deal if I chill with my friend?” I asked her and scoffed seeing her raging attitude towards me and it was something she had never used to me nor dad.
“Dash and Will had been with you for 18 years and I have never seen them do this to you. So, from where did these new friends started influencing you?” I was aghast when she began to lay down my history with Dash and Will which had fired up the grill.
“Oh, well they aren’t with me now, are they??” I started becoming hostile towards my own mother and that wasn’t at all a good thing I was doing.
“Are you even hearing yourself I? What has even gotten into you? And above all that, why didn’t you tell me what Caroline had did to you before we shifted to the town?” mom grew emotional in a matter of second and I melted seeing her like that and only then my bulb rang. Holy son of a devil, this was the moment I realized that I had fucked up and mom was going to end up hating Caroline like never before. Why was my fate messing up so terribly that now I had 2 women to handle alone……