The Queen Is After Me

"Maybe if it were a family that wasn't mine."

"Family is family," Fleet murmured from where he was leaning in the doorway, wondering what was taking them so long. "They may be shitty, but it's nice to know you have someone out there. If I lose Keagan, or if he loses me, the other has no one left."

((Ugh, I'm going bed lol. So tired. might post on phone))

"Stop, okay? I wish I weren't related to mine. I'll never forgive them, any of them, for what they did. You don't know, so stop."

Fleet ducked away and even Keagan flinched and let go of her hand, shuffling slightly away to sit heavily on the stairs.

April sighed deeply, sitting herself down beside him quietly with a quiet, "Sorry… I just… My family aren't nice people Keag, at all. They're horrible and they used me, didn't care if I got hurt. My brother was the worse."

"Losing parents at a younger age is harder. Danny's parents cursed him and yet he still misses them.

"Yeah… well, I'm not like that. I hate mine, hate my family. Why'd you think I'm normally by myself, hmm?" She asked before teasing lightly, "Why do you think I have to patience to put up with you and Fleet I wanted to have some sort of social interaction for years."

Keagan shrugged. "Still just...we all miss our parents, y'know? Not many people hate their parents."

"They let my brother blackmail me into things… bad things that resulted in…." She shook her head, "I hate them, I hate him. I'm better off without my family, much better. It doesn't make me a bad person not to miss them."

Keagan just silently shrugged again, holding his hands together on his knees.

"Maybe I'll tell you, one day, what happened." April sighed, putting her head in her hands quietly.

"Don't have to tell me if you don't want to," Keagan mumbled. "Keep it quiet if it makes you feel better."

"You willing to listen today? I could try? See how much I can make myself say."

"No. Don't force yourself."

"If I don't do that than you'll never know, Keag." She sighed, "You want to know or…?"

(( Maybe during this conversation cause she's letting down the mental blocks Fleet said she had Fleet finds out and ends up telling Keag for her?

"I don't want to know. It's clearly painful for you to mention so I'm not gonna make you. It won't make you any better or change the past to tell me."

"No… but aren't you interested?" April asked quietly, mumbling, "I want to tell someone, deep down… just scared to."

"I'm interested but I'm not pressuring anyone into telling me their life story. The need is deep down. When it comes up to the top, then you tell me."

April just let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes.

(( Did you see what I suggested? ))

((Yeah, sorry. I just didn't seem to register that I needed to reply though for some reason lmao))

"I'm going to pack a bag. Even if we can't get into Daniel's yet, I need to get out of the house so I'm going to stay with him for a few days." Keagan shuffled to his feet and retreated upstairs.

(( Haha, I just wanted to know if you'd seen it or not, is all xD ))

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 "Mine's always open for you to stay in too, Keag, it's pretty big… and lonely."

"I know, but Danny's afraid of places that aren't his own," Keagan called down quietly. "So moving to his is probably better for his state of mind."

"Okay,"

(( Are we going to do my suggestion or…?))

((I dunno...I just think it might be nicer if it's a personal thing between Keagan and April that they can work through together, you know? It seems a little impersonal if Fleet has to be the one to break her secret out))

Keagan came downstairs after about five minutes with a small suitcase. By this point, Daniel was starting to snuffle awake on the sofa.

(( Kay ^.^ ))

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April was sat where she had been before, just watching the ground almost silently.