HAUNTED
୨⎯ chapter twelve ⎯୧

Bianca was having the time of her life.

shayla and bianca spend the entire time together. not once did they separate. the fourth of july was going good and not once did she have a frown on her face.

this time last year she was in the room with her dad. only talking and spending time with him. blaise was sick for the entire week of fourth of july and didn't go out to hang out with the other dads or to make his all time famous carne asada. bianca spend max thirty minutes outside before she headed back inside.

leo, bianca, blaise and lena all stayed inside of blaise and lena's room. they played monopoly, had their own small buffet. lena made jamaica for all of them. they watched movies. eventually, steven, belly, jeremiah and conrad joined them. along with susannah and laurel. the dads went to go watch the game.

the ones to truly belonged inside of that beach house stayed with blaise and made sure he forgot about him being sick. when the fireworks were lit up they all went inside of the pool to watch them. it was the best and worst fourth of july.

bianca thought that she was going to be sad for the fourth of july but everyone was trying to beat to take her mind off her dad. even for a split second. it was working. bianca told shayla to go hang out with nicole who seemed alone and in an awkward position with her brother while she went inside.

she only went inside to use the bathroom but she found herself sitting besides jeremiah on the kitchen island. belly in front of them and belly's dads new girlfriend - victoria - making a drink.

"that's dope." jeremiah chuckled.

"how'd you learn to make these?" belly asked. bianca snickered. it was funny seeing belly conklin mad at someone. her angry face looked more adorable than intimidating.

"so i actually spends summer in this desert town in texas near the border called marfa." victoria said starting her story. she started pouring the drinks, "and there was a bar there that served these, and i told the bartender that i would not leave until he showed me exactly how he made these?"

"and how would were you? fifteen?" bianca couldn't help but teasingly ask. jeremiah send her scold while belly grinned at her.

victoria chuckled and didn't take it to heart. "can i try some?" bianca asked straighten her back and giving victoria an innocent smile.

"me too?" belly asked.

"are your parents cool with that?" victoria asked.

"yeah, yeah, no, they don't care." belly said lying smoothly. bianca's eyebrows shot up surprised and proud of belly.

"yeah sure. i'm going to take this out to your dad. do you mind taking those out to susannah, lena and your mom?" victoria asked lifting up to cups and pointing down to the three glasses on the table. belly nodded her head. "thanks, love."

belly didn't hesitate to grab the glass and take a large sip of it. "shit belly." bianca gasped and laughed at the face that belly mad.

"well, how is it? strong?" jeremiah asked chuckling.

"amazing! here try." belly said handing it over to bianca. the wayne girl picked it up and took the same amount of sips as belly. once it hit her mouth she couldn't have enough. it was too good.

"this taste better than anything else i've ever tried." bianca gasped handing it over to jeremiah and quickly adding, "not that i've ever tried anything. no."

"mhm, no wonder you two like it so much. it taste just like a slurpee." jeremiah said moaning at the taste.

"exactly! and i gave a idea." belly said clapping her hands on the table. "sous-chef, i'm going to need some more pomegranate juice. my darling, bianca, i need your help!"

"what are you guys doing?" conrad asked walking inside of the kitchen. bianca smiled widely at him and belly giggled.

"pomegranate margaritas, but with a twist." belly said holding up the kool-aid.

"well, you gotta use the good blender." conrad said making them all pause. the good blender was a very traumatic blender experience. bianca shuttered at the memory. she still blamed leo because he was the tattle-tale during that time and he was the only other person who knew what her, jeremiah and belly were going to do. even if leo said he never said anything they all knew it was a lie.

leo was afraid of mr. fisher. mostly everyone was.

"havent used the good blender since the great kool-aid debacle of 2011." jeremiah laughed along with the others.

"i remember the counters were sticky for - two summers? and you three were mad at leo for, the entire summer." conrad said grabbing the good blender and replacing it with the other one.

"he was a little bitch back then." bianca said. the devil himself walked inside of the kitchen. "little bitch tattletaled on us."

"i did not!" leo shrieked immediately knowing what they were talking about. they all burst into laughter knowing that he did. "i didn't! i swear i didnt!"

"it's okay, leo." jeremiah laughed shaking his head. "dad kept his, ugh briefcase in my room for a year. as a reminder that all mistakes are not reversible."

leo sat down on the stool that bianca was before. bianca plugged in the blender and grabbed the juice. "wait, won't he be mad if he finds out?" belly asked.

"what's he going to do? ground us?" leo snorted.

"well, he's not going to find out or ground us. he's not coming." after conrad said that they all went into doing their greatest mistake of the entire fourth of july. but they didn't care. they were all having the time of their life making the margarita.

the wayne siblings, the conklin girl, and the fisher brothers all forgetting the problems that were surrounding them during the fourth of the july and instead crested this memory. the wayne forgetting that this time around their dads carne asada would be smelling from outside. the fisher brothers forgetting about their dad. the conklin sister forgetting about her dad and her dads very young girlfriend.

"we don't need another debacle with leo snitching again." jeremiah said laughing. leo slapped him on the head and pushed him out of the stool. bianca laughed and leaned forward grabbing the tequila.

"let's say a little prayer," bianca said seriously. they all held confused looks but closed their eyes. "too having the best fucking fourth of july yet!"

"to have the best fucking fourth of july!" they all chanted together after bianca. bianca dumped almost the entire tequila inside of the blender. there was only twenty shots left inside of the bottle. conrad kept on teasing the trio by taking his hands off the blender.

at one point bianca pinched conrad to stop joking around before it actually explodes and they will have not only sticky counters for two more summers but the smell of pure tequila everywhere.

"man, you know what i miss?" conrad said turning off the blender and taking it off. "watching laurel and lena put dad in his place. remember that one time when lena slapped dad because he didn't want to "man up". god that was priceless."

"laurel was scary as well that one time when she yelled at him." bianca said shivers running down her spin.

conrad laughed nodding his head. "she'll be like adam-"

"adam!" laurel said happily smiling. conrad, bianca, leo and belly all stopped laughing and smiling. the quartet watched as adam entered the kitchen fully.

"happy fourth!" mr. fisher said. the quartet all liked away feeling the vibe completely go away the second that he entered the kitchen. jeremiah was the first one to greet his dad with a hug.

"hey, guys. hey, connie. hey, bianca and leo." the wayne siblings closed their eyes getting ready to hear it in three...two...one- "im terribly sorry about your dad. he was a great guy, a great dad."

"yeah, thanks." leo said responding for him and his little sister. bianca kept her eyes closed. she turned her head to the side and dropped it on conrad's shoulder. she hasn't heard that in a long time. she didn't want to hear it today either.

"i'll have a little of what you're mixing up there." mr. fisher said.

"um, they can serve you." bianca muttered grabbing a glass and walking away in an instant. conrad grabbed bianca's wrist but bianca pulled away shaking her head. "i'll be at the beach, connie."

conrad nodded his head walking away with her. mr. fisher called out for his son but conrad and bianca were already out of the back door. "bianca, bianca, bianca, hey, hey, slow down!"

bianca slowed down as they reached the beach. bianca sighed deeply and took a large sip of the drink. conrad and bianca reached further down to the beach and sat down. bianca turned her head to see behind them and she could see in the distant all the teenagers picking up their stuff and grabbing a basket and filling it with food. most likely going to go with them.

"remember last year when blaise purposely threw his drink on the monopoly board because he was losing." conrad said breaking the silence between him and his best friend. bianca took another sip of her drink. she put her chin on her shoulder and glanced over at the boy who laughed.

"lena was so mad but blaise always seem to have his way on claiming her down. we played again and he kept on accusing every one of us that we were cheating." conrad said. the attempt to make bianca smile at the fond memory worked. only for a split second. "blaise always included all of us. he made sure that none of us felt left out. he is the dad we all wanted and he gave it to us."

bianca's lips were tugged down into a frown. her eyes were filled with tears threaten to spill out and a sob was stuck on her throat. her frowned lips kept on tugging even deeper with every hold she made to suppress the sob.

"i miss my dad, connie. i miss him so much." bianca cried out bringing her knees to her chest. she dropped the drink on the sand and she wrapped her arms around her knees.

conrad didn't say anything but scooted himself closer to bianca. he threw his arm around bianca's shoulder and brought him close to him. bianca lifted her head and put it on his shoulder. conrad rubbed his hand up and down the crying girls arm and sighed deeply.

"i'm sorry. god, i'm sorry." bianca whispered bringing her palms up to her face and roughly wiping away from her tears. she felt guilty that she was crying about her dad when conrad's dad was here and present. she was making conrad feel sad as well.

"dont ever feel sorry for missing your dad, bianca." conrad said pulling away and putting his hands on each side of her face wiping away the tears. "he will be so proud of how far you've come, bianca." he will. and bianca believed him. she believed him because conrad knows her dad unlike everyone else who's told her the same thing. he's been there.

"you're my best friend and i love you, you know that?" bianca hiccuped the tears still flooding down. conrad chuckled hugging her again and rubbing her arm.

"me too."

└─── · 。゚☆ *.☽ .* ☆゚. ───┘

everyone soon joined conrad and bianca by the beach. bianca's spirit was somewhat lifted again when everyone joined. they were starting to become her escape to what really goes on inside of her mind. the guilt that she still feels even with the letter of her dad saying to not feel guilty, the sadness of him not being there.

belly went to go get more drinks - order from bianca who dropped hers - and she ran up to the beach house to sneak some. bianca found herself a little distant with the friend group. she had a box of cherrys on her lap, her legs extended and she was leaning back on her palm. her eyes examining every single wave.

"look a whale." leo said sitting dow next to her and pointing to the far distance. bianca squinted her eyes to where leo pointed. she doesn't know if it was a whale or not but there was something because it came out of the water and back inside.

"i want to try something." bianca said to her brother. she stood up in a hurry, wiping away all of the sand from her butt. she closed the cherry container and gave them to steven, "make sure no one eats them."

steven didn't get to say anything because bianca was already rushing back to leo. the older wayne sibling standing there confused. bianca nodded her head signaling him to walk with her. leo, still confused, followed her.

"do you remember when dad would always say that when he dies he'll come back and be apart of the ocean?" bianca asked looking up at leo who stood taller than bianca. every single day, leo reminded them more and more like blaise. leo was turning to be the exact replica as him. the funny part is that leo is more like his mom and bianca has everything personality wise, the way she tells jokes, her laugh, her smile ( which leo has too ) of blaise.

leo snorted nodding his head. "he said he wanted to be become either the foam of the ocean or a shark."

they reached the ocean and the siblings stayed at the end of the ocean. bianca sighed deeply and leo sighed deeply right after her. they stared out into the ocean wondering if their dad is looking at them right now. smiling at them. wanting to talk to them.

leo glanced down at his sister. he was his dad too. blaise was everyone dad. leo loves his dad, he looked up to him a lot but he knows, no matter how much it hurts to admit it, he knows that his death caused an unexplainable pain to his little sister. it was more intense that his and his moms. leo was afraid that bianca might've died too with him. maybe she did.

"tag your it," leo said pushing bianca's shoulder with his hand. bianca glared at him and put a hand on the arm. "shit, bianca, play. tag your it!"

this time leo pushed her inside of the water. bianca gasped standing back up. "better run leo!" bianca shouted sprinting after leo. leo laughed sticking his tongue out at bianca who reached up to him and his cockiness. "tag your it asshole!"

bianca and leo wayne continued playing the game for a few more minutes. in their minds they were pretending that they were little kids again. that bianca was three years old and that leo was six years old. that lena and blaise were sitting right next to them laughing at how fast bianca was despite her short legs.

"you can't catch me, you can't catch me! na-na-na-na-na-na!" leo chanted sticking his tongue out and shaking his head. he was panting though, he was tired because of his little sister.

"tag your it!" bianca shrieked giggling widely when leo's face dropped. bianca continued shrieking and giggled running around deeper into the water. it reached up to her knees but it was much more harder running around in water. "na-na-na-na-na-na!" she mocked him when leo stopped taking deep breaths.

"mommy, she's cheating! bianca is cheating!" leo shouted looking over to his mom who was taking pictures of her children. leo held a finger out towards bianca who reached him and bit his finger. "ouch, bianca, that hurts!"

"i'm not cheating! your run to slow!" bianca said tagging him again and going to run away but leo grabbed her by her waist lifting her up. she was small and easy to pick up.

"leo, leo, put me down! put me down!" bianca shrieked wrapping her arms around leo's shoulder and screaming for her life. "stop! stop!" bianca screamed tucking her legs in so that it'll be harder for leo to throw her. but even as they're older now, bianca is still small and leo is still big.

"three," leo said causing bianca to scream even more.

"three," leo said rocking bianca back and forth laughing as she was screaming so loud that she might even burst an ear drum.

"two," leo said starting to rock her back and forth. bianca kept on begging him to stop. she kept on screaming but soon the scream turned into laughter.

"two," leo taunted continuing to rock her back and forth. bianca started crying for either blaise and lena to save her from her brother throwing her into the water.

"one!" leo shouted giving bianca one last rock before throwing her deep inside of the water. bianca shouted flying in the air and preparing for impact. she could hear the sounds of leo's laughter fading away as she dove inside of the water.

"one!" blaise shouted appearing besides them. bianca and leo screamed together when blaise picked them both up and threw them inside of the ocean. bianca cried and screamed in the air and landed inside of the water.

she accidentally opened up her eyes underwater. she managed to catch a glimpse of a baby sea-turtle making its way to her but she still didn't know how to swim and hold herself underwater. she popped back up gasping for her and looking around with tears running down her eyes. "daddy!"

bianca stayed underneath the water looking around at the beautiful and scary view. a baby sea-turtle made its way towards her. bianca smiled waiting for the sea-turtle to get close before emerging back to the surface. she gasped for her looking at leo who was in front of her laughing. "you think dad will choose to be a sea-turtle?"

"honestly, yeah." leo said so seriously. bianca and leo looked at each other and burst into laughter. "no seriously i would he said he might become one just to go to california and have that accent like the sea-turtle in finding nemo."

just as he said that the baby sea-turtle popped in between them. bianca and leo went quite watching the sea-turtle intensely. they reached as it swam in the middle and looked at the both of them. or they think it looked at both of them. once it was done it went back inside of the water.

"if that was him he'll be mad because you threw his daughter inside of the ocean." bianca said breaking the intense silence between the wayne siblings. they knew they sounded crazy saying that the baby sea-turtle might be their dad. but it never hurts to believe.

leo didn't say anything other than dump bianca back inside of the ocean and rushing out. bianca fuming and tailing behind. if blaise was there watching, he would've thrown leo inside to help bianca. and then throw bianca inside. he would've smiled - he's smiling - seeing his kids living their life.

▌ c. speaks . . . ˚. 𓄼
not edited!
if y'all know what reference to a vine
i just made, i love you.
ALSO I LITERALLY CRIED MAKING THIS
LIEK WHAT - i also want to do a rafe cameron
book...let me rephrase - i wanna PUBLISH
a rafe cameron book. but i really wanna
finsih this one
like as in with season two. also with seadon
two idk if i should do write everytime an episode
is out OR wait till the majority of the episodes are out so that i can get an idea.