#cameronrey

Athena had tried so hard to try and motivate herself to go to the carnival. It was meant to be something wonderful after all. But when the day of it finally came, she simply couldn’t convince herself to go. The thought of that many people being out there, not knowing what they wanted or what they were thinking... she couldn’t handle it. 

Instead she had walked down to the bay, finding a quiet spot away from everyone else. Bailey seemed happy enough, padding around looking for the interesting smells. She hadn’t even really realised where she had come to, muscle memory taking over. She had come down here a lot growing up, a way to escape all of it. Strange now, those problems now seemed like nothing. 

Caleb sighed, listening again as the lawyer went over the same facts he had already figured out. Legally he had been dead, which now caused a lot of issues for the legality of his marriage. Till death do you part was a lot harder when one of you had technically died in the eyes of the law. “Yeah... yeah I know, but can you... please, just call me back when you know” he said into the phone, trying not to lose his temper. Wasn’t their fault it was complicated, he just wanted a straight response.

Hanging up he sighed, he wasn’t sure if he wanted a drink or to punch something. tHe latter would solve nothing though, not really. Still it was tempting. “Do me a favour, remind me that punching a wall will only feel good for like five seconds, and after that I’ll just be left with a sore hand. Because it is very tempting right now”.

Athena had realised that she didn’t have things under control, she knew that but she was trying. She’d be ok, she had to be ok in the end, but trying to remind herself of that was proving to be near impossible. She had felt like she was walking the line and that anything could tip her over. Logically she knew it was everything building up that was getting to her. But emotionally it was harder to not focus it all in one way. Something she knew she had to work on.

All of which would have been fine, only now it felt like she had been hit by a ton of bricks. Everything she had known had just been tossed out of the window. She had imagined a million different outcomes when she had been in the basement. Imagined everything with what she had thought could have happened. That was until she had run into her biological brother. She hadn’t given them a second thought, and now suddenly he was here, and telling her that their mother had raised him. The woman who had abandoned her... how was she meant to process this?

She was trying not to think about it. She’d gone into The Corner, least there, she could pretend she was reading a book whilst drinking coffee. Instead she knew her emotions getting to her, and she had lost focus. Feeling a shadow come over her, she realised she had lost focus and needed to actually try and be a normal member of society. “Sorry... not in your way am I?”

Alright, so he probably should have called ahead and let his siblings know that he was moving back to Edens, especially given that he didn’t know how long it was for. Wasn’t like his parents would care that much, and calling just seemed a pointless when he would see them soon enough. Besides, he had enough to deal with trying to find an apartment, and get a transfer to the hospital. Which wasn’t really all that great when he then practically bumped into Cameron on the streets. “Fucking hell, you’re a sight for sore eyes”.