#robvee

Vee was restless. And frustrated. And sad. And hurt. 

Everything had blown up—because of her. Because she had been too flustered and surprised and panicked to even consider lying to Ashley in Rome, her family was hurting. It would be one thing if it was just her life that was going to hell, but it was her parents and brother too! They’d just gotten comfortable in Swynlake—they had friends, a thriving business, and they had become part of the community.

Because of her. It was unforgivable, really.

And now there was not just one petition, but two targeting their family specifically, aiming to take away everything they’d worked hard for and had earned honestly. It was discrimination, really. 

Vee needed to talk to someone—she wanted to talk to Robbie, but hesitated, if only because he’d been so upset since Nemo had been forced to break up with him. Another casualty of her foolishness. It couldn’t wait any longer though. If she didn’t get her thoughts out, she was going to burst.

Pausing at his door, she hesitated only a moment before knocking—a sure sign that she was nervous about the reception she’d receive. She usually just barged in unannounced. “Robbie?” she called quietly through the door, her voice sad and barely above a whisper. “Can—can I come in? Please?”

Vee was mad. Not just kind of mad, no. She was spitting mad. 

It had taken every ounce of self control she possessed to not confront the ones responsible for the absolute trash she saw on those fliers first thing at school that morning. And for whatever reason they’d decided to pick on Mei too? So now there were three people she cared deeply for (yes, she cared about Nemo, he was practically family now!) being completely trashed in front of the whole school, and she hated it.

She’d been unable to catch up with Robbie during the school day—he was just nowhere to be found between classes. 

So as soon as the bell rang to dismiss them from school, she zipped home as fast as she could—as fast as she could pretending to be a human in broad daylight—and marched down to the basement, flier in hand. She didn’t even bother knocking when she got ot his door, she just slammed it open with the fist holding the flier. 

“Did you see this absolute rubbish that was all over school today?” she raged, because, as suspected, there was Robbie, brooding on his bed. “The biggest pack of lies made up by those—ugh! I am so mad I could bite someone. As if they hadn’t been tormenting Mei enough—and now you and Nemo and—ugh!!” She screeched in exasperated anger and threw the wadded up piece of paper in the bin. “There has to be something we can do to fix this.”

Vee was trying to keep an open mind, really she was. But in reality, she was freaking out. Robbie coming to Swynlake had been her idea, away for him to reconnect with her and her family and find some peace after centuries of isolation and regret.

But he’d been the less than a month and had already found himself stuck in the claws of an Ashley and now was apparently struggling to not murder a child at school. 

Clearly she’d failed him. She had to fix it—somehow. She had to be there for him.

Which was why she’d tossed her phone aside and zoomed next door, barging in without knocking. “Ok Robbie, spill it! What’s going on?!”

@chains-of-blood