The Triangle

❥Warning:
Includes strong language.

-Y/N's POV-
The person who I bumped into was Minx, of all people. She shook her head and stood up quickly, running out of the restaurant. I sighed to myself as I glanced down at all the ruined food.

Suddenly, Darryl walked up to me.

DARRYL:
"Y/N what happened?" His eyebrows squished together.

Y/N:
"I—I'm sorry for the mess..." I bent down and attempted to pick up a plate when Darryl stopped me.

DARRYL:
"It's okay, I got it." He bent down and began picking up the dishes.

I turned my head to the right to see Minx sitting down on the steps outside, wiping her tears as she took lettuce and other food off of her head and body.

Since Darryl wanted to deal with the mess, I decided to deal with mine.

I stepped away, pushing open the glass doors to apologize to Minx. Once I made it behind her, I spoke.

Y/N:
"Minx...?"

She sniffled while standing up, turning around to meet my eyes.

Y/N:
"I—I didn't mean to bump into you, I—I didn't even know you worked here."

MINX:
"Yeah well, not all of us are rich." She narrowed her eyes at me as she crossed her arms, "We actually have to work for what we want instead of it being given to us on a golden platter..."

I instantly sighed while rolling my eyes.

Y/N:
"My parents worked hard for what they got too. I was going to apologize but you're making it really hard to."

MINX:
"I don't need your fake ass apologies. I just need you out of my damn life. You've been ruining my life since day fucking 1–" She raised her voice then shook her head, "But I guess that's my own damn fault..."

Y/N:
"Yeah, because you blame every single thing on me." I mumbled under my breath.

MINX:
"No..." She shook her head again while licking her lips, "It's because I'm the reason why you met Clay, George, and Nick..."

My eyebrows squished together as my eyes widened.

MINX:
"Your mother got a flat tire that day...that's the only reason why you were left behind at that park...did you ever wonder how she got a flat tire...?"

I gulped nervously.

MINX:
"It was because of me..."

• FLASHBACK (NOT A CH.) •

-MINX's POV-
My father and I were out that day on the road. We just came back from the bank. They wouldn't give us an extension for our late bills. But they were only late because we were too broke to pay them.

My mother took off with all of my father's money, a year after I was born. She used that money to get surgeries and to go on vacations with her hookups from the strip club, where she worked.

Ever since I was a single year-old baby, I had to learn that family didn't mean shit. All I had was my father, but he wasn't great company at all.

He blamed me for everything, always drank, did drugs, everything. My best friend at 6 years old was my only barbie doll, with only one outfit, the one she came in, the only gift my mother ever got me, the one she gave to me as a goodbye present as a baby.

So, on the way home from the bank, my father reached his breaking point with the world.

M DAD:
"I can't fucking believe they wouldn't give me more time. Those motherfucking assholes—" He slammed down on the wheel while shouting angrily.

6 year old me frowned while playing with my blonde barbie's hair, brushing it with my fingers to calm myself down.

To cheer him up, I held up my barbie doll close to him and spoke in a goofy voice to make him smile.

MINX:
"Everything will be okay, daddy." My high pitched voice spoke.

Instead of smiling, he snatched my barbie doll from my hand and threw it out the window, making me gasp.

MINX:
"My barbie—" I raised my voice.

Suddenly, my father did the unthinkable. He slapped me across my cheek, resulting in me gasping while staring at him in fear.

M DAD:
"Shut the fuck up!!" He yelled in my face, making my lip quiver as I bursted out crying.

Since I made noise again, he hit me again. He did it until I stopped crying.

That barbie doll, however, landed at the exact place where Y/N's mother drove. Her car got the flat tire, making it so that Y/N stayed behind at the park later, resulting in me being the reason why her and her friends met.

I figured it out when Y/N had my barbie doll in her backpack at school the next day. She was telling her friends how it was the thing that made her mother get a flat tire.

Y/N:
"This barbie made my mom move her car into a big hole in the ground! That's why we met!" She squealed in happiness while squeezing my barbie doll.

When I heard that, I tried going over to her to get my barbie doll back, but she insisted on keeping it, since she thought it was a good luck charm. After all, my barbie doll is the only reason why her and her friends met.

So ever since that day, I hated her with a passion. She had the only thing left of my mom, and she never gave it back.

Over the years, I still hated her from day 1. And it got even worse when the day my father knocked me out for the first time.

That night, I watched the news on our small TV, while he went out to a bar to drink. I ended up buying a lottery ticket that day by saving up every single coin I found, in the street, at school, everywhere.

So, I sat down on the couch, holding the lottery ticket in my hands, hoping and wishing this universe would bless me. But instead, it blessed my enemy. Y/N's family ended up winning, which made the flame inside me, ignite to the maximum.

That girl has ruined my entire life from the beginning. And she hasn't even apologized once.

• REALITY •

-Y/N's POV-
After hearing everything that Minx told me, it left me frozen in shock. I didn't remember anything she told me. Especially about my parents winning any kind of lottery.

I was speechless.

Meanwhile, Minx had more tears streaming down her cheeks while glaring at me with a frown, her arms were crossed.

Y/N:
"I...I had no idea any of that happened..."

MINX:
"Whether you did or didn't, it doesn't matter to me. All that I see in front of me is the same thing I've always seen...a rich girl in a sparkly dress in the fanciest restaurant in town, meanwhile me, the poor trailer park girl who's her server...completely covered in the garbage she is..."

I gulped nervously with a frown.

MINX:
"But this year, you've gotten a lot of well-deserved karma. So, I can thank the universe for that..." She twitched her nose with a hard glare.

I clenched my jaw.

MINX:
"So you go back in there, enjoy the food, enjoy having all those people who care about you...with the perfect family, the perfect friends, my crush since the 1st grade and all the money in the world, more than you can possibly dream of..."

My eyes fell to the concrete below. Minx shook her head at me then stormed off down the street, making me sigh with a frown at her.

All the euphoria I had wore off. I slowly took a seat down on the steps in the same place Minx was. I held my hands together as I stared at the ground. My lips curled down farther as I set my head down, thinking about everything she told me tonight.

❥ A/N: This chapter is called "Butterfly" because of the butterfly effect with Minx and Y/N✨

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