Certainty | TSITP

S E V E N T E E N .

"Who's fighting? What's going on?"

"I don't know, come on." Conrad grabbed the girls hand and helped her through the crowd to see Steven and Taylor's boyfriend fighting.

"Stop! What the hell!" Conrad yelled pulling Steven off while Ana and Taylor pulled Milo back.

"Let go!" He yelled pushing the two girls off of him harshly.

"Hey, man! What the fuck is your problem?" Ana turned quickly to see JJ walking up to him, his face basically red with anger.

"JJ no... stop!" Ana rushed grabbing his arm and keeping him close to her.

"Man, fuck this! Taylor, let's go. These people are too pedestrian for us anyway." Milo mumbled.

"These people are my friends." Taylor started, eyes started to fill up, "do you even know me... like at all?"

"Babe, what are you talking about. You're my girl."

"What's my middle name? Yeah, I can't do this anymore." Taylor stated when the boy didnt have an answer for her question.

"Taylor!" Ana ran after the girl, leaving JJ behind.

"I think it's time for you to go." He mumbled, lightly pushing Milo to the door and watching him get into his car.

"Hey, where's Ana?" Conrad asked, walking up to the boy with Skye, belly, and jere behind him.

"Uh.. I don't know. She went to see Taylor."

They all rounded together outside after finding Ana, "I left Taylor for this, what's going on?" She said, watching Skye start to talk.

"The buyers said you could rent the house for one week of summer every summer." Skye said with a huge smile, belly and Jere jumped into each other while Conrad, Ana, and JJ just stood there.

"This is amazing!" The two laughed.

"Is it though?"

"No, it's not." Conrad and Ana said at the same time.

"You can tell your mom thanks but no." Conrad mumbled, looking at Ana quickly.

"Come on, Conrad. At least hear them out." Belly huffed.

"It's over."

"Why are you the only one that gets to make this decision?" Jere snapped, watching as Conrad started to walk away but stopped.

"Jere, you don't want to pay another family to stay in your own home!" Ana defended.

"This isn't my house anymore! It's not ours."

"Exactly! Let it go!" Conrad finished.

JJ tensed up and squeezed Ana's hand lightly before making his way into the house, he knew this wasn't a conversation he should be there for. And Ana understood.

"Yeah, cause you're an expert at that!" Jere shouted, making Ana turn her attention back to them.

"Jere!" She hissed.

"No! No! Shut up, Ana! This is the shit he does! When things aren't perfect, instead of trying to fix it, he just decides to throw it away! And it's not just the house! You did it to Ana too!"

"Jeremiah! Please stop." Ana said, her voice cracking as she listened to the boy.

"You came to me! You fucking begged me for my blessing to be with her after summer ended. And settled for belly when ana blocked you!"

"Is that true?" Belly asked.

"Jere, that was between us..."

"Yeah, it's fucking true. You know when shit got tough, he couldn't handle it and he dropped you too!"

"Shut up, jere." Conrad said.

"Don't use us to get to him." Ana cried, frustrated that this is the way everything is turning out again.

"Ana! Come on!" Jere started.

"I'm not apart of this! Jere, you threw me away, too! For belly... too!" she yelled, pushing past everyone and making her way inside instantly grabbing a drink.

"Hey... are you okay?" JJ asked softly.

"I just... I hate this... I just need space." She said, grabbing the whole bottle of vodka and walking away.