Robert had left the house and went to Stephanie’s house. He knocked on the door and she had allowed him to come into the house. He went to her bedroom with her. “Stephanie, I want to forget Lacy. How can I?”
“I am not a witch. I can’t cast a spell for you to forget her.” Stephanie said and picked up a deck of tarot cards that were on her desk.
“Lacy should be with Ronnie! He loves her more than I ever could. I don’t understand why I keep thinking of her like you say and I want to stop! She doesn’t need to be with me. She needs to be with Ronnie. She got pregnant by him. I even tried dating someone else twice now. I can’t be with her.”
“Let me see what the cards say. You did come all the way here in the rain.” Stephanie started using her tarot cards. She was shuffling them on her desk and then brought them all back together in one pile. She then started picking some cards and laying them down flat on the desk. After she placed some cards down, she began to pick up them slowly. “I see.”
“What is it?”
“You want to forget her? I am sorry, but that really isn’t an option. You can’t stop thinking of her. Robert. You believe there’s no love. You really want to believe that because your parents’ marriage didn’t last. Is this true?” Robert looked down.
“Yes. But…”
“Robert, you don’t realize it. No wait, you do realize it, but you’re too scared to completely admit it. You love Lacy. You’re in love with her.”
“I can’t be with her! Even if I am!” Robert said. He sounded as if he was going to cry. “Ronnie loves her too. I know he does. I feel like his feelings are more stronger than mine.”
“There’s two options here in the future. Do you want me to tell you them?” Stephanie asked and stared at Robert.
“What is it?” Robert asks.
“You can make two choices. The first one is that you save your brother. He’s going to be very stressed out. Depressed and miserable from this miscarriage Lacy had. Lacy is going to start not speaking to him, and it’s going to be up to you to get them to talk to each other again. If you do you will save him from…”
“From what?!”
“Doing…drugs… It sounds odd I know, but you remember when he was hanging with two other older guys right?”
“Y-Yes.” Robert felt uneasy.
“When he was hanging with them, he was depressed because he thought Lacy loved you more. He really loves Lacy. A lot like you do. The first option for the future is to save him. If he starts being depressed and hanging with those two older guys again he’s going to end up doing bad things. Drugs Robert. You think those guys didn’t offer Ronnie those already? They have and Ronnie almost went in on it.”
“I don’t want him to do that!” Robert says glaring. “Are you lying to me?!”
“I told you I see things and I can read tarot readings accruable. You can save Ronnie. The second option is to not save Ronnie. Let him go through this depression and he ends up dying from overdose. Then you can be with Lacy without Ronnie getting in the way.”
“I can’t do that! Are you insane?!”
“I honestly don’t believe you would let Ronnie go through with the terrible things that I said. Robert, I believe you can help him. Even the tarot cards are more in favor of you helping him.” Stephanie said and held Robert’s hand.
“Stephanie, you aren’t lying to me are you?” Robert asks.
“No.” Stephanie shook her head. “Right now Ronnie is so upset and trying to speak to Lacy. But she’s going to get her parents to send him away. Ronnie is then going to go to Tj and Kevin soon after.” Stephanie looks down and let’s go of Robert’s hand.
“I don’t want to lose my brother! I love Lacy too like he does but I can’t afford to lose him!” Robert ran off. Stephanie looks down.
“I really do like Robert but I am not the one for him. I can’t even be with him. His heart belongs to Lacy.” Stephanie says to herself.
Robert went looking for Ronnie. He didn’t care if rain poured down on him. He was drenched. All he wanted to do was prevent what Stephanie predicted. He didn’t want to chance anything. Stephanie knew a lot of things. Things he didn’t understand. He had to believe her. She was right about everything.” Robert found Ronnie walking away from Lacy’s grandparents’ home. He too didn’t have an umbrella and was getting rained on. Robert ran over to him.
“What? Did you come over to laugh at me?” Ronnie asks.
“No! I am not going to laugh at you!” Robert said and held on to Ronnie’s shoulders.
“Lacy doesn’t even want to talk to me! I bet she will talk to you! She doesn’t like me! She likes you more than me!” Ronnie yelled looking upset.
“That’s not true! Lacy is just upset as you are! She probably is scared to tell you and doesn’t know you know everything!”
“I don’t give a fuck! She doesn’t love me as much as I love her! She won’t even speak to me! I give up! She loves you! She hangs with you more than me!” Ronnie looked like he was going to cry. “Now let me go!” Ronnie pushes Robert making him fall down to the ground.
“Look! I am just trying to help you because I care about you! Lacy does like you!”
“She does not!” Ronnie glared at Robert. “You get everything!”
“I do not!” Robert stood up. “You stupid dumbass! Lacy loves you too!” Robert felt angry at Ronnie now.
“You don’t even believe love exists! And yet she loves you more!” Ronnie was jealous. He felt Lacy loved Robert more. “I can’t even have a healthy baby! The baby dies before it can even be born!”
“That’s not always going to be true!” Robert and Ronnie just seemed to be mad at each other. Ronnie punches Robert and made him fell to the ground.
“IT IS TRUE! I AM SICK OF IT! I DON’T WANT TO BE APART OF IT ANYMORE! I SHOULDN’T EVEN BE WITH LACY ANYWAYS! I WILL GET HER PREGNANT AND GIVE HER A BABY THAT CAN’T EVEN SURVIVIE!”
“YOU’RE JUST A KID! TRY AGAIN WHEN YOU’RE AN ADULT!” Robert shouts back at Ronnie. Ronnie got down on the ground by Robert. The two were just completely wet. Their clothes were soaked. They were soaked from head to toe. Ronnie starts punching Robert.
“I DON’T GIVE A DAMN ANYMORE! I FUCKING HATE YOU!” Ronnie yelled. Robert was confused. He wanted to help Ronnie, but it was difficult. Ronnie was being too difficult to deal with. Robert couldn’t hold back, he had to get Ronnie off of him. He pushes him off of him. Ronnie fell back. Robert’s nose was bleeding. His face was bruised. Robert stood up.
“I don’t know why I care so much for you. All I want to do is talk to you but all you want to do is yell at me and hit me.” Robert says. “Look! No one can stop what happened. I understand you’re upset. Lacy is too. Not just you. You don’t think she’s not hurt? She’s probably even more hurt. She was the one carrying the child. And just because this baby passed doesn’t mean you can’t have a healthy baby later in life. You shouldn’t be worrying about it. It’s probably for the best. You’re too young to even have a kid and same with Lacy. Lacy didn’t even want a kid to begin with. But I think she didn’t want to kill it or give it away. She probably would take the responsibility if she had to.”
“You don’t know anything!”
“You’re whining like a bitch! Why don’t you get your act together?! At least you have a chance for children in the future! I am not whining like a bitch just because I am infertile! Do you think I give a damn about that?!”
“W-What? How would you know that?” Ronnie asks and stood up.
“Lacy never got pregnant by me and I know deep inside that miscarriage was your baby. Not mine. I can’t have no damn kids. I don’t even want no kids, but I don’t know if I would when I am older. When I am older I can’t even have any kids. You think I am whining and complaining?”
“Did you check yourself out or something? How do you know you can’t have children?” Ronnie was confused and surprised.
“It doesn’t matter how I know.” Robert wasn’t sure what to say to Ronnie. “Just go home. Get cleaned up and I will try to help this.”
“Help what?”
“Lacy. Just give me a chance. Trust me.”
“A-Alright…” Ronnie looks down.
“You better go home.” Robert says. Ronnie walks away. Robert went to Lacy’s grandparents’ home. Robert knocked on the door. Abbilynn answers the door.
“Oh my. You’re all wet. Are you okay?”
“I know Lacy is upset, but she needs to come out of hiding and speak to Ronnie! She needs to tell him and grieve with him together!”
“Lacy is too upset to see anyone.” Abbilynn said.
“I DON’T GIVE A FUCK!” Robert pushes himself in.
“Hey!” Abbilynn tries to grab him but Robert ran straight to the bedroom where Lacy was staying. Lacy was surprised to see Robert came into the bedroom. She stood up from the bed and went by the window.
“W-What are you doing in here?” Lacy asked. “I thought I told my parents to send everyone away!” Lacy glares at him. “Leave!”
“You need to stop it! I understand you’re upset. But I think you need to tell Ronnie and grieve with him and then move on. You two won’t be able to get through this without having time to grieve together and then move on!” Robert shuts the bedroom door and locks it.
“JUST GET OUT! I am not telling him!” Lacy snaps at Robert.
“Look! Ronnie is depressed! You think he doesn’t know about the pregnancy? The miscarriage!” Robert grabs Lacy’s arm.
“W-What?! He knows?” Lacy asks confused and surprised.
“Yes! He knows! He overheard my dad and me talking I think! No one told him! He found out on his own! He’s sad just as you are! He wanted to talk to you today! That’s why he came over! And you sent him away!” Lacy looks down.
“Does Ronnie hate me? Is he mad at me?” Lacy asks.
“No. He doesn’t hate you. He isn’t mad. He’s just sad. He thinks you don’t love him. He’s getting the impression you don’t love him and like me more and don’t want to talk to him anymore.”
“Ronnie… he is?” Lacy asked looking down.
“He is. Lacy.”