Cooper's dorm (Vacant)

[Cooper Reynolds]

[carol]

Carol couldn't believe that nasty things Cooper had said. She knew he was mad at her, but she didn't understand why he hated her so much. The Cooper she knew last year was sweet and sensitive and nothing like what he showed her tonight.
Did he honestly think she deserved to be raped? There was just no way. Yes, what she did to him must have really hurt...but how could it change a person so much? They were together for what...a week? Two tops. Why would he be so cruel? He couldn't possibly be angry about that still. She'd hung out with him since!

He was expecting her, so she didn't bother knocking. She just let herself in, and then stared at him with arms crossed.
"You think I deserved to be raped?" She asked him. "You think I deserved to have an eighteen year old man violate me when I was thirteen? You think I wanted that? You think I like knowing that a boy I trusted fucked up my cervix so badly that I can never have children? Really? You think that was something I liked?
"Cooper, I know I hurt you, and I am so sorry. I used you to get back at Wyatt, and then I didn't even have the decency to break up with you. I fucked up, and I'm owning up to that. But I still don't think that give you any reason to hate me this much." She stared at him, waiting for some kind of response as to why he was such a jerk to her.


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[Cooper Reynolds]

Cooper wasn't surprised when Carol just let herself into his dorm room like that but he was surprised when she said that the man was eighteen and she was thirteen. Who did that remind him of? "You have got to be kidding me.. I doubt it was rape. It was as much rape as that guy jamming his dick down Esme's throat when she was twelve. You're just as much of a whore.. No, you're more than a whore than she is. At least she had the brains to wait until she was fifteen to spread her legs." He didn't know why he had brought his sister into all of this. "Do you honestly think that a guy would really rape you? He was just fucking you but you didn't want to look bad so you went and said it was rape."

He was being cruel for no reason well no reason that he was ready and willing to admit. "I bet that he got you good and wasted, too, right? And then he touched you... Made you moan .... then fucked you and left and you were so bitter and upset that you decided to ruin his life by accusing him of raping you." He hissed it and reached for his burrito to take an angry bite, "You're a whore, nothing more. I'm not mad at you because of what you did last year or because you love Wyatt and not me. I'm over you. I just don't see the appeal to you anymore.. Why does everyone find you so damn lovable when you're just a skanky bitch who deserves to be hated?"

[ginny]

Genevieve knocked once and let herself in, because she was just so aggravated with Cooper. The past few days whenever they got on Somerset chat, he'd been so negative, and that just wasn't the Cooper she knew! She didn't understand why everyone was so in love with a scarily small sophomore either, but that didn't give him a reason to be so hateful. And the things he was saying about the Conley kids were disgusting. Especially knowing how much he loved Cici. Yes, if Kegan were actually hurting his children he should do something about it. But not be a big jerk in a public chat room.

She put her hands on her hips and squared her shoulders. "It takes a lot to piss me off, Cooper. I have soccer, drama, glee, student council, bake sales, and I'm organizing a homecoming dance with a Halloween theme for the first time with a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing. On top of that, I also have to keep my grades up to get an honors diploma and be valedictorian. Not mention I'm already running or prom queen. I run this school and just let Steele believe that he's in charge. So clearly, I have a lot on my plate.
"I say that because I want you understand how important it was to me to come over here on a Sunday night — the one night I give myself to relax — and talk to you."
She sat down on the bed and sighed. "What's wrong, Cooper? Why aren't you happy? And don't try to lie to me and tell me that you are because happy people don't lash out. Emerson said this, and I try to make it my life's philosophy: For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. So why do you chose to remain angry? Or has something happened to you to make you such a miserable person?"
She smiled at him, "Come on. Tell your favorite lesbian all your secrets," she winked and waited for him to spill the beans. She just hated feeling like her Cooper was unhappy.

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[Cooper Reynolds]

Cooper raised a brow when Gin just walked into his dorm room like she owned the place. What if he had been helping himself? Or just chilling out naked? Or having sex? "Genevieve Morgan! What if I was in here jerking off and crying?" He didn't cry when he ... helped himself but she didn't know that! "What if you had just walked in on something like that? I mean you're sexy as fucking hell and if you weren't a lesbian than I would probably want to tap that.. Stroke your lovely lady breasts and use my finger to rub your cl--" He paused when he remembered that she was, in fact, a lesbian who had once had sexual intercourse with his sister.. and her husband.

Honestly, he didn't know why he was so angry at Carol or Kegan or Thalia or the twins.. He just knew that he was. "My dad.. My dad was a fucking awful horrible man. He told Anna, Bee and I how worthless and horrible that we were whenever he had the chance to. He drank and acted like it was fucking fine and dandy and now? Now he's probably going to be dead in five years because he's smoking and drinking himself to an early grave and I'm suppose to care now. I'm suppose to be the good son and pretend that he's fine and stick up for him and cover for him because Esme and Jonathan don't see that, you know? They see him as a hero and someone to look up to.. To strive to be but he's not any kind of a hero... We were twelve when mom moved out with Roy.. I followed and so did Annabel and Bee.. But Esme stayed.. She always stayed so I would come over sometimes and help him so he didn't look so hungover when she got up. She's so naive that she doesn't see it.. She doesn't see that he's wasted always now or that he was drunk when he went to see her after she had Cici... because that's who she is; naive and unsuspecting and me? I'm the one who has to clean it all up in the end."

He cleared his throat and ran his fingers through his hair; he desperately needed to get it trimmed but he didn't have the time these days. "I take it out on Kegan because he's immature and selfish.. How can you just decide which one of your children to love and which ones to just throw away like garbage? He just gave the twins away like they were worthless pieces of shit but he kept Cole? Why? Because Thalia fucking Manson is the mother? Those twins would be better off not knowing he existed because one day.. One day they'll realize that Cole is the favorite and they can't do anything about it. Esme is the favorite child in our family and Cole is the favorite in that.. And Milo and Mona are going to resent him one day just like I do her."

[ginny]

Ginny listened to him explain himself into what felt like to her near hysterics. But at least he was being honest.
"Oh, honey," she wrapped her arms around his torso and laid her head on his shoulder. "I didn't know you were holding all of that in. Those are very intense feelings, and those aren't just things that go away. You can't push that aside, because it's a very big deal. To resent your father..." She shook her head and sat up to look at him.
She placed her hand on his cheek, "You don't deserve to feel this way. No one does. And I think...I think it would be good for you to talk to someone about it. If you don't want to, I understand. And you know I'll be here. I'm just...when grandparents found out that I was a lesbian, they told me that I was going to hell. Pretty much my whole family that didn't live in my house hated me. And for a while I hated them, and blamed myself for tearing my family apart. They told me I was worthless, but you know what I discovered? I'm not. And neither are you.
"I'm sorry your dad chose favorites, I really am. Neither you or your sisters deserved that. But what you need to realize is that isn't your fault, Cooper. What you father does has no reflection on who you are as a person. And let me tell you, you are good. I know you, Cooper. I know the real you. And you are not a hateful person."

She let go of her hold on him and nonchalantly took his hand in hers. "And as for Kegan...you need to let that go. You can't tell how his parenting is. As far as I know, he sees his other kids a lot. Especially because his mom works at the daycare. I don't think he's abandoning them. And even if he was, they seem to have a really stable home. I know you're just speaking from experience and it makes sense, but leave that family alone. The children are healthy, and that's all that matters. Yeah, Kegan Conley is as vapid and idiotic as they come, but even he doesn't deserve to be hated like that."

"And for the record, if I walked in on you masturbating and crying, I'd be more worried and before," she winked at him and made no comment on him talking about what he'd like to do to her if she wasn't gay. Because she was. She was really, really gay. And Cooper was her really awkward and sad best friend.