Surely being alone a lot during your childhood helped you with accepting rejection better, but that doesn't mean you leaned on how to cope with it in healthy ways.

You turned to a rebble at a young age. You liked to run away, sneak out, drink, smoke, party, do drugs. It didn't matter as long as it got your parents to give you attention. Even in a negative way.

As you got older, you managed to stop smoking and drinking. You finally got good habits.

But just like the saying goes, old habits die hard.

You started smoking again when deigo found out. He wasn't bothered. He even shared cigarettes with you before he made friends with and even started dating dakota.

But when Dakota found out you and deigo smoke, she made both of you quit. If she even got a sniff of a cigarette, she would immediately look at you and dagger as if you had just done something illegal on live tv.

Maybe it was weird when you caught her at a party shotgunning with a friend from her Sorority.

deigo grabbed her by her arms and practically dragged her outside like a child about to get scolded. You followed shortly after, glaring at the back of her head.

As soon as yall three got outside, deigo let her go and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her in an acusing manner.

"What the fuck where you thinking?"

He asked Dakota who was leaned again the wall looking like a guilty dog.

"Ok, fine I smoked one puff. Why does it matter?"

She shrugged, grinding her shoe against the rough concrete of the front porch, hand gripping her wrist. In a guilt way.

"You get to be mad at us for smoking, but as soon as you do exactly that, it's ok?!"

deigo was looking at her in an accusatory manner, as one dude walked down the sidewalk away from the party.

"akward!"

The guy yelled. You grabbed an empty beer can left behind and threw it at the guy. Who squealed like a pig and ran off. Deigo just glared at Dakota like she just shot someone and shrugged it off, saying, 'oopsie!'.