- Intro Chapter -
It was January. The first day of school after winter break. I was at school early, not because I missed it, but because Charlie was particularly insistent on me "waking up", as he so nicely put it. He was hell bent on sending me to Renee in Florida. I tried to talk him out of it but ended up forced to have a girls night at the movies with a friend. I picked Jessica because she is so self centered she would leave me alone. I shuddered at the thought.
It wasn't raining so I decided to sit on the hood of my truck and tried to avoid thinking. Was what Charlie said true? Was I "moping"? cue cringe. I was just hurting. He had left me. They all had left me. My chosen set of parents, my best friend, my big brother, my ... my soul mate.
And suddenly I was angry.
Angry at him. Angry at me. I should have been more careful. He should have kept his promise. Alice should have seen what would happen when she wrapped the presents. The whole family should have fed before the party. They should have the decency to at least say goodbye instead of leaving quickly like the thieves.
And more important why the hell wasn't Jasper able to resist when he resisted me perfectly all summer long? When he resisted perfectly at the dance studio? I was freaking bleeding all over the room and he didn't even look at me twice!
Every thought was like a slap to my face. For the first in months I was feeling something.
- End Chapter -