Luke pulled into a nice looking restaurant. "Wow, bro, do you have a lot of cash or something?" Karen asked from the back.
Luke chuckled. "Well, if you can call being able to afford taking my sister and my..." He looked over at Tru, who smiled back at him. "My sister and my girlfriend to a nice restaurant, then, yes."
Karen snorted, as though Luke had made a joke.
"Isn't that Harrison's car?" Luke said as he pointed to a familiar looking car.
"Yeah. I wonder what he's doing here?" Tru said as Luke pulled his car to a stop next to Harrison's car.
"Who's... Harrison?" Karen asked curiously as she got out of the back of the vehicle.
"Oh Harry? He's my younger brother." Tru asked, as she stopped to look into the restaurant. She spotted Harrison with some girl she'd never seen before.
"Is that him? With that chick at the bar?" Karen asked. Tru nodded slowly. "She looks like she makes her money by working on street corners at night, if you know what I mean."
"Karen!" Luke hushed her as they walked into the restaurant. Karen rolled her eyes.
"Tru!" Harrison called as he spotted his sister and Luke, and what must be Luke's sister.
"Hey Harry." Tru said as he came up and gave her a hug.
"Harrison. Nice to see you again." Luke said as he shook Harrison's hand in a friendly matter.
"Hi, I'm Karen, Luke's sister." Karen said as she stuck out her hand, hoping that the cute guy would shake her hand.
"Hey." Harrison said, but didn't shake her hand. "Well, I got to go back to my 'hot date'. Catch ya later, Tru." Harrison walked back to his date.
Tru looked at Karen and saw the disappointment in her eyes. She tried to think of something sympathetic to say, but nothing came to mind.
"Party of three?" a waitress asked Luke, who nodded. "Follow me."
The waitress showed them a table and they sat down.
"What would you guys like to drink?" the waitress asked.
"I will have some grape juice, please." Karen said, with a plan forming in her mind.
"Water's fine, for now, thanks." Luke said. The waitress looked at Tru.
"I'll have water, too."
The waitress left, then was back with their drinks. Karen was sitting next to Tru, who was right across from Luke. Karen picked up her grape juice and turned to Tru. "So, what's your job? Do you have a boring job like my brother? Do you take pictures?"
"Uh, no. I work at a morgue." Karen scrunched up her face.
"You mean, where they take dead people when they die?" she asked. Tru nodded. 'Wow, she's weirder than I thought she was. I guess I will do my plan now then.'
Karen sat her grape juice glass on the table carelessly, and it tipped over and got grape juice all over Tru's white tank top. 'My plan worked!' Karen thought, as she, Tru and Luke jumped up.
"Oops, sorry about that," Karen said, as she grabbed napkins. She started to dab at Tru's shirt.
"Here, let me help you with that," Luke said, as he grabbed napkins and also started to dab at Tru's shirt.
"It's ok, guys, I'll just go to the bathroom." Karen moved as Tru walked up to the counter to ask for some club soda to take out the stain.
"Karen, why did you do that?" Luke hissed at Karen.
Karen gave him an innocent look. "It was an accident." Luke looked at her skeptically. "Honest." Luke sighed.
She looked at Tru as she walked towards the bathroom with the club soda. Karen whispered to Luke, "You didn't tell her about my suicide problem, did you?" Karen had tried to commit suicide a couple times before, once by overdosing pills, and once by trying to drown herself in her friend's backyard pool.
Luke sighed a he leaned towards Karen. "Of course not. Is there a reason I should have? You're not going to try it ever again, though, right? I mean, didn't those therapy lessons that Mom, I mean, Renee and Dave paid for helped, right."
Karen looked down at her lap. "Of course I'm not going to do it again." She looked up a Luke with a hurt expression on her face. "Do you think I'm that stupid to try it again?" Karen started to get up. Karen felt the knife in her sweatshirt pocket that she had took from her parents house.
"Where are you
going?" Luke sighed as he got up. Karen started walking.
"To
the bathroom, jeez." Karen passed Tru on her way to the bathroom.
Tru asked her, "Is everything alright?" Karen just sneered at her and walked into the bathroom. Tru heard her slam a stall door.
"Ok," she said, as she walked back to the table. She was able to get most of the stain out; it was just a faint purple blotch.
"What's wrong with Karen?" Tru asked as she sat down at her table.
Luke sighed. "I said something that made her mad."
"Does she have, like, problems or something. I don't mean to be rude or anything. I mean, like, psychological problems."
Luke nodded. "Yeah, she tried to commit suicide a couple times a while ago. Our parents put her into therapy, and she says its working. I don't know if I believe her or not, though."
Tru just nodded.
Ten minutes later...
"Do you want me to go check on her?" Tru asked Luke, who was looking at his watch for the fiftieth time since Karen had left to go to the bathroom. Luke nodded.
"Be back in a minute." Tru said, and walked to the bathroom.
"Karen?" Tru called into the bathroom as she opened the door. No response. There was only one stall door closed. "Karen?" Tru asked again, knocking on the only closed door. The door came open, with an eerie creak.
"Oh, Karen!" Tru knelt down next to Karen, who was on the ground, white as a ghost. Tru noticed the knife in Karen's hands, then the stab wounds on her stomach. Tru knew it was helpless, but she felt for a pulse. Nothing. She looked at the knife. "To the love of my life, Dave. From, Renee" was what was inscripted on it. 'So she took it from her parents!'
"What's wrong, Miss?" a young woman in her thirties asked Tru.
"Call the ambulance! This girl's hurt herself!" Tru ordered the lady, who got out her cell phone and started dialing 9-1-1. Tru barely heard the lady talking to the operator. Finally, she hung up and said, "They will be here in about five minutes, Miss. Miss?"
Tru didn't hear her. All she heard was Karen asking her for help.
Whoosh! Tru was sent back to the start of the day.
"Karen!" was all Tru said as she sat up in bed.
