Chapter 3
The sun was just falling below the horizon when my phone rang, I pulled it out of my pocket and checked the caller ID.
Mum.
I was about to answer it, but Jesse cleared his throat loudly.
"Do you want to go home right now? Cause you know what'll happen if you answer that" he said pointedly.
"No, I don't want to go home." I replied honestly.
We'd been standing on the foreshore skipping rocks for the last hour or so, the sun had set and the light from the street lamps up on the road was barely reaching us.
"Then don't answer it." Jesse said simply.
I felt a twinge of guilt as I put my phone on silent and slid it back into my pocket.
But I felt something else as well…and it felt good.
Jesse started talking about a girl in his art class called Amber. She sounded like a pretentious snob to me, but he described her like she was some kind of prize.
There was a school dance next week and he was planning on asking her to go with him…
I realised suddenly that I'd never really been interested in any of the girls at school…they were interested in me of course. Well I thought they were. They followed me around and smiled and blinked a lot…
"Are you going?" Jesse's voice interrupted my reverie.
"Where?" I asked, realising that I'd accidentally tuned him out.
"The dance. Next week. Are you going?" He asked again as we walked slowly back up toward the road.
"I've never been to one," I said shrugging.
"I know." He laughed shaking his head, "But that's not what I asked."
We were slowly heading back down the main street towards Eymans, it was pretty dark, I suddenly wondered what time it was.
"Well…I guess I could…do you have to bring a date?" I wasn't sure how these things usually worked. Were dates a prerequisite or optional?
"Well you don't have to…but it's kinda lame if you don't." He replied, "Amber has a friend who's single, she just transferred to Bellevue, she's pretty cute…we could double?" He shoved me playfully, as we reached our bikes.
I shoved him back, "Alright, it's a date." I laughed, as I swung my leg over my bike and pointed it towards home.
"Sweet, I'll see ya tomorrow!" he yelled as he took off in the opposite direction.
"See ya!" I replied as I watched him go.
As we rode out of site I took out my phone, what time is it?
Shit.
4 missed calls, 3 voicemail messages, 5 text messages.
I checked the time, 10:30pm..whoops. I thought about calling home, but decided to just go straight there instead.
I started to put my phone back into my pocket.
All of a sudden bright headlights blinded me, and a huge black Escalade came to a screeching halt in front of where I stood.
Uh Oh.
The passenger side door flew open and my dad jumped out, I could just see in behind him that Taylor was driving. Neither of them looked very happy.
"Do you have any idea what time it is?!" He shouted at me.
I froze, my phone halfway into my jeans pocket.
He looked down at my hand. "Oh, so you do have your phone on you?!" He demanded furiously.
"I was just about to-." I began
"You were just about to get in the car, go, right now!" He said, grabbing the handle bars of my bike.
I jumped off just as he wrenched it towards him and shouted at Taylor to open the back.
He threw the bike into the back of the car with more force than necessary and slammed the door.
I stood silently watching him from the side walk.
As he stormed back around the side of the car and wrenched the back door open.
"Did you hear me?! I said Get. In. The. Car!" he held the door open glaring at me.
I paused for a moment staring at him.
Well this was different. Angry dad…he was looking at me…talking to me...
He's glaring and yelling at you my subconscious correct me.
Close enough.
I walked slowly to the car and slid into the back seat. As soon as I was in he slammed the door behind me.
He climbed back into the front passenger seat, slamming his door as well.
"Home." He growled, as Taylor put the car into gear and spun around. "I don't know what's gotten into you Ted, but this is unacceptable behaviour." He scolded.
I smiled to myself in the darkness as we sped through the night... Just you wait.
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