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through the contacts. There weren’t many, as I didn’t have many friends, but the one friend I needed would always be there for me. I felt a power rush over me as I replayed what just happened in my head. I took control and I wasn’t going to let it slip away. I dialed the all too familiar number and waited patiently until Parker answered the phone.
“Hello?” she questioned, she must not have looked at the caller ID if she was asking who this was.
“Parker, I need your help with something,” I stated without pausing for common telephone pleasantries. I wanted to get to the point of this conversation as fast as possible so I wouldn’t have time to change my mind.
“Sure. What is it, Lauren?”
“I need you to teach me how to break the rules. I no longer want to live under the rules set for me. I want to break free and live life. I want to honor the wishes my mom had for me,” I stated, not realizing Parker wouldn’t understand what I meant without her knowing what happened in the attorney’s office. “She left me everything, and she wants me to live the life I want, but I don’t know how. If I do it alone, I’ll never be able to do it. I’m a mess, and need help. I need your help.”
“I would love to help with that,” she stated. “Can I just say that it’s about goddamn time you made this phone call?” I could hear the smile in her words as she agreed to help me. “There’s no turning back once you start this, Lauren. You know that, right? I know you’re upset about your mom, and you have every right to be, but once we start down this road you’re stuck with it.” It sounded more as if she was warning me instead of asking to make sure I knew what I was getting into.
“I don’t want to go back, Parker. I’ll see you tomorrow,” I said as I hung up the phone and glanced out the window. I could feel the heartache of my mother’s loss slowly washing over me again, beginning to crash down and suffocate me. Tears had already welled up in my eyes, even though I had cried so much lately I didn’t think I had much more in me. I wanted to push it away, to feel something other than the void in my chest, but the only thing easing me was the promise of a new life. That’s when I decided I wasn’t going to stay in my room, I was going to go to Parker’s house no matter what my father had to say about it.
Chapter 8
Virgin White
“Parker, where are we going?” I whined as she dragged me toward my locker. She hadn’t explained anything since she made me race out of Physics to meet her before lunch. Ever since she agreed to help me she had been sneaking around and keeping secrets. That included when I went to her house the first night. We tried a lot of little things to build my confidence, but I felt as though it wasn’t working. I was slowly slipping back into my old behavior around my father and I could only attribute it to losing my mother. She had been my support and guidance, with her gone I wanted to please my father again, if only to stop the arguments. “Can you just tell me what we’re doing?”
“Well, I don’t really know how to teach you to be more like me. So far you’ve managed to talk yourself out of everything we tried because you’re worried about getting into trouble. So I got you a mentor instead,” Parker said with a forced smile as she looked at me nervously.
I felt a dejected expression take over my features. It’d barely been a week and she was already giving up, but maybe it was for the better. As my friend, Parker wouldn’t want to start a fight, maybe she found someone who was willing to push me to take a leap out of my comfort zone. “Okay, so what’s wrong?”
“Well, you’re not really going to like who it is,” she said with a fake smile on her face.
“What does that mean?”
“It means that I could only find one person to help you out, and you and him don’t really see eye to eye,” Parker said
“Hello?” she questioned, she must not have looked at the caller ID if she was asking who this was.
“Parker, I need your help with something,” I stated without pausing for common telephone pleasantries. I wanted to get to the point of this conversation as fast as possible so I wouldn’t have time to change my mind.
“Sure. What is it, Lauren?”
“I need you to teach me how to break the rules. I no longer want to live under the rules set for me. I want to break free and live life. I want to honor the wishes my mom had for me,” I stated, not realizing Parker wouldn’t understand what I meant without her knowing what happened in the attorney’s office. “She left me everything, and she wants me to live the life I want, but I don’t know how. If I do it alone, I’ll never be able to do it. I’m a mess, and need help. I need your help.”
“I would love to help with that,” she stated. “Can I just say that it’s about goddamn time you made this phone call?” I could hear the smile in her words as she agreed to help me. “There’s no turning back once you start this, Lauren. You know that, right? I know you’re upset about your mom, and you have every right to be, but once we start down this road you’re stuck with it.” It sounded more as if she was warning me instead of asking to make sure I knew what I was getting into.
“I don’t want to go back, Parker. I’ll see you tomorrow,” I said as I hung up the phone and glanced out the window. I could feel the heartache of my mother’s loss slowly washing over me again, beginning to crash down and suffocate me. Tears had already welled up in my eyes, even though I had cried so much lately I didn’t think I had much more in me. I wanted to push it away, to feel something other than the void in my chest, but the only thing easing me was the promise of a new life. That’s when I decided I wasn’t going to stay in my room, I was going to go to Parker’s house no matter what my father had to say about it.
Chapter 8
Virgin White
“Parker, where are we going?” I whined as she dragged me toward my locker. She hadn’t explained anything since she made me race out of Physics to meet her before lunch. Ever since she agreed to help me she had been sneaking around and keeping secrets. That included when I went to her house the first night. We tried a lot of little things to build my confidence, but I felt as though it wasn’t working. I was slowly slipping back into my old behavior around my father and I could only attribute it to losing my mother. She had been my support and guidance, with her gone I wanted to please my father again, if only to stop the arguments. “Can you just tell me what we’re doing?”
“Well, I don’t really know how to teach you to be more like me. So far you’ve managed to talk yourself out of everything we tried because you’re worried about getting into trouble. So I got you a mentor instead,” Parker said with a forced smile as she looked at me nervously.
I felt a dejected expression take over my features. It’d barely been a week and she was already giving up, but maybe it was for the better. As my friend, Parker wouldn’t want to start a fight, maybe she found someone who was willing to push me to take a leap out of my comfort zone. “Okay, so what’s wrong?”
“Well, you’re not really going to like who it is,” she said with a fake smile on her face.
“What does that mean?”
“It means that I could only find one person to help you out, and you and him don’t really see eye to eye,” Parker said
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