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they aren’t proud of. Trust me, I get it.” Then a smile formed on her thin lips as she added, “It could’ve been worse though. You could have blackmailed me.” I rolled my eyes, picking up on her reference to what Brianna had done to her this past school year. The girl really had bad luck when it came to mean girls.
Eleanor furrowed her eyebrows, a bewildered expression on her face.
With that, we waved goodbye and turned to head off. Once we were at a far enough distance from Eleanor and her friends, I leaned into Ella and muttered, “Yeah, she didn’t blackmail you, but she did drug you. I think that’s worse.”
Chapter 10
“Are you girls having fun?” trilled my dad’s voice from my laptop. His face was closer than necessary to the screen, and he kept leaning into the microphone to talk, which made his voice extremely loud on our end.
Ella nodded and grinned. “We went shopping yesterday.”
Dad shook his head at that. “How much did you spend? I hope you girls don’t use up all of the money I gave you before your break ends.”
“You can always just send us more,” I coaxed, batting my eyelashes.
He frowned at my suggestion. “Money doesn’t grow on trees, girls.”
I waved my hand at the camera. “Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard this spiel before. We won’t spend it all before summer break ends. I’m planning on having enough left over to last me a few weekends when we get back home anyway.”
Dad scoffed. “Yeah right. If you have any money left over when you get home it’s going back in my wallet.”
I jutted my bottom lip out in an exaggerated pout.
“Yeah, well, how would you know if we have anything left over or not if we don’t tell you? We could say that we spent it all, and then just keep it for ourselves.” Ella looked smug.
Raising a thick eyebrow, Dad responded, “That would be lying, and even if I don’t know the truth, you guys will. Your lying will take a toll on you and you’ll get stressed out, and then all of your hair will fall out. That’s the long-term effect that lying has on people.”
Ella and I rolled our eyes simultaneously. “We aren’t kids anymore, Dad. That story won’t work on us anymore.” I glanced at Ella next to me. “Well, it won’t work on me. Ella is still kind of naïve. She might actually believe it still.”
“Ha, ha.” Ella feigned a laugh. “You are just so funny,” she deadpanned.
“She gets her sense of humor from me,” Dad bragged. He smiled so hard that the laugh lines in the corners of his eyes became prominent.
Considering how depressed Mom was for the past year, I couldn’t really remember if she was funny or not. She didn’t do a lot of laughing or joking around lately, that was for sure. Of course there had to be a time when she’d had a good sense of humor; I just couldn’t remember it.
“How’s Virginia without us?” I questioned.
Dad sighed, and his smile disappeared. “Boring. I miss my girls. I never thought I would say this, but I even miss hearing you two argue.”
“Well then, you’d be sad to hear that we haven’t argued once since we’ve been here,” Ella pointed out.
Dad raised an eyebrow at her statement. “You have to be kidding me. You girls go at it at least once a day.” He wasn’t exaggerating. Even when Ella and I were getting along and having fun together, we were still sisters and we still got on each other’s nerves at times. We had argued significantly less since our parents had separated, and since Ella had started to think for herself rather than blindly follow others, but arguing was still usually a daily activity for us.
“Maybe it’s the change of being in a new environment,” I offered up. “We both just needed a break from school and our friends—”
“And your old man,” he interjected.
“Yeah right,” I shot back. “We miss you so much.”
“Maybe you can take a week off and come to visit too?” Ella chimed in.
Eleanor furrowed her eyebrows, a bewildered expression on her face.
With that, we waved goodbye and turned to head off. Once we were at a far enough distance from Eleanor and her friends, I leaned into Ella and muttered, “Yeah, she didn’t blackmail you, but she did drug you. I think that’s worse.”
Chapter 10
“Are you girls having fun?” trilled my dad’s voice from my laptop. His face was closer than necessary to the screen, and he kept leaning into the microphone to talk, which made his voice extremely loud on our end.
Ella nodded and grinned. “We went shopping yesterday.”
Dad shook his head at that. “How much did you spend? I hope you girls don’t use up all of the money I gave you before your break ends.”
“You can always just send us more,” I coaxed, batting my eyelashes.
He frowned at my suggestion. “Money doesn’t grow on trees, girls.”
I waved my hand at the camera. “Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard this spiel before. We won’t spend it all before summer break ends. I’m planning on having enough left over to last me a few weekends when we get back home anyway.”
Dad scoffed. “Yeah right. If you have any money left over when you get home it’s going back in my wallet.”
I jutted my bottom lip out in an exaggerated pout.
“Yeah, well, how would you know if we have anything left over or not if we don’t tell you? We could say that we spent it all, and then just keep it for ourselves.” Ella looked smug.
Raising a thick eyebrow, Dad responded, “That would be lying, and even if I don’t know the truth, you guys will. Your lying will take a toll on you and you’ll get stressed out, and then all of your hair will fall out. That’s the long-term effect that lying has on people.”
Ella and I rolled our eyes simultaneously. “We aren’t kids anymore, Dad. That story won’t work on us anymore.” I glanced at Ella next to me. “Well, it won’t work on me. Ella is still kind of naïve. She might actually believe it still.”
“Ha, ha.” Ella feigned a laugh. “You are just so funny,” she deadpanned.
“She gets her sense of humor from me,” Dad bragged. He smiled so hard that the laugh lines in the corners of his eyes became prominent.
Considering how depressed Mom was for the past year, I couldn’t really remember if she was funny or not. She didn’t do a lot of laughing or joking around lately, that was for sure. Of course there had to be a time when she’d had a good sense of humor; I just couldn’t remember it.
“How’s Virginia without us?” I questioned.
Dad sighed, and his smile disappeared. “Boring. I miss my girls. I never thought I would say this, but I even miss hearing you two argue.”
“Well then, you’d be sad to hear that we haven’t argued once since we’ve been here,” Ella pointed out.
Dad raised an eyebrow at her statement. “You have to be kidding me. You girls go at it at least once a day.” He wasn’t exaggerating. Even when Ella and I were getting along and having fun together, we were still sisters and we still got on each other’s nerves at times. We had argued significantly less since our parents had separated, and since Ella had started to think for herself rather than blindly follow others, but arguing was still usually a daily activity for us.
“Maybe it’s the change of being in a new environment,” I offered up. “We both just needed a break from school and our friends—”
“And your old man,” he interjected.
“Yeah right,” I shot back. “We miss you so much.”
“Maybe you can take a week off and come to visit too?” Ella chimed in.
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