Love My Neighborhood

Chapter Seven: Spring Break with Freak

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Monday of Spring Break

The nerves I experienced for my mid-semester exams were like a year long vacation compared to the crippling feeling of dread I was continuously experiencing just at the thought of meeting Rosa. Rodriguez and I kept in contact after that faithful phone-call and I leant that we had similar humor and he was actually a pretty cool guy so I was actually looking forward to meeting him in person, but Rosa she was another story, one that didn't have a good ending for me especially. 

An involuntary shiver wracked my body as I thought about how our first interaction would go. Most of those ended with me in the hospital or in a graveyard. Something I was actively trying to prevent by avoiding to go, but Jared eventually caught on and he was on his last straw of patience. After faking a stomach bug,  Irascible digestion (diarrhea), Hemline Fracture (Nothing to wear), Lethargic Osmosis (Laziness), the last one was true but that's besides the point because it still didn't work and I was at my wits end so I pulled out my trump card, the Bloody Mary.

"Jessie, we're already running late, can you hurry and get out of the bathroom." Jared incessant knocks startled me from my thoughts.

"I would but my period just started." I faked a groan on the toilet that should've give the illusion of me going through cramps, but all I got back was a pained sigh.

"You're period isn't until next week." He responded through the door when he realized that I locked it so he couldn't barge in and catch me in my web of not properly thought out lies.

"That was true, but you know stress and irregular eating habits can change it. And I have been missing meals and been pretty stressed lately, I even think I've lost a a pound or two." There was logic behind that, me constantly thinking of eventually meeting Rosa led to me stressing, which then led to me losing my appetite. There was a moment of silence, and I thought I was home free but then he replied.

"Let me see." 

Wait, what? Huh?? He cant mean what I think he means, right?

"Let you see what?" 

"You said you're on your period, let me see the blood." 

"You're joking... Right?" I know he wasn't but I was praying to every single God that he was.

"No, I'm not." My faith in every religion dwindled a bit, but I decided to give it another shot. 

Dear God, I know I haven't been the best Christian, hell, I'm not that great of a human either but please, please, please, please, please, pleeeaaasssseeeee, help me. Let Rosa call and cancel or something.

Before my impromptu prayer was even finish, I heard Jared's phone ringing outside which made me launch myself off the toilet to open the door. God surely works fast.

 Finding him standing in the living room with his back to me, he was silent for most of the call, only grunting or saying a few words here and there in reply to whoever was calling he soon ended the call with a 'don't worry, we'll both be there soon' and then swung around with a look of annoyance on his face. As if not expecting me behind him, a look of surprise passed over his features before annoyance with a hint of anger returned and settled.

"Who was that?" 

"Rosa," He pauses, "she was crying." There was another pause, "She called me crying because she thinks that the reason we're late is because you don't want to meet her, and that you're going to be uncomfortable around her. She thinks that we're not gonna show up and she offered to leave if you'd prefer that. "