Trouble

13

"Isabella, how are you?" A lady asks walking into the room.

"I'm a bit tired, I could eat something"

"Well you can go out and get food in just a second" she says, and slides a clipboard across the table towards me. "Since you moved, we weren't able to keep close tabs on you, so we're just gonna assume you've done good"

A wave of relief goes over me, I nod and start signing the papers.

Afterwards, we all piled into my car. I was driving, Robby was beside me and Tory was in the back.

We dropped Tory off, and when we did Robby got out and came around to my side.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"I'm going to drive, you said you want me to show you around town, right?" He says opening my door.

"Yeah whatever" I say going around the car and getting back in.

"Where do you want to go first?" Robby asks, backing out of the apartment complex.

"I don't care, your the one showing me around town"

"Okay fine" he says. "Ask me a question."

"Tell me, your deepest darkest secret" I say.

"My secret,?" He says then takes a long pause, "I did drugs, like a year or so ago"

"You?" I ask smiling. "What'd you do?"

"At my first school I got expelled for having molly"

"Well damn"

"Yeah, it's a long story. I'm not proud about a lot of things I've done" he says, not making eye contact with me.

"Me either" I say and he finally looks over to me.

"Yeah that's right" he says. "What did you do that was so bad? Besides beat up Tory."

"I stole a few things from a store for my boyfriends birthday, ran into Tory, turns out she was dating that asshole too. We fought, then the cops showed up and, yeah" I summarize.

"Your boyfriend?"

"Ex" I tell him.

"Ah" he says pulling up to a restaurant. "Ready for a fucked up date do-over?" He says turning off the engine.

"Of course," I tell him getting out of the car. We both walk in and get a table really fast.

"So where are we going after this?" I ask.

"Nice try, I'm not telling you" he says.

"Come on, it worked last time!" I beg.

"No it didn't" he says, and a smile grows on his face. "I never told you why I picked a fight with Shawn"

"Well why did you?" I ask.

"I can't tell you"

"Why not? You can't get in trouble from that anymore" I say.

"I can't.."

"Why the hell not?" I almost scream.

"I don't know..."

"Oh you don't know? You don't know why you-" I start.

"Izzy!" Robby yells. "I didn't know what I was doing until I was doing it, okay?" He says with annoyance in his voice.

"Okay, I'm sorry." I say in the same tone.

We both sit in silence for a while, an awkward silence.