"Hello. I'm looking for Madaline and Roger Sherwood." I say at the front desk. "Do you two have an appointment?" "No ma'am." Jared answers. "They do not take walk ins." the woman at the front desk said. "We're their children." I say. The woman looked at us and laughed. "They have no children!" My eye went wide. They never even talked about their children?! Wow. I feel loved (see the sarcasm there.)
What parent doesn't talk about their kids? Well, I don't blame them. Their son ran away because he didn't want to be in boarding school and their daughter is suicidal because of her dead love. To think of it... My family is dysfunctional. "Are you sure?" Jared asked. "They never talked about any children before. I can call them an-" "No... We can just surprise them" I say with a smile. "Their office is level 8 room 315." the woman says and Jared led the way.
I felt dizzy. Very dizzy. "Whats wrong little sister? Afraid of heights?" he joked. "No. Elevators." I say sitting on the floor. *Ding* *ding* great we're only on level 3! "What's there to be afraid of?" Jared asked. "We might get trapped or some crazy person can come from the ceiling." I say. "You watch too many movies." Jared says and then the door opened. "I blame Shane and Leo." I tell Jared and we walked to room 315.
I sighed as we stopped at our parents office. What will they say? Will they be mad? "Don't worry about it. Everything will be alright." Jared informs me. Can he read my mind or am I that easy to read? "Easy for you to say." I say and Jared knocked on the door. "Come in." my mother said. I walked in first.
My father was the first to notice me. He was shocked. "Rylee, is it really you?" my father asked. "Yes. I want answers." I say. "About what?" my mother asked. "You know what! Why haven't you told you co workers about us?" I asked. "Rylee, this is business not a get to know about your life thing." My mother said. "So you just pushed us away?" "Who's us?" dad asked. Jared walked into the room. My mother gasped. My father frozed. "It can't be! You ran away." my mom said. "Because you wanted to send me to boarding school!" Jared yelled. "You were a bad child. You needed to get away for awhile." "That was not true! You didn't want me as your son so you chose boarding school to get rid of me! I know what happened after I left. Your own daughter has been depressed because of her boyfriends death and you two aren't around to comfort her!" Jared was angry now. "Mikes death was over a year ago. She already moved on." Mom said. Why is she doing all the talking? Dad has a say in this too!
It was my turn to talk. Jared basically said everything I was going to say so I will just scream my feelings out to all of them. "Just because I moved on doesn't mean I lost my feelings for him! Then you go on blaming me for his death! What kind of parents are you? I can't even call you my parents because you two never came home. What did you do? Move into your office?" I yell. Dad was still frozen. Mom had tears in her eyes. "Go ahead and cry. That what I do when I made a mistake and I couldn't fix it. I can't fix our family relationship but maybe the both of you can. Remember that house you bought 18 years ago? Yeah that's your house and none of you have been inside that house in a year. Did you know it gets lonely in there?" Now I'm starting to cry. "Do you know what it's like to wake up in the morning and when you walk downstairs you don't see your parents fixing breakfast or reading the daily newspaper or telling you good morning?
Do you know what it's like going to school and not having you own mother tell you good luck or have a nice day? No you don't because. I know how it feels. It feels empty. I feel unloved. I feel... Abandoned." I cried. Jared was holding me now. "When my friends come over they wonder why my parents arent here. I tell them that you're at work or on a business trip. When I hang out at my friends house I always see their parents. Did you know that Mr. And Mrs. Ellis asked about you two? No you didn't. It's like you're hiding or running away from something." I say. Dad got up and handed mom a box of tissues. "I bet this will be the last time we'll see each other." I add. Jared and I walked out of their office and went back to the lobby.
Before we left Jared went to the front desk and took the whole bowl of lollipops and mints while the woman from the front desk was out on a lunch break.
We ran out of the building and sat down on a bench. "Let's throw a party." Jared says sucking a cherry dum-dum. "I just told off our parents ,which I cried, and you want to throw a flipping party?" I ask. Jared nods his head. "Then let's throw a f**king party!" I say.
I texted everyone on my cellphone and told them about my party. I sent Jared to get the snacks and beverages. He refused but then I told him that I would kick him out. *DING DONG* I ran to the door. "Hey!" I say and I saw about 50 people outside. WOW! I let them in and turned up the radio. I saw Leo,Kyle and Shane talking by the steps.
I walked up to them. "Hey guys!" I say ,all happy and stuff, showing my fake smile. "Hey there." Leo says and I gave them all a hug but Shane's hug was the longest. "You van let go of me now." I say. Shane loosened his grip and kissed my cheek. "So, where's you boyfriend?" Leo asked. "Right here." a deep and smooth voice said. "Toby!" I say and gave him a kiss. The boys wooed and hollered. So immature of them but I still love them.
The party just started and everyone is already happy and having fun. I spotted Jade grinding on a junior. Hes pretty cute. Jamie was flirting with the juniors friend and Torri was dancing with Kyle. They are so perfect for each other.
Toby was talking to Leo and Shane. Oh boy. I walked past them but then Toby pulled me back. "So, you cut yourself,eh?" Toby asked. "Um, I stopped a long time ago." I say. Did he have to bring that up? "I'm concerned about you babe." Toby says kissing my cheek. "If there's anything wrong... I'm here for you." "I know can we talk about this later? My brother and I threw this to get our minds off of things." I say. "Okay baby." he says and i turned to see a shocked look on Shane and Leos face. They never knew I cut myself. I didn't want them to know. I didn't want anyone to know but because of my brother they all know.
I grabbed a bud light can from the cooler outside and just when I was about to drink it.. Shane slapped my butt. Seriously?! "You need to stop doing that!" I say and he smiled until he saw the beer can. "You don't drink." he tells me. "And? There's nothing wrong about trying new things." I say. "Rylee, if I were you, I wouldn't drink it." Shane says. "Well you're not me, okay?" I snapped and Shane frowned. "Fine, don't say I didn't warn you." he says staring into my eyes. "There's Cindy White... I think she's checking you out." I tell Shane. He doesn't let go of his gaze. "Are you going to drink it?" he asked. I do not want him to be right. I hate it when he's right and I'm wrong. "Yup." I say and took a sip. "You can do better than that!" Shane says. Why is he encouraging me? He should be disappointed. That was probably his plan all along. "Chug! Chug! Chug!" Shane cheered and then my brother tagged along. Moments later everyone was cheering me on and so was Toby.
They gave me another can and then brought out a huge jug of beer. Holy S**T! "Come on Rylee! You can do it!" Jared says and then I grabbed the tube thing and started chugging. After 2 more fillings of beer I was wired! "Let's go upstairs." a guy said. I couldn't see him and I didn't recognize his voice. "No!" I say and ran. I hit something hard. "Rylee, are you okay?" Leo asked. I think it was Leo. "Yeah. You're cute." I say struggling to get up. "You don't mean that." it was Kyle. "Where's Toby? I can't see anything." "I will go find him." Kyle says and I think he left. Where did he go? He was here just a second ago! "Rylee , let's dance." Toby says. "Allllllllright." I say. I think my words were slurred because I hear Toby correcting me.
Toby pulled me into the middle of the living room and we started dancing. He's a good dancer. Wow. I'm so impressed! I think we danced for a while because I heard Shane talking to Toby and the next thing I knew, I was dirty dancing, to Down On Me by Jeremih, with Shane! "Keep you're shirt on sweetie." he laughs and then he spun me around. Our lips were inches apart. I leaned in and...
