The Calling

Kennedy

Its been one week since I got that email back from Professor Warner and today is the day I will confront my parents. The past week I have been so happy but also the saddest I've ever been. Crying silently in the showers have been a daily thing for me now. It feels like a hole in my heart has appeared since I've blocked Zoey.

She has tried to reach out to me on Instagram and other social medias apologizing and wanting to talk but I don't want to hear any of it. She showed up to my house the other day and I heard my mother telling her I wasn't home. My mom said she didn't look good, whatever that means. She fucked my boyfriend. My best friend fucked my boyfriend and she doesn't look good? My mother has been a great support to me this week so I'm hoping that continues when I tell her and my father about my decision. Shes tried to talk me into maybe talking to Zoey but I shut her down immediate and she hasn't said anything since about it.

I know we have been best friends for years and maybe I should talk to her but not now. A actual best friend of many years wouldn't sleep with their best friends boyfriend. What hurts me the most is that she doesn't have a problem with getting guys, so why did she have to choose that one, the only person I have ever gotten.

For Dante, I haven't heard from him, not that I care honestly. One thing Zoey was right about is that I deserved better, and now I understand that. I've spent the past week skipping my classes and staring at all the pictures of me and Zoey up on my wall. Well I stared at them until I had a breakdown on day three and torn them off. This breakup between. me and her feels worst then me and Dante's actual breakup. But this new life with be a new chapter for me to find myself and not let people push me around anymore. And unfortunately that starts with telling my parents that I'm wanting to move over 10 hours away from them and do something in my life that densest involve being a lawyer.

After a couple hours later of practicing what I was going to tell my parents, I walked down the stairs and greeted them before realizing I've forgotten all that I've practiced.

They started at me from the kitchen before my mother spoke, "Hey hunny are you alright?" She looked at me from worry, probably thinking I'm going to have another melt down but instead I stiffened up. "Uh-uh yeah I actually have something I have to talk to you guys about." My voice was weak but I needed to be strong.

They stared up to me in confusion before they both took a seat on the bar stools. "I uh- its about school." My mom then took a drink of her water before replying to me, "Oh yeah hunny I know you haven't gone all week and that okay because of certain reasons, but next week you need to go and finish, you've got finals hunny and then your done with your first semester." My Father and Mother both smiled at me and there then it turned upside down when I started talking.

"Act-actually, I'm not going back next week, I'm going to transfer to California." My moms jaw fell open and my father started laughing, "Oh sweetheart don't play jokes like that your going to give your mother a heart attack," He was hunched over from laughing. My mother stayed silent though.

"I'm not joking father, I am really going to transfer," I said with a serious face. My mother then stood off of the bar stool and raised her voice, "Okay Kennedy I've had enough, your not going to let this stupid boy and Zoe drive you away out of the state. You will go back to school next week and finish your studies, there's not question about it."

Anger suddenly overcame me, I felt my cheeks hot, I needed to stay strong and hold my ground. "No mother, I am not. I never told you guys this but I got into my dream school with a full ride to do what I've always wanted to do. I've already emailed about transferring and they said my offer still stands."

"Kennedy, are you seriously still going on about becoming some type of writer again, I'm sorry but its not going to happen. You will stay and become a lawyer just like us remember what we always say you don't-"