Chapter 9

1 0 0
                                    




Remind me to never put your hope in people again. I thought as we finally all got to the dog park thankfully it was around evening by then. I just stopped talking to my bestie Marie via the car phone if she was at the park or not yet. Thankfully she had just gotten there and would be able to help me unload all the dogs and Arabella.
"Yo, Ariel need some help there" Marie's boyfriend Chase asks when he sees me.
"You have no clue how much help I need right now Chase. Could you please take the dogs inside and watch them for me for a sec, while I get Arabella out of the car and put her in her carrier and grab both my purse and her baby bag"
"Yeah sure Airy no problem!" Chase says as he takes the dogs out of the back of the SUV and hurriedly into the park.
I grab Arabella out of  her baby seat and put her into the carrier all the while making sure I missed nothing. It seems like I didn't so I'm going inside. I'm so not in the mood to deal with the judgmental people in there but I guess I have to. I paste on my fake plastic smile as I walk up to the gate and let myself inside the park and see my friends at the farthest picnic table away. Internally I wanna kill them for making go past all the fake people who I unfortunately deign to call my friends.
"Hey Airy! What's with the kid?" says Jodie. A bleach blonde who definitely does not have any of her original features left thanks to all of her daddy's money and an okay I guess plastic surgeon.
"Nothing Jodie. She's my little cousin who I'm watching for the week while her parents are away for work." I tell her hoping she believes and it seems to look like she does thankfully.
"Okay good luck!" Jodie says as I make my way over to where my friends sit watching everything that's going on in the park and all of the dogs.
Once I'm over there I look at my phone and see a bunch of missed calls and texts from Harry, one call from my mom asking where I was even though I literally texted her not half an hour ago as to what was going on and one from Jim saying that he was on the way to help me out with everything. For some reason the guy thinks I'm the same person from high school, which I definitely am not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a lot more outspoken, honest, and definitely bitchier. I have no problem when someone calls me that either I just don't like it when they decide to call me something degrading or that I'm an ice queen. The ice queen part sure anything else I am not by any stretch of ones imagination. I can handle myself but for some reason everyone takes one look at me and they think I'm helpless. I'm not that sort of person. No I am not.
Oh god it's definitely been a long day if I'm inner monologuing and I'm regretting being here more by the second.
I've been here about 15 to 20 minutes not the usual amount of time that I'm there but I really can't take anymore so it's making the decision to go home right now to Jim's house with the dogs and Arabella all the more easier in doing.
I say my goodbyes. Call Jim and tell him to go back to the house since I'm currently en route there from the park and am bringing the dogs as well.
I get some help from Marie and Chase again in packing everyone back up again. I tell Marie I'll text her or call her with updates on this whole nutty situation. Turn the car on, back out of the parking lot and am on my way back to Jim's expensive as hell mansion house.
  

Only the Lord KnowsWhere stories live. Discover now