Her Million Miles; The Drive Series: Book 1

Chapter 15 O'Neil's School for Girls

"The mass was wonderful" as Debra walks over to talk to one of the sisters. Jackson and Sabrina wait in the corridor looking at all the pictures on the wall. Shelby hops down the hall next to her sister, "We are coming here," mommy says. Sabrina wrinkles her nose a little to the sound of that. Shelby whispers to her dad something and he then takes her down the hall and tells Sabrina, "wait here for your mom." Sabrina goes about looking at more pictures when a couple of girls walk down the hall and look at her funny. One says, "Look, she already looks like one of the nuns here, in her black dress." Another laughs, at the girl's words and says to Sabrina, "Where is your hood, sister!"

Sabrina looks down at her dress and then at one of the many photos and she does look like a sister without a hood on. With a heavy sigh, she looks down toward the floor.

Debra comes strolling up and asks Sabrina, "Whatever is the matter, Sabrina?" She replies, "Nothing." They rejoin with each other and head for home. Debra and Jackson are talking up in front while Shelby is playing with her toy. Sabrina looks around the car for a bit only to look straight out the window as the car pulls away from the school and she so happens to look and see the same girls walking away at that very same moment.

Sabrina sighs again and slumps down in the seat, a little more. They get to the house and pile out only to which Sabrina is slow moving, out of the car. Her dad sees this and stops her a moment and says, "Is everything okay with you, Sabrina?"

Sabrina in a huff says, "Do I really have to go to that school, dad?" He replies, "Why, what is the matter with it?" She replies again while kicking a pebble on the driveway, "The girls are mean and I have never been to a regular school before?" Jackson crouches down to her level to see her eye to eye and says, "Oh, it is really fun there and you will make friends, quick there, too." She looks up and smiles at him. "That is my girl, now let us go in and get some food in our bellies while it is still nice and hot to eat, shall we," he tells her.

Jackson scoots her along and they both walk into the house. The conversation is all about the school and Sabrina just is not feeling excited about it. Shelby is too busy tearing up her food like a savage to even notice what is being said. Jackson is amused how Debra is as excited about the activities for tomorrow morning as he listens intently at what she is saying. "Oh, this will be wonderful; both of these lovelies will be in school tomorrow. After all the paperwork is done, a tour of the school and they will give us two uniforms; so they will be ready for them too as the sister was telling me," says Debra.

Sabrina looks at Debra in discomfort at even the notion of starting a school with no friends on her first day there. She just wanted to hurry up with her grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup and go to bed. Shelby is done and has the soup all over her face and with that she is beginning to rub her eyes. It made her look like she has red eye shadow on.

Sabrina looks at her and giggled. Debra picks up Shelby from her highchair and says, "Come on sleepy head let me, get you cleaned up and ready for bed." They disappear out of the room, her dad stands up and tells her, "Come on, you too, you have a long day ahead of you and so do I."

"Can I ask you a question, dad," Sabrina asks as they are going up the stairs. "Sure anything, what seems to be on your mind, now," Jackson replies. She says, "What was mom's mother's perfume, did she wear?"

"Why do you want to know," he asks her. Sabrina says, "Because when I go passed this room as she pointed to it; I smell a perfume, smell." "Oh, I think, if I remember right; it is, Chantilly Lace," Jackson says to her. Sabrina tells him, "Well, at least it smells nice." "Yeah, your grandma Bonnie was a very nice and warm-hearted woman, you would have loved her, really you would have," Jackson says fondly. As they get to their room, Sabrina turns and gives her dad, a peck on the cheek and heads into the room. Jackson turns the opposite direction of her and heads into the doorway of his room and looks again towards the girls' room and smiles.