The Juliet Dilemma

Texting: Screwed Up

Romeo is plain bold.
Anthony is bold underlined.
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Mon, March 7, 5:45 PM

So what's the deal between you and Julie? And don't give me that "I don't want to talk about it" crap. Spill, Cameron.

Harsh, bro. Fine I'll talk. I kind of screwed up, badly.

Yeah you said that.

You know that Julie runs away from her problems.

Oh yeah... I guess she does do that. You know her a lot better than I do.

Well she does and it's a big problem. So I tried to get her to confront her problem by getting her to talk to her dad.

Her dad? Ro, that's not good. I'm pretty sure her dad is Marcus Hunter. Wasn't he arrested for beating the crap out of his family?

Am I the only one who didn't know that until a couple weeks ago?

You're the only one. The rest of us knew what happened. My dad was friends with him. Eric's dad arrested him. Mark's family used to be their neighbors until they moved across town. Ivy's been Julie's friend basically since birth. You had your own problems at the time. If you hadn't you would've known. Your dad went to school with him. They were friends. Ask Nick. He knew him too. So yeah, you're alone.

What? Really?

Yeah it was a town wide scandal. Locking Grove isn't a big place. Even us kids found out sooner or later why Julie didn't have a dad.

Why'd didn't anyone tell me?

Because you didn't like Julie! At least no one thought you did. And besides your dad had just passed a couple months before. And you were a kid like the rest of us. We all heard it through eavesdropping on our parents, well except Ivy.

Well I screwed up badly. And now she won't even talk to me.

I can see why. I don't mean to take sides but I can see where she's coming from. Invasion of privacy, lying, going behind her back, breaking her trust- at least that's how she sees it. Why'd you do it?

Because she's hurt badly. She's been damaged by the past and she's not doing anything to fix herself. She's got to stop running. I thought confrontation might help. I don't think she ever got the chance to move on.

I see where your coming from.

And?

You are both hopeless.