Taylor for the Night

Chapter 4 Time for the Truth

<<<<CHARACTER PICTURE: GRACE JONES>>>>>

***This chapter is dedicated to one of my best friends in the whole wide world, Emilee! I love you, my sweet "Grace"

After school, I decided to just go straight home and pack and just skip my art class with Kimmy altogether. I didn't want to make a scene and I was sure everything would be fine on Monday as long as I gave Kimmy her space for the next couple days.

I quickly packed my over night bag with the regular  necessities and also threw in some of my favorite candies and movies. I then grabbed my sleeping bag and pillow and carried everything out to the car.

My mom was waiting in the driver's seat for me and she started the car as soon as I got in. I wish my mom would let me drive myself places, but since we're really poor we can only afford one car.

I sighed deeply as we pulled into the Jone's double gated community and had to wait for clearance to enter the neighborhood. Kimmy lived in a neighborhood exactly like this on the other side of town and sometimes I wish my two rich best friends could help me out money wise. But my mom would never, ever take money because she considers it charity.

We pulled into the Jones driveway and I grabbed my stuff and skipped up the driveway to the front door.

Grace opened the door and tackled me with a huge bear huge.

"Hello to you too!" I laughed heartily.

She laughed with me and stepped back letting me into her house.

We went up the stairs to her room and set down all my stuff on her floor.

I love her bedroom. It's a purple room which makes it peaceful, but the furniture and decorations are all crazy and joyful. Her room literally reflects who she is as a person and I love it. Versus my room which just has white walls and wood furniture with a couple posters and photos on the wall.

We went down stairs after putting everything down and we immediately got out Grace's wii and had a Just Dance battle. I won most of them though, because I use to dance. In fact, I most likely would still be dancing if it hadn't been for certain people...

Eventually we got tired and Grace decided to order us a pizza. Once the pizza arrived, she started stuffing her face and mumbling over and over again how good it was, or how much she loved it. I just laughed at her and slowly ate my own piece of pizza. I was gonna go in for a second one when all of a sudden those horrible words from two years ago rang in my head and the scene flickered to life in my memory.

*FLASHBACK*

"You are so ugly and worthless!!! If I were you I'd kill myself and do the whole world a big favor!!!"

I began to cry as he punched me hard in the stomach making me wince and yelp out in pain.

"See what I'm punching that's all fat!! You should lose some weight you fat, good for nothing worthless..."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

"Taylor....Taylor.....TAYLOR!" Grace yelled, lightly punching my arm snapping me back to the present time and place.

"What?" I asked feigning innocence.    

"ARE. YOU. OK? You all of a sudden became really pale and your eyes had a super distant glaze to them. Are you sick? Is it the pizza? Do you not like it? Is it making you sick? Is it.....OH MY GOSH! You aren't going anorexic on me again, ARE YOU?!?!"

"NO?" I replied with my voice rising as a question at the end.

Dang it! Hopefully she didn't detect that, but by looking at her face I was pretty sure she had heard.

"TAYLOR! Answer me truthfully!" She screamed in my face while shaking my shoulders as hard as she could.

"Well, I'm not....well Not really.....I just had.....a flashback....a memory...and I all of a sudden didn't feel like eating."

"What flashback?" She demanded with her arms crossed in front of her chest.

"Well...." I sighed. "Grace, you are my best friend in the whole wide world, but there is something that I've hidden from you the last couple years. I was afraid to tell you the truth because it concerns a person that you love very much. I didn't want their reputation ruined or to ruin the relationship you have with that person. So I-"

" Taylor." She interrupted, "As much as I love my Alexander, if he did anything to hurt you, than he is gonna-"

"No Grace!" I blurted out before she could finish her threat. "It wasn't Alex... it was somebody else."

Grace's face immediately became relieved but just as quickly switched to confused. I could tell she was trying to figure out who had hurt me.

I opened my mouth to speak but she cut me off by saying,

"It's ok Tay-Tay you can tell me anything......Is this the secret behind why you were anorexic for a year?"

I nodded my head yes and cleared my throat ready to tell her the truth and nothing but the truth.