Off Limits

Elephant Sized Mistakes

Just as I figured not a word was spoke the entire car ride back to my grandma's house. It was the most un-perfectly perfect ending to one of the most awkward evenings of my life. Not only had I successfully made a fool of myself to each and every person I talked to, I had also gotten more confused about Mason. Who was Sara to him? Then there was that other ever burning question that kept popping up in my mind. Why should I care about it?

Instead of troubling myself with these thoughts I decided to do the easiest thing when I got to my grams house. That was to go to bed. I even decided to skip taking a shower or changing my clothes just to speed up the escape of my troubling thoughts. Snuggling in my covers, I was able to do a pretty good job of forgetting everything until an obnoxious buzzing broke through my half-sleep daze.

Buzzzzzzzz

I swung my arm towards whatever was making the noise to silence it. My swinging arm hit a few things and they fell with a loud bang. Satisfied that would stop the sound that interrupted my rest, I safely hid my arm back under the warmth of my covers.

Buzzzzzzzz

I groaned sitting up as I realized my wild swinging wasn't doing the trick. Gazing around at my nightstand I located the source of the noise. Feeling like an idiot, I picked up my lit up phone. You were getting a phone call dumby.

Too tired to actual look down at the phone's screen I clicked the answer button. It didn't really matter who was calling me. It just mattered that whoever was doing the calling had a damn good reason of doing so.

"What do you want?" I groaned grumpily into the phone to show just how unhappy I was about getting the call.

"To talk to my beautiful girlfriend," A surprising voice answered back to me. I immediately sat up excited, a smile spreading across my face. Kent, my mind said in happiness. It had felt like forever since I had heard his voice. Of course forever wasn't five days, but to a teenager five days sure felt like it.

Thinking of the five days Kent had left me without a single message instantly made the smile melt off my face. I'm supposed to be mad at him, I reminded myself.

"I'm surprised you actually still remember me," I told him not hiding the irritation in my voice. I wanted him to know just how much he had upset me. I didn't ask a lot from Kent but I would like to know that he still knew I existed here in Arizona. It was hard enough to be here without being ignored by everyone back in my hometown.

"Are you mad at me?" Kent asked on the other side of the phone, already knowing he was in trouble. I had to actually stop myself from laughing at his lack of common sense. Why did he even have to ask if I was? He should just know.

"You didn't call, or text, or even send me a simple facebook message. I didn't hear one word from you for five days. Call me pathetic or whatever, but I figure you would be considerate enough to at least let me know that you haven't completely forgotten of my existence." I took deep breaths trying to keep my voice from getting to loud for the sake of my sleeping grandma. Unfortunately by the end of my rant I had very well failed. Oh well, I thought to myself, at least I got my point across.

"I'm sorry, Lilly. I didn't think." Well at least he was honest.

"I'm tired," I told him with a sigh, "I'm going to bed. We'll have to talk some other time." I knew it was a cheap excuse. The real reason behind it was not just to go to sleep but to escape the argument that was likely to come if I didn't stop myself there.