The Truth Hurts

Chapter 8

This isn't as good as I thought it would come out but I still hope y'all like this. Vote and comment, I'd appreciate it so much! <3 Your support keeps me going. (:

By the way, since it's currenty my summer vacation (but I have 2 weeks left though *cries*) I might be updating this story daily whenever I get the inspiration. I'm falling in love with writing this more and more everyday! (: Plus, I'm getting attached to the characters too. I hope you guys do too. There's a little bit of a Danny-Devon moment in this chapter and I really liked that. I loooove Danny. <3

Now enjoy!!

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Chapter 8

I woke up from the blinding sun coming through my window.

It was Saturday and I remembered that it was Luke's pool/beach party today.

Luke must be lucky because it was late January but the weather was feeling hot today.

I went downstairs to get some breakfast even if it was already ten in the morning.

I saw Danny in the living room playing with his cars but I didn't see mom around.

"Where's mom?" I call out to Danny from the kitchen.

I opened the refrigerator and took out a carton of milk and a box of Teddy Grahams. I sat down on the breakfast table and ate away.

"She went out to do the groceries!" Danny calls back from the living room.

A few minutes later, Danny comes galloping inside the kitchen. He takes a few pieces of Teddy Grahams from the box.

"Wanna play Wii with me today?" He asks me.

"I can't." I say and his face falls into a sad face. "I'm sorry."

"Why can't you?" He asks.

"I'm hanging out with friends today." I tell him.

"You're always hanging out with your friends!" He whines. "You never play with me anymore."

"I know. I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you soon, I promise."

"Promise?" He holds out his pinky to me.

"Promise." I wrap my pinky to his signifying a pinky promise.

"Pinky promises should never be broken!" He reminds me and walks out of the kitchen humming the Pokemon theme song to himself.

I smile at this.

The little boy never failed to make me smile, I thought to myself. It was such a shame I had to turn down his offer today.

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It was already ten minutes after three in the afternoon which meant I was ten minutes late.

I had followed the address that Dalton gave me and ended up becoming lost in another neighborhood. I wasn't exactly familiar with Santa Barbara yet. But once I pulled in front of a mansion (that was definitely just by the beach), I parked the car and knocked at the front door.

"Hey!" Luke greeted me as he opened the door. "Come on in. You're the last one."

I smile at him and step inside. The place was huge. That was all I could say.

"Everyone's out at the back already. C'mon." He leads me to a sliding glass door where I saw a big balcony with an infinity pool that overlooked the ocean.

"Woah." I complimented from behind him.

"I know." He chuckles and we step outside.

There were only a few people, which meant it really was a party just for 'important people' as Tara would say. I didn't really see how we were important people seeing as this was just some small party.