17 year old Cariah Colbie will stop at nothing to find Colby Brock and get answers after finding out everything in her life has been a lie. But she ends up finding more than she was looking for.
SEQUEL to Damaged
"I can't believe my teacher is making me get my test signed" I complained to my little sister in the passenger seat of my car.
"Dad is going to fucking kill you when he sees you failed it" Zoë-Jane said.
"Yeah I know. I fucking hate high school" I said.
"Yeah well at least you're almost done" she said as I pulled up to our two story house.
In our house was just me, Zoë-Jane, and my dad. My mom isn't around because she left me and my dad when I was a few months old. A couple months after my mom left, my dad met Zoë-Jane's mom in college. Their relationship didn't work out because she cheated on him so they broke up and my dad decided to keep Zoë-Jane. I've never seen my mom and there sometimes is times when I wish I could see her. Even if she did my dad wrong I still wanna know where I came from. I don't even know what she looks like. Nobody on my moms side of the family ever reached out to me and nobody from my dads side of the family ever gave me answers about my mom.
As for Zoë-Jane's mom, she sees her every so often. My dad and her mom have a custody agreement so her mom will pick her up for the weekend once a month or so.
"Alright well time to switch to dad mode" I said.
"Yeah right. You know dad doesn't give a fuck about the way we talk" Zoë-Jane said.
"I know ZJ but it's still kinda disrespectful to cuss in front of our father" I said. We got off the car and walked into the house.
"Dad were home"
"Hey girls. Just wanted to let you guys know that a couple friends I went to high school with are going to stop by later so make sure you guys look decent and make sure your rooms are clean" he said not taking his eyes off his phone.
"Really? Who"
"Crystal Rodriguez and Mariah Mendes. Just make sure the house looks decent"
"Sure thing and dad....ummmm I need you to sign this test I took for Math" I said.
"Sure thing" he held his hand out still not taking his eyes off his phone so I handed him my test and a pen and he took his eyes off his phone for 5 seconds so he could sign it. Then gave it back to me and walked away.
"Well that went a lot better than I thought it would" I said. Zoë-Jane and I both went up to our rooms and made sure they were clean.
Cariah's room:
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I put my bag down and decided to google these friends of my dad that were coming over so I can have an idea of who is coming over.
'Crystal Rodriguez'
Hmm looks like she's a film producer.
"Hey whatcha doin? I'm bored already" Zoë-Jane said as she walked into my room and jumped onto my bed.
"Googling dads friends that are coming over"
"Why"
"Why not?"
"True. What did you find?" She asked looking at the screen.
"Crystal Rodriguez is a big film producer" I said.
"Wow thats like what you wanna be. That's cool as fuck. Wait what's that?" She asked as she pointed at an article.
"I don't know. Let's see" I said as I clicked on the article.
"Film Producer Crystal Rodriguez opens up about losing her best friend, Jade Brooks, to death at the age of 17" I read aloud.
"I think I've heard dad say the name Jade before" Zoe-Jane said.
"Well he probably went to school with her since she was Crystal's best friend and he went to school with Crystal. But also Jade isn't an uncommon name so he could have been talking about someone else" I said.
"Look up the other one"
'Mariah Mendes'
"Looks like she's a photographer" I said.
"Mariah Mendes explains how she went from taking pictures on her iPhone to becoming one of the biggest photographers among social media stars" Zoë-Jane read.
"So basically they're like very successful people? That's fucking cool" I said.
"You should talk to Crystal when she gets here since you wanna go into Film too"
"Yeah I probably should. But don't tell them or dad we looked them up because he'll probably flip so just pretend we don't know any of this stuff" I said as I closed my laptop.
"Sure thing" she said before the doorbell rang.
"Cariah. ZJ. Get down here" dad yelled up the stairs.
"Well I guess let's go meet these people dad went to school with" I said before we got up and walked down the stairs.
