The Mess I Made

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Chapter 7

I opened the door as quietly as possible and tried not make any noise. It was now 12:00 am sharp.

"Care to explain where you've been" A deep voice scared me.

"Jesus christ dad! You scared me"

"Well you scared your mother, shes worried sick about you." I was actually relieved that it was dad that was up waiting. If it was mom I would've never heard the end of it.

"Now do you want to tell me where you were while you should have been at dinner. Your mothers face went pale not knowing what tell the guests when they asked about her younger daughter" he said crossing his arms.

"Promise you won't ground me...." I said giving the puppy dog eyes

"Jess...." he replied warningly

"I was at a party at Lukes house"

"YOU WERE AT A COLLEGE PARTY?!" wow. Talk about an angry dad

"Thats it Jess this is the last straw for you. Your going to florida to live with aunt Jane"

"NO ! Dad please I can explain." They've always threatened me with the sending you away thing. But I think they're out of chances to give me.

"No Jess, I can't handle this anymore and neither can your mother"

"So you think I can handle you guys. Always threatening to send me away when you can't deal with anything, Always away on business trips and dinner parties and expecting me to magically turn into Melissa"

I was now crying, I didn't even notice the tears forming in my eyes. Mom and Melissa were now down and listening to our conversation.

"Well congratulations you guys did a really good job raising the best screw up in town"

"Jess... " my mom soothed. She was standing by the stairs with Melissa and I was at the door.

"Well don't worry I'm only two months away from turning 18, then I'll be out of your hair for good." With that said, I slammed the door harshly behind me.

I didn't know where to go, Sam and Ash were still at the party probably and I was out in the street.

Then I remembered the tree house that me and Asher built when we were 12 and thought I'd spend the night there. I texted Ash telling him where I was and told him to meet me here with Sam when they get back.

I climbed up the tree and entered our tree house. It was exactly the way it was. I haven't been here since I was 14 but everything was where it was. Ashers superman poster, the sling shot that I made when we had our bart simpson phase, comic books and prank kits. I missed these days.

I sat there in silence for a while then I heard something or maybe someone, making noise. It sounded like someone was climbing up the tree. It was probably Ash he saw my text but then I got a closer look and it was ... "Adam? What the hell are you doing here?"

"Uh, well..."

"Have you been following me?"

"No. I just saw you come up here in the middle of the night and I was wondering, are you out of your mind?"

"Are you? Why are YOU out here in the 'middle of the night' ? And more importantly why are you here?"

"Ouch! Well I was out for walk, clearing my head" he replied

"Well then so was I" i said with a sarcastic smirk

"So uh... you left out on dinner earlier"

"Yeah" I replied not really in the mood for conversation. I was so angry with my parents that I'm finding it hard to get the conversation going with Adam.