It's the next morning and I wake up to us snuggling each other. I caress her slowly before reaching for my phone to check the time.
"Wow.", I say, realizing that my mom had still not reached out to me. But honestly, fuck the time. I'm just wanna go back to bed with her.
I then put my arms around Bree more and cling onto her while I try and fall back asleep. But me moving my arms woke her up and so she reached over to check her phone too.
"Fuck.", she starts. "We're late for school."
"Since when do you care about school?", I ask kind of surprised.
"Oh, believe me I don't. But Mrs.Dawn is nagging the hell out of me about showing up to school and shit and she's even got the principal monitoring me like a damn lab.", she says rushing out of bed as she changes into her clothes quickly.
"Damn. Yeah Mrs. Dawn did seem worried about you.", I say trying not to stare as she changes.
"Yeah it's whatever. I just don't wanna get expelled cause I'm pretty sure that would be the last straw for my parents and I'd get kicked out of the house or something.", she continues.
She seems like she's trying to cover up the fact that this all actually hurts her. But I can tell she's trying to put on a brave face. So I get up from bed and walk over to her and put my hand on her arm.
"Hey, breathe okay? If school makes you feel this bad then... let's just skip today!", I say, trying to cheer her up.
"But I'll get expelled.", she says, looking at me, seemingly hoping I talk her out of going.
"Well, then let's show up but still take the day off!", I say, trying to think of how this would work.
"Yeah but that's what I did with my ex.", she says.
Honestly, I don't want her to talk about him but I also just want to give her a different experience than what she had with him.
"What did you guys do at school then?", I ask, trying to hide my jealousy.
"Well, we usually just smoke some cigarettes outside, drink alcohol in a storage closet or spray paint over some random walls.", she explains.
"So...", I start, walking over to her bed and reaching under it for the bong. "You've never smoked this at school?", I ask, smiling.
"Jess! We're underage and we could get arrested!", she says, laughing as she walks over to me to grab it.
"Hey! Since when were you afraid to break the rules?", I say, as her face gets in front of mine.
"I'm not.", she whispers, practically breathing in my mouth.
We then pause with our faces close to each other more. We then feel each other's breathing for a few moments and I put the bong down behind me on the bed. I then pull her in closer to me before getting interrupted.
"Bree!", her dad yells as he walks into the room. "Who's this?", he asks, avoiding eye contact with me.
"My friend. Why are you here?", she says while glaring at him and crossing her arms.
"Bree, don't play stupid. That's your girlfriend?", he teases.
"Enough with the questions! Are you going to drive us both to school today?", she asks getting irritated.
"Yeah, I'll drive you and your girlfriend to school.", he says while joking as he closes her door.
Bree said that her parents had given up on her. But her dad seems like he still cares about her even if he's also kind of rude. At least he asks her questions about her life and offers to drive her to school. He even seemed okay with the whole potential girlfriend thing. But remembering my mother and how she wasn't okay with that and remembering my father and how he didn't even care enough to stick around had just sent me into a bad mood. And I could tell that her dad and her situation had already put her in a bad mood too.
So we both looked at each other without saying anything and lit up the bong again to get high before school. Now I know this seems like we're going down a bad road. But we're both going through some shit and we're just trying to get through it in the ways that we can.
But what matters most is that we are going through this together.
