You're Not Enough

Chapter 45

Well, I finished all my homework. I look over at my black clock that sits on my white nightstand. It's only four P.M. It feels like I've been working forever, but it's only been an hour.

I woke up around eleven. Then I took a shower, got dressed, and went downstairs to grab something to eat.

My mom and dad were sitting at the table. My mother had her files scattered across the dinner table, as always. I don't know why she never works in her study. She has one right across the hall from my father's. I've only ever seen her in there two or three times.

My mother and father both greeted me with weird smiles on their faces; as I grab an apple from the glass bowl.  I stared at both of them and asked them why they were looking at me like that.

My mother said. "So you and Caleb were out there a long time yesterday."

I rolled my eyes and sat in one of the high chairs at the island.

"What time did he leave?" My father then asked.

I responded. "I don't know, like around midnight,"

My mother then asked, "His parents let him stay out late?"

And I said, "Mom, he's eighteen,"

"So, I had a curfew when I was eighteen." she fired back.

I just shook my head and didn't respond.

After a few minutes, I moved to the dining room table where they were still sitting; my mother had her glasses on and was reading through files, my father was typing up his proposal to Paul on his laptop.

I texted Violet back and forth about tonight. She is super excited. She said she always wanted to go on a double date. I tried to tell her it wasn't a date, but she didn't believe me. She sent me pictures of different outfits and asked me to choose one for her for tonight.

All of them were ugly; her style is nothing like my tomboy, gothic style. I didn't tell her that, though. I asked myself if those were the only three outfits I had left, which one could I tolerate. I chose and then liked the photo of the one I wanted her to wear.

When it turned twelve, my mother got a call from Susan. Susan is one of my mother's country club friends. She invited her out for lunch at Montels, one of the fanciest and expensive restaurants in town. My parents have taken me there twice. The food is not all that for their jacked up prices.

It's good, but it's not worth the money. My mother accepted the invitation. Minutes later, she was putting the scattered paper away back into the folders."Well, what are you guys planning on doing today?" She asked my father and me.

My father looked up from his computer and said, "Uhh, I don't know. I was thinking about going to the gym. I guess I'll have to wait until you get back."

I blurted out. "I don't need you to babysit me." They both looked at me, and I added, "I don't need you to babysit me because I won't even be here."

"Oh, and where exactly are you going?" My father asked.

I said, "I'm going to the movies, with Violet and her boyfriend. Oh, and James and Caleb."

"So you're going on a date?" My mother squealed.

"No, it's not a date. We are all just hanging out." I said. My mother raised her eyebrows at me like she knows I'm not telling the truth, even though I am.

"Well, it's fine with me." She said. It shocked me because I thought she didn't like Caleb.

"Me also." My father said too. "As long as you're not hanging with Ryder Adams, I'm good," he added.