"You can't wake up
This is not a dream"
"Lace how are you? I haven't seen you in months" Her uncle explains. Her uncle was the only uncle that she had that wasn't in prison.
"I'm good," she signs, sitting next to Jonah who rubs her back.
"Daliah told us that you were begging to come here." The new lady exclaimed as Lace shoots Daliah a murderous look.
"Yes. I really wanted to see y'all." She fake smiles for what seems like the 100th time today. The maids serve chicken onto everyone's plates.
"What's your name?" Lace asks the new lady sitting at the head of the table.
"I'm Talia, but you can call me aunty." Lace looks at her with a bewildered face and continues to eat.
"How's high school going? What electives do you have?" Talia askes while wiping her mouth.
"She has AP Psych, AP creative writing and AP art."Daliah answers for her. Talia's frowns hearing that Lace was taking AP art.
"What's the point of taking art when you could take another math course hm?" She points the question towards Lace who loses her temper and gets out of her seat, slamming her hands down the table with fury.
"Art is my life. Since dad died and almost all of you were too busy taking care of my mom I turned to art. Y'all forgot about me and expected me to be okay. I wasn't. I lost a father and you guys expected me to help my mother make food. I had to find out homework answers for myself, Nobody came to my graduation except Louis. Art was the only way I could feel okay. So to summarize, stop poking into my business!" She walks away and Louis looks at all of them in shame.
"Oh well, that girl was always a drama queen." Daliah says while putting her dish in the sink,
"So do you have any tea on Lace?"
"She has a boyfriend?" Daliah squeals.
"Oohh, is he French? Or rich?" Talia gushes as Lace comes storming in her feet thumping on the floor.
"His name is Jonah and he's American and rich. Happy?" She storms back out and flings herself on the bed, sobbing wanting nothing more than to go back home. The door opens and Louis comes in rubbing her back until she falls asleep.
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Running with Revenge
Misteri / Thriller"ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ɢᴇᴛ ʀᴇᴠᴇɴɢᴇ, ᴏɴʟʏ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴏɴᴇʏʙᴇᴀʀ" or The one where a lonely mute girl brings together her whole world in order to sew her best friend's life shut.
