This time next year

CHAPTER FIVE

Time flies when you're in love

Michael and I have been dating for almost six months and we hang out all the time before and after school and sometimes on the weekends, sometimes he can hear my parents arguing from his room and he always climbs up to my window and holds me till they drink too much and pass out then he'll stay for a little over two hours and then he and I both know that he had to go home. We say our good-nights to each other and I see him climb down from my window and his climb back into his. One day his parents picked him up from school and asked me if I wanted a ride too, I thought that the polite thing to do was say yes so I did, the only problem was they didn't let Michael and I sit right next to each other that's when it hit me, oh my gosh! He's fucking religious! Like religious as in like can't have sex till you're married religious. I almost cried in the car on the way home, but I didn't because that would be fucking stupid.

I asked my parents if Michael could come over for dinner one night, they weren't too phased about it. That morning I waited for Michael outside, I waited and waited but he never went out the door that day, I just went back it to my room that morning and didn't go to school, my parents didn't care if I didn't go that day, mainly because my mum was too drunk to stand up and my step-dad was high out of his brain and didn't give two shits about anything, including me. That day mum got a call from work saying that if she didn't go in they'd fire her so mum decided to, for the first time in a while, sober up and get her ass to work. I was left home with my step-dad for the rest of the day.