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Chapter 7

A couple of weeks passed and I hadn’t heard a word fro depressed over it I headed down to the art studio, wherea new picture

"Hi, honey," she said

"Hey, Mom Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure, baby," she said as she put down her paintbrush, wiped her hands, and sat down on the couch next to me

"I haven’t heard frooing to ask you if you’d talked to hi hied him, and he won’t respond," I said as I looked down and put htened her ars the hard way The best thing to do is lift your chin up and move on He’s bad news, Julia I knoas your first, but believe me when I tell you, it’s for the best Because if you ith hi out on the person you were really meant to be with"

"It still hurts," I said as a tear fell down my face

"I know it does, baby Ti to take time I promise you’ll start to feel better every day" She so to Black Enterprises and pick up your dad so we can all go to the gy with us?" I asked

"No, he’s over at Hailey’s house getting help in Biology"

"I bet he is" I smiled

"Julia Rose Black Don’t talk like that!" She sed our clothes, and headed over to my dad’s office to pick hio with us, but she hadn’t been feeling well lately and she said she was in bed I was starting to worry about her because, over the past week, she wasn’t acting nor on

When we arrived at Black Enterprises, I could hearfrom his office I looked at my mom and she rolled her eyes

"Great, I hope he’s not in a mood" She smiled

The minute I opened the door, he looked up at us, and threw his phone across his desk

"Airls!" He smiled as he walked over to htly

"What was all that about, Dad?" I asked

"Just a business deal gone bad Nothing for you to worry about, Princess"

"All right Are you ready to go to the gyet the hell out of here" He smiled as he put his arms around both of us and alked out of his office

We walked through the doors of the gyed his clothes, the three of us cliers would be e out with their parents, but I wasn’t I hadtoover Brody When rabbed the towel froyht of hi weak in the knees and butterflies, I felt rage, anger, and hostility My skin started to heat up as I threw ht bench He was on his back, doing bench presses when I stood over hi down into the eyes I wanted to poke out He lifted his weight and I grabbed it Holding it with hiood, Brody How are you?"

"I’d be better if I could put this weight down"

I looked straight ahead and sawrabbed his arht back on the bench and he sat up and looked at me as he wiped his face with a towel

"Why haven’t you called me?" I asked

He looked down as he wiped the back of his neck "I’ve been busy"

"Funny, you weren’t busy when you were trying to have sex with me"

"Julia, lower your voice," he said as he stood up and looked around

"You took soave You wanted it and you were irl, Julia," he said as he started to walk away

I grabbed him arm and stopped him "Did you use me for sex? Did you only date me because you wanted to have sex with me?"