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When I pulled into the drive, I didn’t see a yard full of cars and it was a welco overdue so into the house, I turned on soot into the shower I let the water run overwhen I finished, which didn’t take long

I dried off, tied a towel aroundthe freedo room, I suddenly realized I wasn’t alone at all when irl in an East Franklin cheerleading uniforranded in this place as ed in a mucky swa in this du here?"

She nervously ran her sweaty palms over the skirt of her uniforry I want to talk to you I have things I need to say"

I reht you weren’t feeling well"

"That’s what I told Forbes so I could get away from him," she explained

"So, you’re back to that place? Oh, that’s classic! You’re lying to your boyfriend so you can sneak away to go slu and see the skank," I sneered

"We wouldn’t be back to that if you hadn’t broken up with me," she replied as if she still believed we had a real relationship

Dammit, this wasn’t fair I had already hurt her once and I shouldn’t have to do it a second ti it was a real breakup because ere never a real couple"

She put her hands over her heart "The pain inside here tells me it was real It still tells me that it is and I won’t believe otherwise"

Noasn’t the time to cave "Your mistake," I said, dryly

She shook her head as she said, "Our relationship ame to show Forbes what you could take froed "Really? Because it sure doesn’t look like much to me"

"You ended it because you were scared," she accused

I threw rily "Scared? Scared of what? Forbes?"

"No You were scared ofout the truth about you"

"And what is the truth about me?" I yelled

"You didn’t want me to knoho you were, where you lived or that my mother is or was your counselor, but I need you to listen very carefully to what I’m about to tell you I knoho you are and I love you with all ofI see where you live and I choose to be here with you I’ away and I don’t care about what led up to you beco about this is us not being together"

So, she kneas a patient of herabout s you didn’t allow ame when I sat next to your hospital bed and you told me how scared you were I saw the real you when you looked into my eyes and told me that you had fallen in love with me"

It was time to end this and there was only one sure fire way-the truth "Everything you think you know about e the way I feel about you," she pleaded

"Can you love a liar? How about somebody with a criminal record? Can you say it has been your life’s aspiration to fall in love with a drug dealer?"

Just as I suspected, she didn’t have a response for that "You want the truth so badly, I’ive you the short version I grew up in a trailer park in Collinsville with an addict for a mother and I’ve never met my dad I’m not really even sure she kneho he was Mydealer and she used e" I pointed to ery I got it this summer when a man came into our house and killed ht I was dead and I would have been ifin the closet hadn’t come out after he left and called for help Ozzy and Harley were taken by the state and were tossed into the foster care systeood news forto take uessed it Rita is a pharmaceutical sales rep also"