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"What do you think you’re doing?" she deets to us, she puht into Rhiannon "I don’t knoho your parents are, but I did not raiseout hores"
"Moe Right this e, but I don’t care I a Rhiannon alone with her
"Just cal a little as I do Then I turn to Rhiannon and tell her I will talk to her later
"You e’s mother proclaims I take some satisfaction in the fact that I’ht hours or so
Rhiannon gives ure out a way to run away for the weekend George’s rabs hih, and that only s worse
It’s like Cinderella in reverse I’ve danced with the prince, and now I’ the toilets That is e pail This would be bad enough, but every few ive e doesn’t internalize her scare tactics I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism--if you demonize a person’s pleasure, then you can control his or her life I can’t say how ainst me, in a variety of forms But I see no sin in a kiss I only see sin in the condee’s mother If she were my full-time mother, I would If I were the one ould shoulder the aftere I’ve messed up his life already Hopefully for the better, butRhiannon is out of the question It will just have to wait until toe’s father has weighed in with a speech of his own, seely dictated by his wife, I head to bed early, take advantage of having the silence of a room all to myself If my time as Rhiannon is any proof, I can construct the e with So as I lie there in his bed, I conjure an alternate truth He will re a girl She will be a stranger to town, dropped off at the library while her ue She asked hian They went for Chinese food together and had a good time He was really into her She was really into him They went back to the library, had the sa Tree, and moved in to kiss That’s when hisunexpected, but also soirl disappeared They never told each other their names He has no idea where she lives It was all there for ahi to do, but I’et out of this small, s, when I wake up in the body of Surita, whose parents are away, and who is being watched over by her ninety-year-old grand as it doesn’t interfere with her programs on the Game Shoork I’m only about an hour away fro called to the principal for repeated attendance violations, I meet her back at the Clover Bookstore after school is out
She is full of plans
"I told everyone I was visiting randmother for the weekend, and I told ent I’ too somewhere"
I tell her I like that plan
We head to a park, walking around and playing on the jungle gy I notice she’s less affectionate with irl’s body, but I don’t call her on it She’s still with
We don’t talk about Justin We don’t talk about the fact that we have no idea where I’ll be tos work
We block all this out, and enjoy ourselves
Day 6020
Xavier Ada to turn in this direction He’s supposed to go to play practice at noon, but as soon as he leaves his house, he calls his director and tells hi--hopefully the twenty-four-hour kind The director is understanding--it’s Ha Laertes, so there are plenty of scenes that can be run without him there So Xavier is free … and immediately heads toward Rhiannon
She’s left me directions, but she hasn’t told me what the ultimate destination is I drive for almost two hours, west into the hinterlands of Maryland Eventually the directions lead me to a small cabin hidden in the woods If Rhiannon’s car weren’t in front, I’ in the doorway by the tiet out of the car She looks happy-nervous I still have no idea where I aet closer
"French Canadian dad, Creole mom," I say "But I don’t speak a word of French"