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I h the silence of the evening, and I pause in place
“Are you joking?” Dehs, scornfully
“I don’t knohat you’re so upset about,” her ma fires back
“It’s the seventh of the month, Mom”
“I’m aware, thank you”
“How have you already spent all your alimony?” Deive you oing to ask o over s started he was helping me build Now I don’t How am I supposed to explain this? He already called me when you overdrew my card last ti me?”
“You’ll say not a word, Deo out to fancy lunches and things Tell him you want to live the life he promised us when you were five”
“You mean the life you live, the life he proive you while you sat back constantly telling hier is absent from her tone “I don’t want to live like you I don’t need to”
“You have no idea what life is You’re going to be hit with a rude awakening one day and see it all throughpause before her mom continues “It’s no wonder you lost the boy to that floozy friend of yours”
Whoa, what?
“Don’t start”
“Then wake up before it’s too late, and she ends up pregnant or so stupid!”
“I don’t understand what you’re playing at, Moivewith Clara, before you go, and then you approach Nico about me, for what? To make sure I have a back-up plan you can’t stick your nose up at?” Sarcasm drips from her words, but more so than that, she sounds tired Fed up with life, maybe Like me
“I have every right to worry about the wellbeing of hter If I have to intervene in areas, I will I spoke to Krista’s father before the party, we had a long conversation and he shared he sees a lot of the young man,” her mother says in a plureat friends”
“What?”
“It wasn’t a big deal, I kindly asked him if he could ensure the boy’s room was beside yours, is all”
Good looking out, lady
“Of course you did,” Demi says hter is weak and needy because she wishes her mom would be around more?”
“You act as if you don’t enjoy the freedom you have”
“What did you say to him?”
“All I asked was for him to make sure you were safe since you went alone I have to say, he was rather eager”
“You’re ridiculous”