head in an effort to clear it
before I glowered at her angrily. “Dalilah, I swear to you, there is nothing
wrong with my mother.”
Still, she didn’t seem to understand. She
narrowed her eyes at me and peered intently into my gaze. I decided to spell it
out. “He lied to you.”
At this, she reared her head back and
instantly grew nasty. “I was just trying to be nice. You don’t have to go on
the offensive.”
“I’m telling you the truth,” I insisted,
now too frustrated to stand here and argue with her when my blood was boiling
over Shawn’s horrendous indiscretion.
She rolled her eyes at me and hissed,
“Okay…Whatever…” before she turned quickly and stomped away from me.
However, now I didn’t care that she was
gone. In fact, I was glad. After all, the only person I wanted to talk to at
the moment was Shawn.
I quickly pulled out my phone, not wanting
to completely freak out on him in public and sent him a text message. We need to talk. ASAP.
Before my next class, I received a text
back. Okay. What’s wrong?
You
are a deplorable human being, I answered. And you have a lot of explaining to do.
After class, I received his next message. What did Dalilah tell you?
Can you meet me after school?
Sure…
The rest of the day I was in a red-sighted
haze. I couldn’t believe how angry I actually was at him. There was no reason
for him to be acting like this. She’s
your girlfriend for God’s sake. The very least you could do was make up a
better lie.
Now, I understood why he would feel the
need to lie to her. I really did understand. I saw firsthand how manipulative
and crazy she could be, so I could see telling her almost anything to get her
off of his case; but the opportune word there was almost.
After school, I stomped to the park, where
we had met last time and thankfully, we were alone. The last thing I wanted to
do was have some neighbor overhear me and get the wrong idea about my family.
After all, the she-devil herself already had the same idea stuck in her head
and apparently refused to yank it out and therefore, I didn’t want the same
thing to start circulating between the neighbors.
The last thing I needed was for Shawn’s
stupid lie to get back to my mother. It might not bother her, what was being
said, but I knew who was saying it would probably bother her quite a bit.
Chapter
18
Shawn
I had a slight pain in my stomach all day,
wondering what could have happened. I knew that Dalilah was behind whatever it
was, because that woman would not go down without a fight and she loved to
concoct plans behind everyone else’s back, thinking that she was far smarter
than everyone.
However, I couldn’t imagine what had
gotten Valerie so upset.
Yet, when I saw her face, glowering at me from
across the park, I had a pretty good idea that my inclinations about what Dalilah
had shared with her were fairly spot on. For the entirety of the day, ever
since I had received that first text message from Valerie, I had tried to
convince myself that as rough as Dalilah was on me and as sneaky as she was,
there was no way she would betray my trust.
However, now, I knew the truth and it made
me extremely angry. I knew that I shouldn’t have trusted her, even with a lie,
but now that I had, it hurt me that she would go behind my back, stab it and
turn the knife so methodically.
As I walked up to Valerie, I figured that
my best shot at a saving grace was telling her, “I am so sorry…”
“Yeah, you should be,” she spat without
the slightest sense of empathy. She lay into me, heavily and angrily, but I
knew that she was hurt, which made the scolding even worse. “How dare you! Why
would you tell her anything about my personal life, whether it is true or not?
You had no right to incorporate me or my mother into your lie…and to say what
you said about her…That’s awful!”
“I had to say something,” I blurted,
realizing what a lame defense that was, but not really caring
before I glowered at her angrily. “Dalilah, I swear to you, there is nothing
wrong with my mother.”
Still, she didn’t seem to understand. She
narrowed her eyes at me and peered intently into my gaze. I decided to spell it
out. “He lied to you.”
At this, she reared her head back and
instantly grew nasty. “I was just trying to be nice. You don’t have to go on
the offensive.”
“I’m telling you the truth,” I insisted,
now too frustrated to stand here and argue with her when my blood was boiling
over Shawn’s horrendous indiscretion.
She rolled her eyes at me and hissed,
“Okay…Whatever…” before she turned quickly and stomped away from me.
However, now I didn’t care that she was
gone. In fact, I was glad. After all, the only person I wanted to talk to at
the moment was Shawn.
I quickly pulled out my phone, not wanting
to completely freak out on him in public and sent him a text message. We need to talk. ASAP.
Before my next class, I received a text
back. Okay. What’s wrong?
You
are a deplorable human being, I answered. And you have a lot of explaining to do.
After class, I received his next message. What did Dalilah tell you?
Can you meet me after school?
Sure…
The rest of the day I was in a red-sighted
haze. I couldn’t believe how angry I actually was at him. There was no reason
for him to be acting like this. She’s
your girlfriend for God’s sake. The very least you could do was make up a
better lie.
Now, I understood why he would feel the
need to lie to her. I really did understand. I saw firsthand how manipulative
and crazy she could be, so I could see telling her almost anything to get her
off of his case; but the opportune word there was almost.
After school, I stomped to the park, where
we had met last time and thankfully, we were alone. The last thing I wanted to
do was have some neighbor overhear me and get the wrong idea about my family.
After all, the she-devil herself already had the same idea stuck in her head
and apparently refused to yank it out and therefore, I didn’t want the same
thing to start circulating between the neighbors.
The last thing I needed was for Shawn’s
stupid lie to get back to my mother. It might not bother her, what was being
said, but I knew who was saying it would probably bother her quite a bit.
Chapter
18
Shawn
I had a slight pain in my stomach all day,
wondering what could have happened. I knew that Dalilah was behind whatever it
was, because that woman would not go down without a fight and she loved to
concoct plans behind everyone else’s back, thinking that she was far smarter
than everyone.
However, I couldn’t imagine what had
gotten Valerie so upset.
Yet, when I saw her face, glowering at me from
across the park, I had a pretty good idea that my inclinations about what Dalilah
had shared with her were fairly spot on. For the entirety of the day, ever
since I had received that first text message from Valerie, I had tried to
convince myself that as rough as Dalilah was on me and as sneaky as she was,
there was no way she would betray my trust.
However, now, I knew the truth and it made
me extremely angry. I knew that I shouldn’t have trusted her, even with a lie,
but now that I had, it hurt me that she would go behind my back, stab it and
turn the knife so methodically.
As I walked up to Valerie, I figured that
my best shot at a saving grace was telling her, “I am so sorry…”
“Yeah, you should be,” she spat without
the slightest sense of empathy. She lay into me, heavily and angrily, but I
knew that she was hurt, which made the scolding even worse. “How dare you! Why
would you tell her anything about my personal life, whether it is true or not?
You had no right to incorporate me or my mother into your lie…and to say what
you said about her…That’s awful!”
“I had to say something,” I blurted,
realizing what a lame defense that was, but not really caring
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