Choose Me by Valentina F

Author:Valentina F [F, Valentina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

My hands are sweating at the thought of walking into Frankie's and seeing all my ex-classmates again.

I know they still talk behind my back, but it's just jealousy. It's not been easy, shaking off the gossip and stories about me that have been going around the small town I grew up in since I was a kid. A violent, drunk for a father, a mother who's eight months pregnant and gets beaten up and thrown downstairs so hard she loses her unborn daughter. The police, the court case, prison. Then Jessica's rape, more violence, this time from me, the judges, the social workers.

I've had to work much harder than them to prove myself, to earn a little respect. It was the same for Mark, but his personality makes him easy to like. It's not quite the same for me.

That's why I worked so hard at school to get the best grades, which got me a full scholarship to UCF. To prove I wasn't like my dad, I was on all the sports teams; basketball, football, baseball, soccer. I needed to show I wasn't weak like him, that no matter what I did with my life, I would be successful.

So, then there were the piano lessons, the guitar lessons. I wanted to get a band together and play the clubs in our small town, and I did. I wanted to be a straight-A student, and I was.

The kids at school always resented me. They figured I was the privileged kid, the kid with the Midas touch, who makes everything look easy. Like hell I was. I had to work my ass off, twice as hard as anyone else, to prove I was just as good as them.

Yet, my biggest worry tonight is walking into Frankie's, my home away from home for four long years, hand in hand with Cat. I can already imagine the bitchy comments from the girls, as they look her up and down, like a pack of hungry hyenas. I hold her hand tight, our fingers entwined. Everyone will be watching but at least they'll know how things stand, right from the start: she's mine and no one lays a finger on her. She's with me and no one comes near, especially Rachel, who thirty minutes ago sent texted me saying she was already there which, as usual, I ignored.

My mom’s car is parked near the entrance and, glancing toward the rear, I notice Kris and Ryan have arrived, too.

Cat looks down at our hands. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

I swear, sometimes I'm afraid she can read my mind. She stops on the sidewalk, yanking my hand so hard that I have to stop, too.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't want everyone talking about me. There'll be that girl, Rachel, all your friends from high school and those two blonde bimbos we met at the mall, who said they were going to try it on with you tonight. I didn't understand if they meant one at a time or both of them together.

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