Drowning by Briar Lane

Author:Briar Lane [Lane, Briar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0745JFFN4
Goodreads: 35779562
Published: 2017-07-21T03:00:00+00:00

12

AMY

I hadn’t known exactly what to expect when I’d gone to pick up Jessica. All I’d known was that she’d been crying when she’d called me, and it’d been the middle of the night, so it must have been a big deal. I was seriously worried.

Every day since I had been officially with Jessica, I’d been waiting for the other shoe to drop. It was like, any day things could go wrong, and I’d be on my own again, miserable without her. Things didn’t usually work out so well for me. I didn’t have the best of luck, so I felt particularly scared that I was going to lose all the happiness I had.

But it honestly had forced me to live in the moment more than ever, and, boy, was I living in the moment. Every damn day was sheer joy for me. Honestly, I didn’t know how I’d gone through my whole life without feeling like this. And I had no idea how I’d do it again.

When I pulled up to Jess’ house, she was sitting on a suitcase in her driveway, her head buried in her hands. She was bawling.

I pulled up right next to her, jumping out of the car immediately and rushing to her side.

“Oh my god, babe, what’s wrong?” I asked, as I wrapped both of my arms around her tightly.

“I got kicked out,” she murmured. “My mom doesn’t ant me here anymore, and I… I don’t know where to go.”

“What?!” I didn’t know what it was I’d been expecting, but it hadn’t that.

I’d never imagined her mom would kick her out. Her Dad, maybe, but her mom? Who was overly concerned with appearing to be a loving, perfect mother?

“She just… she made me pack my bags and leave,” she said, her eyes red and puffy.

“But why!?” I asked. “Why would she do that?”

She looked up at me. “Because I told her we were together.”

“You did what?!” I asked.

She nodded slowly. “It just… happened. I didn’t plan it. She was mad that I had come home late, and she was saying all these things that reminded me of the way she used to treat you when we were kids, and I just… I defended you, and then one thing led to another, and I admitted we were dating.”

This was so much to process. I knew Jessica had claimed that she’d be telling her parents about us, but, honestly, I hadn’t expected her to. I’d been half wondering if we’d go to the grave without her family ever having known the truth. And I knew how complicated her relationship with her parents was, so, honestly, that didn’t bother me a ton.

But I was pretty damn proud to hear she’d actually bitten the bullet and done it. Proud and very worried for her emotional state. Because being kicked out over this had to hurt.

God, I couldn’t believe they’d be so cruel. I’d known her parents would disapprove, but this?! How did you disown your own child just

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