Once Upon Another Time by Jettie Woodruff

Author:Jettie Woodruff [Woodruff, Jettie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Even though it took me forever to fall asleep, I woke to my grandma yelling from downstairs again. And again, I opened one eye to Michael Jackson and half a smile. The scent of breakfast once again reminding me someone else was preparing my food.

“Coming,” I called, stretching. And then the nerves started again. I had to go back to high school.

That day started about the same way as the first day I’d wokenas high school student. I stepped over dirty clothes, dressed in another new outfit I thought was hideous; I broke two cigarettes right out of my gram’s hand, and then I went to school. With Johnny. I remembered that, too.

I’m not sure where my grams was the first time around, but this time she was outback, trying to smoke where I wouldn’t take it away from her. I sat at the table eating my breakfast,savoring every single second of whatever this was. I’d just been thinking about my friend Leigh, and how happy I was to get to spend this time with her, again...And then the phone rang.

I answered it with a smile, happy to hold that old yellow phone in my hand again. “Hello.”

“Why don’t you tell the whole school why we’re fighting?”

“What?” I questioned, my smile instantly transforming to a frown.

“Jan told Wendy you said we were fighting because you wouldn’t give me a handjob. Jan told David.”

Shaking my head, I shrugged one shoulder like it wasn’t a big deal this time around. “Leigh has a big mouth.”

“You told Leigh too? That’s not even why I was mad.”

Searching my memory from another time, I argued that it was. “Um, yes, it is.”

“No, it’s not. I was mad because you promised we’d do stuff, and then you wouldn’t.”

“Yeah, I doubt if I ever will.”

“What? What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Nothing. Just, I think I want to ride solo this time around. Let’s just be friends.”

“Do you even hear yourself right now? Everyone loves us together. Your friends love us together. You know we have a really good chance at king and queen, don’t you? You’re going to blow it. I said I was sorry, but that doesn’t give you the right to tell the whole school.”

“I told Leigh. God, this really is high school. I’ll see you at school.”

Untangling myself from the long cord, I realized I either had to catch the bus or take my gram’s station wagon. At that moment, I remembered how much I hated that car. Once when Johnny was sick and couldn’t come after me, I drove it,left it in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot, and walked two blocks so no one would see me. My mom showed up and bought me toys when I was little, and makeup and clothes when I was older, but she never showed up with a car. My grandma couldn’t afford to buy me one.

“Are you going to be early again tonight?”

Turning to my grams, I wondered what early meant. “Early?”

“Yes, are you doing something with your friends after practice?”

“Oh, I doubt it.

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