Redemption by Stacey Lannert

Author:Stacey Lannert
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307592156
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Miles Away

y father told me there was no way in hell I was going to Guam. He wasn’t going to have it and even went as far as forbidding it. According to him, I needed to keep my ass in school and graduate.

I saw his temper tantrum coming. I had planned for it by cooking up a story.

I told him my friend Shannon was a narc. He knew Shannon well, even though she was a new friend of mine. She was like me—she lived with her dad and had limited contact with her mom. She was at our house a lot, and Dad commented on how pretty she was. After that, I made sure we always left when he came home drunk.

I told Dad that Shannon was a plant, someone who is older but poses as a high school student to bust drug rings. I told him the police had been investigating and had a huge case built against me. But they didn’t want me; they wanted my dealer. I explained to Dad that the police had brought me in for questioning, and I told the police who the dealer was so they wouldn’t press charges against me.

My dad, the alcoholic child abuser, took the bait.

Inspired by an episode of 21 Jump Street, I embellished my story further. Because I had given up the drug dealer and told the cops everything they wanted to know, the drug dealer was after me. He wanted me dead, and his people were on the hunt for me. Of my two parents, Dad was the one who fixed things. He paid the fine when I hit the barn with Mom’s car. He took me to the hospital when I had the worst pains of my life. This time was no different. Dad bought me a ticket to Guam that day. My flight was in two weeks.

But because I was in trouble for my life, I had to leave St. John. I packed everything and drove to Uncle Daniel’s house in Illinois. I rushed away with Dad’s blessing.

I had just one stop to make: Rob’s house.

He wasn’t there during the day, and I knew that. So I left him a Christmas present, a teddy bear. I wrote him a Dear John letter to say good-bye. All the PID pain combined was nothing compared to the pain of breaking up with Rob. I loved him more than I could ever convey in a silly love letter. I knew he’d be furious with me when he read it; that was even harder for me to deal with. My wonderful, kind boyfriend Rob would hate me forever because I upped and left without warning or good reason. No good reason he knew about anyway. In his eyes, I just vanished. He didn’t know where I was going, and he had no way to reach me. I couldn’t tell him those details without telling him all the other stuff. If only I could have opened up to him, but I didn’t dare—I was scared.

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