Forever Ours by Cassia Leo

Author:Cassia Leo [Leo, Cassia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00KKUGWH0
Publisher: Gloss Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-05-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Chris

Forever Happy

Tristan arrives at our house on the morning of Claire’s senior prom in his shitty Ford pickup truck. Claire and I climb into the front seat with Tristan, with Claire between us. She leans her head on my shoulder and closes her eyes as the truck bumps along down the beltline. She’s still tired from staying up late studying for finals.

We have to pick up Claire’s dress and my outfit at the mall. This is totally last minute. Claire didn’t want to pick up her dress on my bike, and Tristan’s been putting this off every day for the last four days I’ve been asking him to take us. Claire’s been too busy studying to care about Tristan blowing us off.

“What’s the theme for the prom? White Trash Love?” Tristan remarks when he sees what I’m wearing to the prom.

I pay the girl at the cash register for my black Rolling Stones T-shirt and the new pair of jeans. The girl stares at my new mohawk hairdo and smiles. Claire hooks her arm around mine, staking her claim.

“You’re just jealous you won’t get to fly your white trash flag today,” Claire says to Tristan.

“Yeah, not really. I wouldn’t go to the prom if you paid me in white trash love.”

“Hey,” I reply, issuing a warning before Tristan and Claire start sniping at each other.

Ever since Tristan and Ashley broke up in the beginning of the school year, he’s been an even bigger prick. He doesn’t say stupid stuff that often, but when he does, it’s usually something that’s meant to make me jealous and hurt Claire at the same time.

I know he’s just fucked up over Ashley, but it’s been almost a year since they broke up and they were only together a year. And he still refuses to tell me why they broke up. He keeps giving me some lame story about how he broke up with her because he didn’t have time to visit her after she went off to college. She’s a year older than Tristan. I have a feeling Ashley’s the one who broke up with him, and he still hasn’t gotten over it. But he’ll never admit that.

We leave the store and head for the department store where Claire had her dress altered. The center of the corridor in the mall is lined with craggily trees covered in blinking golden lights. Claire jumps up to touch one of the branches as we pass.

“These remind me of something,” she says, looking back at the tree she just touched with a childlike smile lighting up her beautiful face.

“What do they remind you of?” I ask, grabbing her hand to get her attention.

“When I was a kid, before my mom died, we had this giant tree on our property. Sometimes, when my mom was really out of it, I’d go outside and climb the tree. I’d stay up there for hours sometimes, just looking up at the stars.”

She continues to smile as she recalls this memory.

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