We spent another hour hanging out with Rachel, Grey, and the rest of their gang, listening to poetry from various people. Suddenly, I got the urge to check my phone for the time. It read 11:00 exact. Cursing out loud, I grabbed Alexis’ hand and pulled her up.
“We gotta go now, it was nice hanging out with you guys, maybe we’ll meet again someday.” I smiled at the group before dragging my sister out the door.
Right as we turned to walk down the street, we ran into a group of girls. It was my mom and her friends.
“Where are Hannah and Darcy?” my mom asked me.
“Psh, I don’t care.” I shrugged off their existence from my mind.
“Well you should, we’re leaving now we gotta find them to go.”
“Oh we’re leaving already?” I darted a glance at Alexis who smirked at me, knowing I had dodged a terrible night with the people I hated the most; Hannah and Darcy.
“Yes, now I got their numbers from when I asked them to come with us; if you wouldn’t mind calling them to ask-”
“Yes I do mind! Now let’s just go, they probably ditched us anyway!” I took Alexis’ hand again and stormed down the sidewalk towards the direction of the parking garage we had parked in. I didn’t bother to look back to see if they were following us; I knew my mom wouldn’t just leave me alone with no way to get home.
We got to the garage in a huff; as I inched closer to where I memorized the van was, I heard familiar bitch-toned voices. “Seriously?” I muttered under my breath.
Hannah and Darcy loitered behind my friends van, talking up a storm; both of their arms were crossed, their attention tightly focused on each other. The funniest thing I noticed was that their legs were covered in dark brown stains.
“What the fuck happened to you guys? Did you accidentally shit on each other?!” I burst out in laughter just hearing myself say the clever remark. Alexis joined in with laughter.
“SHUT UP!!!!” Both of them shouted; their voices echoed throughout the empty garage.
I heard my mom gasp behind me, “what happened to you girls?”
“We were walking down the street back from the Late Night Café and…and…Tailynn became hostile and pushed us down into a giant puddle!!!” Darcy blubbered.
“WHAT?!” I screamed and bounded towards them. I lifted my arm and slapped Darcy as hard as I could across the cheek. The smack itself rang through the parking garage and her instant wails were even louder.
I let out a breath of accomplishment. I felt a lot better about tonight. The only thing that bothered me now was the pain in my hand. It stung really bad, and when I examined it I saw traces of blood across my palm. When I looked at Darcy I saw a slash across her cheek bone. My ring I was wearing had cut her. I didn’t know whether to feel happier or a little guilty. I was about to apologize when Hannah yelled at me,
“You stupid bitch! I can’t believe you hit her like that!”
I raised my hand threatening to hit her as well; she flinched. Surprisingly, my mother hadn’t said a word. I looked behind me and saw her standing in the middle of the parking lot, mouth slightly opened in surprise.
“Let’s go…” I muttered and opened the door to the van. I jumped in and pulled the door shut after Alexis. We waited a couple of minutes before the door opened again and everyone else piled in. I caught a glimpse of Darcy. She had a butterfly bandaid on the cut; an item Carol must’ve had in her purse. We drove back home in complete and utter silence. So quiet, I was afraid to breathe.
We got to our house faster than we had gotten to downtown Denver. When the van got into the parking lot I jumped out before the engine had even been turned off, which was a rule Alexis, Brock and I always had to follow. I ran into the house and bounded up the stairs to my small room. I slammed the door shut and moved my vanity as a temporary lock. Something I was very skilled at doing, being that when I was a young teenager, I would always get into fights with my parents.
I jumped onto my bed and examined my hand again. It was puffed up a bit, and hurt when I poked it. I walked into the conjoined bathroom and washed the blood from my hand. I wrapped it up in a small towel and rushed back into my room, locking the bathroom behind me to make sure nobody entered through that way.
I took out all the bows from my hair, kicked off my shoes, and changed into my PJ’s before tucking myself into bed. The only light that prevented me from peacefully sleeping was my lamp on my nightstand. I was about to turn it off and go to sleep when my phone rang. I knew exactly who it was from the ringtone.
“Hey baby.” I answered in relief.
“Hey Tay, you sound…upset.” Anthony’s sweet voice slowed down my racing heart beat and made me smile.
“I just…um…slapped a bitch and made her bleed.” My non explanatory comment made him laugh. “My mom invited my two high school ex-best friends to a night downtown and when we were about to leave, one of them made up a story that I pushed her down into a puddle sooo…I got really angry and slapped her so hard my ring cut her face and made her bleed.” I let it all out in one breath and smiled again, happy to get it out to my real best friend.
“Wow, I don’t know whether to be proud or scared.” He laughed.
“You should be both.” I giggled, “You should know by now if someone pisses me off, I’ll beat their ass!” I sat up in bed and readjusted the phone to my ear.
“Well I’ll make sure to never make you angry. I don’t want my ass to be beat, especially from my beautiful girlfriend. You know how much I love you.” His tone suddenly got soft.
“I love you too.” I matched it.
“I already miss you so much. I thought I could do this but knowing how far away you are, it…it hurts.” He was almost whispering.
“I miss you too…” was all I could think of saying. A tear slipped passed my cheek and splattered on the towel my stinging hand was wrapped in.
“Well…” he said after a couple of seconds “I just wanted to call to see how you were. We made it here safely, no troubles at the airport or on the plane or anything. We got to the hotel alright, Ian had some people escort him to the hotel because he couldn’t exactly carry his bags and I had my hands full. The hotel concierge also helped him, it was pretty cool, we looked like real celebrities; especially when some people in our room hallway recognized us and asked for autographs.”
“That’s awesome!” I encouraged him in a way to let him know he’d be okay without me after all. In fact, this could actually be beneficial to our relationship. We needed to miss each other to make us stronger. I told him the words I had planned in my head and he agreed.
“You’re right; missing you could be very beneficial. We could be a lot closer. I love you baby, I have to go now but I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
“Alrighty. I love you too, goodnight.”
“Goodnight.”
We gave each other kissing noises before hanging up. He always made me smile no matter what. I just hoped now things here would get better. I didn’t want to start things out in a bad manner. I needed to apologize to my mom and sister. “But not now”, I told myself, “in the morning”. And with that last thought, I turned off my lamp and fell asleep.
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