Ch.8

                I rushed into my first period English class barely before the tardy bell rang. However, I didn’t have one of my books, so I had to share with the person beside me. While we were reading, every so often I would look up to see if Ashley had finally showed up. By break time, I still saw no sign of her or Aiden. I finally spotted Carmen, however, and ran up to her immediately. “Hey.” I said softly, leaning over her shoulder to kiss her softly on the cheek. She pulled away and looked up at me suspiciously. “Spencer, where were you last night? You didn’t call me, and you didn’t answer your cell. Your parents called me looking for you.” Crap. I’m busted if I don’t handle this right. I thought. “I’m so sorry, Carmen. But yesterday, that talk with Ashley made me want to go off for a drive and think about the things she said. I didn’t wanna come home and have to hear my mom yell at me for meeting up wish Ashley in the first place.” “What’d Ashley say to you?” she said, raising an eyebrow.

 “She told me that she loves me, that she misses me, all that crap. I couldn’t take it anymore so I just ran.” Ran into her arms, that is. I thought in the back of my head. What I told Carmen was half of the truth, but I still felt pretty terrible for having slept with my ex and now lying about it to her. Carmen put her arms around me and squeezed me. “Are you alright, babe? Do you want to talk about it? I’m sorry, Spence.. I just thought that, maybe you went back to her or something. Me and my insecurities.” She buried her head into my shoulder. I stroked her hair softly, thinking to myself that I must be the worst girlfriend in the world. I had lied about loving her, then I cheated on her, and now I found myself lying about that, too. What the hell am I doing? I had already talked to my dad in his office about why I was out all night. I told him that I had been over at a friend’s house working on our project and we were up late and finally I just fell asleep there. Luckily, I am studious so my dad gave me a benefit of a doubt and didn’t question any further. “Your mom isn’t pleased with you staying out all night without telling us, Spence.” He warned. Ugh, my mother. Don’t even remind me, Dad.