Chapter Five

7:15. UGH! I'm late. My bus comes at 7:25. I hurried and got ready and my mom was sitting on the couch. She told me she had a hard night and she was trying to figure out what to do. She didn't want us to keep hurting but no one would believe us. We talked about our options. When I looked at the clock it was 8. CRAP! I was WAY late. I told my mom I had to go get ready but she just said, “Don't worry about going to school today, honey.” So I was home all day helping my mom with the kids while she got some well needed rest. All day I was texted by Paige and we still planned on having a sleepover that night. She told me she had rented a couple of videos and that we could order a pizza, dessert, a midnight snacks, and a breakfast (using her dad's credit card of course). Another thing about Paige is even though we confide in everything to each other she doesn't know about my dad. My mom doesn't think it would be smart and I don't want to ruin my relationship with her.
“How about we prank call Jake?” Paige asked me as we were eating pizza.
“No! He has caller id I bet and that would be totally embarrassing!” I replied back.
“I dare you.”
“NOOOO WAY.”
“Fine you asked for it! I triple dog, pinky swear, mocha times 100 dare you.”
Oh no I had asked for it. We knew that as long as it wasn't dangerous we always had to do that dare. You just don't mocha times 100 if you weren't serious.
“Fine, but I don't have his number”
“Not too hard, I have it in my phone.”
So I ended up calling him.
“Hello” he said in his wonderfully handsome voice.
“Hello, this is Temmy” I said in an Indian accent.
“Uhm, do I know you”
“No, I'm from India. My friend told me you were really cute and I just wanted to say 'hi'.”
“Cool, who's your friend.”
Hmmmm what should I say?
“Oh, she wants to be kept confidential.”
“Paige and Samantha Faith come down here please.”
CRAP!
We hurried and hung up the phone and hoped he hadn't heard that.
(Just to tell you something I really HATE my name Alison is just so bland. Faith is too but at least it has some meaning in it. Alison and Faith are my grandma's. Alison is my dad's mom and she is 1,000 times raunchier than my dad. Ugh. So long story short I haven't seen her since I was 4 and she hasn't met any of my siblings. She still calls my dad from time to time but I always make sure I'm gone when she calls.)
“I need you to go walk my beautiful dog, I just got a manicure and pedicure and I don't want it to be wasted on a walk when I have a treadmill right here. And it's sooo cold outside I get goosebumps when I walk outside and you know how bad that is for your skin and hair. Here is little Puggy and I want you to make sure she keeps her sweater on and her boots don't fall off.”
Paige and I looked at each other, rolled our eyes, and put on our shoes. We aren't aloud to wear them in the house because they just got new carpets. I don't see what the big deal is though because they get new ones every year.
“So how is your life, Samantha?”
“Okay, why do you ask?”
“You just seem kind of distant from me and I want to make sure you're okay. You remember the vow we gave each other about being 100% honest.”
“I know, there's nothing wrong.”
I am a terrible liar. We always know if we aren't honest with each other but she was good enough to drop it. We walked for about 45 minutes and went home to eat some ice-cream. We decided to tell watch a classic, Miss Congeniality and then went upstairs and laid out on her California King bed and told scary stories. Finally we drifted off to sleep at 4 o'clock. We slept in until 1:30 then got up, had a picnic and decided to go see a movie. We were gone all day and finally I had an urge to turn on my phone. What I found shocked me. I had voice mails and texts, half of which were from my mom, telling me to get home now and that it was URGENT! She didn't say that word unless so really meant it so I told Paige to have her chauffeur take me home. What I saw shocked me, there was ambulances all over.