The life of an american teenager

m chapter four: the uncomftorable date (be aware of text messages)

Karson:  Hey Jennifer can I ask you a question?. 10:30 am third per.

Me: Yea go ahead I got plenty of time to spare time. 10:31 am third per.

Karson: do u umm well I know we just met but ummm do u wanna go out sometime u know like a date? 10:34 am third per.

OMG karson just asked me out OMG OMG OMG What do I do....

Me: Yes yes yes of course karson OMG yes I mean Yea sure whatever. 10:40 am hallway

Karson: OMG awesome OMG u like me OMG I mean Cool Cool whatever. 10:42 hallway

After that we didn't really talk but we both knew how much we cared for each other....

That night I was jumping around my room while my big sister Brean was so fucking annoyed that i was falling in love. But just then.....

My phone vibrates...

Karson: meet me at le patete cafe in one hour ....plz 6:30 pm
Just then Brean found a condom and started blowing it up.
"Hey can you help me find and outfit?"brean looks upat me and raises and eyebrow. "Are you goingout on a date with that wallflower?"
"yea,so i really like him he gives me buttlerflies everytime we talk. Now helpme find a dress or something." We walk over to my closet and look at the clothes. "what about this?" I ask while holding up a blue floral dress with a cowgirl hat. She shakes her head. "what are you two doing?, going to a rodeo or a french resteraunt.?" She's right i keep going through all my clothes and i find nothing. I just walk over to my door and slide onto the ground. "i'm not going to find a damn thing bre. I might as well go in my pajmas." I mess around with my hair and look at my hands and sigh with confussion. "what about this?" Brean pulls up a dress with purple fading into gold, with a pair of lavender high-heels that strap around the ankles. A little black belt that straps around the are underneath the boobs. "What do you have this for?"
"i was going to save it for pro in a few years when we were living in kentucky. But i think i can try it on. I never actually tried it on." She hands me the dress and shoes and walks out of the room." I slip it on in my bathroom next to my closet. (Convienent right?) I look at myself in the mirrior  and i almost cry. I look so diferent. The dress stops right above the knees and the no straps shows some of the bruises from the crash on my arms. I do my best to cover them with concealer. I do the same wiht my face, i grab my purse and put my wallet in it. I brush through my long curly brown and blonde hair. Like everytime i do my curls start to show, even though i straighten it every morning. I grab my phone and slide it into my bag as well. I stumble down the stairs and keep trying to to catch myself. My mom spots me and grabs her purse. "ummmm..... ummmm..... i'm just gonna...... go....... to the store! Yea the store, hehe." I just wave good bye and drop a crutch. She looks sat me without meeting my face and her face scrunches up and she begins to wipe tears from her face. As soon as the door shuts my sister claps her hands together and smiles. "you look so pretty andgood job to cover those imperfections that you call "' warriors battle scars"'i 'm glad you are doing this." I just nod my head and open the door. " hey i'm going to drive you, you cannot walk that far, and wait, what's wrong?"
"Look it's mom, she just can't look at me without crying.  I just wish things went back to normal OK?! "
I'll talk to her mmk? Things will get better. I promise." The whole ride there was quiet. I just kept looking at my cast, and bre kept her eyes on the road.
     Bre waved goodbye as she drove away. I check my phone:  7:35 pm. I can't believe i'm late to this date. I walk in and karson stands up. "oh my, you look amazing, i though you changed your mind i was about to leave. I am just glad you are here."
"i'm glad i am here to, you know you are the only person from our school that has actually talked to me without runing away like i am some sort of monster."  Kason just sighs and shakes his head. He hands out his arm for me to grab it.  I link my arm around his and he leads me to our table.
      An hour or so later we find ourselves walking around olde town St.Helen's, Oregon.  I wrap my shawl around me a little tighter and he notices how cold I am and he wraps his arm around me. His warmth surrounding me like a blanket.  We haven't talked the  whole walk, a few grunts evey time i feel like i'm going  to fall he catches me. We end upsitting on the docks  and me not feeling cold anymore slip off my heels and slip the foot that isn't wrapped in a cast in the water. "hey what are you doing? You'll get hypothermia doing that!" I shrug my shoulders awkwardly. "it can't be worse then my near death  expierience and me dying for 15 minutes, and the cast, and the brace, and the bruises....."
"Wait, you died?"
"yea,you seem shoked, i was hit by a semi you know.."
"what happened, i mean everyone said you were upset about what happened to your mom, you thought she was gonna die so you stood in the middle of theroad and had a minor injury."
"yea, people are god damn liars. I was sad about what happened to my mom,told the office and they said i should just go see her, i was waking and this semi swerved and slid off the road. I was struck and i felt lke i was about to die. I did die,about anhour later. I found my self walking around the hospitol, looking at all the other people who died that have not crossed over. Then i felt my body being pulled bacward to my body. My eyes fluttered open, then my life was destroyed. I haven't quit anything yet, but the soccer team and cheerleading have been strongly encouraged me to leave. They calledmy mom, shetried but then she started to cry and walked out of the room. I never actually thought i would go from somebody to nobody in a matter of a few days, but i'm going to the hospital tomorrow to get everything checked out." He scoots a little closer and hugsme. I feel his warm breth on my somewhat bare back. He pulls away a little bit, then his lips meet mine in a soft fruity chap-stick kind of way. The smell of lightly sprayed axe and liccorice surround us. Liccorice? I don't mind, i like it. It suits him, compared to my strawberry smelling perfume he smells amazing. A tear rolls down my face and he feels it and he pulls away. He wipes my tear and without a single word he wraps his arm around me and I latched myself and began sobbing into his chest. When I stopped he stood up and pulled me up, he carried me up the ramp that has lead to the docks and he walked me home. I go to my room and I open the door slightly. It feels weird to have my sister back after two years of being away at college. Now she is in her familiar matching queen sized bed with her back turned to me. I check to see if she has her sleeping mask on and if she is really asleep. Her gentle snoring gives me the a OK to turn on my galaxy print lamp on my nightstand. I change into my Supernatural pajamas and I dig around my bathroom drawer to find a hairtie so I could put up my soft curls in a messy bun. I brush my teeth and stick my retainer in my mouth. I get underneath my supernatural bed set with the matching pillowcase.  I grab my pinkiepie stuffed pony and cover mmy eyes with my face mask. The door of Brean and mines bedrooom.i hear the slightly familiar voice of my mother asking for me. "mom? What do you want at this un-godly hour?" She walks in and i sit up a little further in my bed. She walks in forcing herself to look at me in the face. "brean told me what you said too her. i don't blame you for what happened......" her voice trailes off. "i blame myself, we already lost so many family members then your father and i having our fight. Then now were are on a two month break. I just got so p'sed that i went to a local bar and grill and drank to my hearts content. Then i was stupid to drink and drivebthen i rear ended a geometro, this little old lady saw me and din't press charges, she called 911 and i had my liscence suspened for about two weeks.  Then i heard what happened to you i couldn't believe what happened. I knew you had so juch going on lately, and the fact that you are disappointed with me i couldn't look at what i have done..... i'm so so so sorry..." i felt my face geting red and i looked at her straight eyes. "Mum, i don't blame you, i am not disappointed, if anything i'm disappointed in dad, he just left without a single goodbye. I just wanted you mom, i love you, i needed you more than anything, i just thought......" i was interuppeted by mom pulling me close and hugging me tight. Her southern styled voice flowing through my mind when she spoke. "Look, if you still need a ride to your appointment, i can take ya." I nodded my head and dug my head deeper into her shoulders. She stands up kissing me on the forhead and walks out closing the door behind her.