"Somebody's in trouble. Awh, here it goes."
-Coolio
"You did what?" My mother came busting through the front door. She was off entirely too early. I'm assuming she received a call about my suspension and cut work early to come rushing home to me. "You have got to be kidding me wait until you father hears about this."
The threat sent a chill through me. It's not like my father could do anything to me but the thought of his disappointment always shook me. My mother and I had made a pack to never let my father find out about my impromptu porno. Apparently, my suspension, although aftermath of said porno was not a part of the pact. I sat up straighter on the couch at the threat. "Honestly, mom, is that really necessary?"
The facial expression she gave me let me know fully well she thought it was beyond necessary. "Your room now!" I fought the urge to roll my eyes as I left the room. How can you punish a kid for defending themselves? What is wrong with this world? Why are parents so unjust! As soon as I had sat down the phone rang. I didn't have to do much guess work as to who it was.
My mother's voice carried through the crack of my door so I could hear her fully complain to my father about how unruly I had been recently and that I was not the daughter she worked so hard to raise. True to her word she still hadn't mentioned my leaked nudes, she did however let him know I was at the center of chaos and food fights.
She pushed my door open and held the phone right to my face and delivered the ultimate blow, "Your father wants to talk to you."
I couldn't help but look at the phone like it was a gun. With hesitancy I took it. "Hey dad." I took a deep breath waiting to hear his voice in my ears.
"Pickles?" Ok he wasn't mad enough to use my real name. "I want you to be honest with me. I know I can't do much, but I would feel better if you would just tell me what's going on."
"Nothing's going on Dad I swear." Other than I have fully launched a career in nudity and tips, literally nothing is going on. "There's just this girl at school who hates me dad. She does literally anything she can to make my life hard." I went on and on about Carly and her attempts to belittle me whiling leaving out incriminating evidence. I even told him how I delivered the final blow of a pudding cup to her head that lead to my suspension.
"You hit her in the face?" I hummed in response to my father's question. There was a slight pause before he responded again. "That's my girl!"
I continued to laugh and talk with my dad when my cell phone buzzed. I glanced at the screen and quickly read q message from Finn. There was an emergency meeting in the tree house that night and it was all men on deck. "I love you, Dad. I got to go."
"I love you too Pickles. And if your mother asks, I reprimanded you ok?"
My dad put in overtime to be my favorite parent. It was never in vain.
.(&).
It wasn't long in the evening when my mother was knocked out in her room. She had tired herself out lecturing me on how I needed to be more responsible and that I needed to think before I acted. I had been grounded for a week the same duration of my suspension. Ironically I had never been grounded before so I don't think my mother had punished me correctly.
She didn't actually list what I wasn't allowed to do while on punishment. She took my phone but not my laptop. She didn't actually hand out restrictions on when I could leave the house either. It was kind of a perk to have a small circle of friends. My mother only knew of my friendship with Finn and since she had spoken to his mom and found out he was grounded too she didn't even restrict me from handing out with my friends.
Little did she know I had a tree house full of them while she slept peacefully. I climbed up the ladder to the tree house to find I was the last to arrive. "About time you made it! We're in this mess because of you!" It was Marcus who greeted me, and although his tone was playful, I knew he meant the words he was speaking.
So naturally I was in defensive mode. "Hey no one told you to throw anything at the principal!"
"I was defending your honor!" Marcus and I entered a stare off before I broke first blinking. I sat down between him and Finn.
"Oh, thank you kind knight for sacrificing yourself. You have brought honor to your kingdom." My voice was dripping with sarcasm. He may have won the stare off, but he wasn't getting off that easy. But on a serious note thank you all for having my back. You really didn't have to go down with my sinking ship."
August nodded in appreciation. "Honestly Beckett it was worth it. From Principal Morris's face to Carly's this day will go down in history."
Finn chimed in and random conversation began to flow. I wasn't 100 percent sure why this meeting was called but I had a pretty good guess as to the pressing matter at hand. While everyone was deep in conversation, I couldn't help but notice the lack of Jordan's input or interaction with any of us.
"What's wrong Jordan?" It took a second for him to look at anything other than his clasped hands in his lap. There was a silence growing around us as everyone looked at him for a response.
"I can't stay out too late guys if my mom finds out I left after she grounded me, I'm pretty sure she'll kill me." Although Jordan was talking to us his eye never really moved from the floor. Man, his mom must have ripped him a new one when she found out he was suspended.
"He's right, we should get down to business." August nodded in Jordan's direction while he spoke. "So Finn, why are we here?"
Marcus cleared his throat, "Actually I called this meeting to address the elephant in the room." Everyone's eyes, minus Jordan, slowly landed on me.
"Oh guys come on my ass isn't that big!" I crossed my arms in defiance over my chest. Finn however gave me a slight smile as if to politely disagree.
Marcus laughed but his laugh short to fully explain what he meant. "I meant we need to address the drama Jordan started. You know... about Friday." At the mention of Jordan's name I couldn't help but notice he looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here. "So, the question is are you really going to do it?"
Before Marcus and August could ask me a million questions Finn cut in. "You know you don't really have to do it, right?" While Finn's eyes were begging me not to the rest were screaming that they hoped I would. I know Finn had previously said he would be ok with it but come on. Who in their right mind would agree to this? I could see if this was something I had been doing for years as if being a cam girl was apart of my identity and he had to accept it going in. But that wasn't the case. He knew me before this drama. He liked me before this drama.
August was more hesitant in his reply. "Right, you don't have to...but you did kind of announce to the cafeteria that you were going to do it." He was right I had sort of mentioned I would make everyone pay the next time I took my clothes off. That didn't actually mean I was going to take my clothes off...
On the other hand, I did feel a since of empowerment the moment I hit record in my bedroom. But then again no one was supposed to see that but me. It was an internal battle that honestly didn't take much for me to come to a conclusion. Both the angel and the devil sitting on opposing shoulders never really had a chance to talk me into or out of the decision. I think I had already made my choice before I truly weighed the options.
"I'm going to do it." Maybe there should have been more conviction in my voice to prove how sure I was. And I was 99.9 percent sure at that time that I did want to. I felt like I had to prove something to myself.
But there was still that .01 percent that was absolutely terrified. What if my mother found out, or worse my dad? Would Finn really be ok with it?
It's my body. My choice, right?
Jordan simply nodded his head, August looked like a kid in a candy shop and Finn was mostly quiet with a small smile.
For the next twenty minuets we discussed a plan of action. It wasn't exactly a good plan...
So sorry for the delay ! My computer crashed. I still don't have a new one so this was written on my phone. Please point out any and all mistakes!
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