Right Here With You

h cash to pay for a muffin for him. At least now he won't say I'm in his debt, not that a muffin is even worth what

ore my class by 2pm. I head out back to get my backpack and have only just slung it over my shoulder when I hear my phone ring. I get it out thinking

and wait till I see him physically before I say what I want to say to him. But on second thoug

locker room. Mr. McConnell is not at his table when I walk out of t

t in my ears. The Ellie before Friday night would ha

on Frida

e asks. I'm standing in the small parking lot of Rise N' Drink, so I lean agai

e got cl

Thought I could see

on in par

you. Nothing much. Just fifty or sixty.

g. I'm not due for

and I hear him mutter something

talking

night since you'll be busy in class this afternoon and busy at one of your

tonight since Falcon has been closed down due to what happened Friday night p

u're always hanging out with the guys. You do know th

a scoff. What am I doing? Did I answer th

to your school work, you think she'd only talk to

n't call you for a lecture

e?" I cut in, adjusting myself on

should probably go get 'busy' before I get read

an I'm too busy

wonder if you even still go to class. Do you plan on work

amnesia too cause you've obviously forgotten that you just called to borrow c

I'm actually being kind and thinking about you right now, you

ask. My voice is raised now and I so wish we were hav

ne points it out, you get upset tryin

ing Sandra? Because she'

of silence between us

enly gone quiet? You had a lot to say a

earlier. "Listen, whatever you heard happened between me and Sandra didn't happen, okay? You know her. You know that... t

her since Friday. I spent the weekend at Camryn's. What happen

k you talking

r, with the way he's sounding now, I would have called whoever t

day in and day out and act ashamed of me every fucking time because you don't

ve. She don't care about my needs. All sh

weekend. It didn't hurt because it was the truth, it hurt because someone I loved and cared about thought of me as a sla

ears. Well, guess where all the money you get from me comes from? My jobs!" I'm yelling at this point and I can se

with my money than have you spend it on Netflix and parties and aesthe

rstanding. Couples argue, I know. Just tell me... tell me

t we ain't a couple a

and that you needed me. She said I gotta rush down and... I got there an

How blind have I been to not notice that you weren't even doing the b

where

tually at one of my jobs. I'm done slaving for the mor

u know I'd be near. My hands have gotten tough from all the hard work I've been doing and

llie, hang

st girls would move out of their apartments as well, but I can't leave when my rent isn't up.

is. I turn around to leave the parking lot and my face smacks against a hard surface. My hand touches my face instinctively and when I