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“You really are confused. I think some time away would do you good.”
“Confused?” I raised my voice again.
“Yes,” he said calmly. “You scream you don’t want anyone telling you what to do and then you scream at people who respect that wish and accuse them they don’t care. I think you are confused.”
“I’ll go clear my head then.”
“At Hannah’s?” he asked. I hesitated.
“Yeah. Is that a problem?”
“No. I just don’t want you to be alone in that depressing house. We just want to know where you’re going.”
I unlocked my car.
“It’s awenow. I can’t believe you, Ty. Seriously.”
“Do you need a ride?”
“You don’t have a car.”
“I could drive yours and then walk to my hotel,” he suggested.
“No. But thank you for the offer,” I hugged and squeezed him. “I love you,” I said. I didn’t remember when was the last time I said it to anyone.
“Love you, little monster. Call me when you calm down?” he asked.
I nodded, and I got inside the car. I looked in back view mirror, and I saw them all. They had followed me. The look on Madison’s face was curious. Dad was crushed, and Sylvia just stared at me. This time there was no judgement in her eyes, no annoyance. She contemplated the end of our relationship. And she was accepting it.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Lucas
About ten hours after Clementine left the Hartley’s family dinner, Hannah Spencer called me to inform me that she had boarded a plane in the middle of the night and left for London.
Hannah also told me everything Dylan Williams and Amy did from the first time he kissed Clem up until the day I screamed at her about London.
A day later, on Monday morning, I saw the two of them strolling in the school hallway. Perfectly calm. Perfectly happy. I knew that Clem hadn’t confronted Dylan at all. The thought of him getting away unscarred from it all made my blood boil. Our eyes locked and he smirked.
I just pounced on him. It was way overdue. The moment I hit him I realized I wasn’t going to stop until I see his face in blood. It took three people to get me off of him.
I had no idea who my parents charmed and how exactly, but I got suspended for only two weeks. When I came back, Hannah became my misery buddy. She was as mad as me. Clem lied to her brother that she was going to spend that night after their family dinner at her place. Instead, she met my mother at the airport without even texting her BFF she was leaving.
“I’m so pissed at her. This is classic Clem,” she murmured the first time we talked after my suspension. We were sitting on the bleachers. I was staring at the grass on the field; she was flipping pamphlets for prom.
“Cruel and selfish?” I supplied, not expecting an answer, but it was Hannah Spencer. Of course I was getting an answer. That girl talked more than my mother.
“What?” she looked at me like I was crazy. “No. She’s not cruel. I meant her sneaking out like that. It was so impulsive. What was your mother thinking, by the way?”
“She thinks she did her a favor”, I ran my hand through my hair in a nervous matter. “This was the worst thing she could do. Clementine needs a whole different thing.”
“I know!” Hannah squealed.
He had a lot of talks like that one, Hannah and I. The person I didn’t want to talk to at all was my mother.
“Are you going to start talking to me soon?” she asked while I helped clean the kitchen after breakfast one morning.
“Don’t hold your breath.”
