Misfortune by L.Bann (christmas read aloud TXT) 📖

would do more damage than I would.
When I got off the bus I looked back at Harry and he was staring at me with a hint of a grin. I walked inside and went to my bedroom. I got my phone out of my bag and called Ben. It only rang for two seconds.
“Hi, Daisy” he said.
“Hey Ben, do you have time to talk?”
“Yeah”
“Are you somewhere your parents wouldn’t hear us?”
“Yeah, I’m in my room”
“OK, well I was on the bus and Jenna and I were talking about the weekend, but Harry was sitting right behind us”
“What?!” He sounded pretty angry.
“Well, he was on his iPod though, I don’t think he heard us but I’m not sure. Ben I’m sorry, I didn’t no he was behind us”
“It’s OK; we just shouldn’t mention it for the rest of the week”
“OK, what if Harry asks any questions? What should I say? ”
“Tell him you’re going camping with Jenna”
“What if he knows I’m lying?”
“Well, you don’t even know if he heard you” he sighed.
“OK, I guess I’ll see you tomorrow”
“Yeah” he was silent for a second and I thought he’d hung up on me. “See you tomorrow” he finally said and then he hung up.
I wonder why he was silent. Maybe his dad was there or something, but that would mean he was lying to me. I wouldn’t ask him since I didn’t think it was that important, if it was he would tell me tomorrow.
I decided to do some homework, but I couldn’t get my mind off the weekend away with Ben. Sometimes I just stared at the wall and daydreamed. I stopped daydreaming when I heard my dad’s car in the drive.
I was prepared for if he walked in; I would be busy doing homework so he wouldn’t have to talk to me. I tried to make it look like I was doing homework but I was so distracted by my dad, I was trying to make out him moving around in the kitchen, seeing if he would come to my bedroom. Then I heard his footsteps and they were coming for my room.
He knocked on my door and I started writing crap. “Daisy, are you in there?”
“I’m doing homework” I replied.
“I need to talk to you” he sounded pretty concerned and worried. I knew he was going to talk about Ben and I didn’t want to hear it.
“Dad, this has to be in for tomorrow” I shouted, I tried really hard to sound distracted but my dad persisted.
“Please Daisy, it’s important to me”
“Fine” I sighed. He walked in and sat down on my bed. “I want to talk to you about last night”
I sighed. I really didn’t want to talk to him, didn’t he get that?
“I just want to say, whatever’s going on with your life, if you want to tell me or not, just don’t lie to me. I don’t care if you don’t tell me, but if you do please don’t lie to me”
I just looked at him. He got up and walked over to the door. Then he looked over at the condoms on my bedside table, “And about you and Ben” he looked over at me, I was expecting the worst, “just be safe, and no lies” then he left.
Crap! Did he read my mind or something? I’m going to have to lie to him to go to Des Moines with Ben. And be safe!? Seriously, he knows me. Well, since Saturday I think he must think differently of me. This is all Ben’s fault, if I hadn’t of met him none of this would of happened. Making out in the tree, being caught in the woods. If we had never met, Harry would still be taunting me though, Ben hopefully scared him off by now.
I got out my phone and texted Jenna.
‘Jenna I need to talk to you’
She texted back immediately. ‘What!!!!’
‘My dad talked to me just now and told me to be safe with Ben and to not lie!!!’
‘There are no words that can describe the situation right now’
‘Jenna, I hate him so much! >:(‘
‘Well, are you going to tell him about Des Moines????’
‘NO!!!!!’
‘Ok, calm down. Well, have you booked it???’
‘Yh, I did that already’
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Publication Date: 01-14-2012

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