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tell me you'd seen him?” she said louder from the other side of the door.
“Well for a start I haven’t seen you since Friday and if you're going to keep things from me like I
don’t know say a bunch of letters addressed to me, then why shouldn’t I keep things from you. I
can't believe you tried to keep us apart. You've never liked him or been bothered with him it's no
wonder he wanted to get away from you.” I said, regretting the words the moment they had left my
mouth, that might of been pushing it a bit too far.
“Ruby I did it for your own good. He’s going nowhere I didn’t want him influencing you. You've
got your last year of school coming up, then you'll be off to college, you don’t need to be getting
involved with Seth and all his problems.”
“What problems? I talked to him and he said he was doing great, he even looked happy.” Drugs... I couldn’t believe I'd just heard that, it was always the same with her if someone didn’t look
right or were acting slightly off she would blame it on drugs. I knew she worked at the hospital and
dealt with a lot of drug addicts but I thought by now she would know the difference. I was surprised
she hadn’t already accused me of been on drugs for my moody behaviour with her.
“Oh Ruby wake up didn’t you see his friend, his eyes weren't normal, obviously high on
something,”
Drugs, I heard her a second time. Was she seriously accusing Seth of been on drugs again. Sure
Micah had some strange looking eyes but he didn’t look high to me. I don’t think Seth would of let
him drive if he'd been using.
He had just looked annoyed to me. That was it he was annoyed that I was holding them up from
getting back on the road, that's why he was glaring at me. Wait no that can't be right it was his idea
for us to go out and get food in the first place. I realised mom was still on the other side of the door.
“Okay well lets agree to disagree on this one, you've obviously made you mind up about Seth,” I
said turning the shower on.
“Ruby.” Mom called louder.
“I'm getting in the shower now. So I can't hear you.” I shouted back.
I stood in the shower letting the water spray over my face. I was annoyed with mom but I knew no
good would come from getting mad at her or trying to reason with her she was the sort of person
that always thought they were right and no one else knew what they were talking about. It was best
to ignore her plus I knew that would aggravate her more.
She'd mentioned Micah's eyes and now that was all I was thinking about it, it was hard enough
trying to get him out of my head last night. There was something different about him but I was sure
it didn’t have anything to do with mom’s theory.
After my shower I grabbed an apple and some OJ and went back to my very bare looking room to
hide from my mom. I looked over at my daisy clock which sat all by itself on the nightstand. It was
only 7.15am but it already felt like I had been up for hours. I was completely bored and felt
sluggish. I sat on the window ledge, staring out the window. A large black bird had caught my
attention. It sat perched on a branch across the street, it looked huge compared to a standard
blackbird, maybe it was a crow. I squinted trying to get a better look at the bird it looked to have
something on its leg like a tag, maybe it was someone's pet? Something below distracted my eyes
away from the bird, it was mom dashing across the front lawn to her car holding her work bag that
normally had her work clothes in.
I went downstairs to find Frank putting on his coat on.
“Where's mom going?” I asked.
“Work,” he said slipping his shoes on.
“I thought yesterday was her last day?”
“It was but they were short on staff and she offered to help,”
“So where are you going?”
“Your mom is dropping me off at the Bill's for a few goodbye beers,”
He moved to the door. “Now when your mother gets back I want you to behave yourself, I don’t
want you