Losing Faith

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Author: Jeremy Asher
Tags: General Fiction
bad the storm was, encouraging people to stay inside their homes tonight if at all possible. Trista looked up at the sky and noticed the absence of stars due to the storm clouds looming above. “Come on, Savannah,” she murmured. “Any time now.”
    A few minutes passed, and the front door didn’t budge. The image of Tuck lying face down on the kitchen table caused her stomach to recoil. She still couldn’t believe she had done something like that. But it wasn’t like he’d left her much of a choice. If she was going to get away, she needed a head start. The type of head start that the tranquilizer offered her. Then she imagined how mad he was going to be when he finally came to, and the butterflies turned into rocks falling to the bottom of her gut. Trista got out of her car and walked up to the front door. She gave it a knock and waited for someone to answer, but no one did. She knocked harder. “Brianna,” she shouted. “It’s Savannah’s mom.”
    Still no answer.
    Trista walked over to one of the windows and peeked inside. The front door opened, startling her. “Brianna, where’s Savannah?”
    Brianna wore a look of fear. “She’s…um.”
    “What is it?”
    Brianna’s eyes shifted to the side for a moment before looking back at Trista.
    “Where is she, Brianna?” Trista repeated.
    Brianna looked down and tucked her hands into her pockets. She glanced to the side again. Trista followed her line of sight and saw the midnight blue muscle car sitting on the side of the road about two houses down. “Are you kidding me? I told her…” She didn’t bother to look at Brianna before marching over to the muscle car. Trey’s muscle car. The one person on this planet Savannah had been forbidden to see.
    Tension filled Trista as her blood boiled with rage. Two weeks had passed since she had told Trey where he could shove his precious car. Although the kid was nineteen years old, he had the maturity of a twelve year old. “Savannah!” she shouted.
    Savannah climbed out of the passenger side and headed in the opposite direction down the road, putting distance between her mom and the car. “Hey! Stop right there, young lady.”
    Trey made the wisest decision she’d ever seen him make and took off. His tires screamed as they spun out on the asphalt, sending smoke shooting out the back. Trista watched the car as it passed, wishing she had a brick to throw at his precious little car. Then she turned back to Savannah, who had been all but running down the street. “Savannah!” she yelled. But Savannah didn’t so much as turn around.
    “Get back here now!” Trista’s walk quickened into a light jog until she caught up to her daughter. “I said to stop!” She grabbed Savannah by the shoulder and whipped her around.
    “Get your hands off me.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “You ruin everything. Things were good until you showed up.”
    Trista shifted her weight to her other foot as she pointed at her car. “Get in the car, young lady. We’ll talk about this later.”
    Savannah looked at their car and crossed her arms. “I’m stayin’.”
    Trista knew how quickly this situation could escalate, but right now she needed her daughter to get into the car before they missed their flight. “Savannah, I get it.”
    Savannah turned to Trista, a look of defiance on her face.
    “Listen, I’m not happy that you were with Trey. We had a talk about him already, and you weren’t supposed to see him anymore. But I was a teenager, too. And I understand.”
    “Then why did you scare him away?”
    Trista looked down and bit her lip, exercising all of the verbal restraint she could summon. “Please, Savannah. We have to go to the airport.”
    “What are you talkin’ about? Why?”
    “You remember the surprise I told you about?”
    Savannah nodded.
    “Well, I bought us plane tickets to Grandma’s house in New Haven.”
    Clearly not impressed, Savannah sat down on the curb with her arms still crossed. “I’m not
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