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suffocating me. I tossed the pen in my hand down on my notebook and pushed away from my desk. Homework could wait a little longer. I threw myself onto my simple, white bed and let out a deep sigh; I gave in and closed my eyes knowing there was only one thing I was going to see when I did, Avery’s beautiful face.
    Last night still felt like a dream, as if I had been Cinderella at a ball. However, in the light of the day after, nothing felt the same. Nothing looked the same.
    Nothing was the same.
    Between performing, cutting loose with my best friend, and meeting an amazing guy, I never wanted last night to end.
    The night came to a crashing finish when he uttered those words about leaving. The constricting feeling in my chest snuck up on me every single time I thought about it. I liked him a lot, but to feel so undone about him leaving, just didn’t make sense.
    I’d rather think about the way his voice sounded while he sang to me, the way his hand found mine every chance he got, and especially about the way he kissed me.
    I could feel my whole body start to blush as I remembered the way his fingers slowly slid up my neck and into my hair. How his lips and tongue gently and expertly caressed mine, and how he tasted like strawberries. I bit my lip and smiled wildly at the scorching memory.
    “Chase! Is your homework done? You know you have chores that need doin’ girl!”
    I shot up off my bed as my mom’s voice cut right through my thoughts. If I had a bedroom door, I might have actually heard her come into my room. However, privacy is for adults, and they have made it perfectly clear I am not.
    “Um, no ma’am. Not yet.”
    She stood in my doorway with an irritated look on her face and her arms crossed. Her hazel eyes definitely looked more angry than tired. Her t-shirt and skirt were covered in flour, so I knew the kitchen was going to be a wonderful mess for me to clean up.
    “Then what are you doing lying in bed? Get it done! You have school tomorrow. I don’t want you up late with your chores because you chose to put off your responsibilities to go hang out with your friend yesterday. I still can’t believe you were late to church this mornin’,” she said haughtily, shaking her head at me.
    For the first time in my life, I actually bit my tongue to keep from talking back. I usually just took whatever she dished out, but this time it was as if her voice alone was trying to cut a very exposed nerve.
    I cleared my throat and took a second to remember my place in her house.
    “Sorry about that, Mama. I woke up late, and I won’t let it happen again. I only have a few more questions to answer so I’ll be in to help you clean up in about 20 minutes.”
    “You’re right about that,” she said, brushing some of her curly reddish-brown hair out of her face, “it won’t happen ever again. I can’t believe you would selfishly embarrass your father and I like that, waltzin’ in ten minutes into the sermon. I’m sure you know your father’s not real happy with you right now.”
    My temper was flaring below the surface, but I wouldn’t let her see it. I clenched my jaw and just nodded.
    “I’ll be down shortly, Mama.” With that I got up and went back to my desk. She took the hint and left me to finish my assignment.
    I don’t know what had gotten into me, but I took a few minutes to calm down and just breathe. I couldn’t go marching downstairs with my blood boiling like that around my daddy. I was already in enough trouble with him as it was.
     

     
    “Ok, so what else did he say, Chase? I mean, that can’t be the last time you will see him!” Vic’s brown eyes pleaded with me as she leaned across the cafeteria table asking me the same question she had asked me the whole drive home Saturday night.
    I sighed, brushing some hair out of my face, “I honestly don’t know, Vic. I mean, I don’t have a cell or internet so that shoots keeping in touch with him right out of the park. I gave him my