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Date Posted: Friday, August 03, 11:21:05pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Priority Mail 469+" on Wednesday, July 25, 06:47:58pm
Adam pulled the last article off of the door of his locker and sighed. His first year of high school was over. In some ways it felt like it had taken forever to get thru, especially the last few weeks, but in other ways it flew by.
In fact, the past month had been a blur in many ways. Nikita was busy. His father was busy. Even Sabina was busy. He was kind of glad that Nikita had given him the information about the soccer camp that he would be leaving to attend for a month in just a few short days. He needed the break from his family and from everyone at school. He needed to get away from the girls who were throwing themselves at him to date, knowing that he had done things wrong by doing what Lisa had done.
“Are you heading home?” the question was asked from the one person he didn’t want to run into. He turned to look at Lisa. “Yeah. So?”
“Thought we could walk together,” Lisa stated and Adam dropped his bag to the floor. “Why the hell would I do that?”
“Adam,” Lisa snapped at the tone that Adam had taken. “I didn’t… want to start the summer off…”
“You made it start this way,” Adam leaned back against the locker next to his and stared at Lisa. He had been the one that made sure that Davenport had been there when she had gone out on the date with the guy from the football team that had a reputation for getting what he wanted. Davenport wouldn’t tell Adam what had happened, but that football player had missed all of the finals and his college scholarship was revoked.
Lisa looked down the hallway and then back towards Adam. “I waited for you today, Adam. I knew that you didn’t really want to go home… so I waited.”
Adam rolled his eyes and Lisa choked up slightly. “I have to thank you… for sending…”
“Stop,” Adam snapped as he shook his head from side to side. “That wasn’t about doing that for you. It would have been for any girl that was stupid enough to go out with that meatball.”
Lisa dropped her head and swallowed hard. “A meatball?”
“I’m not allowed to swear around Sabina. Believe me, there is a better word for that piece of junk,” Adam spat as he glared at Lisa. “And you knew what he was known to do.”
“I’ve made some mistakes…”
“You’ve made the mistakes. I’m not joining into your world of making mistakes. I played that game for two weeks and I didn’t like it. You aren’t doing this to make Gretchen happy… it’s like you are doing it to torture me,” Adam declared as a teacher walked out of the bathroom and glanced at them before walking in the opposite way. “I’m so glad that I’m getting out of here.”
“You are not coming back to this school?” Lisa rasped as she began to pale. Adam grunted as he picked up his bag and swung his head from side to side. “I am going away to soccer camp for a month… out of state… so you can shadow Nikita…”
“You said that you were fine with me doing that,” Lisa defended her working with Nikita. She had done several Saturdays now and couldn’t believe how busy Nikita was. Lisa found it difficult to get out of bed on Sundays and she wasn’t sure how starting next Tuesday how she was going to keep up with Nikita for the half days that Nikita allowed her to work, with Lisa not working on Saturday any longer.
“Because it’s the right decision for what Nikita needs… what my family needs,” Adam spoke as he turned away from Lisa and slammed the cleaned out locker closed. Adam didn’t know why he was wasting his time and he started to walk.
“Adam… please… we need to talk…”
“No, we don’t,” Adam called out as he pushed his way into the stair case, trotting down the stairs and then outside quickly, not surprised to see Lisa right behind him. He stopped and to face her. “You gave up our friendship when you valued Gretchen’s feelings more than mine. Now I’m doing what I need to do for my family… I’m going to soccer camp… and I’m letting you have the dream job that you wanted for the summer… in the hopes that Nikita, who just got married to my father, will find a way to have just a little bit of time with him…”
“Adam…”
“Stop interrupting me,” Adam ordered Lisa with snappy words. Lisa shut her mouth and Adam looked around, finding it oddly empty. “I blame everything on that bad decision, Lisa. Ever since you went with Gretchen’s decision… my father is tied up in more work than he has been in a long time… I see less of him than I did before we found Nikita… and I blame your dad for that… because I think he doesn’t know what to do about what you are doing so he is trying to make sure that there is some reason we may talk to each other… and I just can’t stand the sight of you… and everyone else in this damn school…”
Adam stopped and exhaled slowly. Lisa looked at him with tears in her eyes. “Are you done?”
“No,” Adam shook his head. “Because you have… cared more about what other people think… and making them happy that you haven’t thought about yourself… I remember that you told me that you were having dreams… but I don’t think you’ve told anyone about them… and if you were really Gretchen’s friend… you wouldn’t just do what she wanted… because she is troubled… more than ever before… but just doing what she orders you to do… that’s not going to help her.”
Lisa seemed to shrink and Adam tilted his head back. “You know… this does neither of us any good… I only have a few days until I leave… I’m going to spend it with my family and the few true friends that I do have.”
Lisa pressed her eyes together, not able to watch Adam walking away. He said a lot of things that were truths that Lisa had wanted to deny, but she couldn’t. She turned and sat down on the stairs of the school, knowing that this wasn’t the way that she wanted the school year to end.
And knowing that working with Nikita wasn’t going to get her any closer to mending things between herself and Adam.
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