Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back- Chapter 32

Chapter 32-

Saturday.

The day of the homecoming dance.

The day I was finally going to tell Justin that I was in love with him.

When I woke up in the morning after the party, I had a slight

hangover. Justin was still there with me, and he helped me a little

through it.

The bad thing about that morning was when my dad came over to the main

house to see if I was awake and saw Justin in my room with me. That

didn't go over so well. My dad started yelling at me, and it wasn't

pretty.

I don't know why or how, but he called me a whore.

That's when Justin got into the fight. Well, vocally anyway. He

started yelling at my dad, telling him that he had no right to say

anything like that to me. He also mentioned how my dad couldn't come

back on a whim and try to tell me what to do. With that statement, I

couldn't agree more.

They didn't get physical, but they did yell pretty loudly. Everything

settled down after 10 minutes, though Justin was still pissed.

After everything was done, my dad walked out of the kitchen mumbling

under his breath, then left the house with a big slam of the door.

That day, not even extra-strength Tylenol could help me with my

migraine or my upset stomach. I was never drinking again. Later that

day – after Jenifer called Justin and told him he had to be home – I

went to the cemetery to visit my mother’s grave site. I remembered to

get the flowers I picked out on the computer, and I placed them next

to her headstone.

I talked to her, like my councilor advised me to do when I was

younger. It was almost second nature for me now.

Surprisingly, my father showed up. Not at the same time I did, but he

was there nonetheless. We said a few words to each other, but not

many.

School that week was weird to say the least. Justin and I were

talking, but I made a no mouth-to-mouth contact rule between us. I

decided to tell Shane about what happened at the party. He wasn't too

thrilled to learn about it and decided to confront Matt about it since

they had a class together. That really didn't end in Matt's favor.

Matt ended up with a black eye and Chase's nose is going to take a bit

longer to heal than before.

I couldn't really remember much of what happened after Justin and I

left the party. I remember asking him to stay with me, and I also

remember talking about his parents.

Right now, it was Jessica and I in the big hallway bathroom, doing our