Chapter 25 Unrecognizable
4 years ago
Rain
I’m walking into the house, Haden’s parents just dropped me off. Sarah and I had gone with them all to dinner then we’d gone to see a play. We’d had a lot of fun, and I was so glad when I got to go and do things with them. Now that Sade was no longer here watching over my shoulder I felt a lot freer to go out and have fun. I wasn’t stupid or irresponsible. We were with Haden’s parents.
As I walk through the foyer I hear sounds coming from the living room and as I get there my eyes almost bug out of my head. Zoey has gone completely crazy since Sade left. Not like back to bullying me or anything, just this girl is out of control. Right now, she’s naked, and bouncing on some guy's dick on the living room couch. I will never sit there again. I’ve heard rumors about her reputation and how hard she parties and how thin she spreads herself. I usually keep my mouth shut and just do my own thing.
She opens her eyes and looks right at me giving me a huge smirk and not even pausing in the whole fucking thing. Now, she sounds like she’s auditioning for some stupid porn flick, and I just shake my head. She gets a bit of an angry look on her face, then she reaches for something on the table, and I see her put something on his chest and then sniff it all off.
Oh, now I see the white powder on whatever she had sitting on the coffee table. Well fuck, now she was doing coke and fucking all at the same time. Well I have had more of this than I actually would ever want to see, and now I really need a shower. I just turn and leave and hear her laughing behind me. I have no idea why and I probably am very happy about that.
I do wonder if she is even going to pretend to go off to college or if she is just going to take off somewhere? I have no idea and most days I don’t give a single fuck. I haven’t seen the parents since they showed up for Sade’s graduation. Apparently he’s off to Yale to get a business degree so he can work with Derek. He’s got a dorm room, but he doesn’t have to share with a roommate, which is good, he’d probably freak the poor guy out if he did.
The woman who breezed through the front door with Derek for 4 whole days around Sade’s graduation was no longer someone I even remotely recognize. She’s cut her hair, had on enough jewelery to signal the fucking moon. She was wearing a slinky dress, had her nails done, had her makeup all done, and acted like a fucking bitch. She berated the staff because they didn’t do things just so for her. She was a snob, wanting to be waited on hand and foot every single second she was here. It was nauseating to see what she’s turned herself into.
She seemed to be rather disappointed in me while she was here also. She cozied up to Zoey who I guess was fashionable enough for her. More than once I caught smirks from Zoey when my mother would dote all over her and ignore me.
The truth was, I didn’t mind. That woman was Suzanne, not mom, she’d never be mom again as far as I was concerned. She made her choice, so that was just it. I would never chase after her looking for affection. If she wanted to give me a mothers love like she once did or at least I thought she did, then she would have. No child should have to chase after their own parents begging for scraps.
She went on a huge shopping spree with Zoey because they needed so much stuff and this and that was out of style or out of date, and I didn’t speak couture boutique bimbo. So that left me out, and I was so incredibly glad.
For a little bit as she fawned all over Sade, it almost looked like she was flirting with him. There were a couple of times it looked like she was practically humping his damn leg. Sade looked at her with a dark look and she finally got the hint and backed off,but that was so many shades of fucked up I couldn’t even count them. Derek didn’t bat an eye, so maybe they were open about fucking other people, who the fuck knew. At least she wouldn’t be fucking her own stepson.
Sade was supposed to be coming home for the winter break, but I had no idea if that would happen, or if he would decide to stay with his own friends since the parents wouldn’t be here, and he didn’t hang out with Zoey or me either really. He probably had a girlfriend up there so it would make sense if he stayed. I guess we’ll see.
He did actually come for winter break. I was surprised to see that he was growing out his hair. I guess without the strict dress code and uniform policies at school, he could do whatever he wanted away at college, Zoey was MIA, and good riddance. I’d been with my friends a lot, so I did see him and he even hung out with me a bit, but I didn't spend a lot of time with him.
He’d seemed a lot more tightly wound, and his darker side was not being as well hidden anymore. I had seen glimpses of it over the years, but he usually had it very tightly contained. Now I could feel his eyes move over me with a more predatory gleam than usual. It kind of freaked me out just a bit. I was glad when he left to go back to school.
So, now soon, Haden, Sarah and I will be moving up to the High School building and become freshmen. Then I have the next 4 years to figure out what I want to do with my life. I don’t plan on sticking around here that’s for fucking sure.