Florine
Drinking tea with my grandma is my favorite thing to do on Wednesdays.
She makes the best scones and the atmosphere of the place changes.
-"Talk to me about anything, I'll listen," she told me.
-"I was thinking about the trains back home in Norway"
She sipped her tea interested in what I was saying.
-"The mountains, the air, the Beauty of it all. I miss it"
-"it's ok to miss home, we moved so suddenly, leaving everything behind it was not easy ,I know, but you're an incredible girl, you can achieve greater things in America"
She always gives the best advice, It's like she understands everything I go through. She's the only person here I can talk to.
-"I also thought about one thing..."
-"go ahead"
-"I thought of my parents. I know abandoned me when I was a baby, but you never told me much about them"
Grandma frowned and grabbed my hands.
-"your parents were complicated, they did some upsetting things and that's the reason they left you"
-"but they must've done something good"
Grandma started to look annoyed.
-"I can't talk about it. It breaks my heart to see what my daughter did. She wasn't prepared to raise an incredible woman like you"
I'm fifteen I think I deserve to know more about them, childhood stories, what do they do in School, their wedding, there are so many unanswered questions.
-"Thanks for the tea, grandma. I'm going to my room" I left the backyard and I went to my room.
I sat on my bed and I decided to Google my parents, I searched for their names but as soon as I entered them, the internet shut down.
-"what?" I said to myself.
Why did the internet go so suddenly?
Jessica
Christian just sent me a meme about some viral singer and I was laughing the entire afternoon, not just by that but the entire conversation we had.
Sam has been pretty distant to me, and that's so weird of him.
Christian: hey, there's something I haven't shown you.
Jessica: what is it?
He sent me a link. wonder what it is?
I opened the link and it took me to a channel with his name.
He has a streaming channel!
Jessica: oh my god, I'm watching every video!
Christian: don't turn into a groupie.
Jessica: I won't, I won't
Christian: great, now that I've shown you my channel, I have to sleep and so do you.
I looked at the time and it was 2:16 am
Shoot! I'm gonna feel so tired tomorrow.
I went to sleep.
My alarm woke me up. If it wasn't for that, I would've still been sleeping and late for class.
I got ready quickly, had breakfast, and left with Sam.
I arrived at school and I looked for Crown because I had so much to tell her.
I texted her and she was already in the classroom.
Idiot Lille, and her Dumbass of a boyfriend, Dominick were at the door, saying goodbye as if it was their last time.
I walked past them and someone tripped me. I fell and everyone gasped.
-"Oops, my bad. I need to learn how to put my legs together" Lillie said and I got up angrily.
-"are you kidding me?" I asked angrily and she shook her finger.
-"Not now, sweetie," she said and the teacher came behind her.
I rolled my eyes and I sat down. I'll get her later.
-"Are you ok?" Crown asked.
-"I will be once I get her back," I said and she pointed at me.
-"not now, we need to get through this quiz, then do all you want"
She's right I grab my pencil and wait to take the quiz.
Florine
I'm at history class, my favorite class.
And I heard that the teacher was going to announce a special project.
-"listen up, class. You are going to do a presentation on the history of your parents. Tell us interesting details about their history, and that's it"
Are you kidding me? The universe and my grandma do not want me to know more about them, and now I have to do a presentation?
How am I going to do this?
Jessica
I finished the quiz and I left with Crown to our next class, Sam joined us as well.
-"what's wrong? You have that 'I want to kill someone face'" Sam asked.
-"Lillie tripped me and I want to get her back.
-" I have some info that you will like. You know that weird letter that Charley sent me? It was Lillie who wrote it"
I gasped.
-"That little bitch"
-"relax girl, That's what she wants"
Crown said.
-"I don't care. She's been mean to me all day and I should sit in silence?"
-"I'm not getting involved in this" Sam said and left.
-"you're not helping me?" I yelled and he raised his hands.
-"what should I do, glue her seat, what else?"
-"if your a kid, those will be funny. Just confront her, I know she wants to talk"
-"fine" I groaned.
Fast forward to lunch. I walked to her table and all of her friends gave me the rudest look.
-"Lillie can I talk to you?"
Her friends looked at her. Lillie shrugged.
-"Sure, say what you want"
-"here?" I asked
-"yes. Do my friends make you nervous?"
She and her friends laughed.
"Look, I just wanted to say that I'm sick of how you treat me. You make my life hell and I'm sick of it!" I said and Lillie just stared at me.
-"and what do you want me to do about it?" She asked with a grin on her face.
I couldn't handle it, she was rude, horrible, and demonic, I hate her.
I jumped at her from the table and took her down.
We fought on the ground, I pulled her hair and she hit me continuously.
Everyone surrounded us and started filming and cheering us on.
We screamed, punched, pulled until someone broke us up.
-"principal office now!" Said the teacher that broke us from the fight.
Florine
I went back home and grandma greeted me.
-"I have to tell you something"
-"sure, what is it, sweetie?"
-"I have a presentation for history class and it's about the history of my parents"
Grandma sighed.
-"I'll call the school and excuse you to have another project"
-"But why do you always evade the topic, I can't do a project and, I can't search them online!" I argued.
-"I had to"
So she was the one who cut the internet.
-"can you see what I search online?"
I asked and she crossed her arms.
-"yes I can, sweetheart"
I scoffed and stormed into my room.
I've never been this angry before. I'm so nice and gentle, but all of this makes my blood boil. She cuts the internet to prevent me from searching and she invades my privacy by seeing what I search online!
I should sneak off to the library, search it there.
You know what I will do that.
But, I can't leave by my window. I'm on the second floor. I have to face her again.
I left my room with my laptop in my bag. I was about to reach the door when my grandma said...
-"not so fast, Florine!"
I took a deep breath and faced her. She walked towards me and grabbed my bag.
-"hey, what are you doing?" I asked and she pulled out my laptop.
-"When I say no, you listen. Go back to your room!" She said and I stood there wanting to say something, but I was so afraid to.
-"now!" She yelled and I left quickly to my room.
I closed the door and I started to cry.
I'm so confused, I wish I could get answers. I've never seen my grandma so angry before.
Jessica
Lillie and I sat in the principal's office waiting for him to come.
-"This is all your fault," she said crossing her arms.
-"I'm sorry, I didn't know I was responsible for getting mad at a girl who was touched by her boyfriend!" I said and she got tense by that comment.
-"It was all you," she said trying to make me the one responsible.
-"you're just afraid to see your boyfriend touch someone other than yourself!"
-"that's not what happened!" She yelled and the principal came in.
-"you're still fighting?" He asked and we both started telling him our side of the story at the same time.
He looked so done.
-"ok Girls! One at a time, please"
He pointed at Lillie to start talking first.
Why her first? She is going to lie as she did at the party.
-"Jessica, attacked me at lunch. I was with my friends casually talking and she was so rude to me"
-"that's not true!" I said.
-"See, she's interrupting me. She doesn't want me to tell you the truth" Lillie said to the principal.
-"Are you kidding me, you were rude to me at the party, you tripped me, and you sent Sam a fake letter from Charley"
-"That last one was funny, and what does it have to do with us?" She asked and I rolled my eyes.
-"ladies, you have a lot of anger that you need to release, but I'm not going to make you fight each other, Instead, I'm going to give both detention for two weeks"
-"Two weeks, I've never had detention!" Lillie said and the principal raised his finger.
-"I'm not finished, miss Townsend. You'll be spending the two weeks of detention alone with Jessica"
Hell no, I'm not going to spend two weeks of my life stuck in a room with her.
-"This is insane!" I said.
-"that's what happens when you fight a classmate. Williamson is a loving community, get along or get along, no choice there. You can both leave now"
We both got up and left.
Unbelievable, I have to spend detention with her starting today.
Florine
It was night and Grandma was asleep at least thought she was.
During the time I cried in the evening. I thought of the attic. When I was a child
She would tell me this:
"Never go into the attic upstairs, there's a monster that takes you for being bad"
That's what she used to say. There's something in that room that will show me what she's hiding.
I decided to check it out. I left my room quietly and opened the attic. It sent chills to my spine opening the one thing that scared me the most when I was a child.
I climbed the stairs and entered the attic. It was so dark. I grabbed a flashlight that was placed next to the door.
I tried looking for any information, photo, of my parents.
I found a box that had the name.
Astrid
Astrid, who's Astrid? I got close to the box and saw an envelope that had her name.
Could this be her?
I opened it and grabbed the letter. It looked new, which is weird.
It said...
Dear Genevieve:
How is Florine? I still think about her all the time. You never respond to my letters and it concerns me. You had no right to take her away from me. One way or another, I will get my daughter back.
Astrid
My parents are still alive?
To be continued...