The Anything Friend
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CHAPTER 30
“Anyone could tell me to just give up and move on and I wouldn't, but they don't understand... they don't know him and they don’t know what it's like to want him so much.” Jenna B.
Elizabeth sobbed while she attempted to do her homework. Drops of tears fell on her notebook as she wrote. The urge to cut herself popped in her head several times, but she was stronger than that. She had made a promise and she was intent on keeping it, even though she didn’t feel that she should have to uphold any promise she made to Jack Bennett.
Her mom called her to dinner, just as she was done with her homework. Elizabeth quickly threw on a sundress, flip flops and applied a little eye liner and mascara to hide her puffy eyes. She put a cardigan on over the sundress and walked downstairs. “I’m eating dinner with Bob,” she said to her parents and Colby.
“Is that to make up for missing dinner last night?”
She nodded. “I’ll be home later.” Elizabeth didn’t even wait for permission. She walked out the back door towards her car, trotting past Jack’s house. She saw him standing in the kitchen talking to his mom and bolted towards her car. Safely in her Jeep she punched the steering wheel, turned the key and peeled away from her house.
Bob lived exactly seven minutes from Elizabeth. She pulled outside the front of his house and questioned what she was doing there. Putting her decision out of her mind, she put on some Chap Stick before ringing the doorbell.