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The Water Girl Chapter Thirty
Rock “Hey Rock, will you meet me in the library after school? I have a few things I have to talk to you about on our paper.” Page, my English partner and the captain of the cheer squad, tells me. “Yea, I’ll be there I tell her and turn around to talk to Speedy again and he is giving me one of his looks. “What bro?” I ask him. “What are you doing, Rock?” He asked me. “What are you talking about, Speedy?” I ask my buddy because I really don’t know what he’s talking about. Page and I have been partners on all of our projects the last couple months and we have always met in the library every time we need to work on one. “What ever man, just don’t be typical Rock and fuck it up with River over another girl.” Speedy tells me, then walks toward our class. “Didn’t plan on it, asshole.” I holler at his back. River and Sydney come walking around the corner about then. River looks tired and I don’t know what’s been going on with us lately, but we are not spending as much time with each other
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River “Thank you for coming with me to see Jim.” I’m telling Sydney as we are walking into the police station where they are holding Jim for the kidnapping of me. “I wouldn’t be anywhere else,” Sydney tells me, then takes my free hand and squeezes it. We walked up to the clerk’s desk to let her know we were there to see Jim Darby. She looks up at us with a smile on her face. “Yes, Jim has been telling us you were coming to visit with him.” She tells us and Sydney and I just look at each other. This lady is acting like it’s no big deal that Jim is in jail for the kidnapping and attempted murder of his own child. Leave it to my father to make friends with everyone here. That’s what Jim does. He manipulates everyone into thinking he is a good guy, but I’ve always known he was a monster. “Right this way, Ms. River.” The clerk tells me and we follow her down a narrow hall. Then she walks us into another room that has rows of glass and chairs. We find a chair that’s empty and walk over to
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Rock “Where’s River? I tried to get her at the dorm before I came here, but she or Sydney didn’t answer the phone are the door, and she’s not here.” I ask my mom as I’m walking into the kitchen. “She is sick. Sydney says she just started throwing up about an hour again and couldn’t keep anything down, so she was going to take her to the aftercare clinic on campus. And I’m going to send you home with some soup to take back to her. Are you two talking yet?” Mom is asking, giving me her best stank eye. “No, mom, she won’t talk to me. She won’t even look at me right now. So, I’m moving on.” I tell her and she just rolls her eyes at me. Whatever, my mom doesn’t get how frustrating this is with River. I’m tired of her acting like I’ve committed a crime. I get it. I kissed another girl, but fuck, River was distancing herself from me, anyway. I know that’s not an excuse for kissing another girl, but damn. “You are going to lose her for good, then what Rock?” Mom is scolding me when Rivers
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River “River, I’m home, sis,” Sydney says from the other side of my door. I’ve been hiding out in my dorm room as much as I can lately. I need to talk to my mom and Gab before Thanksgiving this weekend, but I don’t know how to approach them with this and I don’t want them to be disappointed in me. I walk out to the front room and drop down onto the sofa. “Soon, I need to have a conversation with mom and Gab.” I tell Syd. “Do you want to call them to meet us at the pizza place today?” Syd asks me. I think for a minute, and honestly, that would be the best thing. That way there is no chance of running into Rock. He is home for the Thanksgiving break where I stayed at the dorm. “Yea, that’s a good idea.” I tell her, then pick my phone up and call my mom. After our phone call, we made plans to meet at the pizza place in an hour, around 5. Realizing the limited time, I quickly get off the sofa, rush to take a shower, and grab a pair of slacks and a blouse to wear. By the time Sydney
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Rock It’s Saturday night, our last game of the season, and I’m pumped up. “Let’s play this game like we are pros already.” I yell at my teammates and we run onto that field like our asses are on fire. I can’t understand why I had the expectation of seeing River here, supporting us. However, as expected, she came up with some excuses for the coach, claiming to have a cold, and skipped our final game. It’s not like she is really needed, anyway. The water people are volunteers. I guess I just thought she would at least come out and watch me play my last game. How stupid am I? River Darby is more like her father than she thinks she is. She’s a selfish bitch. She says I won’t have to have anything to do with the child she is carrying, but even I know that shit won’t go over well with our mothers. As soon as that demon is born, our mothers will be all over me about stepping up. But fuck, I’m only 19 in college and playing the best college ball of my life. I hate to say it, but now I und
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River “He doesn’t want the baby.” I yell at mom and Gab, so mad at Rock. I really didn’t mean to rat him out like that, but I’m fed up with his hot and cold crap. I’m having a baby. If he doesn’t want to be a part of this baby’s life, that’s fine, but that does not give him the right to tell me who I can and who I can’t tell about this child. I jump into my jeep and get the heck out of there before he can come and demand crap from me again. I’m halfway home when my phone rings. It’s Sydney so I answer it. “Hello.” I answer. “Hey how is your Sunday going?” She asks me. “Well, I’m on my way home because, as always, Rock has to be an ass about everything.” I told her. “What do you mean he’s an ass?” Sydney asks me. “Well, I guess his mom said something to him about the baby or something I’m not really sure. But he dragged me to my room demanding to know who all I told and was mad that I told anyone before him. So I got kinda mad and stormed out of my room and downstairs and right be
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Rock River has been home from the hospital for a couple weeks now. Mom keeps me updated on her progress daily. She also told me what the baby was going to be and the idea River came up with about us putting a name in a hat and her picking the best name out of the bunch. River is supposed to come home today and start back to school on Monday. So I’m sitting in her dorm room waiting on her and Sydney to get back. Surprisingly, Sydney let me into their room. She’s not my biggest fan. I’m sitting in Rivers’ room when I hear the front door open and close. “Rock, a little help, please.” I hear Sydney yell. What the hell. I walk out of the bedroom. “What’s up?” I ask Sydney and see right away what’s going on. River and her crutches are a little too much for Sydney. “I told you I have it.” River snaps. “River!” Sydney snaps back. I can’t help but laugh at them. “You can leave now, Rock.” River tells me and I just give her the stank eye. “You’re not pushing me away so easily this time, R
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River It’s our two week Christmas holiday from school, so Rock and I are at mom and Gabs house these two weeks and Rock is being super sweet and tentative to me. The first day he bought me donuts and hot chocolate, the second day he bought me a thing of fruit and the list goes on of things he has done for me. It’s the day before Christmas Eve and Rock has talked me into going and seeing a movie and then getting a bite to eat. “So what movie are we going to watch?” I ask him, but he is being tight-lipped. But I’m going to assume either the movie is in some fancy theater or he is taking me to a fancy restaurant, but why do either? Ugh, men are so confusing. I really don’t even know why I’m mad at him anymore. He has been so sweet and tentative with me the last month and a half. He finally got to feel Liam Alex Martinaze kick for the first time last night. He was so stoked he kicked to him saying his name. Come to find out, the name I picked out was the name Rock wrote. So that should
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