Chapter 5: A blow to friendship

Veronica

San Francisco, 8:27 pm 

"Honey, you know you are supposed to come down to celebrate with us. It's your father's thirtieth year as a preacher and his birthday." Mother said on the phone. Luckily, she couldn't see me not paying attention to what she was saying.

"I know, mother. But I am currently swamped with work. I promise I'll send Father a gift, I know he will understand." I knew it was nothing compared to me showing up in church but it was the most I could do. I didn't tell father, but I didn't believe in a God that would let his daughter get raped. 

She sighed resignedly, "It's not about the gift and you know that. Grandma was excited to see you again. Your father and I already prepared your room." She said. I knew what she was doing and I wasn't going to fall for it. Nothing short of an emergency would take me back home, like if anyone of them had been in an accident kind of eme