I slowly turned my head toward Trey in disgust. He was smiling from ear to ear. What a cocky bastard, I thought. The nerve of him, talking to me that way with my mom, his girlfriend, in the next room.
“How dare you talk to me that way!” I felt the blood rushing to my face. “You know my mother happens to be in the next room!”
“You won’t tell your mom, Jessica,” Trey interrupted. “You know why?”
I looked away from him.
But Trey continued anyway, “Because you would have done so by now! You know as well as I that it’s too late. Besides, do you really think your mom would believe you over me?”
Just then my mom walked back into the room with the drink. She sat down next to Trey on the couch and snuggled up to him.
“Ok, Sweety, let’s play the movie.”
Throughout the rest of the evening, Tre
