Free An Ordinary Me by Brooklyn Taylor Page B

myself.
     
    Reese
    The house was dark and I had to knock. Not a light was on and I know the consequences are not going to be good. Dad answered the door and looked furious.
     
    “Reese, what is going on?”
     
    “What do you mean?”
     
    “Autumn called here looking for you. Said you left and walked home without telling anyone.”
     
    “That is not exactly how it happened.” I can’t believe she called my parents!!
    “How did it happen then?"
     
    “Can we talk in the morning? I am so tired and it has really been a long night.”
     
    “Yes, we can talk in the morning. We can talk all weekend because you’re grounded.”
     
    “For what?”
     
    “For walking home late at night. Anything could have happened. You should have called. You could have been killed or kidnapped or raped… God knows what could have happened.”
     
    “But Dad I am fine.”
     
    “Thank God your fine. Go to bed.”
     
    I walked up the stairs to my room and broke down crying. I was lost. The only thing that made any sense to me was Garrison and he didn’t do anything but push me away.
     
    I text him to tell him thank you.
     
    Reese: Thank you for walking with me tonight.
     
    Garrison: Anytime…I’ll be here for you.
     
    Reese: Friends then?
     
    Garrison: Friends. I’m just complicated Reese…
     
    Reese: I’m grounded so it will be a long boring weekend for me.
     
    Garrison: At least your parents care enough to ground you. Mine are never home.
     
    That was a weird text. What does that mean?
     
    Reese: I guess .
     
    Garrison: I know.
     
    Reese: You know, I’ve waited a long time for a social life, and now I don’t know what I was waiting for. It has sucked so far.
     
    Garrison: How so?
     
    Reese: Well… Let’s just say I can’t read signs, which you already know. Tonight was no different. Apparently I am a “slow mover.”
     
    Garrison: I don’t know about that. I think the right guy won’t care.
     
    Reese: Ya, well I hope I meet him before I graduate… Or die for that matter.
     
    Garrison: What if you have already met him?
     
    Reese: I doubt that… I am just lost…
     
    Garrison: No you’re not. Maybe you just got yourself in a bad situation.
     
    Reese: Maybe…
     
    Reese: I’m going to bed. Thanks for being there for me.
     
    Garrison: Anytime my beautiful Reese.
     
    What? Beautiful? Hardly… Do friends say that?

Chapter 7
     
    Garrison
    Cannon Walker has his locker near mine. What this means to me is I get to listen to his shit talk about what girl he landed or what other lies he made up. I knew for a fact the majority of the actions he claimed did not take place but yet no one has called bullshit on his lies.
     
    I had called him out one time, and that didn’t work out so well. He was talking trash about one of my friends and spreading rumors ruining her reputation. She wasn’t innocent by any means, but he started so many rumors she ended up being hated by most of the class when we were sophomores. Her parents removed her from school and home schooled her. It was so screwed up. It totally destroyed her. She even attempted suicide. I had hated Cannon from the first time I saw him. He was cocky and didn’t appreciate a damn thing. Cannon cared about one person and that was him.
     
    Today was turning to total crap, and it wasn’t even 8:30 yet. I walked up on hearing Cannon tell his friends how he was “breaking Reese in.” I made sure I had eye contact with him and smiled shaking my head knowing he’s making it up.
     
    “You got a problem, Garrison?”
     
    “Yeah, I do, it’s you.”
     
    He got right in front of me trying to intimidate me. Yep, not working . He may be more built than me but I was just as tall, a little taller actually, so he had to look up to me.
     
    “Like I give a shit what you think of me? You gonna beat me up with your drumsticks, drummer boy?”
     
    “You wouldn’t get up in my face if your friends weren’t here to have your back. Just like you had