Tricked

Chapter 5: It Begins

The next few months were bliss. Darrian was amazing and it felt so right to be with him. My birthday was in a couple of days I was turning fourteen. Darrian and I had only been seeing each other at church and calling each other but I was totally content. Two weeks after he and I had acknowledged the feelings we had for each other it had become easier to talk with him. He had asked me to be his girlfriend and I had said yes. We hadn't kissed until the fifth week. I had planned it putting a lip balm on all day while at school it was called soft lips and I prayed it would do what its name suggested. It was my first kiss. When our lip touched it was absolutely amazing. My whole body had felt like it had been struck by lightning. It was wonderful. Today was Febuary ninth I would be fourteen in six days I was already at the church waiting. Darrian walked in and checked in at the desk. He found me sitting at one of the tables and sat down across from me looking excited. I looked at him questioningly. "Well you look happy" I smiled "Of course I am I have a suprise." He chuckled at my expression which was a mix of excitement and worry. "Oh yeah?" I asked and leaned across the table. "What is it?" Curiosity killing me. He smirked mischievously "close your eyes" he demanded. I did as I was told. "Now hold out your left hand" again I obeyed placing my hand out in the air palm up, I felt him turn my hand so that it was palm down, i then felt him slide something cold and hard onto my ring finger. "Ok, open". And for the third time I did as I was told looking at my hand to find a petite silver band around my finger. On the band was fastened a delicate pink gem in the shape of a heart with white diamond looking points to either side of the heart. I looked at him a mix of emotions flooding through me and a smile on my face. "I'm almost 14 I cant get married. Do I want to spend the rest of my life with this guy? I think I love him. Is it too soon for that?" Like he could read my mind he began speaking quickly "it's not an engagement ring. It's a promise ring. My promise to you is to always be faithful and that no matter what happens I will always be your friend cause we have become more than a couple." He paused there think and blushing a bit. "Your my best friend Amanda". I jumped over the table knocking him over and both of us landing hard on the ground and just hugged him tight.

Two nights later I hear the phone ring and my mom call my name. "Its the boy toy" she says in a stale tone." I beam and grab the phone and run to my room "hey. How are you?" "I'm good. Better now that I can hear your voice." I smiled and blushed bright red. He always said things like that and it always gave me butterflies. "So what's up?" I asked pushing my silly, love sick thoughts aside. "I wanted to ask you something." Darrian paused and I held my breath waiting for his question. What ever it was i would say the right thing i would do what ever he asked me to. I had fallen and fast. "I want to know if you will go to prom with me?" Darrian was in 9th grade 2 years older than myself. "I didn't know freshmen could go to prom." I replied amazed that he was asking me. "Normally we cant but I have a couple of friends who are juniors and they are putting me on their list as a guest so that I can go. I want to take you too." This was huge! He wanted me to go to PROM with him of course I would go. I wanted to meet his friends I just had to tell my mom. "Yes." I said a little too quickly. Gathering myself I continued "I'd love to go. I'll ask my mom. I'm sure she will say yes." "Ok well its next month so you have plenty of time to prepare and do your girlie thing like picking a dress and stuff. Well I have to go. I'll talk to you later." "Ok talk to you later" as I was about to hang up I heard him say "oh and Amanda." There was a pause "yeah?" "I love you" my heart flew into my throat and I thought I might cry from happiness "I love you too." Then we hung up.

One month later: I had asked my mom and she said yes. My grandma and grandpa took me to a second hand store in Versailles a couple of towns over. We had spent hours looking through the dresses they had with me trying them on. I wanted to look perfect, be perfect. I wanted to be someone Darrian Merkwood would be proud to have as his date. Finally I settled on a dress, THE dress. It was simple yet elegant with a blue satin underlay covered by a shear see through lavender material. The sleeves were spaghetti straps but that was ok because I found an amazing pair of long old fashioned glove that matched it perfectly. And it came with a shawl to drape over my shoulders. The day of I got all dressed up. Mom was having one of her good days and actually helped me to do my hair and make up. When we were done I felt like a princess. I stepped out on the front porch and waited. Darrian had said his mom and him would be by to pick me up around 6:30. I sat down it was only 6 so I had some time but I was soooooo excited. That was when the phone rang.

Mom answered it "hello?" Paused and I knew she was listening to whoever's was on the other line. "No your going to tell her yourself you owe her that much" and brought the cordless house phone out to me. "Its Darrian" she said her eyes looked sad. I slowly took the phone confused. "Hey. Is everything ok?" I asked tentatively. "I wish it were. So remember my friends I told you about. Well none of them signed you up as their guest so the school wont let you in." My head fell forward. I knew what that meant. "Its ok. We can just hang out tonight and watch movies or something I'm sure that would be ok. Right?" My mom stood there listening and for the first time since I was 7 she seemed to actually care. "Actually I'm still going." The words seemed far away. I was crushed. "Ok well I guess I'll let you go I dont want you to be late." I said feeling totally numb. "I love you Amanda. Thank you for understanding." "I love you too." Then the line went dead. I sat there for a moment not sure what just happened. "Honey?" My mom said gently and she placed her hand on my shoulder and that was all it took. The tears fell cool on my hot cheeks. I looked at her "Dont act like you care. Not now. Not after seven years of ignoring me completley or worse using me as a punching bag while in your drug induced stupors. After everything, after this I dont think I could take it just leave me alone. Go get high MOM." I said the word sarcastically and she drew her hand back like I had physically burned her through the contact we had. "Amanda!" She exclaimed then stopped. She lowered her head and I knew she would hit me but i didn't care. I wanted the pain. I wanted to feel anything. "I'm sorry." She said in whisper. I looked up at her and saw she had tears falling. I didn't care I wanted everyone to be as hurt as I was. I got up and went inside slamming the screen door as I went and went to my room, ripping the dress over my head I threw myself onto my bed and cried until I fell asleep. No one disturbed me