CHAPTER 39
By the time Mom arrived at the school, Maddox was gone and so were the other two cars that went along with him. I stood in the cold weather for a few minutes till Mom’s car drove in. Hopping inside, I only found silence and nothing else. Fifteen minutes later we were home and head pounded with the quietness.
How much longer? She hadn’t uttered a single word to me over the past couple days nor had the intention to. I made a mistake, and I apologized for it. She couldn’t punish me forever. Someday she would have to forgive me for it and let it go.
And it wasn’t like I had done anything terrible. I had gone to a high-school party, with my friends and drank a bit. I had lied—but that was all.
“There is food in the kitchen. Warm it and eat it.” She said, walking toward her roo
