Total pages in book: 44
Estimated words: 39740 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 199(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 39740 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 199(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
I didn’t say much; I just took out my phone and showed her the videos Lily had sent to my phone. “Is that you?”
“How did you….? Where did you get this? Have you been spying on me?”
“I don’t have time to care about what you do, Lacey. I stopped caring a long time ago.”
“How dare you? My Dad said you have to….”
“Shut up and listen. You can carry on doing what you’re doing. I won’t share this with the rest of the world, but you have to stop trying to get me to change schools. For as long as I’m here, you have to leave me alone. If you keep trying to pressure me, I will expose this to everyone, not just our parents.”
“Does this mean you’re breaking up with me? Your dad would lose his cushy job then….”
“I said to shut up, and if you threaten my father again, the deal is off. You and I are going to go on as usual, but you won’t mess with my education, and I won’t be at your beck and call.”
“I’ll be interning this summer at one of your family’s company branches in Europe. I have a meeting with your grandfather in a couple of weeks.”
“You talked to my grandfather? What did he say? Was my grandmother there?”
Looks like Lily was right. She’s hungry for a relationship with those two people. “We only spoke about the internship; we haven’t met as yet.”
“But why didn’t you go through my Dad?”
“My school has a grant that allows us to apply to intern with different companies. Your grandfather’s company was one of them, and he’s the one who handles things there, not your father.”
I only just found that out myself from Lily, but it’s not like it’s some big secret; all she has to do is ask her father, and she’ll see that it is the truth.
“Why Europe?”
“No, you don’t get to ask me that. But I’ll tell you this. I think we need to put some space between us because you obviously have some growing up to do. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
“Not really, no.”
“I’m giving you a free pass. While you’re in college, you can be as wild as you want to be, but once we get married, I expect you to stop.” Her eyes lit up at the mention of marriage, and I almost puked. She really does see me as this person she could walk all over. Has it always been like this? Has our friendship always been built on this hill of lies?
“And you won’t see Lily?”
“Who’s Lily? Oh, your sister? Why are you so hung up on her? She’s in a few of my classes but we’re not close or anything. What’s the deal with you two anyway?”
“Nothing, it’s nothing, it’s just that she’s always been jealous of me, is all.”
“Oh, female stuff. I don’t have time to make friends anyway; I’m there to study, remember?’ Had she been anyone else, she’d have seen right through this whole setup, but because she was so sure of herself, she didn’t realize she was being played.
Lily had suggested using her grandfather’s name because she knew how much Lacey wanted a relationship with him and his wife. If I could convince her that I was getting an in with them, which I plan to do after this summer, then I could convince her that I would work on getting them to like her at some point. She’s dumb enough to buy that childish bullshit, and I was pissed that I’d wasted most of my life on a friend like her.
All in all, the meeting went about as I expected it to. I didn’t stay for the weekend like she pleaded with me to though, and walked away feeling lighter because it was the first step to getting her off my back to pursue my relationship with the girl I had fallen in love with.
This was done just to buy myself some time. Knowing her, like I’m coming to, she’d be more focused on all the dick she can get now that I’d given her a pass and be too preoccupied to care about what the hell I was doing.
I didn’t hear anything from her Dad or mine that following week, so I guess it worked. Lily had indeed done her part with her grandparents, and I was set to meet them that weekend. It’s a good thing they barely had a relationship with their son because that meant there was no danger of the two of us running into each other or our lives crossing paths.
Lily had explained that later on, she’d tell her grandparents the truth about how we came to be together, but for now, she was going to introduce me as her college boyfriend. Since I was big into finances and her grandparents were pretty much the same, I hoped to wow them with my knowledge on the subject and use that as a way to break the ice.