Forget Me Not
7
The next few days passed
painfully slow for both Oliver and Randi. Between school and
Oliver’s busy schedule (on the other hand, Randi had
nothing to do, being grounded), they barely got to talk. They
didn’t see each other at all either.
On Randi’s birthday,
Suzanne agreed to let her go out with Katie and a couple other
friends only after talking to Katie’s mom and lecturing
Randi about lying and sneaking off. Randi tried not to roll her
eyes. Suzanne was trying to protect Randi from making the same
mistakes as she did and from losing her childhood, but Randi felt
more like she was being smothered than
protected.
As much as she wanted to,
Randi didn’t go to see Oliver. She followed Suzanne’s
rules and was even back early. She decided to get on her
mom’s good side so when she wasn’t grounded anymore,
she could go out with Oliver, who already had some big surprise
planned for her.
It was a Saturday the day
that Randi’s house arrest before. The night before, she
went to talk to Suzanne who was in her office, grading
essays.
“Can I go out
tomorrow night?” Randi asked, apprehensively. She knew she
was pushing it asking to go out so soon after she got out of
trouble. She just hoped her good attitude recently was enough to
give Suzanne reason to agree.
“Tomorrow?”
Suzanne looked at Randi over her reading glasses and the wooden
desk, red pen poised in the air over her stack of papers.
“You’re barely ungrounded.”
Randi bit her lip. “I
know,” she said softly, staring at the ground. Suzanne
sighed and sat back, dropping the pen on the desk and setting the
glasses next to it.
“With
who?”
“Oliver,” Randi
said, looking straight in Suzanne’s brown eyes – it
was one of the few things the two actually had in common. As much
as Suzanne scared Randi, she refused to be ashamed of Oliver, or
even to appear ashamed of him.
Suzanne raised her
perfectly-waxed eyebrows in surprise.
“Elliot?”
“He’s planning
on picking me up at seven,” Randi said, pluckily. Either
Suzanne would admire her courage or be annoyed they’d made
plans without asking permission first. Randi was hoping –
praying, even – that it would be the
former.
Whatever Suzanne was, Randi
could see on her face surprise. Randi had always been submissive,
trying to be the best daughter she could be, the perfect
daughter. Although Suzanne had always appreciated it, she admired
this new attitude that she saw in her daughter. It reminded
Suzanne a little bit of herself when she was that
age.
After studying Randi for a
moment, Suzanne sighed and sat forward, picking up the pen once
again, playing with it.
“Is that who you were
with at the mall?” Suzanne asked, looking up at the end of
the question.
“Yeah,” Randi
said, not bothering to lie. She’d already paid the penalty
for that deception, so now there was only something to be gained
from her honesty.
“He’s a nice
boy,” Suzanne said, thoughtfully. She liked him enough and
knew him to be respectable. She sighed. “Alright. You can
go.”
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The next day as she was
getting ready, Randi took a leap of faith and asked for
Suzanne’s opinion on an outfit. She put her foot down,
however, and refused to wear a dress, a skirt, or any type of
heel.
Then Suzanne did
Randi’s hair so it fell in long waves down her back. By the
time Oliver rang the doorbell, Randi felt closer to her mother
than she had in years.
Author's
Note: Sorry I haven't updated in so long, but I've had a
fever since Sunday.
I wrote this while I was sick, so if it's not the best
I've written, I'm sorry. ):
*Don't forget to comment if you'd like to be notified for
chapter 8*
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