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2024-10-31 03:11:24Rhett
"Hey Rhett, it's Angela... Terry stop it!" my mother giggled over the voice message. "Just phoning to say that I'll be out of contact for a few days. Terry got a gig at some five star hotel in the mountains and cellphones don't work there. Anyway, babes, better go and pack."
That was it. The extent of my mother's love for me wrapped up neatly into one vile voice message. And yes, I was on first-name basis with my own mother because she didn't want her age showing when she was around Terry and his twenty-five year old band mates. Not that they all didn't already know I was her kid.
I rolled my eyes at the phone and shoved it into the nightstand's drawer, determined to ignore it. I couldn't get over the fact that none of my supposedly "close" friends from back home hadn't even bothered to cal
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Lana Rhett picked the candelabra up with ease and led the way to the staircase, letting me slip past him first before he followed. He seemed to evaporate into thin air as he blended into the hustle and bustle of the preparations made even more chaotic by the arrival of Willow. My tiny best friend jumped from her brother's VW Beetle and instantly began changing things around, much to my mother's disgust but what could she say? Willow was more creative than all of us put together! Hell, even the way she dressed screamed "artist"."I see he is here." she whispered to me, running her fingers through her long mess of black, purple, blue and pink streaked hair."Who is?""Him... the neighbour... dead meat." she pointed to Rhett dramatically before rolling her eyes.I had to chuckle at her dramatics."He's turned out to be not as bad as I thought he would be. Okay, he's still an ass but he's a useful one so I guess I can't complain too much." I admitted, laughter tainting my voice."You lik
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