have to change that.”
“I don’t think I am pretty enough.”
“WHAT?!?!” She looked at me in shock. “Vanessa, you’re gorgeous, and that blond guy over at the next table has been mind fucking you for the past fifteen minutes.”
She smiled. “Really?”
“Yep, now go ask him to dance.”
“I will after some liquid courage.”
We laughed.
The food and drinks arrived and I ate my burger, savoring the juices and grease. I sipped on my cosmopolitan, and I was in heaven. I watched Vanessa get up and ask that guy to dance. As I watched them dance, a figure stepped in my sight. I looked up to see it was the guy from the office today. I started to panic.
“Whoria Toria. Thought you might have died. You know, being homeless and all.”
I felt embarrassed. Then I remembered his name… Sean. He was the asshole that got me hooked on drugs. “What do you want? And I am no whore.”
“Like anyone would believe you.”
“You’re just mad I denied you that last day I saw you.”
“Ha! You wish. Now listen, don’t show up on Monday. Leave town. Better yet, go OD on your drugs.”
“Is this all because I didn’t fuck you?”
“Bitch, you’re nothing but a crack whore, and I will make sure everyone knows. Oh, and have a nice night.” He smiled at me and walked away.
Tears formed in my eyes and I looked away. He was going to make my life a living hell, just as he did all those years ago.
Driving around with Sean was fun and dangerous. We had been hanging out a lot since the party. I started by taking the pills on the weekend, and staying up all night, but progressed to taking the pills every day. My grades were slipping and I was skipping school. My boyfriend broke up with me, and Kaylyn and I stop hanging out with each other. But I remembered that night with Sean before he started calling me Whoria Toria.
We were at his apartment and we started to fool around, until he started to get on top of me. “Sean, no.”
“Oh come on, you gave me a blow job last week.”
“Yes, I know, but I feel bad about that. I am not ready for sex.”
He got off me and started to pace the floor. “So you just led me on, making it like you were going to fuck me. Bitch, I get you high every day.”
Tears streamed down my face. “Sean, I wasn’t leading you on.”
“Yes, you were. All you are is a tease who is a junkie now.”
I got up and slapped him across the face.
“You bitch.” He pushed me into the wall. “Wait until I tell everyone about how much of a whore junkie you are. Now get the hell out of my house and never call me again.”
I grabbed my stuff and ran out of the house. I was about four miles away from home and it was late. I would have called Kaylyn, but she wouldn’t come get me. It was starting to get cold, so I walked a little faster. My phone vibrated in my pocket and I pulled it out. It was from Kaylyn.
Wow, I suspected you were a drug addict, but selling your body too? No wonder you got the name Whoria Toria.
I blinked and Vanessa was standing in front of me. “Are you okay?” She looked really concerned.
“Yeah, I’m just ready to go home.”
As we started to walk toward the door, I turned my head and my eyes caught Mr. Turner’s. I just hung my head in shame. It looked as if my past was coming back to haunt me.
Chapter Ten
Jeb
Looking at the sadness in her eyes as she walked out about destroyed me. When I saw Sean talking with her, and I couldn’t wait to know what they were talking about.
“Hey man,” he said, walking back with two beers in his hands. “So you ready to party this weekend?”
“Yes, and to get away from Barb.”
“I think you need to drop her. She is bringing you down and I need my boy.”
In an attempt to change the subject and not have to explain the whole sorted thing, I focused my attention on what I had seen between him and Toria. “So I saw you talking to my new employee.”
“Yeah, she asked if I could score