"Nope, not that I kno-" I was inturrupted by my father, who I liked calling Hen, even if his real name was Henry. "Hi, Hen." I greeted in a monotone. "Who's this? Yet another of your friends, of which you have none except a boyfriend?" My dad crowed. He had a thing for having a sour voice whenever he was sqeazing something out of someone, which he did a great job on.
"Uh, her name is.." The first name I could think of was lame, really lame, "Cherry." "Oh, yeah, if you haven't noticed, that's your mothers name. Is Cherry an old school friend?" I gulped, expecting cold stares from Ruki from the lying about her name, she was probably waiting for the next crazy thing I would say.
"Oh, erm, YEAH!" "Interesting. Third grade? I think you had a lot of friends back then." "Yeah, yes, urm.." "Nice, I just looked in the yearbook of third grade for your school, and there was no girl named Cherry. Are you mistaken or something?" "No! I mean yes! Uh, no?"
There goes my life, I thought, I admit a crush to a girl. Then I lie about her name. Now what? "Bye dad!" Was the first thing thatcame to my mouth as I grabbed RUki by the arm and ran upstairs to my room, where I slammed the door and locked it. "Don't.." I huffed for breath, "Worry.. about that. The big thing is when we get to those files."
I looked around my room, expecting to see the tea-green wallpaper and blue carpet floor, and my red sleigh bed and desk with sorted stationary, computer, and coffee maker. Yep, they were all there. But when dad's done with me, I thought, They won't won't be there..