MOTIVES CHAPTER 9

MOTIVES CH.9

Crystal

When I retrieved my notebook out of the car, I went back into the house to find Tamara and Renee sitting in the kitchen talking. I went into my room to put my book up and then I went into the kitchen with the girls.

“Hey what are yall talking about?” I asked.

“I was trying to convince Renee to go shopping with me, but she refuses.” Tamara said.

“Renee, why you being so anti-social?” I questioned Renee.

“I’m not being anti-social, I’m tired and I don’t feel like going anywhere right now. Plus I don’t have any money.” Renee said.

“Girl you know I got you covered. I owe you anyway for saving my ass on that government test.” Tamara told Renee.

“No I wouldn’t feel right spending up your money. You two go ahead and go shopping and when yall get back I’ll chill with you.” Renee said.

Something wasn’t right. For as long as I’ve known Renee, she has never turned down going shopping especially when it was coming out of somebody else’s pocket.

“Fine then, me and Crystal will go without you.” Tamara said.

“Well I’m about to go lay down. Come wake me up when yall get back.” she said.

Renee walked up the stairs and into her and Tamara’s room. She was acting different, kind of distant. I just chalked it up to it being that time of the month.

“Well I guess its just me and you then.” Tamara said unenthusiastically.

I knew Tamara didn’t too much care for me and to tell the truth I didn’t like her ass either. We were only cool because of Renee, but I was going to try to use her for the little money she did have while we were shopping.

Renee

When I heard the door close behind Tamara and Crystal, I got out of the bed and pulled the copies of Crystal’s journal out from under the sheets. The whole purpose of me staying behind was so that I could finish reading, but as soon as I opened the folder my cell phone started ringing. I wasn’t surprised to see Michelle’s name on the caller id seeing as how she had been blowing me up since I got here.

“Yeah.” I said.

“Hey Renee, I’ve been trying to reach you.” she said.

“Yeah I know. What’s up, why do you keep calling me?”

“Well I have something very important to talk to you about.”

“Okay, what is it?”

“I would rather tell you face to face.”

“So you have been calling me none stop just to tell me that you have something to tell me, but you cant tell me over the phone. That sounds really dumb.”

“I know I know its just that lately you have been acting distant towards me and I don’t know why. Are you mad at me?”

“Have you done something for me to be mad at you about?”

“No.”

“Then I’m not mad at you.”

“Ok well I guess I’ll talk to you whenever you come back from Galveston.”

“Alright bye.”

“Bye then.”

I was about to hang up when a thought occurred to me.

“Wait, wait, wait Michelle.”

“Yeah?”

“How did you know that I was in Galveston?”

“Oh umm I uh called your house phone and Jonathan told me.”

“I never gave you my house number, so how did you call?”

“Y-you did give me your number, m-maybe you don’t remember.”

“Nooo I didn’t. I don’t give anybody that number. The only people who have that number is me, Jonathan, Crystal, Josh, and my mama. And why are you stuttering?”

“I’m not stuttering.”

“Yes you are and answer the question. How did you get my house number? Or did you even call my house phone? Maybe you called Jonathan’s cell? Oh but that’s right you don’t have his number. Or do you? But that would mean that he gave it to you and what would my boyfriend be doing giving you his number?” I started asking her a bunch of questions to throw her off of her game because I knew she was lying and I wanted the damn truth.

“Uh umm Renee I uh have to umm call you back my uh phone is going dead. Talk to you later. Bye.” I know she rushed me off the phone so that she could get her lie together. I wanted to call her lying ass back but decided otherwise. I needed to read this damn journal before the girls came back, I would deal with Michelle later.

I turned the pages until I found where I stopped.