Everything Wonderful by Rebecca Hollingsworth (best large ereader .TXT) 📕

Her anger suddenly turned into fear. For once she was clueless.
“Mama,” I sobbed, “please don’t make me go back there. I can’t go back to this school.”
“What are you talking about? What the hell happened!” She was nearly screaming, I could tell that she was terrified of the unknown. We sat in the parking lot across from the school for an hour as I told her everything that had happened. As I was spilling to her, I realized that maybe I had been a little dramatic. After I was finished sobbing and letting everything out, my mother didn't say a word. She started up our old car, and headed for home. She wasn't one with parenting skills, and she didn't exactly know how to talk to me about anything other than herself (which was perfectly fine with me most of the time). We pulled into the rugged driveway of our humble little duplex, and I hurried inside to my escape that I called my room.

I hadn't spoken to my mom until that afternoon when she walked into my room at 8 that evening. She plopped onto my plush flowered comforter, she looked serious as hell.
“Clean your goddamn room,” she mumbled as she threw a soda bottle from my bed across the room into a pile of junk. “Well.. I've called the school and withdrawn you.” I was shocked. She did that for me? I thought she just figured I was being overly dramatic. Hell, even I thought I was being overly dramatic.
“Mama.. You didn't have to do that. I’m sorry I was so upset, I could have handled it.” I said, ashamed of causing such a scene earlier. I was just called names. Let the immature punks believe what they wanted to believe, at least I knew the truth.
“No,” she said, her tone steady and unaltered. “I didn't withdraw you from school just because of that Ramey.” I was confused. “Your grades could be much better, and I don’t want you seeing that boy anymore.” Steven. I had forgotten about Steven. Surely he could set some people straight who were spreading those rumors. “He was brought into the office today with Lisa. He told Principal Higgins that he told Lisa y’all had sex.”
My heart stopped. I was still speechless.
“He wouldn't do that mama.” My voice was shaky.
She just nodded her head. She didn't really show any signs of sympathy for me as I started to cry.
“We’re enrolling you at St. Thomas tomorrow.” She added, as she left the room.
St. Thomas was a private school across town where the children of the higher society attended classes. I couldn't possibly fit in there, I’d be better off being a proclaimed slut at my public school! And for that matter, we didn't have nearly enough money to even cover a text book at St. Thomas. My mind raced for hours and hours until it finally rested with the rest of my head on my pillow, and called it a night. Maybe St. Thomas was my ticket out of this life? Maybe I could graduate from there, graduate from a prestigious college, and give my mother the life she longed for without her trying to degrade herself to marry that rich doctor. Maybe I could become a doctor and discover the treatment and cure that could fill her with life again. Maybe it could be just us for the rest of our lives. Maybe, just maybe, everything wonderful wasn't out of reach for the two of us after all.
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Publication Date: 10-21-2012

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