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Chapter 25: Beau

Beau

"That's amazing, pumpkin. When do you start?"

When do I start? How to answer that?

The truth was out of the question, and so I'd let the lie started by Hendrix himself flow. Made me look good and not like the cheap plaything that was being held onto by strings. Pulled in the direction of her master's liking.

An egotistical jerk who cared for himself.

One of these days I'm going to trip Zoe on purpose.

"This Monday actually. Bright and - "

"Titi!" Aubrey yelled out mid-giggle a few feet from where we were sitting on a blanket. It was moments like these that I thanked God for Aubrey's fascination with the ocean. Without knowing, she bought me a few more minutes to mentally put the finishing touches on my lie.

Little omission.

She was in an adorable mermaid-inspired bathing suit and running from her mom and the new family friend, Ivan. The man had become ever-present since meeting him. Always around, eating dinner with Gloria and Aubrey every night - playing house.

For a school's d
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