The Third Child
““I won’t leave school just seven weeks into the semester. I won’t!”
“We’ve decided it’s better for you to return home. Alison has checked, and we can get you into American University in January.”
“Better for whom?” She articulated carefully, putting on the m as she never would with anyone else. “Not for me. I have friends here. I’m doing well in school, and you want to yank me out. No, thank you. You’ve paid my tuition and my room and board for the year, and I’m staying.”
“Melissa, you’ve behaved irresponsibly and you must accept the cost.”
“Of seeing a boy whose parents you don’t like? He didn’t choose his father. He didn’t choose who adopted him. Why blame me? Why blame him, for that matter? I think you should just chill out. He’s one of three guys I’ve been seeing. You only met him because I ran into him in Washington. I’ve gone out far more with Jed—whom you’d really like. But he’s also seeing another girl…. Blake’s just a student here.
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