Caris sat in an Adirondack chair and stared over the lake, holding the cup of coffee in her palms, ignoring the hairbrush in her lap.
Malachi came out holding her cell phone, “all of it sudden it started ringing in your bag.”
She looked at the screen and grimaced. Mom. “Damn.”
“You don’t have to answer it.”
She sighed, “if it was your mother?”
“I’d answer it.” He admitted and sat in the chair next to her, crossing his foot up over his knee and staring at the lake.
“Hi mom,” she answered it quietly.
“Caris, where are you?”
She laughed and looked around, “I actually couldn’t tell you where I was if I tried.”
“Killian said he saw you leave with Malachi Blackwood and your friends will not tell me anything.”
“Killian is the worlds biggest dickhead, and my friends love me, mom. They’
