An Online Soap Opera
Episode 673: Try"Oh, so you didn’t bail completely, then. You are still at least on the grounds, just not anywhere near where you’re supposed to be," Lila observed with her fists planted firmly on her hips as she approached her son and his girlfriend lounging beneath the shade of a tree.Lila grabbed Jesse by his shirtsleeve and hauled him up on to his feet. The girlfriend, Caroline, scrambled up after him. "Hey," she said. "Be careful with him." "All I’m doing is dragging him back where he’s supposed to be. Someone got in the party who wasn’t supposed to. It can’t happen again." "You shouldn’t drag him anywhere. He-" "I’m fine. It’s fine, Care. I was about to head back to it, anyway." "I can’t believe you left," Lila raged at her son. "You’re normally a way better kid than this. I’m thinking Caroline’s a bad influence." You wouldn’t know it to look at the girl. Glasses, flat hair, conservative clothes. She should have been on most parents’ dream girlfriend lists. She had been on Lila’s up until that minute. The girl’s jaw dropped. "But, but, I’ve never been a bad influence on anyone." "So, my son wasn’t just skipping out on his responsibilities to make out with you?" "No, we, he-" "We needed a break. It’s hot out on the porch, never mind that Caroline and I did have plans to have fun today until you begged me to take this job. Maybe I screwed up, but I deserve a break. I deserve a couple minutes of fun. I have always been a good kid." Lila grudgingly nodded. She was being too hard on him. It was just that she was so afraid that at some point one of her screw-ups, like hiring her teenage kid, would push Katherine over the edge enough to not only fire her from the best paying job she’d ever had, but expose their mutual blackmail. Lila leaned in and patted her oldest boy’s cheek. "Just try with everything you have to stay a good kid, okay?" She didn’t want Jesse to end up in her shoes, constantly waiting for each mistake to come back and bite you.
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