I slowly turned my head toward Trey in disgust. He was smiling from ear to ear. What a cocky bastard, I thought. The nerve of him, talking to me that way with my mom, his girlfriend, in the next room.

“How dare you talk to me that way!” I felt the blood rushing to my face. “You know my mother happens to be in the next room!”

“You won’t tell your mom, Jessica,” Trey interrupted. “You know why?”

I looked away from him.

But Trey continued anyway, “Because you would have done so by now! You know as well as I that it’s too late. Besides, do you really think...