“Go fuck yourself, I don’t live under your roof, I don’t go to this school with your money. I don’t even bare your last name.” I spat out. “So go fuck yourself” I repeated this time with more anger. Ross just laughed.

“My, my, my have we gotten stronger. I have to admit you are not the same little weak bitch your mother raised.” Before I could stop myself I had moved across the room over to Ross and brought my fist down across his face.

“Who are you calling bitch?” I screamed. “This bitch has been through hell and back, this bitch has been through more ups and downs than you have in your tiny pathetic life and this bitch will hang you by your expensive neck tie if you don’t fucking leave.” Ross held his hands over his nose; I could see little drops of red on his fingers. He moved his hand and laughed showing the streams of blood moving out of his nose. He pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the blood away.

“What a real woman you are” he began wiping his nose harder. “You are right, you don’t bare my name anymore, you don’t live under my roof and you don’t go to school with my money so you owe me nothing.” I relaxed taking a step back, I felt pretty good my blood was pumping in a good way. I wanted to hit him all of my life and when I did I could have cum that’s how good it felt, I was floating. “But I can’t say the same for your friend Abby” I crashed back to the earth again, hard.

“What are you talking about?” I stumbled. All the hard edge in my voice and body was gone at this moment.

“Did she ever get around to telling you how fucked up she was after you disappeared?” Ross smiled at my startle ness. “Well she was pretty fucked up, became a partier, drinker, a slut to the dykes in California. Any bitch that wanted her fucked her.” He laughed, he was enjoying this. “And on top of that she damn near flunked out of school and was kicked off the track team making her scholarship and dream of being the first in her family to go to the college disappear.”

“No” I didn’t want to hear this but the punch line was coming and I could see it. Ross nodded.

“The only way she is in school now is because my company is paying for it.” Ross furrowed his eyebrows “You didn’t know this?” he laughed. I staggered back.

“Cut the bullshit Ross, what do you want?” I mumbled.

“For you to come back home, my campaign is taking a dive and my PR has came up with a great way to pull in votes. Bring back my troubled daughter that ran away and tore my family apart and reconcile and be one big happy family.” Ross was so pleased with himself.

“I didn’t runaway, you made me leave” I told him.

“That’s not how we are going to get me votes Corrine, if you want your girlfriend to have a future you better remember the past differently” Ross stood pushing the bloody handkerchief in his pocket. “Next weekend I will send a car for you and have you driven to the airport. This isn’t hard now, all you got to do is make a statement take a few pictures with me and that’s it.” Ross walked pass me to the front door. “Oh yea” He turned around. “You become a Grant again”.

“Fuck you, you mother fucker” I screamed but Ross just held his hand up.

“You better talk to me like you got some respect young lady, for Abby’s sake.” He reached into his inside pocket of his coat. “Oh yea” He pulled out a folded piece of paper and threw it on the ground. “Abby wanted your mother to give this to you, its late by a couple of years but hey better late than never” I just stood there staring out into nothing as Ross let himself out of my dorm. I could almost hear him laughing as he walked away from my room.