Chapter 3 ❣︎︎ Square Or Drape?!

Me be a square?

When I woke the next morning, sunlight peeked through my blinds. I was hoping for rain. For a dark gray sky. But the sun taunted my feelings.

My heart. I sigh as I lay hugging my pillow on my bed. I see my black leather jacket laying crumpled on the floor of my bedroom. I get up and take a shower. Washing the rest of last night's horror of my mind.

Then I get dressed. Wearing the outfit, I first came into town in. Wearing my hair as perfect as Allison's.

When I first came to town I looked more like a Square. Maybe I was a square. I put on my pearls my grandmother had gifted me when she died. My grandmother on my mother's side. I toss my leather jacket aside as I slip into a pair of high heels. The doorbell rings.

My sister and her husband were still asleep. I walk down to answer the door. I half expected to see my new buddy Baldwin there to convert me into being a Square.

Much to my surprise when I grab the doorknob and I open the door there was Cry Baby standing at the door. He looked surprised by the outfit that I was wearing. His beautiful eyes look me up and down over every part of my body.

He did not look pleased by my new outfit.

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"Pretty little, Square" he softly remarks. "why are you in this get up Veronica?" he asks to know.

"Not your concern Wade. I am not your concern" I state. "I am not a Cry Baby girl. I am not a Drape. So, what I do means nothing to you anymore" I challenge.

He leans his arm on the wood over by my head. "You are always my concern Veronica" he tells me.

"Go away Wade" I snap.

I try to go leave and head inside the house. I had a fiery temper. Wade always knew how to push my buttons.

Not in a good way. He grabs my wrist with his hand stopping me. His touch lingers on my veins of my wrist. Causing it to pulse.

Our eyes meet. We glare at one another.

"I mean well Ronnie. Stay away from Baldwin" he warns me.

"I am not a Cry Baby girl" I whisper near his ear. "You can't make orders for me" I remind him. "If I was a Cry Baby girl then you could, couldn't you?" I tease as I brush my fingers near the nap of his neck on his hair. "Too bad I am not"

"You know why I am not going to make you a part of the gang Ronnie. I don't want you to get hurt. Or be put in jail. I want you to have a future I never had" he tries telling me.

Tears water in my eyes. There was my answer.
I was never going to be a Drape.

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"My future was the Drapes. I have no future now" I state.

"That is not true" he tries to tell me.

"Leave me alone Wade. Just go" I snap.

"Please don't do this Ronnie. We care so much about you" he tells me as he steps closer to me. "I want you safe" he begs me. "try to understand"

"I can look out for myself" I remind him sternly.

"Are you done being childish?" he snaps. I was getting under his skin.

"I am not a child" I say with anger. "Get that in your head" I say before I walk back in my house leaving him there.

I had enough. I get upstairs to my room. I toss my jacket into the trash. I was not a Drape. He was not going to allow me to be a Drape. Tears come to my eyes.

No more crying. I had to stop. I had to move forward. To better things.

"Why was Cry Baby all pissed off?" my sister asks me as she comes in my room. "why are you dressed up like that Ronnie?" she asks me. "what in the world is going on?" Mona wants to know. "are you a Square? Have you lost it?"

"You and Wade said I am not a Drape. So why dress like one?" I snap at her with anger.

"You are a Drape. We just don't want to make it official because then the law would be after you" warns Mona. "you see what we go through all the time. Why do you want that kind of life?" she asks me.

"I want the kind of life I deserve. It is my life. It is not yours. And it is not Wade's" I point out to her.

"I know it is not mine. I wish you would listen to us" she sighs as she looks annoyed with me.

"It is time I get a job. And I move out of here and start my own life" I state.

"You do not have to do that" she grumbles.

"I will. I have to go" I tell her. "I have to get out of here" I reply.

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I rush out of there. Unsure of where I was going to go. I grab one of the neighbors apples off their apple tree.

And have that for my breakfast. Then I head into town. I fill out applications for jobs around there. Hoping to get something. Then later I would try to find my own apartment.

"Veronica? You look delightful" I hear someone say behind me.

I turn around. I see Baldwin and his croons there.

He looks pleased by my outfit.

"Don't get any dumb ideas. I am not a Square, I am not a Drape. I chose to dress the way I used to is all" I try to explain to him.

"I love the new look" he chuckles as he crosses his arms. "I need a new queen seeing that Allison moved away. And she once chose that bum Cry Baby" he reminds me. "Want the job?" he asks me.

Suddenly someone slugs him in the face. There is a fight there on the sidewalk.

"Get away from her!" I hear someone yelling.

"Wade! You don't own me" I snap. I pull Baldwin up off the ground helping him.

I stop the men from fighting.

"You heard the lady" snaps Baldwin. Wade glares angrily at us both. He was pissed off.

"Don't. Don't do this" Wade begs of me.

"You gave me no choice. How about this. Tell me. That I am an official Drape? Make me a Cry Baby girl and this will all end right now" I say to Wade.

His eyes go up. No one says another word.

I knew he was going to decline me. Right in front of Baldwin. He did not want me to be a Drape. He saw me as a child who could not take care of herself. And that was not true. I should be a Drape. They all knew it. They denied me time and time again.

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"No, you are not a Drape" he says to me with his voice dripping with truth.

"Squares are born to die a Square. Come back to us Ronnie" Baldwin whispers to me. "you belong with us"

Wade shakes his head. He looks upset.

"Fine, I will take you up on that offer Baldwin" I answer.

I allow him to place his arm over my shoulder as we walk away together. Leaving Cry Baby looking furiously at the both of us.

He was not pleased. I smile as I wave goodbye to him. Knowing I was putting him in his place. I was in charge. Not him. Not Baldwin.

Baldwin takes us to the little malt shop there in town.

"Time for celebration! We have a new queen" he announces.

Everyone cheers in there.

"Order anything you want. After all you are the queen" his cronies tells me. We sit down in the booth together.

I order a nice meal. And a strawberry malt.

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"I have to go soon. I need to find a job. I am moving out" I tell Baldwin after I was done eating lunch with them all.

"My uncle is hiring at the jail. They need a secretary there" he tells me.

"Sure, wow that would be great" I say.

"If you are interested to my father made a little apartment over the house. You are welcome to it. You can pay us back later. We Squares take care of each other" Baldwin explains.

"Really?" I ask.

"Really!" he says with a nod.

"You have a deal Baldwin" I laugh.

"One expectation. Never ever deceive us Squares. When it comes down to it you look out for your own kind. When it comes down to a Drape or a Square your loyalty better lay with us", he warns me.

I get a chill hearing his words.

"Fine. You have a deal" I say. We shake on it. He smiles looking very pleased.

This would teach Cry Baby a lesson. A lesson he would never forget.

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