Chapter 9

“Please say something, Bonnie” she heard her mother plead. “Are you alright? Are you hurt?”

“I’m very fine” Bonnie replied. “I left mom. I wasn’t kidnapped.”

They were not listening. “Thank God” said Robert, “We can’t wait for you to come home”

“That’s why I’m calling right now, dad” Bonnie began quickly, scared that they would talk her out of it…just like they talked her into almost everything her entire life. “I wanted to tell you myself that I won’t be coming home…at least not now. All my life I’ve done everything you have asked me to do, but now I think I want to make this one decision for myself. I will keep in touch as much as I can to let you know that I’m fine and safe, but I won’t be coming home and I sure as hell won’t not getting married to Marcus.”

“Baby, we understand that, and no one is asking you to marry Marcus now. Just come home first. That’s all we want”

Too bad it took running away from home to get them to listen to her, Bonnie thoug