Punks
Minnie was 14. She liked wearing bright red lipstick and getting high. But stoned or not; even asleep, Tommy’s words would come back to haunt her.
Dear Minnie,
How could you leave me here to rot? How could you not come see me? You must think I did it too. Well, fuck you, Minnie. FUCK YOU!!!!!!
Tommy
She cried and cried everytime she read the letter; and she could do almost nothing else but. She wanted to go see him, but she was too scared.
Climbing through her bedroom window late, Minnie walked the all-night over and over again.
And waited for the next visit from Officer Rialian. He stopped by every other day.
She did not go to school. She stayed in her room and her mother never came down the stairs to notice. She erased the school’s messages from the answering machine every day, before her father came home, until the one day, Daddy stayed home and Minnie had to go prentend going to class. And when she came home Daddy was waiting for her, with an envelope in his hand from the school. Thirty days missing. One more day and she would be expelled.
And he hit her.
He hit her.
He hit her.
Her return to school was the news of the week.
Rolling My Eyes 
I don’t think they give you that much time these days before they call your folks. But looking back, the art of skipping school was much less tragic and much more productive. Not to say there wasn’t a big party involved . . .. . . or to underscore your character’s plight.
…She erased the school’s messages from the answering machine every day, before her father came home…It says that.Q
Minnie wants to go visit Tommy?My illusions are shattered.