Journal Prompt: Have your parents ever put you in an uncomfortable situation and told you, you would be fine? If not how would you have reacted?
Summary:
Jeannette starts working for the school newspaper. She works with the Teacher that she was named after (Miss Jenette Bivens). This is when she first understands and gets a good sense of the world, instead of being told the twisted version her parents tell her. She decides to be a reporter. Jennette's mom left for 8 weeks to renew her teaching certificate in Charleston. This left Jennette in charge of the house. Jennette's mom had left her $200 to buy food, for Brian and Maureen, and pay the water and electricity bills. For the first week, everything was fine but one afternoon Rex asked Jennette for $5 to buy beer and cigarettes. Jennette gave Rex the money. A few days later Rex asks for another $5 and Jennette gives it to him. A few days after that Rex asks for $20 and says he needs the money to make money. Jennette gives Rex the money. That Saturday Rex asks Jennette to accompany him on a business trip. Jennette goes with him to a roadside bar. They both take seats at the bar. After some time Rex gets up to play pool and a man named Robbie seats down next to Jennette. Robbie asks Jennette if she knows how to dance but Jennette shakes her head. Robbie says, " Sure you do " and gets up to dance with her. Jennette gives a stare to her dad and Rex just grins and waves back. Robbie and Jennette dance and then Rex calls Robie over to play him in a game of pool. Rex loses the first match but starts betting more and ends up beating Robbie. After every match, Robbie would dance with Jennette. Eventually, Robbie was down $80 and he quit. He asked Jennette to go upstairs to his apartment which was above the bar. Jennette said she wasn't sure. Robbie shouted at Rex and said, " I'm going to take your girl upstairs." Rex was fine with it and told Jennette to Holler if she needed anything. Rex put Jennette in an uncomfortable situation and acted as if he knew she would be fine. Jennette was very angry at her father and when they went upstairs she never hollered instead she made a quick escape by saying, " I think I hear Dad calling."
Later when they were in the car Jennette tells Rex that the creep attacked her when they were upstairs. Rex said," I knew you could handle yourself, Its like time I threw you into the sulfur spring to teach you to swim, you might have been convinced you were going to drown, but I knew you'd do just fine."
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