darla and miranda

darla and miranda were trying to pull a fast one on me by skipping school. i had just bought a house in savannah, georgia because i was working there and had let them come with to finish up the end of the year so they could summer with me and get a taste of the south. i was working hard to get the house together before i didn't have any more time to do it and just trusted that they were where they said they were without paying too much attention to their exact comings and goings. one day i was outside painting the mail box and i realized it was too dark to paint anymore but the girls weren't home yet. i stood up and it dawned on me that this was the 3rd day in a row they'd slipped in later than they had reason to. just then they pulled in the driveway and as they got out of the car and moved toward the front door i could see they were just trying to slide in and act like everything was normal. i stopped them and began to question their arrival time and they totally tried to blow me off and continue on into the house. i said no, where have you been? they looked directly into my eyes though the gathering dusk and lied. they were totally united in their story and said they'd just been let out of school- and btw what was my problem? i was having difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that they were so plainly (and easily...) lying to me. it was like they were different people than i had known them to be since they were small and innocent. i kept flipping the pages in my mind trying to identify the moment they'd turned into assholes and wondered why i hadn't noticed it when it happened.