Chapter 40
Like a Piece of Meat-1
"I'm sorry," I whisper, just as he starts the car.
He shakes his head. "Don't apologize. I did the same thing to you, or do you not
remember?"
I sink into my seat remembering how it felt when he began to read the article about my accident, when he forced me into a panic attack.
The tension between us increases until I'm bouncing my leg on the ground to try and balance myself. He's angry, and it's coming off of him in waves. He grips the steering wheel until his knuckles turn white.
My phone vibrates in my back pocket.
A: Hey. I'm home now, need me to pick you up?
I roll my tongue inside my mouth and don't answer, instead I look outside the window, taking in the desert landscape.
It think about the last time I was on this road, about Jake and how that seemed to be the start of everything for me. The start of Jake and then the start of Aiden.
Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons.
Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.
I fidget, remembering the sight of his broken heart plastered so clearly in his eyes. My heart rate increasing as I remember how angry he looked after the game, how he watched
me as if I had ruined him.
I'm so in my head, my mind spinning that I don't even realize we are in town until Zaid pulls the car a stop.
frowning as realize
"How-why are we here?"
"You're going to tell that wasn't Aiden texting
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he's done with practice?"
away from him and unbuckle my
his eyes. "Yes. Small town. Ex-best friends and
shit."
It's weird, to picture them as friends and even more devastating to think about the possibility that Zaid knows Aiden better than I do. What if
can't let myself
with Jace,
the car, but before I can shut the
"Alina."
looking at him through the open door.
I ask
request from him
to the gym hallway and look at the
his head. "Just
to do it until you tell
sighs and drops his hand from the steering wheel. "I'm not
just do it."
and closes the car door in front of me, pulling out of the driveway and leaving me standing there. I have to give myself a
the door handle.
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