A Little Unstable by Elle Mitchell

Author:Elle Mitchell [Mitchell, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark & Stormy Books L.L.C.
Published: 2023-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning, I don’t see Tristan's Jeep in the driveway. I go to Laurel’s house for Sunday brunch, and I don't hear from him. I did get plenty of texts from Isaac last night, and they weren’t happy. I don't blame him. In the light of day and out of my Tristan-induced haze, I realize how shitty what I did actually was and feel ashamed. I explained to him that I had felt sick and went home and tell my friends the same lie. I’d been so sick, but I’d walked for miles. It doesn’t make sense, but I double down on it anyway.

I'm sure that when I inevitably regret this, he won't forgive me, and I'd be right. Isaac never speaks to me again. There are no more notes in my locker, and in any future instances where we are forced to be in each other's vicinity, he doesn't even look at me.

On Monday at school, Tristan passes me in the hallway with the girl from the movie theatre. She's yelling at him and he's laughing, but it still feels like my abdomen has been ripped apart and my insides are spilling out right there in the hallway and it's a fucking bloodbath. I think now I may actually be sick like I'd said I was before. My eyes burn, my breathing gets shallow, and I swallow a lump in my throat and beg my body to stop rebelling against me like this in front of everyone.

“That’s his girlfriend, Mila,” I hear someone say.

I look over to see Landon leaning against the wall in the hallway next to me. We'd sat together in math class all year and had become friends. He was funny and easy to talk to, so I'd help him with math, and we'd talk. We'd talk about our lives, our families, and my shitty home dynamic. I'd asked him how he got to be so kind and such a good listener, and he said it was probably because he had two moms and a house free of toxic masculinity. I told him he must have had two good ones because having two of my mom wouldn't make anyone nice. We talked about our friends. But we never, never, never talked about Tristan.

“What?”

“I had to go pick her up from the movies last night,” he says.

“Oh.” I don’t know what else to say.

“He’s bipolar,” he says. “And usually, he’s unmedicated. I don’t think I have to tell you not to tell anyone about that, do I? I don’t think you would.”

“No, I won’t say anything,” I tell him.

“I love him,” Landon says, “and I think maybe you do, too. I also think you should probably stay away from him, though. You know what I mean?”

“Yeah, I got it.”

“You’re a good person, Mila.”

That’s all he says before the warning bell rings, and we both disperse to our classes.

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