An Ordinary Fairy Tale by C. B. Stagg

Author:C. B. Stagg [Stagg, C. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

“Did you do it?” I shouted, kicking the locker closest to me. “Tell me you didn’t do it!” Lacey backed away from me until her body bumped into the lockers behind her. That body that I’d worshiped for so long, but now despised.

“Come on, Casey, don’t make this harder on me than it has to be.” She tried to appear strong, but the quiver in her voice told me her confidence was an act. She’d never seen me like this. Hell, I’d never seen myself like this.

“You?” How had I been so blind to her selfish ways? “Don’t make this harder on YOU? Are you fucking kidding me right now?” I couldn’t have been closer to her without being inside her, which coincidentally, was what had started all this in the first place.

“Casey… ” She put her hands against my chest, turning her face away. She was obviously uncomfortable and wanted me out of her space, but I wouldn’t budge. It took all I had not to cause her physical harm after the news I’d gotten and she’d just confirmed.

“It’s always fucking about you, isn’t it, Lacey?”

Hearing the rumor was like a shot of adrenaline to the heart and I’d planned to turn the school upside down until I found Lacey. But now that I’d found her, the adrenaline high was slipping away. And in its place, a heavy cloud of grief settled into my bones.

“Why?” I fought the stinging in my eyes with all my might. “WHY didn’t you tell me? Didn’t you think I had a right to know? Things could have been different. We could have worked things out, for the—”

“STOP!” she screamed, all signs of her false bravado gone. “Just stop, please,” she whispered, tears spilling down her cheeks. “I wasn’t ready… WE weren’t ready. We couldn’t handle—”

“Who the hell do you think you are deciding what I’m ready for? Or what I could handle?” I was pacing, trying to burn off some of the rage I was bottling up inside. “I handled your needy ass for two years. I’m pretty sure I could handle anything after that.” I fell against the wall, sliding to the cold tile below. She remained standing, just out of reach. Class was in session and other than a few heads peeking out at the commotion, we were alone.

“You killed our baby. How could you KILL our baby?” I was mourning a child. Our child. My child, the one that she purposely killed. “How could you not tell me? Not ask me? Not INCLUDE me in the decision to kill our baby, Lacey?” My words hung in the air like a storm cloud, dark and ominous.

“I didn’t think you’d ever know. I didn’t want to hurt you, but I knew there was no way I could have a baby. Not right now. Not when I’d just accepted a dance scholarship to Kilgore. I’d be throwing my life away.”

The silence was deafening as I processed her words, wondering if she really believed what she was saying.

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