Breaking Walls by Tracie Puckett

Author:Tracie Puckett [Puckett, Tracie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

What the heck was that supposed to mean?

I was his weakness? How did that even make sense? It wasn’t an answer to my question, not even in the slightest.

After a long minute of silence, Gabe just left, but he didn’t go back inside. He walked across the parking lot, got in his car, and drove away. I sat out there for another twenty minutes, hoping he’d change his mind and come back, but he never did. The sad part was that I just kept waiting. I wanted him to turn around, come back, and talk to me, fight with me, fight for me…fight for us. He didn’t even have to say a word if he didn’t want to. At that point, I would’ve settled for just sitting and stewing in silence… just as long as we were together.

I was such a jerk. I’d made him one promise, only one. I promised that I wouldn’t clobber him, and then I turned around and did just that. I yelled at him, I knocked him down, I broke him. Just when I felt like I was getting closer to an answer, I made him retreat again. I’d taken all of my frustration with Carla and Bailey and I thrust it upon him. He didn’t deserve that. So why hadn’t I stopped myself while I still had chance?

After a half-hour of waiting and no sight or word from Gabe, I pulled out my phone ready to send two messages. The first was meant for him. I’m sorry. I sent the second message to Mary Chris, apologizing for skipping the second act. I made up some lame excuse about not feeling well, but anyone who’d noticed both mine and Gabe’s absences from the audience had probably put two and two together.

And then I went home, threw myself in bed, and stared at the ceiling. After an hour of sulking and wallowing in my self-pity, I rolled over and picked up my phone again. Mary Chris had written back with a simple feel better soon, but there was nothing there from Gabe. Scrolling through my short list of contacts, I found the number I was looking for and pressed a button on the screen to make the call.

“Hello?”

“Hey, I’m sorry I’m calling so late. Are you home yet?”

“Yeah, we’ve been back for a while. What’s up?” Georgia asked. “Is everything okay?”

It seemed like forever since I’d last seen her, and it’d only been a matter of hours.

“How was your grandma’s party?”

“Perfect, all thanks to you,” she said. “The cake was a hit.”

“Good. Great, glad to hear it.”

There was a long pause. The static on the other end hissed for only a few seconds before Georgia asked, “What’s going on, Mandy? Is everything okay?”

“I wanted to ask you about someone at Evergreen.”

“Okay?”

“What do you know about the woman in Room 115?”

She fell silent, thinking for a moment. I could almost picture her on the other end, visualizing the hallway, counting each door in her head until she landed on the correct room.

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