Chaser by Reed Rick R

Author:Reed, Rick R. [Reed, Rick R.]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

DAWN’S gray light filtered into Kevin’s bedroom like

time-lapse photography. One second, he was lying on

his back in near pitch darkness and then, quickly, the

room began to lighten, at first making hulking shapes of

the furniture around him, then as the light continued to

brighten, defining the shapes.

Kevin had lain awake most of the night, trying to

figure out what had gone wrong. He had tossed and

turned, trying to find that elusive position that would

alow him not only rest but, more importantly, an escape

from the anguish he felt.

He went over possible reasons for Caden’s

distance and lack of enthusiasm at seeing him. Al he

could come up with was either he had met someone

else back home or the sight of Kevin was simply

different from what Caden had expected. Sure, Kevin

looked a lot better than he had before Caden left, but

maybe Caden had nursed an idea in his head, an image

while he was gone that was not realy Kevin. And

maybe being together made him realize that his idea of

Kevin and the reality of him did not mesh.

Who knew? Caden himself wasn’t talking; that

much was for sure.

With a pain in his gut, Kevin realized that they had

built very little before Caden’s mom got sick—they had

had, after al, only a couple of dates. How wel did they

realy know each other?

Yet he answered himself back with the fact that,

even while he was gone, Caden had been in touch

almost every day. They had shared a lot in their short

and long communications, getting to know one another.

Sometimes you don’t have to be physicaly with a

person to get to know him.

This led him back once again to why Caden was

so distant. So strange. And it was thinking like this that

had kept him awake most of the night.

Now, his back hurt from lying in bed, and even

though the digital alarm clock on his nightstand told him

it was only a little after six on a Sunday morning, he

rose from bed, feeling his eyes burn and a bone-deep

fatigue that made his movements slow. “What a great

way to start the day—feeling exhausted and

depressed,” he said to himself.

He wandered into the kitchen, thinking caffeine

might help his mood, give his clouded brain a little more

clarity so he could decide what he should do about

Caden. He was certainly not ready to write him off as a

lost cause, but he also couldn’t take much more of the

tension and lack of feeling he had experienced last night.

Kevin filed the Mr. Coffee reservoir with water,

ground some beans, located a filter, and started the

coffee maker to brewing. He looked out the back

window, and the weather matched his mood. Gray,

low-hanging clouds pressed in, and he could see that

those same clouds were spitting out a mix of freezing

rain and the season’s first snow.

He thought of how weather like this, if last night

had gone as he hoped, would have been cozy, with him

and Caden in bed together, watching the flakes come

down, feeling safe and warm in each other’s arms. For

a moment, Kevin alowed himself to imagine that

alternate reality, the two of them, sleepy, turning to each

other with morning erections.

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