Chasing Fireflies by Paige P. Horne

Author:Paige P. Horne [Horne, Paige P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paige P. Horne
Published: 2017-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

*

I walk into the house after I put the fire out and everyone leaves. Sara sits at the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee in her hand.

“Why did you do that?” she asks me.

“Do what?” I question as I lean against the doorway.

“Invite everyone over, knowing I was tired today.”

“You slept all day, Sara. How in the hell can you be tired still?” I push off the doorframe and walk around the countertop.

“You don’t know what I am or how I feel, Cash, so stop acting like you do.”

“I’m just saying you slept all day. There is no way a person can still be tired if they slept for fourteen hours.”

“I can,” she says. “I could sleep for a week and probably still be tired.”

“Well, then we need to get your medicine fixed.”

“Fuck my medicine. I’m sick to death of taking that shit. I’m tired of getting it changed all the damn time. Nothing helps. Nothing helps with these shifty feelings I have.” She slides off the stool and dumps her coffee into the sink. “I’m never going to feel normal, and I don’t want to bring a kid into this world and risk them feeling like I do. I can’t put that on anyone else.”

“You’re the one talking about having babies, Sara. I never mentioned it.” She doesn’t say anything back, but her eyes fill with tears.

“I hate myself.”

“Don’t say that.”

“It’s true. I hate myself. I hate everything. I hate this stupid house. I hate this stupid kitchen. I hate this coffee mug.” She picks it up and smashes it onto the floor. “I hate you!” she screams, walking over broken glass and running out of here. The sting in my chest is the only thing she leaves. That and the small drops of blood on the floor.

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