Disarm by June Gray

Author:June Gray [Gray, June]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-02-03T23:00:00+00:00

8

That December I flew home early for Christmas break to see Elsie. It took some fast-talking but I figured my schedule out so I could leave school two days earlier. It was really important that I got to California before Jason because that was the year I’d finally decided I was going to talk to Elsie.

I’d been away enough from her to know that my feelings were holding firm; they weren’t going anywhere. So I needed to talk to her and maybe come up with a solution to my problem.

I was torn between wanting her to reciprocate and wanting her to just tell me to move the fuck on because she didn’t see me like that anymore.

When I arrived I immediately went to her house. I was about to knock on the front door when she drove up in her little white car. I must have looked different, because the shock on her face was comical. She ran out of that car and jumped into my arms, nearly knocking me back. My heart just about burst at her overjoyed reaction and I thought, maybe, I had a chance.

Then that douchebag boyfriend of hers walked up and she introduced me as just Jason’s best friend—not her friend, not the guy she’d been crushing on since she was twelve, just her brother’s best friend—and hammered the nail in the coffin. I had to ask myself what the hell I was doing. I was in college; I should be having the time of my life dating and partying. Instead I was pining for this high school girl who only saw me as her brother’s best friend.

I’m a little grateful for what happened because it really gave me the kick in the pants that I needed.

I went back to school and really put myself out there. I went to parties, dated girls, and had the time of my life. Jason and I moved in with another guy in this shabby old house off-campus, and somewhere in the move, Elsie’s rock got lost. Actually, I think my roommate Hank might have thrown it in the backyard thinking it was just a silly rock. I was torn up over it for about half a second, then I told myself that it was just a silly rock. Whatever meaning Elsie had spoken into it was now long gone, along with everything else.

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