Don't Follow Me by Rebel Hart
Author:Rebel Hart [Hart, Rebel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amore Publishing
Published: 2019-11-29T16:00:00+00:00
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Clinton
Mike put his hand on my shoulder. “She’s just drunk, man. You guys are solid.”
I barely heard his voice. I barely registered his touch. My mind reeled as I watched Rae storm off, her tense body falling away from me. She peered over her shoulder, casting me a look that could’ve buried an army six feet under if she had commanded it.
I sighed. “I should’ve seen this coming.”
Mike slipped his hand off my shoulder. “See what coming? The fact that she was going to get drunk and high at a party and lose her mind? Come on, you know the kind of pressure she’s been under.”
I nodded. “Yeah, I do. And she’s been pulling away. Nothing’s been the same ever since I told her I wasn’t applying to college. I know she resents me for that.”
“Dude, she doesn’t resent--”
“You mean after all those times she helped me with homework? All those tests she helped me study for? All the work she put in to helping me bring my grades up? And you don’t think she resents me for not going to college when she helped with all that?”
Mike snickered. “She helped you graduate. That’s all she wanted. It’s not her fault her mother started breathing down her neck around the same time.”
I shrugged. “Maybe so, but can you see why my mind is doing what it’s doing?”
“Sorry. Excuse me. I’m going to go get her,” Ally said.
I shook my head. “It won’t work.”
She snickered. “Then don’t have faith. But I’m still going after her.”
I watched Ally push between the two of us as she went after Rae. Raelynn Cleaver. The girl who saved me more times than I could count. The girl who pulled me up from the mire of my life and helped me to fly. The girl I had fallen madly in love with.
This shit was never about what school program she wanted to enroll in.
This was about me. It had always been about me. At least, it seemed that way. Had I become too controlling of her actions? Did I not give her the space she needed? Did she feel smothered? Or manipulated?
Have I turned into my father?
“Don’t think that,” Mike said.
I scoffed. “You don’t even know what I’m--”
“You’re wondering if you turned into the asshole that raised you. And I can tell you, that’s not anywhere near true.”
I rolled my eyes. “Seems to me like it is.”
“Clint, Rae isn’t acting this way because of what you’re doing to her. She’s acting this way because she doesn’t understand how to mitigate her stress levels properly. I love her, but she’s always felt as if the world sits on her shoulders. Like she has to save it all in order for her to mean something.”
“That’s because she’s always had to be the strong one.”
He shrugged. “Maybe so. But at some point in time, that type of mindset is going to become destructive. It’s going to wear her down. She has to learn at some point that she doesn’t owe the world anything.
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