Down 'N' Derby

Author:Lila Felix
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
Published: 2013-04-10T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Mad

Falcon once told me that he loved Reed because she called him on his bullshit. I wanted the opposite. I wanted a girl to see that I needed an anchor to get through the bullshit.

I couldn’t take it anymore. I needed to swim. How she could sit in front of the ocean and not get in troubled me. But it was also refreshing. She knew what she wanted and what she didn’t. I swam for an hour or so while she sat on her towel and read. She wasn’t one of these girls who will do anything just for proximity’s sake. She was her own person.

I tramped back to the beach through the waves and as I neared, she was crying. My bodyguard instinct kicked into full gear, “What’s wrong?”

She wiped her tears and then pointed to her book. I plopped on the ground next to her, not even bothering to dry off. “What happened?” I asked. She explained that the girl in the book was depressed because the guy left her. My mom, Nellie and Reed cried at books and movies all the time.

She cut an incredulous look at me, “You’re not gonna make fun of me?”

I leaned over and made sure my face was as close as I could get it without touching hers and looked her directly in the eye, “Sweetheart, the sooner you stop comparing me to Simon or whoever, the better off we will be. I’m not an asshole. I’m not a jerk. I’m gonna treat you right even at my own detriment. Might as well get used to it. Now, I’m about to tell you something very serious. So whatever you do, don’t laugh.”

“Ok,” she grew completely serious.

“I want pizza again.” She threw herself backwards on the towel and laughed so hard I thought she’d bust a blood vessel. It took her almost fifteen minutes to get ahold of herself. We went to a small pizza place and sat outside since I was too lazy to do anything but throw on a t-shirt. And I swore when I put it on in the car she mumbled, “What a shame.”

We ordered a huge pizza with everything on it this time, which included pineapple. It was the best thing I’d ever tasted. Someone should’ve intervened in my life sooner and force fed me pizza just to prove what an idiot I was. She looked tired and by the end of the meal seemed like she might not make it back to the parking lot, much less the car.

“Do you want me to drive? You’re gonna have to help me with the directions but you’re exhausted.”

She nodded and I made sure she got in the passenger side first. She pointed me in the general direction of the freeway and told me the way to get to Venice Beach. After that I would have to wake her up to get to her apartment. I drove and she slept, unfazed by the incessant honking horns and truck noises. I reached Venice Beach and hated to wake her up.

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