Endless, Forever by E.M. Lindsey

Author:E.M. Lindsey [Lindsey, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw, mobi
Published: 2016-02-19T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Could have gone worse,” Leo said, his voice only a little slurred. They managed to escape the suite the next afternoon, finding a quiet local where only a handful of people were drinking and watching a recorded Rugby match on the muted TV above the bar.

Oliver had his hands wrapped around a glass of whiskey, a couple of black straws jammed into the pulp of a lime, and he was watching the amber liquid go hazy with the fruit juice. “Mm? What did you say?”

Leo laughed, taking a pull from his gin and tonic. “I said it could have gone worse, the funeral. Weird to see people from school though.”

Oliver snorted, his head shaking back and forth. He was still a little off from the pill Leo had given him the day before, but not nearly as giddy and numb as he had been. The viewing had gone as planned, Oliver occupied enough with family members he hadn’t seen in decades, so he wasn’t thinking much about his mother’s body.

The funeral itself lasted as long as any proper Anglican funeral did. The Vicar did a decent job of making his mother sound like she had once been a decent human being. Oliver was spared from making any big speeches by his father reading a passage from the Bible—nothing Oliver recognized, but then again he’d spent years blocking out those lessons.

The drive to the cemetery was long, but they had an escort through the streets, and in a haze, Oliver watched his mother’s casket lowered into the ground. He expected some great storm to unleash itself on everyone who stood around, watching the morbid procession of events, but the most they got was a gentle summer mist, and a heavy fog settling around the area.

By the time it was all over, Oliver was too tired, too sober, and inches away from punching the next person who gave insincere condolences.

A few people had attempted to make small talk. Mostly people he barely recognized from school, and a handful of people from University whom he figured had only come to see how the Sasaki siblings had fared all these years in the States.

The worst was Mitchel Teague, one of the boys from school he’d had a little tryst with on the football pitch. He could very clearly remember the feeling of Mitchel’s cock down his throat, and seeing him there with a glint in his eyes, his wife on his arm, Oliver nearly lost it. It had taken everything in his power not to laugh until he cried, and then cry because God did he miss Gabriel right then.

He knew coming back to London was going to be ugly for him, but he had no idea how bad it would feel until that moment when Mitchel met his eyes and gave him a wink.

“I just can’t believe we ever hung round with stupid fucks like that,” Oliver said after a little while. He drank half the contents of his glass in one go, then swiped the back of his hand across his mouth.

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