First Love by Snodgrass G.L

Author:Snodgrass, G.L. [Snodgrass, G.L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Sasha.

He thought I was pretty. I knew I should have been thinking about his story and all that he had gone through. But all I could think about was that he had said I was pretty. I know. I can be such a girl sometimes.

I was finally able to pull my mind away from sweet thoughts of possibilities to ponder what he had told me.

The first thing I realized was that my weak attempt to seem tough and streetwise must have looked ridiculous to him. Jesus, I must have seemed like such a fool.

The next thing to pass through my mind was all the girls he must have been with. I know how girls could be around musicians. Someone as hot as Michael must have had his choice. It must have been heaven for him. A smorgasbord of female company. And what was with this Alicia. He sounded very interested in his friend’s girlfriend.

“Your turn,” he said, shooting me a smile to let me know that it would be okay. “What happened to make you rebel against your dad and try and go three thousand miles on twenty-six dollars and a smile?”

I took a deep breath and said, “When I was eight, my mom tried to kill me.”

There it was out. The giant gorilla in my life. My mom hated me so much she tried to kill me. It was one of those things that could really screw up a girl’s perception about herself.

Michael winced and sucked in a bunch of air through tight teeth. “Wow … okay, you win. It doesn’t matter what else you tell me. That’s got to rank up there at the top for bad.”

I smiled weakly and stared at my hands in my lap.

“She went insane,” I continued. “She’d always been ‘volatile’, strong mood swings. Strange behavior. But it started getting bad just after my eighth birthday.”

His brow had scrunched up in concern and his eyes kept darting from me to the road then back to me. Probably trying to determine if it was hereditary.

“Something, or someone, started talking to her in her head. Kept telling her I was a demon. That I’d become possessed and could only be set free by dying.”

Memories jumped into my mind. Her yelling at an imaginary being. Talking to herself in the bathroom for hours. The twisted face of pain and fear. All of it flashed through me making my stomach churn.

“I woke up in the middle of the night to see her standing next to my bed, staring down at me, holding a long white pillow in her hand. She’d brought it with her from her room. The look in her eyes scared me like nothing in this world. She hated me with an animalistic desire to kill. I actually think she wanted me to wake up so that I could see what she was going to do.

‘Mom?’ I said. That was all it took. She screamed and jumped onto me, straddling me with a leg either side, clamping my chest while she pushed that pillow into my face.

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