Fly Girl by Aria Cole & Mila Crawford

Author:Aria Cole & Mila Crawford [Cole, Aria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIla Crawford & Aria Cole
Published: 2020-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Atlas

Her hand twitched in mine when the elevator doors swung open. She’d been silent the entire ride up, and it’d been eating at me.

“I could run out and get some takeout. Our night doesn't have to end just because dinner went a little sideways back there,” I offered, knowing that my attempt was completely pathetic after the situation we’d just faced.

She paused at her hotel door, eyes nailed on the door handle as she shook her head. “No, thank you.”

“Indie,” I breathed, having heard the crack in her voice, before I wrapped my arms around her shoulders and held her to me. “This doesn’t change anything. Don’t let him affect us.”

“How can I? He’s been affecting me my entire life! Even when he wasn’t there, it was like this angry cloud hung over our household announcing his absence.”

“No, no—rain clouds pass, baby. This will too. Let’s go back to what we were. We’ve got so much to build on already.”

She finally dragged her eyes up from the floor to meet mine. They watered with emotion, tears threatening to track down her cheeks. “Thank you for an amazing weekend.”

“Indie…” My heart broke as I took her in, so small and sweet and sad. “I don’t like seeing you so sad. Tell me what you need, baby. Anything you need to take that sadness away and replace it with sunshine.” I traced the angle of her cheekbone with the pad of my thumb, heart hammering behind my ribcage as I thought about all the things I could say to make this better. Everything felt inadequate. Did I grow up with a better life because her dad was there for me and not her? Shame that wasn’t mine permeated around me, leaving behind a putrid stench as a strange stinging sensation swarmed angrily in my belly. Her pain ate me up inside. I’d spent the last year thinking of her and only her, imagining the ways I could sweep her off her feet, but this was one outcome I hadn’t even considered.

“I just need to be alone for a while, Atlas.” She finally turned the handle on the door and pushed inside. Away from me.

I reached a hand out, every nerve in me telling me not to leave her alone. “Indie, please—”

“Good night.” The last thing I saw was her beautiful eyes, filling with tears, as she locked me out.

I stood still, shock finally radiating through my bones as I considered what this meant for us.

In the course of an evening, I’d gone from the happiest motherfucker in the world with the woman of my dreams at my side, to a pathetic fool, alone and missing Indie like the oxygen had just been stolen from my universe.

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