Free Fall by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 47654221
Published: 2019-08-31T05:00:00+00:00

15

The drive to school is filled with tension. I don’t know what to say or do, but the amount of anger seeping out of Reid seems catastrophic.

“It’s not Lex’s fault.”

“Don’t talk to me about my friend. I know what is and isn’t his fault.”

I shake my head. “This is utterly ridiculous, Reid. At least Lex fucking likes me. I’m just some game to you. You didn’t care about me until you saw me as a charity case. Until you could somehow be a fill-in for Brady, and let me tell you, you’re a poor stand-in for my brother. You think he’d want you to touch me like you just did?”

A growl rips through the car. “Stop fucking talking.”

“No,” I growl right back. “You think these clothes will somehow make me feel normal again. They’ll make me forget the huge hole I have in my heart. You think if I dye my hair back, I’ll go back to being the person I was before Brady died… Well, I fucking won’t. I won’t ever be the same again. It’s nice that you can just continue on with your life like nothing fucking happened, but that’s not me.”

The car swerves to the side of the road and the brakes lock. I brace myself on the dashboard. Reid throws the car into Park and glares at me. “You think I’m the fucking same? You’re not looking close enough. It’s not all about you. Yes, you were his sister, but I was like his fucking brother. All of us were, so don’t act like you’re more broken up than me, Briar. I just knew I had to grow the fuck up and realize he wasn’t coming back, and even though I want to bury my head in the sand, even though it sometimes kills me to pick up a fucking football, I know I have to do it because not doing it isn’t going to bring him back.”

By the time he finishes, he’s shouting. My skin sprouts in goosebumps.

“He’s gone,” Reid says, his voice lowering. It’s half disbelief, half resolute. It’s like we know it, but we also can’t believe it at the same time. “Making your parents work extra hard to try to comfort you isn’t helping anyone, Briar,” he says. All of the hardness has left his voice. “Running away won’t help. Making other people worry won’t help.” His hands turn to fists on the steering wheel. “I’m just trying to get you to see that you can be the same person you were and the world won’t end. It doesn’t matter if you go to school wearing black with dirty hair or if you try to make yourself feel nice, your brother still won’t be there at the end of the day when the last bell rings. I get all that. But one way, you feel good about yourself, and the other, you’re just…depriving the rest of us of that light we’re so used to seeing, even if you don’t see it inside yourself right now.

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