Fresh Start by Nicole Pyland

Author:Nicole Pyland
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-11-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23:

Alyssa sat in that field for another hour before the street light above her began to flicker. It felt like a decent enough representation of her life. She felt like she flickered on and off and on and off. Getting out of prison seemed like a lifetime ago already and then she’d met Hannah. She’d known it was too soon for her to date someone. She could feel it. She’d wanted Hannah from the moment she saw her, but she knew herself. She needed time to readjust. She should have trusted herself and taken that time instead of roping Hannah into this circus.

Hannah seemed so determined to make this work. She’d said she was in love. She seemed to believe they could have this thing together. She’d be willing to work through all of this external pressure to make it out on the other side intact as a couple. She stood up at that thought. They’d been a couple for less than a day and it had already gone wrong. They’d gone on one actual date together and as amazing as it had been spending the night together, that too had its difficulties.

She walked up the stairs to the apartment as quietly as she could. She didn’t know if Hannah was still awake, but she didn’t want to chance seeing her again.

She unlocked her front door and walked inside. She looked at the table in front of the sofa at the flowers they’d gotten for one another and then into the kitchen where they’d left their dishes in the sink after breakfast and lunch. She’d worry about those tomorrow. She went to her bathroom and stripped off her clothes. She turned on the shower and climbed inside. She let it burn her skin because as much as it hurt, she needed to feel something other than the numbness that had entered her brain the moment that woman spoke to them outside the bar.

When the water began to cool, she climbed out and decided not to dress after toweling off. The bed was still mussed from their earlier activities and as she fell into it, she pulled on the pillow that Hannah had used and clutched it, allowing her tears to fall as she breathed in her scent.

***

Hannah woke on Sunday morning and before her brain registered that she was alone, she rolled over and reached for Alyssa. She’d already grown so used to her being there when she woke up. She rolled over on her stomach and put her pillow over her head to try to block out the day, but even the pillow reminded her of Alyssa. It smelled like her shampoo; fruity and bright. She forced herself to get out of bed and made coffee. She went back to bed and turned on the TV. She found a movie that didn’t really interest her, but she hoped would take her mind off of Alyssa for at least a couple of hours.

When the movie finished, a furniture commercial enticed her enough to get up and out of the apartment.

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