He's Come Undone by Weir Theresa

Author:Weir, Theresa [Weir, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION/Romance/Contemporary
Publisher: Belfry Press
Published: 2014-02-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

~ Julian ~

I didn’t remember driving to campus and parking my car, but suddenly I found myself stopped in front of a meter. I swiped a credit card, pocketed my wallet, and headed for Coach Rice’s office. At that point I noticed the day was getting warm, like the kind of day where you can still feel the cold of the night, but the sun is falling on the ground and illuminating the trees.

Under my feet, the fallen leaves were deep in places, and the beauty of the moment suddenly made my heart hurt in a good way, and I knew this fresh awareness came with the arrival of Ellie in my life, because until this moment I hadn’t felt joy at being alive for a long, long time.

As I walked, I wished I’d asked Ellie to come with me because I didn’t want to be away from her for even a few minutes. And in the back of my mind I had this weird feeling, this nagging worry that something bad would happen if I wasn’t careful. That I’d lose her when I’d just found her.

But since my parent’s death, dark and fatalistic thoughts occupied my head, so I tried to tell myself that’s all it was. When bad and horrible shit happens to a person, when bad and horrible shit steps into your life, you can’t think about that pattern ever changing or ever getting better.

Before my parents were killed, I never worried about anything. I never thought about the possibility of bad. But now I found myself worrying about Ellie. Like what if someone killed her? What if she left her apartment and got hit by a car? What if she got really sick, like seriously sick?

Stop it.

I paused in the middle of the sidewalk and pulled out my phone. I began typing a text to her, then paused, wondering what to say. I knew damn well what I wanted to say, but I knew damn well it was too soon, and I also wondered if I was maybe going a little crazy, or crazier.

Because what I wanted to type was I love you.

But people didn’t fall in love so fast. That kind of thing didn’t really happen, did it?

What do you really know about her? I asked myself.

Not that much. She was this person who’d appeared in my life, someone with no past and no future. No past and future yet revealed to me. That information was yet to be discovered. All I knew was that I wanted Ellie to be in my future.

I miss you.

That’s what I texted her. So sappy. So true.

It was hard to believe that two weeks ago I hadn’t even known her, and now she filled me up. Just filled me up.

My phone buzzed. I checked it. From Ellie.

Nothing bold or earth shattering. Just a smiley face and I miss you too.

I have to confess to hoping for more, because I miss you too seemed a bit canned, a bit

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