Just For You: A lesbian romance (Play Me a Song Book 3) by Kale Jessica

Author:Kale, Jessica [Kale, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Romantic Scribe
Published: 2017-07-22T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Gabriella’s eyes shot open. She felt around the bed for Alicia, but didn’t find her. Waking up every morning felt like a burden, because for a good one or two seconds, she remembered nothing. Her memory was completely blank; only one thing was true, her relationship with Alicia. But even that boiled down to nothing, and there remained only her sick, homophobic father, and her empty bed. Last night was absolute hell. She had spent the whole of it in her room, floating between a state of sleep and wakefulness. But even her sleep was shallow, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t run away from the nightmares. Her consciousness swirled around in them, oblivious of the physical world. She just remembered her heart thumping in accordance with quick, shallow breaths. Beads of sweat were rolling down her forehead. Her whole body was quivering.

In her dreams she saw her father lying in his bed, surrounded by darkness. Her mother and sister just stood there next to him, holding trays in their hands and staring at Gabriella. The whole scene resembled a Renaissance painting, with the king on his deathbed and his family circled around him. Except Gabriella wasn’t standing there next to him, she was leaning against the door, watching him slip away. She couldn’t hear what he was saying, but he was grumbling under his breath, his eyes following things that weren’t there. For a second, Gabriella thought she felt sorry for him, but then his eyes met hers. He squinted at her above the rim of his glasses, and when he realized she wasn’t just some stranger standing at the foot of his bed, he started yelling.

It was like nothing Gabriella had ever experienced before, like an amplified version of their first encounter. In her dreams, her dad appeared to be much scarier, despite being bed-bound. His feet stuck out the end of his bed, but they were dirty and big, like a Sasquatch. He scratched his belly and coughed often; Gabriella wondered how sick he really was. Without hesitating, she ran out of the room, and that was when she woke up. Her eyes lazily rolled open, glazed over with the remnants of her dreams, or nightmares. She really didn’t want to go back out there. The last thing she wanted was to run into her dad in the hallway, or, God forbid, have to speak with him. She thought about taking the next train home, but then decided against it. Something was still keeping her there, perhaps a flicker of hope that she and her dad would soon reconcile. But whenever she thought about his reaction when he first saw her, that hope dissipated.

Suddenly she heard the door creak. She rolled over to her side and pretended to be asleep. “Gabriella. Gabriella, honey, you wanna come down for breakfast?”

Gabriella pulled the covers up to her chin and let out a moan. “Not right now,” she whispered. Her mother stepped inside and closed the door behind her.

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