Kyle by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78564-052-0
Publisher: RJ Scott

Chapter Nine

Jason listened to Kyle’s voice. To the gentle nonsense, he was speaking to his horse.

Within the tent it was half-dark, inside his head it was utterly black.

It happened; that sick oiliness that slimed its way into all the parts of him. First, he stopped smiling, then his head ached, then he had the weight of everything pushing him down, and all he needed, finally, was to be alone.

Jason didn’t know why it happened. The charity doctor he’d seen said it was something Jason would have to live with, an imbalance in his hormones or some such shit. Of course, the doctor didn’t know that Jason sold his body to survive, didn’t know that for one week out of every six or so, he was on the streets, sleeping on benches or in doorways. He didn’t know because Jason didn’t tell him.

Jason had some meds, one daily, a low dose of something or other that Steve paid for, and he also had Valium for the times when the blackness was too much. Like tonight.

But the pills made him sleep, and sleep too deeply, and that was when the nightmares happened.

So tonight, Jason wasn’t going to take them. And the blackness remained.

Kyle’s voice was calm, soft and reassuring, and Jason almost wished he were a horse just so Kyle could gentle him and dismiss the blackness. When the words stopped, and the stable was near silent, Jason’s watch showed it was after eleven. He cautiously unzipped the tent.

He needed to be alone, but being in a small space wasn’t his first option.

Carefully and quietly he moved across the stable and out into the night, shrugging his jacket around him, to ward off the chill. He stood at the rails of the exercise yard and concentrated on his breathing, staring out into the darkness and then up to the stars in the wide sky above.

“There’s food inside,” Kyle said from his left.

Jason didn’t even jump; somehow he’d assumed that Kyle was going to find him. Day two and he had already come to realize that Kyle was good at creeping around and getting up in his face.

“Thanks.” He didn’t add that he wasn’t hungry because that would then become the opening for more conversation.

“That happen often?” Kyle asked.

Great. He wants to talk.

“What?” Jason clambered up and sat on the top rail. This time, he was steadier, more balanced, but Kyle still stepped closer as if to stop him falling. Damn man didn’t know when to quit with his worrying.

“I saw your face. You went… wrong.”

“Wrong.”

“Like you recalled something, and it was too much, and so you shut down.”

“It happens,” was all he was going to say.

Kyle stepped even closer and now Jason could read the concern on his face. “If you need to talk, then I can get Liam out here, or Robbie.”

“Or Jack?” Jason asked.

Kyle frowned. “Or Jack. Is that who you need to talk to?”

Jason huffed a laugh, the depth of his self-loathing drifting into his next words. “Big rich man only needs someone like me for one thing.

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