Let Me Fall by Foster Lily

Author:Foster, Lily
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Lily Foster
Published: 2017-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

And after Mrs. Connolly left? I made it a few hours cold turkey before smuggling my brother’s old, outdated laptop into my room. I didn’t reactivate my page. I didn’t need to. My name was everywhere. I lapped it up—a glutton for my own demise.

Nothing.

Carolyn wouldn’t respond to my calls or texts. She wouldn’t see me when I came to her house. Her mother and father looked pale and shaken every time I stopped by. Someone would look through the peek hole in the door before cautiously opening it. “Please,” I begged Mrs. Harris one night. “I need to talk to her.”

“Jeremy, I think talking to you would do her a world of good but she doesn’t want to see you. She won’t see anyone.”

“Do you tell her? Do you tell her every time I come by?”

“I do,” she answered, eyes downcast.

I ran my hands through my hair in frustration. “Why?” I asked. I knew I sounded pathetic. “Why is she doing this?”

“It’s been,” Mrs. Harris paused and let out a deep breath. I noticed her hands were shaking as she wrung them together. “It’s been so difficult. She’s being targeted. I cannot answer my telephone because these people say vile, terribly mean things about my daughter. Mr. Harris’s tires were slashed the other night. The house has been egged twice.” Shaking her head, she went on. “I sent Thomas away to my sister’s for two weeks. She lives close to Briarwood and being in this house…it’s just not healthy for him to see this.”

“She won’t answer my calls or my texts.”

“Her phone was broken the day before it happened and I haven’t replaced it. I won’t. I can’t imagine what people are texting her or saying in the voicemails.”

“I want to help her,” I pled.

“I know you care deeply for her, Jeremy. Just give her some time.”

I got back on my bike, dejected. I knew I could make it better. I knew if I just had the chance to hold her, comfort her, love her…then I could make it at least a little better.

That first day I went back to school, a full week after I was supposed to return, I’d almost gotten myself suspended. Some little prick, a sophomore who didn’t know jack shit about this situation, was putting the finishing touches on some artwork on Carolyn’s locker. After asking him what the fuck he was doing, I gave him an open-handed slap across the face to humiliate him in front of his adoring onlookers and then followed that up with a punch to his gut that left him reeling, doubled over on the floor and out of breath. I looked up to see that Carolyn’s locker was covered in words and sick drawings that the janitor had done a half-assed job of removing.

Two security guards dragged me into the main office and Mrs. Connolly intercepted on my behalf, once again. When the principal reminded me that assault resulted in expulsion, she went to bat for me, arguing that these were different circumstances and clearly my reaction was borne out of grief.

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