Love in the Parallel World by Craig Linger

Author:Craig Linger [Linger, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Wednesday, Day 4: lime-green pill

She was shaking in Landon’s arms.

“I killed someone,” she kept repeating, “I did not mean to, I was not thinking straight, it was self-defense.”

“You were dreaming,” Landon said. “You are a nice girl and I am sure you did not kill anyone.”

“The thing is that I did. I really did. I was in High School. He raped me and then tried to suffocate me. If I knew what I was doing, I could have just stabbed him enough to get free, but I was scared that injuring him was not enough. I killed him so that there would be no chance that he could kill me, but all I wanted to do was get him to set me free so that I could run away. I stopped dreaming about it a long time ago, but I think seeing that girl with the slit throat last night brought back the memory. Oh Landon, I am so scared that I killed the girl last night too. I did not even know her and I had no motive except maybe I was jealous because part of me thought you were still attracted to her and something could happen between you two. I was not even feeling angry last night, but those pain pills I have been taking that I told you about have been messing with my head and I don’t know anymore what is real and what is not. In my right mind, I would not hurt anyone unless they were trying to kill me, but I am so scared I killed that girl last night Landon.”

“Who do you think you killed last night and where?” Landon responded calmly.

“I think I killed the girl who you said had a crush on you. I think I did it in the hot tub on the deck of the ship.”

“Well the deck is filled with people right now and I think that had someone found a dead body on the deck of the ship, the captain would have definitely said something by now. I am totally fine with not talking about what happened in High School unless you want to talk about it, but I want you to know that even if you killed someone in High School and it was not in self-defense, I would still love you.”

It was the first time Landon had told her that he loved her and it was in the most unusual matter of fact way that she had ever heard the words and under the craziest of circumstances. She had also never heard those words exit a guy’s mouth before this early in a relationship. She felt like she should say “I love you too,” but the timing just felt completely wrong, plus Landon must have known that she loved him.

She had been a completely different person during that time in High School. Maybe Landon would still love her after she told him about everything that happened, but she did not want to take the chance.

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