Meets Girl: A Novel by Entrekin Will

Author:Entrekin, Will [Entrekin, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Exciting Press
Published: 2010-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

“So, what, without you, I’m going to pass away into obscurity? No one will ever read my books, or at least not on the scale I hope for?” I asked, and even as I did so, I felt the defiance rise in my gut. I know it’s how I am: if Angus wanted to tell me I wouldn’t be able to do it without him, I was going to turn my hat backwards and sit my ass down and try anyway. “I don’t believe that.”

“Believe as you will, but you mark my words, my talented young friend, you have it in you to be great.”

“So then I don’t see what I’m doing here. Not that I didn’t enjoy the beer and the Beethoven.”

“Ah, but as we have established, what you want has only partly to do with writing and your work, does it not?”

Maybe I didn’t want to believe I knew what he was saying, or that he was saying it, but I found I suddenly couldn’t pretend. I felt it, dense in the pit of my stomach, as sudden knowledge that something is about to go wrong. Part fear, part denial, part something else entirely and entirely unidentifiable, that same terrible feeling you get when you witness tragedy like you never imagined occur.

Even just the thought hurt, but I gave it voice: “Veronica.”

Angus smiled, but he did me the mercy of allowing some sadness into it. “Precisely her. Because the reason I talked to you, the reason I gave you my card, is not just that it’s plainly and obviously clear how very much in love with her you truly are but also that you will never know her love in return.”

There was only a sipful of beer left in my glass, and I swallowed it gratefully, mouth gone dry. “Without you,” I said, placing the glass on the desk between us.

Angus said nothing, just a small gesture that somehow managed to include his entire body for participation: yes.

It felt like getting punched in the stomach. It felt like one of those vertigo-inducing shots for which Martin Scorsese is so well known: as if I had to zoom in and hold close to a world from which I had suddenly discovered myself totally detached. When I asked, “Are you—are you the devil?” my voice sounded a long way off.

Angus laughed, perhaps with a bit too much glee. “My boy, I cannot tell you the last time I was mistaken for Old Scratch. But alas, I’m just an old man who knows a thing or two about futures and chance, and who has in his time discovered a way to help certain talented individuals choose what they want in life when they otherwise might not receive such an opportunity. Surely there can be no harm in that.”

“So what happens now?”

“Oh, but I can’t tell you that, my boy. Now you must make a choice. Decide between one or the other.”

“But is it—can I be blind instead, or—,” but I stopped, because Angus was already shaking his head.

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