Out of the Blue by RJ Jones

Author:RJ Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jake

It was early Sunday morning when Cam came through the front door while I was lacing up my running shoes. I know he hated night shifts, but they were a necessity of his job. But that morning there was something different, something more and he wouldn’t look in my direction as he dropped his bag.

Cam and I hadn’t been communicating that much, but since my talk with Caroline, I needed to convince him to see a psychiatrist.

“Hi,” I said, my voice quiet. Cam still wouldn’t look at me. “You want coffee?” I asked, trying to get him to acknowledge my presence, my anger rising with his avoidance.

He padded slowly to the living room and stared out the large window. “Uh, yeah, thanks,” Cam answered after a long minute.

“Cam?” I waited for a response or maybe a glance. I got nothing.

“Cam, what’s wrong?” This mood was new, one I hadn’t seen before, and I thought I’d seen them all in the past few weeks. Things were incredibly strained between us. We’d shared a takeout meal the other night, and it was the first time we’d eaten together in weeks.

He stared at me then and I could see the weariness in his eyes, but there was something else there as well. Something significant had happened that left him looking… guilty?

He remained silent, his gaze darted away, and there was a grave look on his face. Cam might not be able to look at me, but I could still read him.

“What have you done?” I whispered. He’d done something, I could feel it. He looked like a teenager who’d broken a window with his baseball, and although I didn’t want to know, I couldn’t stop myself from asking.

“What? I haven’t done anything.” He swallowed audibly, his eyes tight.

“You’ve done something that I’m not going to like. Just because you don’t look at me doesn’t mean I can’t see something’s wrong. I can still read you.” I stood and I rubbed my temples, my frustration building.

“I haven’t done anything. I’ve just finished a really long double shift. Why does that equate to me doing something?” Cam refused to look in my direction, preferring to play with a loose thread on his jeans.

As I watched him, I had a moment of clarity I wished I didn’t.

“It’s Kris, isn’t it?”

“What, no, of course not, why… why would you think that?” He was babbling, and my stomach twisted with his lie.

“What did you do?” I asked again, my voice pained.

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Something happened between you two, I can see it. It’s written all over your face. Jesus Christ.”

His extended silence confirmed it, and the quiet went on forever.

“Damn you,” I whispered. “Damn you.”

“It’s not what you think. Nothing happened,” Cam said a little too quickly.

“Explain it to me, then. If it’s not what I think, tell me exactly what happened, because I know something did.”

He hesitated for long seconds, running his hands through his hair. He looked at the floor. The lump in my throat wouldn’t leave and I wasn’t sure I wanted to know.

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