Right Now by Marie Hall

Author:Marie Hall [Hall, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Marie Hall Publishing
Published: 2013-09-02T05:00:00+00:00

I hugged the pillow to my chest and stared out the window. Xian was snuggling at my feet. I think she knew her momma needed her. Jamie tried to stay up with me—we baked cookies, gorged on ice cream, and did everything we shouldn’t do, including talking crap about guys and how they weren’t worth it.

What happened?

Yesterday at the fair Alex seemed like he wanted to devour me, inhale me, and make me all his. Today, nothing. I’d waited for hours, holding on to hope and looking like an ass when midnight rolled around and I realized he wasn’t coming. Cinderella’s coach had turned back into a pumpkin, and I decided right then and there I was done with him.

After the crap in the car and now this, I came to an inevitable conclusion: Alex could hurt me too much. He was acting exactly like the player I knew he’d been in high school and while my gut told me (hoped more like) that wasn’t the case with me, obsessing like this wasn’t good for my health. I’d gone down this road with Ryko, I wasn’t doing this again. I hadn’t even gone out on a real date with Alex, and I’d never felt worse in my life. This was nothing compared to Ryko. I felt like an idiot for hoping, for believing the man I’d wanted for so long had finally really noticed me.

Of course he hadn’t.

Why would he? He never had before.

Sniffling, I wiped my nose. The tears had come tonight. In great big, ugly bucketfuls. I wished he’d never walked into my shop that day, that I’d never seen him, never recognized immediately who he was. Closing my eyes, I rolled over and decided that tomorrow morning, I’d forget him completely.

The player had played me for the last time.

~*~

“Ow!” My tenth customer of the day jumped. He was sitting on the table, gripping the railing with white-knuckled intensity as he glared at me accusingly. Blood dribbled from the corner of his lip where the large needle had accidentally grazed him.

I sighed. “Listen, are you going to sit still or not? If you keep jerking, I’m never going to be able to pierce your tongue.”

“You cut me.” He grumbled, rubbing the blood off with his thumb.

Pinching the bridge of my nose, I counted slowly to ten in my head. I’d woken up this morning with a major headache, not to mention I hadn’t eaten any breakfast thanks to the fact that I’d totally spazzed and forgotten to set my alarm. I was dressed in clothes that should have been washed last night, except I didn’t do it because I was supposed to be on a date, which obviously did not happen.

A hand clamped down on my shoulder, rubbing big circles on my back with a thumb. I knew that touch anywhere, had woken up to it every morning for two years.

“You okay, Z?” Ryko leaned over my shoulder, whispering in my ear.

“No, she is definitely not okay. I came for a tongue piercing and her needle is trying to rip through my jaw.

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