Say I Do, Sunshine by Taylor Wilson-West

Author:Taylor Wilson-West [Wilson-West, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Well shit, speak of the devil and he shall appear. I didn’t recognize the number so it had to be him. Ignoring the message, I forced myself to drink some water. I did not want to get dehydrated.

I stripped my clothes, then my bed and picked up the clothes I had lived in for the last two days, throwing it all in the washer. I poured in Clorox and laundry detergent, shutting the lid and starting the clean cycle.

Sometimes I hated being an adult. I just wanted someone to take care of me. Was that too much to ask? Glancing into my drawers, I debated putting underwear on and ultimately decided against it, pulling another large shirt over my body and sweatpants over my hips, then went in search of more fuzzy socks.

It was freezing in my house and as I walked by, I checked the thermostat. I had it set to seventy, but the screen said it was sixty-four in the house. I hoped my heater wasn’t going bad. It was no secret this wasn’t my forever home, but I didn’t want to move quite yet. The location was perfect, but the repairs were not.

All I had on the walls were a few pictures of me and Ronnie. Some with Xavier, and some that Xavier snapped from weddings. I didn’t have any pictures of my parents or anything linking me to them. I didn’t want anything to do with them.

I picked up my phone from the bathroom on my way back to the living room, flopped down on the couch, and turned on Netflix hoping to find a feel-good movie to raise my spirits. My phone buzzed in my pocket. I had four new texts from the unknown number and clicked on it right when someone knocked on my door. I told Ronnie not to come, but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t send Xavier instead. They were sneaky like that, but it made me love them even more for it.

Since I didn’t have a peep hole, I pulled the chain into the slot and cracked the door. Aaron stood there with brown paper bags in his arms, looking like a man on a mission. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I slammed the door shut.

“Open the door, Sunshine,” I heard him rumble from the other side.

“I’m sick.” It wasn’t a lie, not completely. But I didn’t know if I could handle being in close proximity with him after Tuesday night. I figured I would’ve had a few times in between with at least one other person in the room.

“Why do you think I’m here?” I could tell he was confused by my reaction, but my house was a wreck. I had a stack of used tissues overflowing in the trash can by the couch, cartons of empty ice cream laying on the end tables with the spoons still in them, and I didn’t even want to think of the state of my bathroom.

“You can put that stuff on the porch.

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