Skypunch (The Skypunch Chronicles Book 1) by Logan Castle

Author:Logan Castle [Castle, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

I am not a coffee person at all. A long time and a different dead-end job ago, I was. Today, however, coffee was everything. Without caffeine, there was no hope of making it through the morning, let alone the day. I was on shut-down mode and every movement I made became an arduous task. My head, while physically still attached to my shoulders, seemed to contain a space of sprawling emptiness between my ears.

I could barely keep my eyes open and my limbs refused to cooperate with the simple act of driving. Out of pure morbid curiosity, I made an exploratory scan of the sky. I was relieved to see it was a clear and calm blue.

I drove in absolute silence, no radio or anything else, concentrating only on staying inside the lines of the road, as if I hadn’t driven in years and was trying to reacquaint myself with the skill. During the drive, I became increasingly aware of my internal battle to stay awake so I opened the window to allow the frigid morning air to sting my face.

I didn’t understand what was happening to me. It seemed like I was unraveling, piece-by-piece, into somebody I didn’t recognize. What made it worse was that I couldn’t talk to anyone about it. I was afraid a psychologist would tell me I was bipolar, schizophrenic or something equally unappealing. No, there was no way I could even consider a visit to one of those quacks.

The only person who could provide me with any sort of relief was Plum. Granted, she couldn’t possibly understand what I was going through either. Not like I gave her that option since I never really explained any of it to her. Even so, her presence calmed me. Just seeing those bottomless, blue eyes and that sweet smile was enough to help me despite an almost systematic dismantling of my mind.

The image of Plum this morning, screaming with wide, panicked eyes was almost too much for me to bear. In the moments following both of us awakening to each other’s screams, Plum pressed me for the details from my dream; but I wasn’t ready to open up about that yet. At the moment, the one thing I desperately craved was space. I made a lightning quick decision to throw on some work clothes and retreat to my office for the better part of the day. Since it was the Monday after a holiday, the office was closed, meaning it would be empty and quiet, two things I sorely needed right now. I knew that wasn’t being fair to Plum. Whatever was going on inside my head wasn’t limited to me any longer. My paranoia and fear were affecting her as well… but I just couldn’t deal with that right now. I had more than enough on my own plate.

Enough!

I wanted nothing more than some semblance of normalcy restored to my life, if that were even possible. After the critical events of the past few days,

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