Sunny's Song (Friends Lovers or Nothing Book 2) by Chanel Jackie

Author:Chanel, Jackie [Chanel, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pink Neon Publications
Published: 2013-11-17T08:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 10: All The Way Home

Two Years Later

“Sunny, my father is dead.”

“Where are you?”

“Mt. Vernon.”

“I’m on the next flight.”

I hadn’t spoken to my best friend in a couple of months when I got the call. Just like that, I dropped everything and caught the first flight out of Atlanta that would get me to Mt. Vernon, Illinois within a few hours. Aiden needed me and I forgot about what he’d done to make me stop speaking to him. I’ll be damned if I wasn’t there for him when he buried his father.

When I arrived in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, I found a family that had been utterly destroyed by the sudden loss of the head of their household. I hadn’t spent much time with Doug Tyler when he was alive. I was Aiden’s closest friend and partly responsible for him abandoning his dad’s dream of him being a professional football player. Aiden and his father didn’t have a great relationship to start with, which meant that Doug wasn’t too keen on any of Aiden’s friends.

The rest of his family loves me to death. Over the years, I’ve grown extremely close to Aiden’s two sisters, Sara and Delilah. Through my friendship with Aiden, I’ve gained two sisters and a really easy-going confidante in his mother, Dina. Seeing all of them completely broken and overcome with grief hurt me. I hated that I was powerless to do anything about it.

I did what I could. I cried with the girls, comforted Aiden, and helped with the funeral arrangements when Dina just couldn’t handle it. By the time they lowered Doug Tyler’s sleek cherry casket into the ground, I had been in Mt. Vernon for a week and a half. I had to go.

That was three days ago.

I needed to get back to work. Plus, my daughter was staying with my parents in Atlanta. I didn’t take her with me because I knew I wasn’t staying long. There was too much sadness in Aiden’s childhood home. It was crushing.

But not as crushing as knowing that I left my best friend grieving alone, with only his sisters and mom to comfort him. This is the third night I’ve lain awake contemplating whether or not I should clear my schedule and go back to Illinois. I honestly don’t know if Aiden is going to recover from this.

Aiden must really hate me right now. I hate me right now. I shouldn’t have left him alone. I should be there, comforting him and being the friend that he needs right now.

It won’t be enough. I know that and Aiden knows that. He wants so much more from me, more than I’m willing to give. He just doesn’t want to listen to me. He doesn’t want to admit that we can’t be together. His refusal to accept our relationship for what it is the reason we stopped speaking a couple of months ago...amongst other things.

Still, I shouldn’t have left him. His father died, for God’s sake. How in the hell could I leave him like that? He would have never done that to me.

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