That Time with Sugar by Tess Oliver

Author:Tess Oliver [Oliver, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tess Oliver
Published: 2015-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

“Tommy?” Sugar’s voice drifted over my shoulder, but I kept pounding the phone until there wasn’t anything left of it but strands of wire.

I dropped the dangling pieces of phone and braced my hands against the ledge that I’d just used to annihilate what was probably the sole surviving payphone for miles. I dropped my head. It pounded from the rage, the frustration.

Sugar put her hand on my shoulder. “Tommy, what is it?”

I closed my eyes. “My dad has already appointed himself judge and jury. He wants his murderous son to turn himself in because the family name is ruined forever.”

I swished past her and Julian and headed straight to the liquor store.

“Tommy.” Sugar ran up next to me.

I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t even face the one person in this whole damn world I cared about. I wanted to slide into a hole and fade out of existence.

As my arm reached for the door, Sugar took hold of my hand to stop me. “Don’t. We’ll get this straightened out. Just don’t.”

I stood there for a second, shutting my eyes as she spoke to me, wishing to hell she hadn’t come with me, that she wasn’t having to see me like this.

“Please, Tommy.” I still hadn’t turned to look at her. She stared at the side of my face. She lifted her hand. I could feel that her fingers were shaking as she reached up and pushed the hair back off my face. “We’ll go to Julian’s dad and get this straightened out. Don’t do this.”

We might’ve been able to untangle the mess, but nothing could take away the fact that my dad had decided, without even talking to me or allowing me to explain myself, that I’d murdered two people. That couldn’t be wiped away, even if he someday had to face the embarrassing fact that he’d been wrong about it. He’d been convinced that I was capable of killing someone, and that said it all.

I pulled away from Sugar’s hand and slammed into the liquor store. Sugar and Julian followed, even though it was the last thing I wanted.

The clerk looked up from his newspaper. “Morning.” There were no televisions in sight. I could only assume he hadn’t seen any news yet. It wouldn’t have made the paper yet, but that fun little bit of publicity was coming next, no doubt. And, because of who I was, the story would be in a lot of papers. People always loved to hear about big, powerful families being shamed by their out-of-control heirs. Made for great headlines, scandal packed headlines that were probably being sent to print right then. Even if we got this cleared up today, people would see the story. For some stupid reason, once they’d seen it on a headline, it was hard to wash the story away, even if it was blatantly false. Heir to the Jameson fortune a murderer would stick in their memories forever, and ten years from now, people would still be saying ‘I wonder what ever happened to that horrid heir to the Jameson fortune’.

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