The Bride Experiment by Mimi Jefferson

Author:Mimi Jefferson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

On a normal day, the cabdriver’s constant chattering into his cell phone would have annoyed James. But James barely noticed. There was too much racing through his mind. After talking to the staff at the hospital for the last time, he saw several officers waiting to talk to him. They asked a few more questions. James told all of them about his plan. There was a part of him that wished he had actually committed crimes. Going to jail right now seemed like it was justified. With more than a few strange looks, he was released. Apparently, jilting a bride at the altar isn’t illegal, just incredibly stupid.

James paid the cabdriver and walked past the sea of reporters hanging outside his hotel. He needed to go to the hotel to get the medication in his suitcase. He had ordered the pills online after the panic attack in his classroom. He sort of hoped someone would be there, waiting for him, but nobody was there. They had so much fun at the bachelor party James paid for an extra night in the suite. He planned to celebrate humiliating Raquel with Miles and his friends.

James’ first thought was just to take one pill, but then the pills started speaking to him: “Go ahead take every pill in the bottle. You have nothing to live for. Nobody is going to miss you. Look what you did. Look what happened. You have nothing to live for. You are worthless. No job. Nothing. You are a sorry excuse for a man. End it now. Right now. Your mother is dead. Your brother is dead. It is all your fault. How will you face them? They hate you and everything you represent.”

James took the pills out of the container. He switched them back and forth through each of his hands; then he got a bottle of water out of the minifridge. The housekeeper would probably be the first to find him. When she found him, the pills would be lying right next to him.

It seemed so easy, but also hard. He put a handful of pills in his mouth; then he started to wonder if there was a place worse than the place he was living in right now. The last thing he needed was to die and end up worse than he was right now.

Religion always seemed like a waste of time. But at that moment, James wanted to study all the major religions. He wanted to know what they believed and why. He had once heard a televangelist preach about reading the Bible for yourself. He said if people really wanted to know what God said, they should find out for themselves. Those words seemed to make sense to James that day. But soon after, he forgot all about it.

James had spent his childhood at one church service after another, but he didn’t remember learning much. There would be a robed man standing behind the pulpit and reading from the Bible. The words never made sense to James.

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