The Tillman Crush by Kelly Gendron

Author:Kelly Gendron [Gendron, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

SADIE

If I win, you must be nice to me…

Three days have strum on by, and I haven’t seen Britt.

Nor has Caleb said anything about when he came home to find Britt and me half-naked in the kitchen.

It’s brief moments like these that I wish I had a mom or someone, anyone to talk to about the men in my life, Britt Tillman and my brother included.

Not to mention Dad. He’s stuck in that nursing home. There’s nothing I can do to help him.

It breaks my heart.

I miss Aunt Nora.

My life has been nothing but a shit-show since Britt’s mom died in that accident.

He doesn’t believe what I saw that night.

Maybe, it’s too difficult for him to consider our parents were having an affair.

Perhaps, he doesn’t care.

He didn’t seem to care about anything after his mom died.

Dad said he was just waiting out the storm. I assume Dad knew Britt was leaving when he graduated. He could’ve prepared me for it. I had no idea.

Britt called me the night before he left. That’s when we buried the time capsule. When he kissed me.

I didn’t understand anything that was going on all those years ago.

Then he left.

I was sad.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was the best thing for him.

After Mrs. Tillman died, his father’s drinking got bad. Then Britt left, and Mr. Tillman locked himself up in that house on the hill. The only time anyone in town saw him was when he stumbled into the local liquor store or stumbled out of Oliver’s bar.

Dad checked in on him weekly. He’d bring groceries but never stayed. In a way, I guess their relationship died the night Britt’s mom did.

I always wondered if Mr. Tillman knew about my dad and his wife.

The day of Mr. Tillman’s funeral, as morbid as it might’ve been, I put on my favorite little black dress, did my hair, and waited anxiously for Britt’s return.

I sat on the Tillman’s front porch and watched the sunset. I watched and waited for headlights to come up the hill, but Britt never came.

Britt’s dad was gone. That meant he had no other reason to come back to Milford.

I don’t know what I expected.

Britt was mean. He didn’t care about me. Still, the little girl in me and the puzzled teenager fighting to stay alive needed to see him one last time.

Even after five years, I wanted answers for why he kissed me the night before he left.

But he never showed up.

Mr. Tillman was put into the ground without ever seeing his only son again.

“Sadie,” I hear Caleb say.

I glance up from my cell.

“You got plans tonight?”

I purse my lips thinking about it. “No.”

“Good,” he shoves his keys in his pocket. “We need to talk about a couple things.”

I tilt my head and look up at him. “Like what?”

“The future.” He smiles like he knows something that I don’t.

I hate when he does that!

“My future or yours?”

“Both, be here at seven.” He starts for the door.

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