The Best Moments by Elena Monroe

Author:Elena Monroe [Monroe, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-19T23:00:00+00:00

Layla might have been brave now, but she certainly had some ways to go on the confidence.

She was uncomfortable even telling me what happened between her and Hunter. I knew we weren’t together over break; I wasn’t about to cry and scream cheater. I needed to know, because he wasn’t going to play fair, not for her, not if he changed schools.

I didn’t want to be caught off guard again.

I had an envelope in my back pocket for Aspen I had to drop off so he could stop texting me reminders. If he didn’t skip class, he probably would have seen her on campus without needing to know her class schedule.

Caden already gave me the full run down on Aspen’s day off. He skipped classes and was making his way through a twenty-four pack of Bud Light—piss water of the masses. It would still get the job done, just slower—more controlled than hard liquor.

Caden skipped classes too, and now he was passing the torch of babysitting to me. I had night duty. I had to stop here anyways to give him Maddison’s schedule, which I basically acquired illegally when logging in as my prof. The things I did for my friends—this group.

That was all games compared to my need to decompress the fact that Hunter knew something no one else did.

I wasn’t sober anymore.

I stopped using, but I quickly picked my bad habits out of the trash the minute Layla wasn’t in the coffee shop waiting for me after I got cornered by the Amherst Sinners. Ironic. Sinners cornering a fellow sinner.

I truly hadn’t gone sober like I told my friends, that would have been obvious to everyone around me. I took sober days here and there, but nothing resembling commitment.

Detoxing even from a two-month bender would have been brutally obvious. The fact that no one noticed wasn’t surprising, considering I went away for rehab, with all the detoxing concealed in a white building with bullies for nurses.

I walked in, knowing what I was about to see: the other side of Aspen—the one we all knew best, our friend, the real him, instead of the guilt ridden version we tolerated since the crash.

He jumped off the couch, grabbing my hand and pulling me into his chest for some kind of hug. I couldn’t relax until I heard him whisper against me, “Miss me, motherfucker?”

I never knew how to be around the broken version of him. Caden was unbelievable at knowing how to handle everyone, constantly making his personality fit into whatever box they needed checked. I was the opposite. I was brash, quietly rude, and stand offish in the worst ways. I tightened my arm around him. I did miss him.

His hand was still on my shoulder, even when we pulled away. I reached for my back pocket, displaying an envelope between us. I didn’t even know if this version still desired this information, but I presented it anyways.

“Good looks, bro!”

He ripped it open, not caring how shredded the envelope got as long as her class schedule went untouched.

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