The Death of Lila Jane by Mummert Teresa

Author:Mummert, Teresa [Mummert, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781492100874
Publisher: Teresa Mummert
Published: 2016-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

LILA JANE

August 6, 2015

I struggled not to scream in frustration as we hurried down the highway toward our housing development.

“Did I do something wrong?”

“It’s not you, Lila.”

I snorted before I could even stop the pig-like sound from escaping me. “That’s original.”

“Can I ask you something?”

I could feel his eyes on me as I kept my gaze locked ahead.

“Why are you taking pills?”

My head whipped to face him so quickly it hurt my neck. “I changed my mind. You can take me home now.”

“Lila, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.” He fell silent, waiting for me to respond but I refused. “I told you about Taylor.”

“That’s different.”

“How?”

“That was about someone else. It wasn’t your own secret to tell.”

“You think it wasn’t hard for me to open up to a complete stranger about my past?” His voice rose but it didn’t have a hint of anger.

“Oh, so we are strangers.” I folded my arms across my chest as I glared out the passenger window, struggling to keep nervous tears from falling. Why did Shy have to bring up the pills?

“Yeah but I am trying to get to know you. You aren’t exactly making it easy. Taylor took so many different medications.”

I rolled my eyes but as I watched my expression in the reflection of the glass I felt like the biggest jerk on the planet. “I’m not Taylor so you don’t need to worry about it,” my confession was so quiet I could barely hear my own voice but I knew by the exhale of breath from Kaden that he had heard every word.

The car slowed and I soon was staring out at a swath of still trees from the shoulder of the road. Kaden put the car in park and we sat silently for a moment until my inner voice began to scream out into the uncomfortable abyss of my subconscious.

“What are you doing?” I asked, wishing my face was buried in a book where I was anyone but the stupid girl who was sitting here next to Kaden.

“Waiting.”

“For what?”

“For answers.”

But I didn’t have any to give him without sharing things about myself I’d never told a soul.

“Lila…” He was struggling to pick his words carefully and it made every slow second that ticked by that much more painful. But I knew where this was going. Nowhere. If I couldn’t open up, give him something, the night was over. “I think you’re a cool person.”

Another snort escaped me and I wanted to through myself into incoming traffic. Unfortunately, the road was still empty. “But…” I tried to keep my voice even. I wasn’t mad at him. Not really. I was mad at myself.

“But I went through so much with Taylor. It messed me up bad and I don’t know if I can go through it again.”

His confession caused the tears to overflow and I struggled to open the door with blurred vision, crying out when I was unable to unhook my seatbelt before his thick fingers circled my wrist, preventing me from leaving.

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