The Rules We Break: A Roommate Romance by Allie Everhart

Author:Allie Everhart [Everhart, Allie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

THEO

When I left for the gym this morning, Darcy was still in her room. I hope she slept last night and wasn’t up thinking about her parents’ divorce. I can’t believe they told her that on Christmas day. She was so excited to go home for Christmas and then didn’t get to celebrate it. I might have to do something about that. I know she said seeing the tree made her sad, but maybe I could change that.

“You just get here?” Curt asks, coming into the gym.

“No, I’ve been here for hours. I was going to leave in a few minutes.” I grab a towel from the bench and wipe the sweat from my face.

“Hours, huh?” Curt walks up to me. “That’s a long workout.”

I shrug. “I needed to blow off some steam.”

“Have a fight with your roommate?” he asks, smiling.

“No. I just had some issues at home.” I walk over to the weights I was using and put them back on the rack.

“What kind of issues?” Curt asks.

“I don’t want to get into it. I shouldn’t have said anything.”

Curt comes over to me. “You can talk to me, Theo. I’m going to be your coach soon and problems at home often lead to problems on the field.”

“They won’t,” I say, taking the plates off the barbell. “I keep that shit out of the game. I’ve learned how to keep the two separate.”

“Is that why you’re back early? Because of problems at home?”

“Yeah, kind of,” I say, putting the weighted plates back on the stand.

“Mom or dad?” he asks.

“What was that?” I ask, wiping my face with a towel.

“Problems at home usually involve the parents. I was wondering if this issue is with your mom or your dad?” He waits for me to answer. When I don’t, he says, “Sorry, I shouldn’t have asked. I was just trying to help. Go ahead to the locker room.”

I turn to leave, then turn back. “It’s my mom. She drinks too much.”

He looks down, then back up at me. “I’m sorry to hear that. Has it been going on for awhile?”

“Basically, my whole life. It started after she had me. The guy who got her pregnant took off and left her alone with a kid and no money and no place to live. She was never the same after that.”

Curt doesn’t say anything. He probably thought I’d tell him something else, something less serious, like that I was fighting with my parents over money or not getting the car I wanted. I wish it were that simple. We’d be able to get over something like that and move on. We can’t do that with my mom’s drinking. It just gets worse while my dad, Ella, and I stand by watching it, not knowing what to do.

“I’m going to head out,” I say.

“Yes, of course. Go ahead.”

I leave and go to the locker room to shower. I regret telling Curt about my mom. I don’t want him thinking my family issues will affect how I play, because it’s not true.

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