Travis by Rebecca Elise

Author:Rebecca Elise [Elise, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Travis

I watch Gracie glance over at Evan. It feels like a kick in the stomach as I see her face transform. She wasn’t exactly happy before, but now she looks almost, I don’t know, devastated? That doesn’t seem right, but my guess is, whatever she is feeling is close enough to it. I turn around to look at Evan, only to regret it as soon as I see the sad smile he is giving her.

This is fucking ridiculous. I came in here to enjoy a nice quiet lunch while I do a little sketching, before going home to finish the paintings I have been working on for Aidan. Instead, I get confronted the moment I walk in the door by Dave, of all people or, technically, it was by Evan acting as Dave’s mouthpiece. That moves into my arguing with Dave, and then arguing with Gracie, over fucking Mel. The icing on the cake is watching my girlfriend make sad eyes with the one dick-head in town that wants her for himself.

I stand up and grab five bucks out of my pocket, slamming it down hard on the countertop. I snatch up my pencil and sketchbook and storm out of the diner, not bothering to make eye contact with anyone on my way out. I climb up into my Jeep, roaring the engine to life before peeling out of the parking lot.

For the first time since I started dating Gracie, I want to use. I am craving the one thing I know can take it all away, even for just a short period of time. It would be so easy to drive into the next town, get what I want and go home. Nobody would even have to know.

That’s a lie, though. Everyone would end up knowing because I have never been able to take just one hit of anything, especially not heroin. I pull my Jeep over, parking it along the curb of the main road that runs through Brooksville. My hands are shaking and my heart is beating so fast and hard, it feels like it is going to explode through my chest at any moment. I bring my hands up, scrubbing them over my face.

I need to get myself under control. This isn’t just about me anymore, though at the moment I am kind of wishing that it were. If I were single, I wouldn’t be going through this. There would have been no confrontation with Mel, in which case, I wouldn’t be fighting with anyone and I wouldn’t be struggling with the urge to get high.

It’s pointless to think that way, though. The truth is, I need Gracie in my life just as much as I want her in it. She is the light in my world that was consumed with darkness for so long and I’ll be damned if anyone or anything is going to fuck this up. Pulling out my phone, I scroll through the names in my contact list until I get to hers.

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