Trouble Follows by Monica McKayhan

Author:Monica McKayhan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Marcus

my teeth chattered as I shivered from the cold. My arms wrapped around myself as I tried to shield my body from the draft blowing from the air-conditioning. Air-conditioning in the middle of winter? My clothes had been stripped from me and replaced by a set of sleeveless blue coveralls, similar to the ones Pop wore when he worked on his pickup truck, except his were usually covered in oil. As I sat in the holding cell at the youth detention center, I glanced around the room at the sink in one corner of the room and the toilet in the other, and wondered what I was doing here.

I rested my face in the palms of my hands as I rethought the events that had landed me here. Wondered what I could’ve done differently. Wondered which choices I’d made that night that were dumb and just plain stupid. All of them, I thought, from the time I got into the car with Kent and Tyler. Even though Kent didn’t smoke, he still allowed Tyler to smoke in his car. That was stupid. I never would’ve guessed that Tyler was a drug head. He gave no indication of it. He was a basketball player who was physically fit and ate a healthy diet. Besides, I knew all of the drug heads at school—the ones who used and the ones who sold. Everybody knew who they were. I would’ve never thought that one of the basketball players on the team was a user, too. Made me wonder who else on the team used drugs.

I started wondering all sorts of things at that point. When you have a lot of time on your hands, you tend to let your mind wander. Being as though I didn’t know who the drug users were made me wonder other stuff, like how many guys on the team were homosexuals. There were a lot of kids at school claiming to be homosexuals—boys liking other boys and girls liking other girls. Especially the girls. They were out of control with this whole concept of being with each other instead of boys. I wondered if they were just experiencing peer pressure or if they really were having homosexual feelings. All in all, I was just glad Indigo wasn’t that type of girl. She liked boys. She liked me.

At least I thought she did. That is, until I saw her on the dance floor with Rick. Something inside of me snapped when I saw them together. I’d worked too hard to make this girl mine for some other dude to come along and take her away. But she did run after me at the party. She did try to explain, but I wasn’t hearing it. What I saw was what I saw and I’d blocked my mind from all other explanations. My ego was shattered, and you don’t just pick your ego up off the floor and glue it back together. It takes time for these things.

Lots of time on my hands, I thought, as my stomach growled.

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