Us Again by Thornhill Jennah

Author:Thornhill, Jennah [Thornhill, Jennah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Eliza

Getting woken up by my phone chirping at me in the middle of the night, is not my idea of fun at all. Yet when I noticed it was Dean calling me, I answered it immediately.

“I need you to fit Nate in with you first thing please, El. I know he’s not your favorite person right now, but he needs this. He needs us to help him, even if he is being a stubborn asshole and won’t let us. We have to at least try. Please tell me you can see him?”

Taken aback by the desperation in his voice and so that I can try and go back to sleep, I agree to shuffle some things around and that he is to bring Nate in at eight-thirty.

After spending the rest of the night tossing and turning in bed, I get up at five-thirty am and decide to go for a run to clear my head. I need to mentally prepared myself for round three with Nate. After my rant down the phone last night, I never expected to see or hear him again. When Dean got the text from him, asking him if he fancied a beer. That he was sorry about breaking his nose, I think we were all surprised. It was decided there and then, that if Nate didn’t want my help professionally, then he at least needed his best friend at his side.

Pulling my Nikes on, I grab a bottle of water out of the fridge as I head for the apartment door. I plug my ears with my earphones and press play on my running playlist. With Meatloaf's, Paradise By The Dashboard blaring in my ears, I take off in the direction of Echo Park Lake.

As I run along, I take in the peace and quiet at this time of the morning. It’s like the calm before the storm. The streets are practically empty, apart from delivery drivers and street vendors setting up for the day. When I reach the entrance to the park, I do four laps around the main lake. Before stopping because my lungs start to burn in protest. Bending at my waist and with my hands on my thighs, I try to catch my breath back. It’s then, when I’ve stopped running, that I realize that the song playing is now Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind. That’s when the tears start to flow down my cheeks. I had forgotten that I still had this song on my Spotify. I haven’t listened to this track since the day I left Nate that day at college. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it, there was too much history behind the song.

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