When Stars Burn Out by Carrie Aarons

Author:Carrie Aarons [Aarons, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

Demi

Eight Years Ago

Football season was over.

I knew it because I’d heard the kids shouting through campus, drunk students cheering about winning the championship and bowing down to the players as if they were gods.

And Pax was coming around more, texting me almost every other night, winding up in my bed more often than usual.

“I’m going to New York in two weeks.” His fingers danced through my hair, his chest sweaty as I laid on it postcoitally.

The combine. He’d talked about it numerous times, not really to me in a discussion, but more bragging about himself.

That’s typically how he spoke to me … as if I wasn’t even really needed in the conversation. I was becoming jaded, after two years of this back and forth, I was just tired. I felt well beyond my meager twenty-somethings. I felt used. I felt exhausted.

I nodded, hating myself for lying here with him again.

“They think I’m going to run the fastest forty-yard dash in the last fifteen years.” Pax is bragging, puffing out his chest.

“Uh-huh.” All I was thinking about was what would happen if he left our college.

And me.

“Do you think we’ll keep in touch?” I dared to ask the question, because at this point, I seriously had nothing to lose.

He wasn’t mine, so in essence, I couldn’t lose him. He’d never been mine … I was realizing that now.

“Of course, babe.” Those baby blues looked so deeply into mine.

I could never tell if Pax was lying, or if he really just believed his own bullshit.

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