Where the Road Takes Me by Jay McLean

Author:Jay McLean [McLean, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-05T04:30:00+00:00

Blake

“Are you okay?” I asked her once we were in the car.

“Yeah,” she said through a sigh. “I’m just a little embarrassed.”

“Why?”

“Just the way I was last night, and the way you saw me, and the way I acted.”

“It’s okay. I get it,” I told her. “Listen, I know that you have a shitload to deal with. More than any eighteen-year-old should ever have to. And tell me to fuck off if I’m overstepping, but next time you feel like you need to lose yourself—going out, getting beyond wasted . . . screwing around with guys—I dunno.” I shook my head slowly. “I just worry that it’s dangerous. I know that you don’t want people close, but that’s happened. People care. People worry. It’s not just you that behavior affects. If you feel like that again, you can come to me or Josh. We’ll always be here, but if you wait until it’s too late, like it was last—”

“Okay,” she interrupted. “I get it, Blake. I promise.”

When I pulled into the driveway, Sammy and Amy were there playing skateball. Even after last night’s events, I found myself smiling.

Sammy ran to the car. “Blake’s here!” he screamed.

I wound down my window and returned his fist bump. “Hey, bud. Who’s winning?”

“Amy.” He rolled his eyes. “But I think she’s cheating because she can count to eleventy-three. I can only count to twelve.” Then his eyes went huge. “Wait here,” he said excitedly. “Don’t go anywhere okay? Just wait right here.”

“Okay.”

“Promise? Say you promise,” he said, a seriousness consuming his little four-year-old face.

“I promise, bud. I’m not going anywhere.”

He grinned and ran up the porch steps. “Amy! Let’s show Blake what we got.”

I turned to Chloe. “What’s up with Sammy? He got a little intense there for a second.”

“Yeah. He has a fear of people leaving him. His parents left him at a movie theater. They said they were going to get popcorn and never came back.”

“Who the fuck—?”

“I know. The world is full of fucked-up people, Blake. But you can’t let it change your perspective on life.”

Sammy and Amy came barreling down the steps, wearing matching basketball jerseys.

“Is that our school jersey?” Chloe asked.

“I still don’t understand how you don’t know these things.”

“Look!” Sammy yelled, stopping in front of the car. He waited for Amy to stand next to him. “Ready?” he asked me.

“Go for it!”

Sammy grinned from ear to ear. “One. Two. Six.”

Then they both spun around to show me the back of their jerseys.

Hunter 23.

“Holy shit.”

Chloe smiled and squeezed my hand. “Maybe you should remember this next time you think that shooting a ball through a hoop doesn’t serve a purpose.”

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