A Cold and Broken Hallelujah by Tyler Dilts

Author:Tyler Dilts [Dilts, Tyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781477824498
Amazon: 1477824499
Barnesnoble: 1477824499
Goodreads: 21558969
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-07-29T05:00:00+00:00

During the movie, he kept looking at the screen and wondering what was happening. Over and over, he’d find himself lost in his thoughts, and when he focused on the giant robots on the screen again, it would be like he hadn’t been there at all. Like he’d gone to the bathroom and just come back into the theater. And then before he’d be able to figure anything out again, he was thinking about Maria or his mom or Pedro. Or the people in the front house. Was it wrong for him to leave? What if someone got hurt because of him? The guilt and the regret would overpower him, and then something would explode on the screen in front of him, and for just a moment he’d be pulled out of his head and back into the movie.

At least it was better than the bookstore had been. He usually liked to read, but that morning he couldn’t focus on anything, so instead of sitting down with a book or a graphic novel, he just wandered up and down the aisles, occasionally pulling something off the shelf and pretending to read the back or the flap inside the front cover. He must have looked at a hundred books that way, with none of them registering or leaving any impression on him at all.

The worst part of it all was how slow the time seemed to pass. It was worse than geometry class. He wondered if it would ever feel normal again.

He wasn’t sure what he was thinking when he bought the movie ticket, why he picked the one film he’d been wanting to see for weeks. He hardly ever got to see a real movie, and halfway through the running time, he felt like coming there had been a mistake, that sitting in the dark with a Snickers and a Dr Pepper would never be the same again.

And even as miserable as he had been, he was sorry when it ended. Going back outside into the light and the heat of the day seemed impossible. He should have gone to the Edwards at Long Beach Towne Center or even to the Pike. In those places there were so many screens he could have theater-hopped all day. Now, he knew that the dark of the theater was just one more thing he didn’t know he’d miss until it was gone.

Last week he’d thought things were so awful, with his mom and with Pedro hanging out with those fucking losers and with feeling like he had to take care of Maria all by himself. He’d give anything if he could just go back to that.

Anything.

But even then he’d known he couldn’t. That what had gone wrong had gone so wrong that things would never be the same.

It wouldn’t be long, he thought, until he could go over to David’s house, and that would be better, at least a little. He sat down at the bus stop and got an idea.

He didn’t know why he hadn’t thought of it before.

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