Back to You by Chris Scully

Author:Chris Scully [Scully, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2017-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

I jerked awake with a start, not knowing what had woken me. It took me a second to get my bearings and remember where I was. And that I wasn’t alone. Blindly, I reached to my right but encountered only empty mattress. The room was pitch-black, except for the sliver of light that shone between the drapes and silhouetted Ben’s form as he sat on the edge of the mattress with his back toward me.

I raised myself up on one elbow. “Ben?”

“I want you to do it.”

“What?” I reached for the bedside lamp so I could see his face.

“No. Leave it off,” he ordered as he twisted around. “I changed my mind. Go ahead and write your story. Ask questions. See what you can dig up. It’s always going to be there, no matter how hard I try to ignore it, so maybe it’s time we all knew the truth.”

“Are you sure?”

“I trust you to do it right.”

Ben’s vote of confidence made me suddenly unsure. It was a big responsibility.

“Now you’re backing out?” he asked when I didn’t immediately respond.

“I don’t know if I’ll find anything. And after twenty years . . .” Why had I even started down this path? I was probably setting myself up for failure. And Ben was the last person I wanted to disappoint. Except my earlier excitement was back. Vague snippets of phrases were already forming in my head, and if Ben weren’t there, I would probably have headed straight for my computer.

“You’re thinking about it now, aren’t you? I can feel your mind buzzing.”

“Ben . . .”

“I get the same way with a new painting. It’s like I can’t rest until it’s out on the canvas.”

Ben swung his legs around and crawled back under the blankets. He arranged himself on his side, facing me, his head inches from mine. A distant memory leapt into my head. Another night, Benji lying next to me in the dark. He’d been sleeping over, and as usual, we’d shared my bed—only this time had been different because I’d spent the night trying to talk myself out of a boner. It hadn’t worked, and I’d stroked myself to orgasm, biting my lip to keep quiet, with Ben asleep beside me.

As if my body remembered too, my dick began to thicken. Damn, it was going to be a long night.

“What if I do find out something?” I asked. “Have you thought of that?”

“I’ll worry about that if it happens. I don’t see how it could be any worse than what’s already been running through my head, though. Watching folks in town, always wondering who knows more than they’re saying.”

“And your mom? I should probably talk to her. She already has so much material.”

Ben was slow in responding. “I’ll tell her. Does that mean you’ll do it? Dig a little? Until you have to leave?”

Leave. My throat tightened. New York seemed a long way away at the moment.

“What else have I got to do, right?”

It grew quiet, and I thought Ben might have fallen asleep, so it surprised me when he spoke again.

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