Because of Us: A Second Chance Romance Novel by Nina Arada

Author:Nina Arada [Arada, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798353109334
Published: 2022-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

chapter twenty-three

present day, 2022

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“FUCK! Fuck, fuck, fuckkkk!” I punch my steering wheel and yell at no one. Today has been great, amazing even. I’m pretty sure Josie liked the gifts I got her, then she accepted my request to take her out in the morning. That was the last thing I expected. She was pleasantly surprised when I took her to see Grams, and Grams was excited, too. Then we had lunch, and that brought me back to memories of our first date, but I didn’t dare bring it up. We chatted throughout our time together, and I swear I’m getting through to her. Finally! I never imagined she’d be cool with me going to dinner with her family. Something about her was different today. She had a lighter air to her. And don’t get me started on the little concert that woke me up this morning.

I even imagined I could kiss her or something tonight, but now this shit came up.

Leah Peters.

Leah and I were more acquaintances than friends in high school, but after high school, she and I were going down the same path, and let's just say it wasn’t a path to paradise.

I was fucked up after losing Joe. For weeks Josie and I laid around mourning. Before he died, we partied a bit and I could tell the drinking was picking up, and Josie didn’t love it when I’d take it too far and embarrass her or act like an idiot. After his death, Josie didn’t say much about my frequent drunken state, but she never left my side. I could tell she was battling her own demons in a different way than I was.

We’d fuck all hours of the day, eat crap food, and never leave our houses, whether we were at her place or my Grams’s condo at the time. Her parents picked up on the act pretty quickly, but all we did was stay at my place more. This went on for weeks, and I knew she didn’t deserve it. She needed to get better, and I wasn’t doing that for her.

After she left, I was really fucked up. I swore I’d clean up my act, but I continued trying to find the answers to my problems at the bottom of the bottle. Eventually, I stopped working and did nothing all day for months. I’d take Grams to whatever appointment, then drop her off at home and go out and get wasted.

One day I woke up on someone’s couch to the smell of puke on my shirt. I didn’t know if it was my own or not, but I’m sure it was. On my way home that morning I saw Leah walking down the street and remembered seeing her the night before at the house party. I pulled over and told her to get in. She was walking to her job at the smoothie joint, so I drove her there. She said she’d give me a free smoothie for the ride. We walked

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