Blazed by Jason Myers

Author:Jason Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

56.

DOMINIQUE WRAPS HER HAND AROUND mine as we’re walking out of Dolores Park. It’s dark now. The sun bailed, like, thirty minutes ago and she asked me to walk her to the Church Street train station. She lives in West Portal, which means nothing to me.

“It’s three stops from Church,” she says.

“Great.”

She giggles and goes, “I forget that you don’t live here.”

“You forget?”

“Yes. Because you fit in so well here. It’s like this is nothing for you. Like you showed up in San Francisco two days ago, and all’s you’ve done is have dinner with James Morgan, spend the day with my hot face, and join a fucking band.”

“It’s really nice,” I tell her. “Incredible, actually. But it’s hard for me to be all that stoked sometimes because it’s so sick that I’m even here.”

“It’s not sick, man. Like, have you stopped to think that this is where you belong?”

“No.”

“That’s so sad,” she says.

“But I don’t belong here, Dominique. I don’t belong with my father in his mansion with his maids. No way. That asshole violently took himself out of my life and stayed out of it. I belong with the lady who left with nothing. Not even a hundred bucks. The lady who walked out on everything she’d worked for since she was a little kid in order to save me from him.”

“Dude,” she goes. “I’m not gonna pretend like I know anything about your life and what that was like. But you’re being really hard on your father.”

“I know I am, and he deserves it.”

“Maybe,” she says. “Who am I to say he doesn’t? But you’ve been in San Francisco now for two nights with him.”

“So what?”

“How big of a monster is he? Like, you got to buy records yesterday and go to some crazy party at RVCA and see Toast. Then look at today, man. This has been such a rad, amazing day.”

Letting go of Dominique’s hand now, I say, “What’s your point?”

“Don’t get angry with me.”

“What’s your point, Dominique?”

We stop walking now and face each other on the sidewalk.

“Go on,” I say. “Tell me.”

“It’s just that he seems to be treating you pretty okay, Jaime. He’s been nothing like a monster to you.”

I get worked up and start to say something, but she cuts me off.

She says, “I’m not done. You wanted me to tell you, so let me tell you.”

“Yeah?” I snap.

“I’m not saying he didn’t do any terrible things. Clearly he did something. But he’s being really nice to you and letting you have your space.”

“Great,” I say. “Way to be a father.”

“Would you want it the other way, Jaime? Would you really want him breathing down your neck and trying to spend every second with you?”

I roll my eyes and look away from her.

“Like, he’s not being mean to you. He’s not been the same person to you that he was to your mother.”

“So what?”

“All’s I’m saying is that you can totally hate someone for something they did to someone you love the most and care so much about.

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