Cassius by Rachelle Mills

Author:Rachelle Mills [Mills, Rachelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Lingers on the Edge of Change

The sky looks light grey, or maybe it’s blue…I’m not sure, but I wave good-bye with the twins as we watch Cassius pull out of the driveway early Friday morning. He couldn’t sleep last night, and neither could I. He tossed, I turned. I heard every shift of the mattress above me, every huff of breath. I heard him get up a few times to get a glass of water then back to bed. I couldn’t even look at him this morning, no matter how hard he tried to make me look at him. He packed his bags and I’ve packed mine.

At the beginning of the week when the twins were asleep, he remained hunched over his computer, searching, tracking this Hazel until he closed the screen down with victory spread across his face. “I got her, Specs,” he said to me. I couldn’t smile like he was.

He went shopping by himself, and when he came home, he gave Ken and Dee some new pajamas for their sleepover they were going to have with Uncle Caleb this weekend. He even bought me the match to Dee’s pajamas—she likes it when we match. I couldn’t resist peeking in the closet. My heart dropped when I unzipped the bag with a brand new suit inside it. He even bought new shoes and something to make him smell good. I’ve never seen Cassius wear a suit, ever. I went to bed before him that night. I slid under the bed and told myself I shouldn’t be underneath here anymore. It’s not right for him or for me. This was just a big game of pretending.

If it’s time for him to change, maybe it’s time I should, too. I’m not his wish. I was never his wish like he was mine.

Last night, he packed his bag, and I took out my earrings. They were only in there for him, and I have to stop making up stories that he’ll notice them on me. He won’t. So I put them back into the soft velvet case they came in. My weekend bag is packed, and a part of me wants to take all my belongings out of my room and bring them to Caleb’s house. I don’t because Belac is coming back, and they don’t need me in their space when she finally comes back.

“Treajure, that’s a lot of bags for a weekend.” Caleb picks up the two backpacks with worry spelled in the furrows between his eyebrows.

“You plan on staying for a while?” I shake my head no to him.

Luna Grace looks at my ears and stops everything she’s doing.

“Where did Cash go, Caleb?” Luna Grace asks very clearly.

“I’m not too sure. He said he needed to get away.” He gives an unclear answer. Caleb backs up because Luna Grace leans in on him.

“Where did your brother go?”

“He went to Vegas to meet up with Hazel.” Caleb can’t keep anything private. A little muscle and he squeals as if he’s been shanked with hot silver.

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