Darkness of Light by Stacey Marie Brown

Author:Stacey Marie Brown [Brown, Stacey Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Stacey Marie Brown
Published: 2013-02-13T07:00:00+00:00

Twenty-one

Without Mark around to comfort me or make me laugh, my mood was like PMS on crack.

I got ready for the concert, deciding against any of the outfits I would normally wear, instead going for something edgier. I pulled on skintight, black jeans, a pair of extremely sexy, sleek, knee-length, black-heeled boots, and a white tank top with necklaces of varying lengths I had made out of copper and recycled glass. I wore my hair down and loose. The braids from earlier made it a little more wild than usual. I grabbed my red, faux-leather jacket and headed out of the room.

I was walking a thin wire of sanity. I needed to have fun tonight. That didn’t mean I didn’t need some help to achieve it. I walked over to Mark’s liquor cabinet, and without wanting to think about the good and bad or the right and wrong, I searched for the best thing to help make the pain go away. I grabbed the bottle of tequila and took a shot straight from the bottle. I was a teenager who was going to make a lot mistakes, and tonight was looking like it was going to be one of those times. I pitied anyone who pushed me the wrong way. I was in a fighting mood. I’d fight or I’d fall apart.

By the time Kennedy and Ryan came to pick me up for the concert, I was all over the place—mad to sad, frustrated to hopeless. Reckless.

“We better go. Ian just texted, sayin’ the line was getting long. So let’s get our butts down there now,” Ryan said. Ian was Ryan’s cousin. He went to a different school, but hung out with us sometimes on the weekends.

Kennedy looked at me curiously, sensing something edgy was going on with me. “You okay?”

“Yeah . . . sure . . . why not?”

She had an unsettled look on her face. “You seem different tonight. There’s a strange darkness around you.”

Kennedy always said odd things like this, but tonight it hit extremely close to home.

“I’m fine.” I smiled.

“Well, okay or not, you look hot, girl.” Ryan wiggled his eyebrows.

“Thanks, now let’s get going, before the line gets too long.” I herded them out the door, trying to ignore my swirling emotions—and the darkness stirring in me.

***

“Ugh, I hate lines.” Ryan nodded towards the endless queue of concertgoers wrapping around the block. “I didn’t think this many people even knew about this band. It’s going to take forever to get in and Ian’s already waiting for us inside.”

I stared at the line. The Poisonous Mushrooms were playing in one of the more popular clubs in downtown Olympia, but I was not going to freeze my ass waiting outside. I headed around the back of the building. “Follow me, guys.”

“What are we doing?” Kennedy asked wearily as I led them down a dark alleyway.

“Skipping the line,” I replied, looking for the back door of the club.

“How are we going to do that? Every door will be

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