Defining Us: The Calvin & Eric Story (69 Bottles) by Derrick Zoey

Author:Derrick, Zoey [Derrick, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kinky Panda Publishing
Published: 2015-12-01T08:00:00+00:00

CATATONIC - that’s how I feel right now. I never knew seeing that phone number would be something that would literally knock me on my ass, but fuck me, it did.

It was like everything I fought before meeting Eric, all crumpled into a fucking phone number. The sludge, the darkness, the complete and utter despair I would feel when I would even think about being with a man.

I shudder in revulsion.

“We’re almost back to my place,” Eric tells me, and I hear him, but I’m not sure I can process it.

“Take me to my house. I need to be alone.”

“No, Calvin, that’s not the way this works.” His voice has an authority to it unlike anything I’ve ever heard from him before. “Being alone is the exact opposite of what you need right now. Besides, your car, your gear, it’s all at my house.”

“Why are you doing this?” My voice comes out more accusatory than I’d wanted it to.

“Doing what?”

I groan in frustration. “Making me deal with this shit.”

I catch him in a silent snort. “Because dealing with it is the only way you’ll be able to get past it. Dealing with it is the only way we can work this out.” He looks at me, pinning me with a hard stare and adds, “Together.”

“What is there to work through?”

“Why do you want to be alone?” he counters, obliterating any sense of argument I thought I might have to get him to take me home, though I could still get in my car and go home. He wouldn’t leave my guitars behind. I look at him skeptically. You know what? He just might do that out of spite for me leaving him.

“I need to figure this shit out,” I counter, hoping he’ll see this my way and take me home, but I have a feeling it won’t work.

“Figure what out? You don’t even know who called you or why they called you, so what exactly is there to work out?” He sighs. “Look, if you can give me one good reason for us to not go through with our original plan, then I’m all ears, but Calvin, you’re not alone, this isn’t something you have to fight on your own.”

“I can listen to the message,” I tell him and he just shakes his head.

“If you wanted to do that, you would have done it already, your phone is right there.” He nods toward my phone sitting under the radio between us. “But you haven’t because you don’t want to deal with it, you’d rather hide from it, so rather than secluding yourself in your house, come to my house and when you want to know what the message says, I’ll tell you.”

I sigh, of course he has a good fucking point. “I feel bad,” I tell him honestly.

“So you’d rather run away from explaining to me why you ‘feel bad’? Well, I’m pretty sure I can guess why it is that you feel bad, but the bottom line in this

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