Glitter Fixes Everything by Alex Jane

Author:Alex Jane [Jane, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-05T18:30:00+00:00

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Justin knew he should have kept his mouth shut. His mom's go-to answer for all his problems was that he should help her out to take his mind off things. The mall was heaving with people as Justin trailed around after her as she picked up a few last-minute gifts. With no shopping of his own to do—having ordered the lot online before Thanksgiving—Justin was serving as baggage handler and occasional model, having to stand with his arms out as his mother measured sweaters against his back to see if they would fit whoever she had in mind for them.

All in all, it was doing nothing to distract him from the conversation they'd had that morning. It would've been easier if Justin was inclined to dismiss anything his parents had said, but he knew he couldn't. He could keep telling himself—and everyone around him—that he was okay, but for the last five years, no matter how many times he repeated the sentiment, it just wasn't true.

Or rather Kyle had hit the nail on the head. He was okay, but okay wasn't good enough. Whether that had anything to do with Roman, Justin wasn't sure, but either way he knew he was going to have to address the issue sooner rather than later. Perhaps when he got back to school he would hit up one of the counselors a friend had recommended to see if they could sort through the mess in his brain.

And it wasn't as if he was in a position to deal with his psychological issues then and there. The last thing he wanted to do was to ruin the holidays by having to deal with a whole bunch of emotional shit, not when he had such limited time with his family, and not while Casey was going through…whatever Casey was going through. So he pushed the thoughts away, burying them long enough that he could smile through lunch with his mom and be cheerful enough to dance around the kitchen when they were home, just like old times. When he was afraid his anxiety was starting to surface again, he made his excuses, popped up to his room to change, then borrowed the car and headed over to Jackson's gym.

It was comforting that nothing about the place had changed while he'd been gone. The music was the same, the decor, the equipment, and Jackson himself, a fifty-something ex-marine, walking around with a cloth in one hand and a spray bottle in the other, staring people down and wiping the equipment practically before they had finished using it, like the germaphobe he had always been.

Justin chuckled to himself and waved when Jackson nodded in his direction. It only took a minute to get changed, standing in front of the same locker he'd always used back when he would come here every other day with his dad. There was another place on the other side of town near the park which was new or newer, with state-of-the-art equipment, open

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