NaNoWriMo 2008: Day 16 excerpt (very slight Qale warning needed)
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Qale (aka Qale)
Nov 16 '08, 17:22
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�Devyn?� Erin�s voice. The girl I was heading to see actually wasn�t in her booth restocking her candy bins. Instead, she was coming towards me, a little sideways tilt to her head and narrowed eyes. Before I can respond, she�s raring her hand back and slapping me right across the face with a resounding smack.
Nearly knocked clear over, I stumble back and hold my hand to my cheek. It pulses hotly in pain that�s not quite dulled by the medication. Besides, with that slap, this woman I crave mortally wounds me. �Whoa! Hold up! Don�t hit! What did I do?�
�You dropped your poor brother on his ass that�s what you did. And while I thought it was him that was sent to the hospital, it was actually you.� Her voice never seemed shrill before, I thought to myself even as I was trying to decipher the words. She kept advancing, so I kept falling back.
�I told him I was sorry,� I protest.
�Yeah? Well do you know he�s in love with you?�
I pause in my stumbling retreat. My hand rubs the probable handprint on my jaw while I try to consider the situation. �How do you know that?�
With a much quieter tone, Erin replies, �He told me.�
�Oh.� It�s all I can manage. Letting my hand fall, I chew on the inside of my cheek. The pain pill finally now accomplishing its jaw, I feel much better. At least physically.
�Oh?� She rolled her eyes and drew even closer. Her eyes smoldered with something cross between annoyance and what I hoped was desire. It probably wasn�t though. �Is that all? I don�t know what to make of you two Robertson boys. You�ve been in hot persuit of me for weeks now and when I finally kiss you, what do you do?�
�You kissed me,� I mumble the words, probably inaudibly since she doesn�t seem to notice them.
She continues, �You run off like an immature child. Then you completely drop your brother during your finale last night.�
I try to save a little face, interrupting her, �It was a new finale we�d only been practicing for a short time.� It was the truth, but, well, that�s not what exactly happened. Sadly, she wasn�t interested.
�I was there. I know what happened and it makes perfect sense to me now. While you were hurt and they took you to the hospital, I thought it was Hadyn. But no, he was fine.�
�Erin, wait, let me explain��
She pushes at my shoulder hard, backing me up against a light post in the center of the strip mall�s parking lot where we�d erected our carnival. I wince with the jolt of pain from the stitches in my side.
�Shut up, Dev. Shut up and listen. Last night I thought Hadyn was you and he didn�t correct me in that assumption. And I started to put the moves on him and you know what he told me?�
�He didn�t like caramel apples?� I ran my tongue along my bottom lip even as I stared at the candy girl whom was giving me a tongue lashing of a lifetime. It was turning me on.
�No you idiotic selfish prick. He told me that he only loved his brother. You, Devyn. Hadyn is in love with you and you treat him like crap!�
Finally annoyed to the point of action, I roll my eyes and shake my head. Pushing off the light pole, I start toward Erin who falls back with my approach. �Look, Erin. I�m sorry that he didn�t let you know that he wasn�t me. I�m actually jealous that you apparently have kissed and put some moves on my delicate brother. But the thing is, he doesn�t love me.�
�He said he did!� Erin shouted.
By this point a few of our carnival crew was starting to take notice of my and Erin�s spat being played out in the middle of the food court. Even Kevin had stopped draining friars to put his head along his arms, watching us over a countertop.
I ignored the half dozen people watching and continued to force Erin back step by step with my slow charge forward. �Was that before or after he continued impersonating me to sleep with Kyle? Because he did that too!�
�Kyle? Who the hell is Kyle?�
�The local boy I was supposed to fuck last night!� With blind frustration in my voice, I shout the definite wrong thing. I blink, realizing that I�d finally done it. Despite my charm and smoothness, I firmly had my foot in my mouth now.
Erin stared at me, eyes a darkening pool that I was feeling completely lost in as I looked into them. Sucking in my bottom lip, I wince. It wasn�t because of the wound in my side, or where she�d slapped me earlier. It wasn�t even when she�d backed me into the light pole. It was because I knew I�d hurt her truly then.
�I�m sorry.�
�You�ve been having to say that a lot, huh Devyn Robertston.�
I remained silent.
With a quiver in her tone, Erin rejected me again. This time, it was likely for good. �I didn�t think it�d work out with you. I can tell I was right. See you around.� Spinning on her heel, she marched off in the direction of her candy stand.
Truly feeling desolate and defeated, I glance about a bit helplessly. Seeing Kevin standing there in his stall, his attention completely captured by my scene with Erin, my blood bubbles with rage. Giving him the finger, I shout, �Go mind your own business, retard!�
I storm off in another direction. I wasn�t sure where I was going, but I couldn�t help but wonder with deep rooted anger how everything had gone completely wrong so quickly. One thing was certainly true, pretty much all of it started when my brother couldn�t sleep and asked me to touch him. How could I have been so stupid to say no and then later give him head? I had helped create this problem and when I found Hadyn I fully intend on fixing it one way, or another.
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