“This sucks. How come I always have to end up in the middle of the shit show? You’re driving me up the wall!”
I turned around to glare at them and noticed that Will was already back in the house.
“White!”
“Leave me alone, Hunter, go to wherever the hell you’re going!”
“Okay you’re angry, but this seems like it’s going a little too far. Are you listening to me? Where the fuck are you going?”
“I gotta go home!”
“All right, I’ll go with you. Just give me—”
James looked around. He was still shirtless and holding the vape pen between his lips. He rummaged through his tracksuit pant pockets for his car keys.
“Gimme a minute,” he repeated, exasperated.
“No, I wanna go home now.”
“What the fuck is your problem! Let me finish vaping.”
As soon as I started walking in the dark again, I heard him rush after me.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going home, I told you!”
“You can’t give me five fucking minutes to get dressed?” I heard him scream, but I didn’t stop. “You’re being a child. Go on, get a move on.” He jerked his head toward the car parked on the other side of the street.
I kept quiet as we got to the car. He didn’t talk until we got inside and he turned the car on.
“What the fuck is your deal? Are you like this because of Will?”
“No!”
“Then what is it, White?”
It’s that I feel the earth crumble under me when I lose control, so much so that I feel like I’m falling into a void.How could I explain that? That I hadn’t cried in years. That I held everything in and needed order in my life, because the chaos was melting my brain. James stared at me frowning, instead of looking at the road.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I just have to go home,” I snarled furiously.
“All right, but fucking calm down.”
The fresh air came in through the window as the smoke exploded out of his lungs.
“You could’ve gotten dressed,” I emphasized when I saw him shaking and shirtless.
“You didn’t even give me time to pee!”
“Are you cold?”
“Move, pass me the hoodie.” James jerked his head toward the back seat of the car.
I reached back to get it, but when I reached my hand out to grab it, I pulled it away from him.
“You’re not putting it on while you drive. That’s dangerous.”
