Curls
I've been running for like twenty or so minutes when I see a green old timey truck coming this way. I stand in the middle of the dirt road, waving my arms like a maniac.
Oh! Crap.
What is he doing here? "Hop in!" Says Jay from the cabin.
I get in "we have to go that way, hurry, Ma..."
"I don't remember you being so dumb" what is his problem? "Don't you have a cell phone??"
"I already gave you my number " no, seriously, what is his problem. Gasp "are you tracking my gps?" Where the hell is he taking me???
He is laughing? "Oh man! I was kidding before, but you really are dumb" Auch, he punched me in the arm. "I'm not stalking you, you ass! Matt called and asked me to pick him up, and to run over the idiot that left him alone and injured in the middle of nowhere"
I really am dumb... I blame it on that sexy devil, even after all this time I still feel the heat of his breath on my ear...
"I...I..."
"Yeah yeah, don't worry about it, he was laughing it off, he also forgot about it until you were gone"
Ok, yeah, that makes sense, I was in panic mode. Ughhh and now we're in an awkward silence...
"So what were you and sweet old Matty doing here at this ungodly hour??" He wiggle his eyebrows, gasp!!!! "Or did you spend the entire night exercising??"
"Don't even joke about that! I have a husband!"
"Right, sorry" another awkward silence, damn. "We met by chance where the hill trail meets the road and the river." I have to exhale because damn, he pisses me off, where is the sweetest nicest guy that I remember?? "Ok?, don't go joking around about it"
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry, it was only a joking, shit, I wouldn't have said that if we weren't alone..." And now he exhales angry? "Damn you've gotten so uptight dude, relax a little" he hunks the horn. And parks. And gets down.
I'm not uptight!
He wants to lay Matt in the back of the truck where he brought a mattress. Clever.
"Oh come on! I'm not dying, it's just my ankle" and he is not wrong...
"Are you sure you want to go in there with Mark and me? It's gonna get really awkward really fast..."
"Don't call me Mark! You don't get to act all offended!" And now I'm in angry lawyer mode, damn I don't want to monologue! "I don't know what you think happened back then, but you are wrong!" I feel like growling "and for the record" your honor "the one that should be pissed is me! So stop making jokes about it, you are not being cute! You're just pissing me off even more!" Damn...
"So... The mattress?" Oh damnit I scared Matt now... I don't care, I have a husband!
"Sure, great"
We help him up the truck, Jay goes to the driver seat, and I'm considering riding in the back, when Jay gives me a look... I don't know how to describe it. Sadness? Anger? Sadnger?
So I'm seating inside with him "so are we doing this now?" He asks me and I don't know...
"We might as well get it over and done" I take a deep breath "what the hell do you think happened? Why did you blocked me everywhere!?"
And he tells me what happened to him that night "fucking Quentin, he always ruins everything!" May he rot in jail "he never called any one, as far as I know, at least he didn't called me, and I doubt that little coward would have done anything at all"
"I can believe you would think I would have believed him over you! Or at your mom for that matter..." Wait "wait, you do know what your mom told the rest of the parents, don't you?"
He shrugs "I don't care, but I can imagine, easily, which is why I was so pissed of when everyone blocked me that night!"
"I didn't blocked you!" I swat at his arm "my dad took my phone away" and I told him every thing that happened.
He was particularly happy to hear about me kicking Quentin's balls.
"I can't believe you did that" he his kinda shocked about my coming out story "damn"
"What else could I have done! They were talking about going to the cops, I thought... I didn't know you were gone..."
"Shit, sorry, fuck, fuuuuuuuck!" He takes a deep breath, like really deep "it's just... It was too much, you know? Like ... I couldn't handle it... It was easier to just block everything the fuck away, you know? I'm sorry"
And I kind of get it. "I kind of get it. It would be so easy to block everything Jerr related... But that would be wrong"
"Fuck, yeah I know, trust me Jee and CC already gave an ear full"
"They better have... And why did you blocked them?" I doubt they would have had anything to do with what happened that night.
"I don't know man...it was... I don't know..." he is parking in front of what I assume is Matt's place. The garden it's amazing. "We cool?"
And I wasn't really angry at him, not really, was more hurt than anything, and that hurt is gone... Ha! Go figure! "Cool"
We get down and help Matt into his house. After we put him on the couch, I look at Jay "I got this, you should go now" Matt kinda makes a squeak, so I look at him and he is looking at me, and damn! He is blushing! And I instantly feel my entire face grow hot, like red freaking hot.
"Sure, sure sure sure, right! Busy day, gotta go! See you later!" And he is gone just like that. Am I so obvious?!
"Ice! I got to get you some ice"
Damn, I need like a bucket of ice! To out my head in, like right freaking now!