already has?
Refusing to believe any of this, I rip my hands out from his and head out into the living area, “Alexis, you need to listen to me. As soon as they found the drugs at my place, they pulled each and every cop away from the case and wrapped it up. As far as they were concerned, I was the one who did it. Holly, the dealing, everything! Your mom though, your mom didn’t believe it, she didn’t believe that I did it.”
Struggling to breathe and fighting to keep myself from being violently sick, I wipe the tears that have begun to fall from my face with the back of my hand , and head over to the main door.
“Alexis, please?”
“Get out! Just get out and don’t ever come back!” I scream through the pain. My heart hurts too much that I’m surprised I’m still able to speak.
Hearing a door opening up, Ryan appears from his room and as soon as he sees me and Brandon, he hurries straight over, with Alyssa following right behind him.
“What the hell is this?” Alyssa asks, her eyes widening when she sees the state I’m in. Wrapping her arm around me, I watch as Ryan goes to stand beside Brandon, with a look of confusion spreading into his eyes and over his face.
“Dude, you’re back?” Ryan asks, his eyes still glancing between the two of us. “The cops won’t stay away bro. What the fuck did you do?”
Opening the door wide, I step towards him and grab his a rm, pulling him towards it so he’ll just leave, “I said get out!”
“I left for us, I left because they threatened me, Alexis. I had no fucking choice!” Brandon’s voice has raised as he pleads with me, clutching my face in his hands as he tries to keep me from looking away from him.
I close my eyes and will for the pain to stop. For everything to stop. I just want the life I had before back, where nothing was complicated.
“Brandon?” Neil questions, still wearing the same clothes as he was last night, so it’s evident he’s only just arriving home. “What’s going on?” keeping his eyes held on Brandon, he doesn’t look my way, not even once.
“I need Alexis to understand why I left, why I came back and—“
“Whoa, wait a second,” his eyes dart over to me for a moment, before he averts his attention strictly back to Brandon. “By the looks of things, you both need to calm the fuck down.” Neil says, placing his arm around Brandon’s shoulders as he leads him over to his room. “Come and explain what the hell has been going on, bro.”
Brandon glances over his shoulder, his gaze fixed firmly on me as Neil leads him over to his room. He looks so frustrated, so upset. He looks so hurt.
“If you don’t believe me, Alexis, I may as well give up the fight and let them throw away the key. You’re the only person I need, the only person I want. If I lose you, I lose everything that has been keeping me going each and every day through all of this,” Brandon’s voice is laced with sadness as he says the words, and I can see the pain in his eyes, the desperation.
Before I have a chance to think of anything to say back to him, he turns away and disappears through into Neil’s room.
Maybe Neil’s right. We need to rationalize things. If things weren’t adding up before, they most certainly aren’t making any sense now.
10.
Explanation
“Here,” Alyssa says, handing me a cup of coffee as she comes to sit beside me on my bed. Nodding and accepting the drink from her, I sit up, feeling more tired than I ever have before.
“Alex? Can I come in?” It’s Ryan. “Alex, Brandon just left.”
Letting out a deep breath, I stand and walk over to open the door, my eyes feeling sore and my head pounding from everything that has been happening, “He’s gone?”
Shrugging his shoulders, he throws me a sympathetic smile as he steps through to join me and Alyssa, “I know it’s a lot to take in Alex, but well, I believe him. I believe every goddamn word he just told both me and Neil.”
In a way, I want to
Refusing to believe any of this, I rip my hands out from his and head out into the living area, “Alexis, you need to listen to me. As soon as they found the drugs at my place, they pulled each and every cop away from the case and wrapped it up. As far as they were concerned, I was the one who did it. Holly, the dealing, everything! Your mom though, your mom didn’t believe it, she didn’t believe that I did it.”
Struggling to breathe and fighting to keep myself from being violently sick, I wipe the tears that have begun to fall from my face with the back of my hand , and head over to the main door.
“Alexis, please?”
“Get out! Just get out and don’t ever come back!” I scream through the pain. My heart hurts too much that I’m surprised I’m still able to speak.
Hearing a door opening up, Ryan appears from his room and as soon as he sees me and Brandon, he hurries straight over, with Alyssa following right behind him.
“What the hell is this?” Alyssa asks, her eyes widening when she sees the state I’m in. Wrapping her arm around me, I watch as Ryan goes to stand beside Brandon, with a look of confusion spreading into his eyes and over his face.
“Dude, you’re back?” Ryan asks, his eyes still glancing between the two of us. “The cops won’t stay away bro. What the fuck did you do?”
Opening the door wide, I step towards him and grab his a rm, pulling him towards it so he’ll just leave, “I said get out!”
“I left for us, I left because they threatened me, Alexis. I had no fucking choice!” Brandon’s voice has raised as he pleads with me, clutching my face in his hands as he tries to keep me from looking away from him.
I close my eyes and will for the pain to stop. For everything to stop. I just want the life I had before back, where nothing was complicated.
“Brandon?” Neil questions, still wearing the same clothes as he was last night, so it’s evident he’s only just arriving home. “What’s going on?” keeping his eyes held on Brandon, he doesn’t look my way, not even once.
“I need Alexis to understand why I left, why I came back and—“
“Whoa, wait a second,” his eyes dart over to me for a moment, before he averts his attention strictly back to Brandon. “By the looks of things, you both need to calm the fuck down.” Neil says, placing his arm around Brandon’s shoulders as he leads him over to his room. “Come and explain what the hell has been going on, bro.”
Brandon glances over his shoulder, his gaze fixed firmly on me as Neil leads him over to his room. He looks so frustrated, so upset. He looks so hurt.
“If you don’t believe me, Alexis, I may as well give up the fight and let them throw away the key. You’re the only person I need, the only person I want. If I lose you, I lose everything that has been keeping me going each and every day through all of this,” Brandon’s voice is laced with sadness as he says the words, and I can see the pain in his eyes, the desperation.
Before I have a chance to think of anything to say back to him, he turns away and disappears through into Neil’s room.
Maybe Neil’s right. We need to rationalize things. If things weren’t adding up before, they most certainly aren’t making any sense now.
10.
Explanation
“Here,” Alyssa says, handing me a cup of coffee as she comes to sit beside me on my bed. Nodding and accepting the drink from her, I sit up, feeling more tired than I ever have before.
“Alex? Can I come in?” It’s Ryan. “Alex, Brandon just left.”
Letting out a deep breath, I stand and walk over to open the door, my eyes feeling sore and my head pounding from everything that has been happening, “He’s gone?”
Shrugging his shoulders, he throws me a sympathetic smile as he steps through to join me and Alyssa, “I know it’s a lot to take in Alex, but well, I believe him. I believe every goddamn word he just told both me and Neil.”
In a way, I want to
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