Category: Serial

I went for a run. I ran for about two hours. My dream was rolling through my head. The day before was coursing through my veins. I couldn’t get Alex out of my head. It wasn’t even the sex. That had been great, it was just him. Things he said too – they stayed with…

The shower went cold before I got out. My apartment was dark. I could feel Jo upstairs sleeping. The thought of why never crossing my mind, though it should have. But I was mentally drained as I collapsed in my bed to sleep. I didn’t prepare myself for dreaming and woke to my lone tree and the…

Downstairs on my way to the shower, I had more than the three people I expected in my bedroom. Fucking door! Dominic Olmos stood in jeans and a flannel shirt staring up at my naked body. He neither said anything nor looked like he was admiring the goods, just watched me descend the stairs. “You…

I didn’t know what made him so upset at me. I didn’t ask him here. But I got the impression that no matter what I did he was going to be mad at me. So I followed him upstairs and made him a cup of coffee I had just brewed – cream and two sugars.…

The look on Jo’s face told me that she didn’t want to go with Dom. “Would Rider be best?” I asked. “Dom asked you for the favor tho.” Vin said. “But Jo doesn’t want to go with him.” “So you trust a sixteen year old boy?” I shrugged, “I worked for him – so yeah.” Jo shook…

I didn’t know if trusting him was a good thing but it sure beat the alternative. Tossing my cookies so to speak sucked. We ended up in a broom closet. Very close. I could smell the musk of the man who’d dragged me through a shadow. And if I wasn’t jonesing for some other guy I’d have kissed him. He seemed…

The place we were going was called the Infirmary. It was two whole floors of hospital and minor research facilities and as I was coming to understand now a physiatric ward. The ward was on the thirty-first floor and that’s where we were going. That was a little over 400 steps. That wasn’t too bad. It wasn’t even close to a…

I finished my pumpkin pie and took a cup of coffee to go. The walk to the Apex Unlimited Building across the street was strange. It felt like I crossed a line. A shiver ran through my body as I stepped up on to the curb. It looked and felt like any other mall I’d…

The peace and the quiet was great for calming down. I hadn’t realized how tense I was. I’d started to relax a little with Alex over dinner the night before, but that was trashed almost immediately. Now I felt better, when Adrian came down he handed me another card. “Come by next week, there won’t be a party, and come…

I didn’t look around, I didn’t move much into the room even after Leah left me there. I stood still just staring straight at my feet. It wasn’t natural, but I felt loose and comfortable and it was familiar. Everything about this day had been familiar – even the small boy hugging to me like I was his only life…

Half the day was gone when I decided to take a break. More than half really it was 3 pm. I looked at the cards in my pocket, flipping between the three of them. One I knew I might run into Alex, so I stuck it back in my pocket. But the other two I…

I walked angrily for a long while before I stopped just outside Heckscher Playground. It was a good place to get the kids to make the parents stop for art time. It was a central location to all the fun kid attractions, the zoo being number one on most lists. I’d never been personally – at least not in…

I stood on the landing while I waited for Abby to close in on me. “You quit your job?” She pushed me backwards until I was all the way up the stairs and she pushed past me to the coffee pot. “Yes. I can’t see Alex.” “Alex? What did he do?” “Nothing.” I said though she knew I…

I cried myself to sleep on the couch, and when I dreamed I woke to the strange landscape. My eyes felt like I’d been crying for hours, I probably looked a fright. Even in my dream I seemed to echo how I really felt. There was a voice behind me, “I hoped I’d find you…

I ate slowly. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t want to talk or because I didn’t want to listen to what Alex had to say. Either way Alex finished before I did and he watched me lift my fork to my mouth repeatedly. His eyes never leaving the fork.  “Do you enjoy that?” I asked.…

My stomach growled at me as I walked away. The food inside of Fiore smelled good, I was starving. I debated with the idea of stopping for food, but every time I went to go I got derailed, my anger raging once again. I don’t know how far I walked in a huff before I…

Alex looked at me with big blue eyes. “Who is?” he asked. But he knew it was true too. “Everyone.” I said. “Abby and Will tried to hide their relationship from me at first. Like I might get in the middle of something bigger. And then when I confessed I knew they were together, they only grudgingly…

We sat in our own little worlds content to be together like it was old hat. Like something we’ve done a million times before and it was only the first time. I wrapped my fingers in his and that made him look down at our now clasped hands. I saw a smile creep over his lips as…

I sat on my bed waiting. Just waiting. It felt like forever as I sat there. I picked at the pail polish on my fingers, chewed my bottom lip before I got up and paced for what felt like another forever.And when the knock came I was surprised he didn’t just walk in afterwards but I took a deep…

I took a long shower, and dressed in what Alex thought I should wear. There was something freeing about not having to stress out over it. I did my make up – the eyeliner, a little bit of strawberry lip balm just in case there was a kiss, there was a slight color to it…

I wasn’t feeling much better by the time I got back to my place but I was doing a little better, my breathing was at least normal. At least until I opened my door and found several large crates sitting just inside the door. On top of one of the large wooden boxes as a…