Flower Shops - Morgan Wallen

19

"Fuck!"

Riley launches a bottle across the hotel room.

"Dude-" Josh reaches out for his shoulder but Riley shoves him away.

"Don't fucking touch me." He snaps.

"What's wrong, man!?"

"Kate!" He yells back, the vein in his neck sticking out as he starts pacing. "She's engaged to Morgan, man!"

"So? Y'all ain't together no more." Josh shrugs, sitting on the desk in the hotel room. "She's moved on, so should you."

"I can't- I can't-" Riley picks up his wallet and phone then he's out the door.

"Where're you goin'?" He shouts after him.

Riley ignores him and keeps walking down the hallway, Josh shakes his head.

A few hours have passed and Riley hasn't come back. Josh is worried. He knocks on Kate's door.

She's yanked from her sleep by the incessant knocking. She pulls on a pair of shorts and gets to her feet.

"What?" She asks, her eyes barely open as she leans against the door. "What's up, Josh?"

"Riley took off."

"What?" She asks, waking up a little more.

"He just took off."

"Where did he go?"

"If I knew I wouldn't be here, Kate."

She nods and sighs heavily. "Let me get dressed and we'll look for him."

"We?"

"Me and you, we." She scoffs. "Gimme a few minutes." Kate shuts the door to get dressed in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with her famed Vans.

"C'mon." She says, shutting the door behind her.

"I thought you'd be lookin' with Morgan."

"Morgan left a couple hours ago. He had some session booked in the morning that he couldn't miss." She responds, stepping out of the elevator.

"If I was Riley Green, where would I go?"

Kate snorts at that sentence. "He's probably at a bar." She pulls up her maps. "There's one down the street."

Josh keeps close to Kate as they walk down the dark street. "Why did he take off?"

He shrugs, his hands in his pockets.

They stop in front of a shady looking dive bar. Josh opens the door for her and she walks in in front of him.

"He's not here." She says.

"Wait." Josh grabs her arm. "He's at the bar."

Kate sighs and puts her hand on his chest. "Stay here." Josh slides into a booth and rubs his face.

"Hey." Kate says, approaching her ex as he's hunched over at the bar.

"The hell do you want." He spits back, a glass of dark liquid in his hand.

She hops on the barstool next to him and orders a drink. "You okay?"

"Yep."

"Ri, it's me. You can talk to me." He looks at her with bloodshot eyes. "Oh, Riley." She sighs, rubbing his shoulder.

He pulls away.

"I'm tryna help you, Ri." She says softly. "We gotta hit the road in a couple hours."