Alone Awaken

Chapter 38: Remi

Wood creaks under feet and a door lightly closes. I try to move my arms but they feel heavy. Everything feels so heavy.

Move to your side.

I slump over and feel the warmth that was once there. I smell amber musk and cotton. I lightly smile because I know exactly where I am. I lay there feeling safe for who knows how long. I didn't want to think about what day or time it was, just that I felt safe.

"Colt, bud you in there?" A knocking at the door serges me up fast enough to grab the soft sheets and gather them around me. The door opens. "Colt we need to-" Josh wide-eyed stands in the doorway staring at me.

I sit there silently. What is he doing? I shake my head to erase my confusion like an etching-sketch. "What are you doing?"

A voice calls shortly behind Josh. "Colt are you ready, we need to go now." Tori steps around the door frame and stops dead in her tracks when she sees me. "Uh-what are you doing in Colt's bed? Where is he?" Her demands are out of line and rage starts to tighten in my fists and the bed sheets feel hot in my hands.

"You have no right coming into this room, either one of you. Get. Out." I stare down both of them and almost simultaneously their eyes narrow at me. Get up.

I pull the covers off of me keeping my eyes connected to there's. I place my feet on the warm hard wood flooring and stand waiting for them to say something.

Josh let's go of the doorknob putting a hand up almost in a surrender. "Look, we didn't know you were here. Colt's performance is today and we were going to all go together. That's it. Nothing more." Tori side eyes to Josh. Somethings not right.

I pull my shoulders back. "Colton's performance isn't today. He would have told me. And it's still the weekend, something like that wouldn't happen on a weekend." I cross my arms.

Tori cuts in. "It's Monday. Are you that naive in life that you don't even know what fucking day it is?" She brushes her pin-straight hair over her shoulder.

Monday? It's Monday?

My mind goes back to the last thing I remembered. Colton holding me as I drift to sleep to his heartbeat. But that was Saturday, wasn't it? I slept for an entire day? I don't understand. "I don't understand..." I pause for a second. "I don't understand why you two would still think Colton would want you at something that important to him, when you've done nothing but hurt him."

"I don't understand why the love of his life is in his room during such an important performance of his academic career?" Tori snaps back. "Seems to me like your just another girl in his bed."

My feet are moving before I realize and I'm an inch away from her face. "You know nothing about our relationship you bit-" Josh cuts me off.

"Enough!" I whip my head to him. "I don't care who Colt loves or doesn't love, if he considers me a friend or not anymore. But I do care about keeping my word and I said I would be there when he told me about it at the start of the semester." He turns his back to both of us and walks out the bedroom door. "I am going there now. It's in the music hall, doors wide open to students and faculty. Feel free to do what you want. I don't. Give. A fuck. What. You. Do." And with that, Josh is already walking down the stairs.

My eyes turn back to Tori. She eyes me up and down and for a split second I thought her eyes softened. Her eyes bout back towards the door. She exhaled quick. "Colt's not as perfect as you think... no one is." She steps away and leaves following Josh.

I exhale the breathe I didn't know I was holding. He's not perfect? What does that mean? He's been nothing but the entire time I've known him. Is she that jealous to try and out negative thoughts in my head? I rub a hand down my face in frustration. Before I know it, I turn on my toes and find my boots.