Strange Tides

3.

Flawless - The Neighbourhood

       

I had been sitting outside Terence's car for about 40 minutes. I wasn't crying, but I wasn't smiling. I would have left, but had left my bus card in the passenger seat of Terence's car. I could see it from directly outside the card.

It taunted me.

I would have walked home too, but I lived to far away and it was too dark. I was more interested in keeping myself safe from harm than I was about getting away from Terence.

I hadn't expected him out so soon, the restaurant had been packed.

He walked out looking as beautiful as ever. His skin shone somehow under the moonlight. His hair had been encased by a beanie and the strands that had managed to gain some freedom flew in the wind. In his hands he held some leftovers, presumably, and walked towards the car with a grim expression etched on his face.

He didn't see me right away and I was glad for once, I didn't want to be seen I was ashamed, not of my actions, but because I hadn't managed to get away.

Suddenly his voice boomed out loud.

"So it turns out they do serve duck vaginas in this establishment." He said, nonplussed.

"Really?" I questioned because I couldn't read his mood.

"No, who the hell would want to eat the genitalia of another animal?" he exclaimed loudly. His mood suddenly became very clear.

He just stood from a distance, his eyes burning into me and I found that I couldn't maintain his gaze. He unlocked the car with the push of a button and I scrambled into the car almost as though I was trying to run away from his gaze and in a way I had.

Something about my actions must have affected him because as he came around to enter the car his expression had changed completely. He no longer emitted resentment. The car cruised.

"You know we could have talked about it without you making a scene." He starts, as he looked for his keys.

I said nothing, because I had nothing to say at that moment.

"It's not that hard to ignore people. You just pretend like they're not there, you can speak in hushed tones, no one will suspect a thing, really."

"Who have you really been taking to Henkies, Terence?" I decided to break my silence with the thing that started the argument. If we became loud it wouldn't matter too much because we were in between our own walls.

"I take the guys; I take the neighbours I'm friends with who also like the place. I take Siya, Jake, Ryan, Devon even Katherine. This place is not as fancy as you're making it out to be!"

I scoffed loudly because I didn't believe him, but I felt too tired to carry on. Not that night, I'd need many more nights.

"What do you want from me; some sort of unexpected apology and confession? Do you want me to tell you about how I take my mistresses there?"

"No-" started to speak, but he cut me off.

"Then what do you want, because I can pull it out of my ass, I really can since you don't seem to want to believe the truth."

"Why are you being so insensitive? I'm not the one who cheated; I'm not the one who now has to constantly be questioned!"

In that moment he turned rather violently. The road was empty and had room for all of his shenanigans, but I only wish I'd seen the trail, I would have known that it was coming. My body flew in my seat; I hadn't my seatbelt on and my frail, thin body went flying into the door. My head collided with the windscreen, but I was used to the pain and barely winced. Terence didn't know of my secret immunity and almost had a heart attack.