Two lives one world (Sequel to the Rock Star Prince)

Chapter 7- Jack Daniels

That night at the dinner table was more then a little awkward. Devin sat next to Anna and made no attempt to make me feel more comfortable. He flirted with her the entire time and Anna’s constant blush reminded me even more that she was doing her best to ignore me. Every now and then Devin would send me a glance to see if I was watching and when he saw me glaring at him he would just grin and turn back to her. My dad and Heather sat quietly at each end of the table, eating and quietly disguising their day. My dad had spent the day with my mom and sister, he said that they were doing well.

“Will I get to see them soon?” I asked

My dad paled slightly before returning back to his original coloring and turning his attention back to his dinner.

“We will see” He said “I think we should give it a few more weeks though”

I dropped the subject. I knew my mom was super mad and disappointed with me and I knew Natalie was terrified of what I had become. If I were them, I wouldn’t want to see me either.

“So Anniebell” Devin said, teasing Anna with his nick-names for her “What are your plans for tomorrow”

“I don’t really know” Anna admitted “I guess I will work with Matt a little bit, but I am going out tomorrow night”

Devin raised an eyebrow and I felt my insides turn icy cold. Did she have to torture me so?

“Two days in a row huh?” I said before I could stop myself “He must really be magical”

Anna looked at me and I thought I saw a hint of absolute hurt in her eyes before they turned burning with anger.

“I don’t think it’s really any of your business” She said

I clamped my mouth shut but glared at her just about as intensely as she was at me.

“What’s his name sweet heart?” Anna’s mom asked, trying to break up the tense silence that had drifted around us. Anna turned her at back to her mother and smiled a smile that

I remembered she used to have around me.

“Ben” She said “He’s a lawyer from California, he just moved here”

“Wow” Heather said “Very nice”

Seriously? Right in front of me? Wasn’t it bad enough that I was ashamed of what I had done, but now they had to rub it in my face that she was moving on with some hot shot lawyer and I was dealing with an addiction every day and just trying to get out of bed in the morning. Was it not enough that she still had my heart and I couldn’t put the pieces back together? Wasn’t it enough that I would do anything in the world just to have her back in my arms?

I no longer heard the babble of talk around me, I was consumed with my grief and anger that I couldn’t bare to sit here anymore. I stood up, slamming my chair back so hard that the table shook as I pushed off of it and stormed out of the room. I could hear the silence I was leaving behind but I didn’t care, she had walked away from me, I could walk away from her, even if it was only for now. 

I slammed my bedroom door behind me and stood in the middle of the room for a moment, breathing hard, trying to compose myself. It didn’t work because I turned around and drove my fist into the wall beside the mirror that hung on my wall, causing it to shudder under the impact.

WHY THE HELL COULDN’T I GET IT TOGETHER!

Feeling totally stressed out of it and completely ruined I started searching my hiding places. She couldn’t have searched everywhere, there had to be a bottle somewhere. I searched high and low, I couldn’t find anything, she really had cleaned me out! I was about to scream out in pure agony before I remembered the floor board that I had pried up when I was younger, I had used it as a stash place.

Pulling the board up I almost cried out in joy that I had found what I was looking for. Jack Daniels had been a good friend of mine and it would be again.

I cracked it open and had only managed to get a few swigs down before there was a timid knock on my door.

“Mathew” The softest most amazing voice in the world that I absolutely did not want to hear right now said “Mathew please answer the door”

I stood there for a moment, I didn’t want to answer the door, I didn’t want to see her, didn’t want her to see me like this. But I had never been able to tell Anna no, even in my most arrogant days she was my weakness.

Opening the door, I turned away. The door softly shut again and I could feel her behind me, I could feel her uncertainty, but I could also feel her eyes on the bottle in my hand.

“Oh Mathew” She said softly

“For god sake do not” I growled “Not right now Anna, not when you sat there and gushed about…him”

I felt her warm hand gently wrap around my wrist before I felt the bottle gently be pried from my fingers. The fight drained out of me instantly, why couldn’t I fight her?

I heard the glass of the bottle set down on the dresser beside me but Anna’s hand didn’t move from my wrist. Instead she pulled me so that we were facing each other, I had to look down at her we were so close, it made me want to take her in my arms and kiss her until we couldn’t breath.

“Two days” She said “I have been here two days and all we have done is fight, we have fought twice already in one hour.”

I didn’t say anything, I just starred down at her with solemn eyes.

“Mathew” She said “I don’t know what’s going to happen but fighting will not make anything better. We lost a child, we lost each other. It happened and we can’t change it.But please do not be mad at me for moving on, all I want is for you to get better and all I want is to feel whole again. Please do not take that away from me”

She was near the point of tears, if I knew her well enough and if she felt anything like I did right now she was probably feeling as fragile as a piece of paper. I wanted to kiss her, but instead I just pulled her into my arms and held her against my chest, pressing my face into her hair. Anna began to sob.

I held her tightly, my own tears leaking down my cheeks. When would the emotions settle down? Probably never, our lives had turned into soap operas. That didn’t mean it sucked any less.

Hey guys, sorry its a short chapter, the next one will be longer i promise, heck i might upload two so keep an eye out!!