Why Me? (Discontinued)

Chapter 12: Things will get better

River by Bishop Briggs will be added in when Cali starts singing.

Up above is what I imagine Dustin's house looking like without the pool in the front. The image is from google.

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I wake up the next morning with this heavy object across my stomach. I look down and see Dustin's arm. I carefully remove his arm from my midsection and attempt to crawl out of bed. My elbows pop and it's the loudest shit. I look over my shoulder to see Dustin still fast asleep. I give a sigh of relief and finish climbing out of his bed.

I head into his bathroom and handle my business. I come back out and Dustin is still asleep. I take this on my opportunity to give him a wake-up call. I walk back over to his side of the bed and prepare myself to jump.

As I am in mid-jump he turns over and grabs me and pulls me on top of him.

"Gotcha," he says in a deep raspy voice.

I huff, "Damn it! How do you keep doing that? I thought for sure you were asleep."

He chuckles and kisses my nose. "As I said, a magician never reveals his secrets."

I laugh and roll off of him. Then I remember what today is and my mood instantly falls. Dustin notices and says, "Love, what's wrong?"

I sit up and he follows. "I just remembered what today is."

He hugs me from behind and rests his chin on my shoulder. "It's okay love. You will get through today. I'm right here for you. You will always have me."

I turn around and wrap my arms around him. He hugs me tight and we stay like that for a few minutes. "Can you take me home? I need to shower and a change of clothes."

He pulls away from me and gives my forehead a kiss. "Sure, love. Let me shower and then we can head out."

We crawl out of bed and I start to put on my clothes from yesterday. He heads to the bathroom and takes a shower. While he's in the shower I check my phone on the nightstand. I have 30 missed calls and 100 text messages from Evan. I read through them all and feel guilty. He must have been so upset and worried when I ran off. His last message to me was, 'Cali, I am so sorry for what I said, and I hope you can find some way to forgive me. I know what your dad means to you and I know tomorrow is the anniversary. Cali, I just need to know that you are okay. It's physically killing me that I have no idea where you are and that you aren't answering me. I just need a text saying you are okay. I miss you Cali and I am so sorry for what I said to you. I promise I will find some way to make it up to you.'

After reading this message, I feel like crying even more. I shouldn't have run off like that. He must have flipped out when he couldn't find me or get ahold of me. I had a very valid reason for leaving him behind, but I should have at least texted him that I would be home or something. As I think about how the situation could have gone differently, I hear the shower turn off. I compose myself and turn my phone off.

Dustin comes out with a towel wrapped around his waist and walks towards his closet. I avert my eyes and look back down at my phone. I need to text Evan and let him know that I'm okay. I open my phone back up and text Evan.

'Hi, I'm okay Evan. We can talk after I finish visiting my father today. You have some explaining to do and so do I. Meet me at my house at 3.'

Almost instantly I get a message back. 'OMG. Cali, you're okay. I was so worried about you. Thank you for agreeing to speak to me. I'll see you then' I read the message and close my phone.