We’d just gotten into my truck and I was still trying to figure out exactly what I’d been thinking. I didn’t regret kissing her, because as far as kisses go, it was pretty up there on the list of best kisses in my life, but I knew she wasn’t going to be that comfortable with it. I’m not stupid you know ( Read more... )

My dreams were filled with nightmares, I didn’t have one moment peace since I shut my eyes. I spent half the night crying into my pillow and trying to keep silent. I didn’t want to disturb Lindsey in any way, just me being here did that enough as it was ( Read more... )

Thursday night I spent time with my mother, her boyfriend was pretty much passed out when I got home and surprisingly enough she wasn't so she took the time to ask me what was going on with me. At first I didn't know what the fuck she was talking about, then she got that look I haven't seen in a really long time. Like she cared. She asked me who ( Read more... )

I didn’t get much sleep, between Cousin Beth finding every way to torment me - her favorite being reminding me that my mother wasn’t here or she wasn’t making this dinner - or she managed to find something to ruin. Regardless I was miserable ( Read more... )

I sat in a corner booth in Mae's fiddling nervously with my coffee cup. Still the best I'd ever had, but it did little to sate my mind. She had tutoring? I wondered if she'd been tutoring yesterday here, if so why wasn't she here again? My mind had been filled with all kinds of thoughts about Tara through the night. I'd even kept the fighting with ( Read more... )

Acceptance was never something I was good at. I was forced to but deep inside of me it ate away at my soul, stayed with me and made everything I did feel foul ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving vacation how I loathe thee. The intention I had when going to college was to be as far away from home as possible and not be living on the streets. Scholarship to Hastings and it was the dream of dreams. Cocky kid from Oklahoma fits in well in Nebraska, not too much apart from what I’m used to but enough to give me a feeling of self, ( Read more... )