15-05-2021-052358It-Ends-with-Us(1)

takes me half an hour to make it from my car to my apartment. I
It
Lucy twice to see if she could help me, but she didn’t answer
called
phone. When I make it inside my apartment, I’m a little irritated
her
see her lying on the couch with the phone to her ear.
to
slam our front door behind me and she glances up. “What
I
to you?” she asks.
happened
use the wall for support as I hop toward the hallway. “Sprained my
I
ankle.”
I make it to my bedroom door, she yells, “Sorry I didn’t
When
the phone! I’m talking to Alex! I was gonna call you back!”
answer
fine!” I holler back at her, and then slam my bedroom door
“It’s
I go to the bathroom and find some old pain pills I had stuffed
shut.
a cabinet. I swallow two of them and then fall onto my bed and
into
up at the ceiling.
stare
can’t believe I’ll be stuck in this apartment for an entire week. I
I
my phone and text my mother.
grab
drop my phone onto my bed, and for the first time since she
I
here, I’m thankful my mother lives fairly close to me. It
moved
hasn’t been that bad. I think I like her more now that my
actually
has passed away. I know it’s because I held a lot of resentment
father
her for never leaving him. Even though a lot of that
toward
has faded when it comes to my mother, I still have the
resentment
feelings when I think of my father.
same
can’t be good, still holding on to so much bitterness toward my
It
But dammit, he was awful. To my mother, to me, to Atlas.
father.
Atlas.
been so busy with my mother’s move and secretly searching for
I’ve
new building between work hours, I haven’t had time to finish
a
Chapter Four
Sprained my ankle. I’m fine, but can I send you a list of things to grab for
me at the store?