"Gloria!"
I could hear the screen door slam over the pounding rain and my pounding heart. His footsteps raced throught the puddles in the gravel road. Why cant he just leave me alone for one second? He always has to come rescue me. Save the weak, tear down the strong. I pushed myself as hard as I could to get away from that barn. How could he do that to me? What did I do wrong? I slowed down when i got to the deserted farm house and sat on the covered back porch. What a nightmare. I caught my breath and put my hands in my face. The tears just wouldnt come out. I dont think it had sunk in enough.
I heard his footsteps coming up the porch and I didn't budge.
"What the hell do u want from me?"
I said it so solem and calm that it surprised me.
"Gloria, I... I don't know what to say. You... um... I just... well..."
I interupted him. "Save it. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to listen to you. I'm DONE."
By this time I had raised my head and stood up. I looked him dead in the eyes and walked around on the wrap-around porch and off the front steps. I was almost to the end of the path leading up to the house when i heard, "Gloria!"
This made me so furious. I mean what the hell? How does he have the nerve to still come after me like he "cares" about me? The storm was picking up and the rain was so hard that I was soaked all the way through. I stood there waiting for him and he finally came.
"Gloria..."
"Wow. Can you start a sentence without my name?"
"Look I just..."
"Oh! Good job! Way to go!" My sarcasm was getting on his nerves and I could tell he was getting frustrated.
"OK. Listen. What you saw was not what you think it was. She means nothing to me. I promise."
The tears had caught up to me but i was fighting them back.
"Stop...jj-just stop..." my breathing was out of control and i was shaking, but still no tears.
He came closer to me and put his hands on my arms close to my shoulders and rubbed them slowly. I jerked back and took a few steps away from him. Here they come, and I couldn't hold them back. They flew down my face in a river and showed how dirty my face was.
"Shhh..." he practically whispered as he came close to me. I flew back into the tree behind me and slowly made my way to the ground. My shaking was getting the best of me and i hugged my knees to try and comfort myself. He was such and ass. Just leave me alone you jerk!
"Gloria..."
WACK! I hit him as hard as I could with the palm of my hand and ran. I ran as hard as I could with the flood on my face.
My neck was a little lighter and I realised that i had lost my striped scarf in the process of running away from the tree.
But I didn't care.
I just kept running.
Running away from him.