After the concert
The three of you laughed as you walked back to the car, when your cell phone rang. You looked at the caller i.d. Fear paralyzed you. You stopped dead in your tracks. Jess and Mckenna stopped and looked at you.
"Who is?" Jess asked.
"It's..it's Talon." you said.
Jess frowned at you. Finally, you answered it.
"Hello?"
"Where the hell are you!"
"What do you mean?"
"What the fuck do you think I mean? Where the hell are you?"
"Babe, calm down. I'm at a concert. Where are you?"
"Don't tell me to calm down! I'm at your house."
"Why?"
"Because. Why the hell are you at a concert?"
"I'm 27 fucking years old! Why are you so upset? It's not like I went to go cheat on you!"
"You never know."
"Talon, I wouldn't cheat on you! How could you say that!"
"I'm not upset! I can get fucking upset if you want me to!"
"You're drunk aren't you, Talon?"
"I'm not drunk! And so what if I was!"
"You're drunk! Don't even bother talking to me!"
"Adin. Don't you talk back to me. I'll kill you. I'll kill you with my bare hands. I won't even hesitate. I'll ring your little neck dry."
You began to cry silently, you knew he was drunk and three times your size. He could kill you. "Why do I stay with him? Why do I love him? Is it because I'm afraid of him? Or afraid to lose him?" You thought to yourself.
You hung up the phone and dried your tears. You looked up to see Jess and Mckenna glaring at you.
"I hate him!" Mckenna said.
"Why the hell are you still with him?" Jess asked.
"Because! I love him...I think!" you yelled.
"No, Adin! You're afraid of him!" Jess yelled back.
"No I am not! I can walk away from him any time!"
"Then do it! Do it now! Call him back and tell him it's over!"
"No! Screw you!" you said as you stormed off.
You didn't mean it, and thankfully, Jess knew it. You apologized to her as you cried into her shoulder.
"I'm afraid of him, and I'm afraid to lose him. I can't live with him and I can't live without him."
"That is what you think," Jess said.
"No, it's true."
"I wish, I knew how to help you, Adin."
Mckenna came over and joined your group hug, as the three of you leaned against Mckenna's car.
The boys of AFI walked over to the three of you. You looked up at them. You didn't want to let them see you cry, so you got up and walked over to the other side of the car. You dried your tears and put on a fake smile. You walked back over to them as you laughed and shook your head.
"What happened? Are you okay?" Davey asked worriedly. You laughed and nodded your head.
"Yeah I just got my foot stuck in a pot-hole."
Davey gave you an 'oh really' look. You looked away and smiled.
"Yeah! It was funny! Mckenna and I had to pull her out! She was screaming her head off the whole time," Jess helped you. You flashed her a smiled, she smiled back.
"Yeah, I swear she is blonde," Jess added.
"Hey!" Hunter said. Mckenna pointed and laughed at him.
"You guys are stalkers! You're making me feel uncomfortable!" Mckenna yelled, "Stalkers! Help someone! Stalkers!" That made all of you laugh.
"Mckenna! Stop someone is gonna flip and attack the poor guys!" Jess said.
"Really! Help! Haha, I'm just kidding, you guys can stalk me any day!" which led you on laughing even further.
"So do you guys really have to go, right at this very moment?" Jade asked.
You looked to Jess and nodded your head. "Yeah, we do. But thank you so, so much for the passes! We really, really, really appreciate it!" she said.
"Well in that case, can we get your number and maybe we could do something sometime this week before we have to head back." Jade asked.
Mckenna squealed and begged me for pen and paper. You had a pen in your purse, but no paper.
"Sorry, Mckennerz." You said as you shrugged your shoulders
"Go ahead and write it down on my hand." Jade said. Mckenna smiled and wrote it on his hand. He looked at it and smiled at Jess. She looked away shyly.
You said goodbye and thanked them once more, as the three of you piled into the car.
