One month and 23 days. That's how long Cook had been in prison. In four more days, he would be a free man. He would have done his time and he could move on with his life. Find a job, get a nice girl. Maybe even settle down and start a family. But first he needed to get fucked up beyond belief. He had two months of missed partying to make up for. And he also needed to see her.
Every day Cook thought about the last time he saw Effy. He ran it over and over in his head, like a film repeating. Sometimes he even played it in slow motion just to analyze every emotion on her face. It was surreal how Effy's eyes could display so many emotions in less than a minute. But he was mostly replaying the last moment because he wanted to know what he did wrong.
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"Ef, I'm scared." That was the first time those words ever escaped Cook's mouth. Never had James Cook ever uttered those words because in his mind they were disdainful. Effy just gave him a brief smile that never reached her eyes. That's how Cook could tell she was scared too.
"How long do you think I'm gonna be in there?" He asked.
"I don't know Cook. A fewmonths? I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you!" She said, her tone laced with annoyance yet still underlined with fear. Effy was only being a bitch because she hates being out of control and this situation was wildly spinning away from her grasp.
"Ef. Do you- Do you promise to visit me? You know, come and see me once in a while?" Cook feared what her answer would be. This was the moment where he would see if he'd truly lose her. A flash of pain crossed her face and for a moment Cook panicked that his heart was about to be broken a second time. But then she said the promised words. The best words he'd ever heard in his life.
"Of course Cook." She mumbled it so quietly that he wasn't even sure he'd heard her right. But he knew what she'd said. And he was ecstatic. Cook's trademark grin fell upon his face and Effy just turned up the corners of her lips, providing a fake smile of her own.
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Cook spent every day waiting for her. Every day he would sit in his cell, hoping a guard would come and say he had a visitor. But he rarely ever had visitors and when he did, it was never the person he wanted to see. It was either J.J. who came because he was trying to be his "friend", Naomi who would just try to be his best friend again or Katie who just showed up to fill him in on what was happening. She talked about the parties he'd been missing, the new dealers on the street and about his friends and their lives. But all he wanted to talk about was Effy. He wanted to know everything about her. What she'd been doing, who she'd been seeing and the number one question... why she didn't visit him. He would soon be out and then he could see her. He could keep watch over her since they hadn't found Foster yet. Detective Gibbons had promised to keep Cook informed about the case, but everything they had was dead ends. Soon he would see the girl he loved... and maybe... just maybe, he'd be able to get over her.