"April" a man said
"Greg?" AJ said surprised, the last time she'd seen him was 1 year ago "Uhhh… sorry Trent?"
"April, you waited for me" Trent said excited but AJ thought he was delusional but she remembered
AJ and Trent were in her apartment and AJ was playing some xbox and Trent went down to the basement to do something, which AJ got suspicious about since Trent went down every 2 days. AJ's stomach started to growl and she paused her game and went down to the basement to ask what he wanted for dinner and when she opened the door she saw Trent sticking a needle into his biceps and he was sweating and looked distant.
"Oh my god!" she cried she said as she covered her mouth her hands
Trent just kept staring at the needle and didn't even acknowledge her.
"Trent?" she said worried and still shocked
Trent took out the needle and then glared coldly at AJ, AJ walked up to him slowly and carefully not knowing what he was taking.
"Greg?" she said touching his arm, he looked even more angry at AJ and he stood up and walked slowly and scary towards her. She backed up until he stopped walking towards her, she put her hand on his shoulder in attempt to calm him down. He slapped her hand away and then she knew she had to get away from her aggressive boyfriend
"April" he laughed coldly "You don't know what you've done" he said sounding even more crazy
She turned to run but he grabbed her arm viscously and tightly, she tried to fight out of it but Trent wasn't budging. She got tears in her eyes when she realized she couldn't get away and it wasn't going to end well for her. When the first teardrop fell from her eye and felt a hard hand hit her cheek. She fell because the force was so strong, he had hit her she held her cheek as several tears ran down her face. He went down to her and grabbed her wrist tightly.
"You Don't Say Anything" he said slowly as he tightened his grip
"You're hurting me" she said sadly and quietly, not making any eye contact with him
"DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!" he shouted loudly at her
"Crystal" she said trying to stay strong
He let his tight and viscous grip go around her wrist and walked out the door. AJ curled up in a ball and cried harder. She couldn't believe what just happend. She heard a big slam from upstairs she assumed it was Trent who stormed out. She held her cheek as it stung horribly from his slap.
"Wait, what do you mean 'waited for me'?" she asked confused
"You know, in the rehab center" he reminded her
A week later AJ waited at Starbucks, after her violent encounter with Trent she had to know what was going on with him. He came through the door and found her immediately he walked over and took the seat across from her. They both remained silent but AJ decided to be the one to break it.
"Trent, I need to ask you something" she told him looking down
"Go ahead" he said calmly
"What the hell are you taking?" she asked quietly so only he would hear
"It's steriods" he admitted
"Please Greg, steroids doesn't change a person that way" she told him bitterly
"It changes people that way if they….they" he stuttered "If they abuse it" he blurted out
"What?" she asked shocked
"I abuse steroids, April" he admitted quietly
"We need to get you help" she said determined
"What happens now?" he asked
"What do you mean?" she asked confused
"What happens to us?" he said as he remained calm
"I don't know, but I have to get you to rehab" she said seriously
"No April, never" He said louder standing up
"This isn't up for discussion" she said equally loud as he was
"Why?" he asked simply sitting back down
"Why?, Seriously listen did you forget what happened?!" she said a little crazy pointing to a fading bruise on her cheek
"It wasn't that big of a deal" he said not wanting to argue about his actions
"You're going" she said seriously as she left the table and walked out leaving a disappointed Trent.
2 days later Trent called AJ and told her he was at the rehab center but he wanted to talk to her in-person first. AJ arrived and found Trent waiting outside the rehab center.
"I guess this is it" he said
"Yep" she said popping the p
"I have a 1 year rehabilitation program ahead of me" he informed AJ
"Yes, you do" she said a little coldly "I should go" she said starting to walk but Trent turned her around and hugged her. She was stiff and waiting for him to let go, when he did she backed up and started walking towards her car.
"One last thing" he said getting AJ to turn around "Wait for me, please"
"I remember now" she said snapping out of her flashback
"Yeah, so lets get you out of Jersey and back into our place in Tampa" he said hopefully
"I'm sorry, I can't" those four words that came out of her mouth crushed him. He looked down trying to hide his heart broken face.
"I have to go now" she said as she closed the door and headed down the stairs. Trent stood still at her door for about 10 minutes thinking about her rejection, he knew what he had to do. He walked out of the apartment building and disappeared. AJ made her way to the steakhouse and she wasn't in a good mood at all. She walked inside to find Randy and Ted chatting happily and she walked to the table and sat next to Randy.
To be continued… in next chapter so anyways I decided to put a little more bumps on the road in this love story and I think Trent is going to be one of them :).