Free Starburst by Jettie Woodruff

her room, which was only about twenty minutes
later and she disappeared back upstairs. When Trevas came back inside her phone
was ringing on the island, and he picked it up, seeing dad on the screen, and
he answered it.
    “Hey
Fletcher, Alley left her phone downstairs. If you want to hang on I will run it
up to her,” he offered.
    “I’m
kind of busy here Evans, do you know what she wanted? She has called four times
already.”
    “No
sir, she doesn’t really talk to me,” he replied, not really lying because she wasn’t
talking to him. “Do you want me to give her a message or have her call you
back?”
    “Just
tell her that I will be home Saturday morning for a couple of days and if it's
something that she needs before then, then yes tell her to call me back, but to
wait until about four o’clock your time.”
    “Thank
God,” Trevas thought and couldn’t wait to get out of there for a couple of
days. He wondered why she was calling her dad, and hoped that she wasn’t going
to say anything about their brief relationship. He waited until he knew that
she had her phone and text her.
    “Your
dad called, he will be home Saturday for a couple of days. He said to tell you
that if you need him before then to call around four.”
    He
never got a response, which didn’t really surprise him, and he never saw her
again that night. He kept telling himself to get through Friday, and he could get
the hell out of there for a couple of days. That is what he needed. He needed
to get away from her and back to his comfort zone.
    He
made a nice dinner from a cooking show and left her a plate in the
refrigerator, which she consumed around midnight.
    They
never spoke again on Friday and only glared at each other the two times that
she did come down. He again left her a plate in the refrigerator, and was
excited when he went to bed for her dad to be home the next day.
    Trevas
was woken before daylight and he looked at the neon clock reading six a.m. He
poked his head out and saw Simon and Fletcher and immediately got dressed and
went out.
    “Didn’t
mean to wake you,” Fletcher apologized, looking tired.
    “It’s
okay I have some things that I need to take care of, and was hoping Simon could
give me a ride.”
    Simon
dropped him off at his apartment, and he lay across his bed, closed his eyes
and felt something in his hand. He opened one eye, picked up the black hair tie
and stretched it between his thumb and finger, thinking about Alley being in
his bed, almost feeling guilty for being so mean to her. He flipped the springy
hair tie across the room and shook his thoughts. It had to be this way and was
for the best.
    Trevas
called Chase later in the day and told him to meet him at the Breeze around
nine because he was free from the Fletcher nightmare for two days, and didn’t
have to be back until Monday morning.
    Trevas
spent the day in his apartment trying not to be bored. He tried to call Selena,
but she answered briefly, telling him that she was in the middle of a shoot,
and she would talk to him later and hung up. He definitely needed relief after
the last couple of weeks, and who knows maybe getting that with Selena would
calm the fires burning within himself about Alley. He tried his best to keep
Alley off his mind, but she kept coming back and he had to will himself not to
call or text her.
    He
made himself a steak and then showered and got ready to go out, get drunk and
have a good time. He wore jeans, a white knit shirt and a black jacket.
     Chase
and his wife Sara were already there, and they waved him to their table. He
smiled when he saw them and then lost it when he saw Selena with them. Yes, he
had tried to call her earlier, but when he saw her he wasn’t interested
anymore. He knew that she would want to go home with him and for some reason,
and he knew what that reason was, he didn’t want her to.
    Selena
stood, and he tried to kiss her on the cheek, but she turned and he was forced
to kiss her on the lips.