Casey’s point of view
I just needed to get the anger I felt towards everyone, I had been punching the punching bag for an hour and my anger had not subsided. The most anger I felt was when I remember my so-called father. My arms were starting to hurt, sweat was starting to get into my eyes, and my shirt was soaking in sweat but I just needed to get it out of my system. Getting more frustrated I started to punch faster not caring if my fist made contact but after a few minutes my arms couldn’t take it anymore, and I grabbed the punching bag, put my forehead on it , and hugged it for support while I tried to regain my breath.
Deciding that I had enough, I took the bottle of water and towel that I had but froze when I heard the sound of the doorbell ringing. It was sunday and this was the only time I was by myself. Nobody knew the exact location of the house and even if you did since there were only trees around it, it was creepy to walk around. Thinking that it was a mistake I kept on walking until it rang again, and then it got annoying since someone kept pressing the button repeatedly.
Shit, I don’t have the chest binder.
“Casey! It’s me! Ryan!” he yelled at the top of his lungs for me to hear and I opened the door to see him with a full smile on his face.
“What are you doing here?” I asked genuinely curious and confused about how he found the house, and how long it took him to find it.
“Good morning to you too, I brought food.” He walked inside and held up two brown bags.
“I’ll go take a shower, you can go to the kitchen.” I pointed towards the kitchen and Started going up the stairs to take a quick shower.
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“You know this is the first time I have seen your house.” he started to talk as soon as he saw that I was walking down the stairs,” it is really difficult to find, I spend like half an hour driving around, there are too many trees hiding it. If I didn’t know you lived around here, I would have thought that it was just a forest.”
“That’s why I tell you to stay home, It’s better that you spend your remaining time with Michelle and Nina, instead of finding my house.” I took the seat that was in front of him.
“I brought pancakes, eggs, and sausage. I had time today though, they said they were going to have girl time.”
“Usually, don’t you join that?” I said taking a bite of the pancakes.
“What? No.” he shook his head trying really hard to deny it and I grabbed my phone that I had left on the table.
“I have some pictures that tell me a different story.” I showed him a picture of him sitting down on a small chair, and Nina was painting his nails but the purple nailpolish was all over his fingers.
“I think purple suits your white skin color.”
He was looking at the picture for a few seconds,” can you send me this?” I let out a chuckle and pressed the share button to send it to him.
Before I started to ask serious questions, since I knew there was another reason he was here, I finished eating and waited for him to do the same.
“So… tell me,why are you really here?” I asked as soon as he was done.
“I told you girl…” I interrupted him again and leaned back on my chair.
“Don’t act like a little kid trying to ask his mom for permission… now spill it.”
Sighing, he put down the plates that he had already picked up and sat back down with a small smile on his face,” you really are impatient like always, that has never changed.”
“So why did you come?” I crossed my arms and looked directly into his eyes.
“I came because I didn’t want you to be surprise by some news tomorrow.”
“News?” I narrow my eyes and drag the chair so I could be closer to the table.
Did an artist leave our company?
Are we losing more money?
Is the wedding off?
“I am resigning.” he said it fast enough for me to be caught off guard since I was not expecting it. In shock I could only open my eyes wide enough and I couldn’t say anything. My mind went blank since we had always done almost everything together. He even made me his best man, even though I am not a guy.
“Did you hear me?” he cautiously said the words as if I was a bomb that was going to explode.
“Yeah, I heard you but why?” he just took a deep breath.
“You have always help me, when it came to school and getting Michelle, even though you mess it up cause she taught we were gay but I really appreciate it.” not wanting to interrupt him, since I knew he just needed to talk, I just listened to him and nodded.
“Well, I think it’s time that I start doing things by myself. Up to this point I have always followed your lead but now it’s time for me to work hard by myself. I want to stop depending on you.”
“I see… Then I understand, it will be weird not having your annoying ass around but I get it. We are not kids anymore.”
“You’re not mad?” confused about what he meant I just looked at him like he had grown two heads.
“What? No, I totally get where you are coming from, I’m also grateful that you were behind me on everything.Thanks to you I knew that I could believe in someone but have you found another job?”
He nodded. I was glad that he wanted to do things on his own, now there was one less thing I had to worry about before I went ahead with my plan.
“Then, we are good then, let’s enjoy our last week together at the office then. By the way, she thought we were gay because we were always together and when you got drunk you always clung to me and started saying “ I won’t let the guys touch you, I will protect you from all the beasts around here” .”
“Well, I had good intentions at least, didn’t I?”
“ I’m not having this conversation again.”
“What? Hey, you weren’t the best wing woman either, “Ms. he doesn’t sleep around anymore” you basically told her that I only played around.”
“Well, at least i’m glad that you have a beautiful family.”
“Yeah,that's true... I’ll clean the dishes before I go.” he stood up and I looked at my phone to see that it was already one in the afternoon.
“How did the meeting with the in-laws go.”
“In one word? Awkward. One of the sisters would not stop clinging to me but the girl I am supposed to marry seems sweet.”
“Did you fall in love when you saw her?” Once he mentioned love, I froze for a minute. I knew that I had fallen in love, after meeting the brown eyes of the girl who opened the door for me for the first time. My heart started beating and after seeing her, I instantly felt happy.
“Well, the plates are done so I will go now.” said Ryan snapping me out of my thoughts.
“Okay,take care.”After he had left I could not stop thinking about her, but I decided it was better if I just focused on something else and then it was only me and my computer.
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“I did it, I told her that I was resigning.” Ryan said to the person on the other side of the phone.
“Good, then you can start working right away, and then we can make a plan.”
“No, I will start next week, I just want to stay this one more week.”
“Okay, then just don’t go back on your word, you are an asset to my plan and I need to have you on my side.”
“She is not going to be harmed, right?”
“Of course not, I wouldn’t do that to her. Anyway, see you next week.” Ryan looked at his phone and could not believe what he was doing but he wanted to help.
“You really are going through with the plan?” Michelle asked after entering the room and Ryan only looked at her with wide eyes before going back to normal and nodding.
“This is wrong, we are betraying her , you and I both know what she is going to feel when she finds out.” Michelle raised her voice a little but she was careful to not yell since she didn’t want to wake her daughter up.
“ I know, but I have to do this, I won’t back down, not now.”
Michelle grabbed Ryan’s hands,” Just stop this, she has done a lot for us.We, no, you can’t do this.”
“I made up my mind.” he said and walked out of the room.
“Fine, but I will not be involved, This is not right and you know it too.” She walked away from him and went into her daughter’s room.
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