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about time her daughter flew the coop anyway, the circumstance was just perfect. For the past year she wanted Casey out, but not maliciously. The poor girl hadn’t even been out of the city she was born in, and that was just plain sad. Besides, she saw the way Lukas looked at Cassandra, and it was that very same look Paul had given her before they were married.
Pulling out her cell phone with shaking fingers, Cassandra tapped around until she reached her sister’s phone number before initiating the call. When she got an instant hang up she let out a groan tears welled in her eyes. Frustration couldn’t begin to explain what she was feeling, but somewhere in the back of her mind she knew she was stupid for not expecting this. Her mother had brought up moving out a few times since the deal with NextGen went through. It shouldn’t surprise her that she would do something so abruptly because that’s just how she was.
“Hey, Cassy, I…” Closing her eyes at the sound of Lukas’s voice through the phone, Cassandra cut him off before she lost her nerve.
“C- can you come get me? My mom… kicked me out.” It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting rather fast, but she didn’t want to be stuck outside at night. Although she’d lived here in this house her entire life things changed in the dark. Slumping as she sat on the stairs in front of the door, she propped her forehead on her palm before Lukas spoke up again.
“She what? Yeah, I’ll be right there.” Just like that Lukas hung up, and Cassandra set her cell phone next to her to wait, wondering why things that happened to her felt so forced.
*****
It only took Lukas ten minutes to make the twenty-minute drive to her house, but Cassandra still felt a spike of nervousness at seeing him again. She didn’t have any friends that she knew well enough to call, but logically she shouldn’t have called him either. Watching him park in front of her boxes still stacked in the driveway, she licked her lips as the moisture suddenly drained from her mouth. This shouldn’t be so hard. Every time they’d seen each other it was nice; when they slept together it was even better. Unlike a normal hook up she didn’t feel horrible about it, or that she had to rush out while he was sleeping to avoid feeling ashamed.
“Hey, are you okay, Cassy?” Lukas acted like he was going to hug her but he paused, and Cassandra held her cheek in her palm as she shook her head. In the end he only sat next to her but even then he didn’t touch her even though she knew he wanted to.
“This is all your fault. My mom kicked me out because of you.” Frowning, Lukas didn’t detect any accusation in Cassandra’s tone, but she was obviously troubled. Rubbing his jaw absently, he let the silence tick on as he tried to think of something to say. These past three days had been absolute torture, and he shouldn’t have expected their reunion to be explosive because she just wasn’t that kind of person. He thought he’d get screamed at and unloaded upon, but she was keeping everything bottled up.
It was similar to when he’d asked about her father.
“I know you’re not exactly comfortable with me right now, baby, but I never intended to scare you. It’s okay to be afraid, and I won’t take away that right. You just have to understand that it was either tell you in the beginning and suffer through getting over it, or wait and lie to you until you found out and that might’ve not been in such a neutral way. If something happened to you down the road… even if we were just friends, I wouldn’t be able to control myself. I didn’t want to pile that on you. I wanted to tell you on my terms, not when you were scared out of your mind. It’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to be with me knowing what you know.”
Clenching her hands into fists as Lukas talked, Cassandra squeezed her eyelids together as tears threatened to assault her once again. He just sounded so
Pulling out her cell phone with shaking fingers, Cassandra tapped around until she reached her sister’s phone number before initiating the call. When she got an instant hang up she let out a groan tears welled in her eyes. Frustration couldn’t begin to explain what she was feeling, but somewhere in the back of her mind she knew she was stupid for not expecting this. Her mother had brought up moving out a few times since the deal with NextGen went through. It shouldn’t surprise her that she would do something so abruptly because that’s just how she was.
“Hey, Cassy, I…” Closing her eyes at the sound of Lukas’s voice through the phone, Cassandra cut him off before she lost her nerve.
“C- can you come get me? My mom… kicked me out.” It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting rather fast, but she didn’t want to be stuck outside at night. Although she’d lived here in this house her entire life things changed in the dark. Slumping as she sat on the stairs in front of the door, she propped her forehead on her palm before Lukas spoke up again.
“She what? Yeah, I’ll be right there.” Just like that Lukas hung up, and Cassandra set her cell phone next to her to wait, wondering why things that happened to her felt so forced.
*****
It only took Lukas ten minutes to make the twenty-minute drive to her house, but Cassandra still felt a spike of nervousness at seeing him again. She didn’t have any friends that she knew well enough to call, but logically she shouldn’t have called him either. Watching him park in front of her boxes still stacked in the driveway, she licked her lips as the moisture suddenly drained from her mouth. This shouldn’t be so hard. Every time they’d seen each other it was nice; when they slept together it was even better. Unlike a normal hook up she didn’t feel horrible about it, or that she had to rush out while he was sleeping to avoid feeling ashamed.
“Hey, are you okay, Cassy?” Lukas acted like he was going to hug her but he paused, and Cassandra held her cheek in her palm as she shook her head. In the end he only sat next to her but even then he didn’t touch her even though she knew he wanted to.
“This is all your fault. My mom kicked me out because of you.” Frowning, Lukas didn’t detect any accusation in Cassandra’s tone, but she was obviously troubled. Rubbing his jaw absently, he let the silence tick on as he tried to think of something to say. These past three days had been absolute torture, and he shouldn’t have expected their reunion to be explosive because she just wasn’t that kind of person. He thought he’d get screamed at and unloaded upon, but she was keeping everything bottled up.
It was similar to when he’d asked about her father.
“I know you’re not exactly comfortable with me right now, baby, but I never intended to scare you. It’s okay to be afraid, and I won’t take away that right. You just have to understand that it was either tell you in the beginning and suffer through getting over it, or wait and lie to you until you found out and that might’ve not been in such a neutral way. If something happened to you down the road… even if we were just friends, I wouldn’t be able to control myself. I didn’t want to pile that on you. I wanted to tell you on my terms, not when you were scared out of your mind. It’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to be with me knowing what you know.”
Clenching her hands into fists as Lukas talked, Cassandra squeezed her eyelids together as tears threatened to assault her once again. He just sounded so
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