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Charlie sadly and said, her voice softer than usual, “Wow. I’m sorry to hear how it was for you. That had to be hard.” Her heart truly ached for him. She was not sure she could ever actually like Charlie, and there was no way she would ever excuse what he had tried to do to her, but she did understand him a little more.
He ran a hand through his hair, a habit he also shared with Logan. “Yeah, well, that’s all over now. But anyway, I went with him to Logan’s house that night, and I already knew some bullshit was going to happen. My dad’s always been a mean drunk, but that meanness doesn’t go away, even when he’s sober—not that he was sober that night. On the way over, we stopped at a little grocery store. Dad bought some kind of cheap wine, and I asked for a candy bar, just a freaking fifty-cent candy bar. Of course he said no, but he laid one on the counter and paid for it anyway. I was like, Cool! I get a candy bar after all .”
Ashley had an idea of where the horrible story was going, but she didn’t bother interrupting him. She sensed that remembering that time and talking about it was hard for Charlie, maybe the hardest thing he had ever done. Why he had chosen to tell her was beyond her, but he had his reasons, and she felt it was only fair to listen.
Charlie sighed. “When we got there, to Logan’s place, he gave the candy to him and handed the wine to his mom. I realized then that he was just using those cheap gifts to show off, faking being some kind of good guy. The fucked-up part was that nobody even asked about me, why Logan got candy and I didn’t. I guess they just assumed I already had mine or figured I didn’t want one. I was a little kid, but I understood all that right then.”
Ashley unclasped her hands; the poor guy needed some counseling. He needed to get his self-worth back. “Again, I’m really sorry, Charlie. No offense, but I just don’t see what any of this has to do with, uh…well, me.”
“Bear with me. I’m getting there.”
“Okay…”
“That night, in Logan’s room, I jumped on him. I just went berserk and started hitting him. I was sure one of them would come in and whip my ass for it. Logan managed to shove me off, and we kept fighting like crazy, neither one of us saying a word. We just kept silently trying to kill each other in that bedroom…until we heard a much worse fight in the next room: my dad beating his mom. We stopped and looked at each other for a minute, then ran out like two bats outta hell and just jumped in. I didn’t care about his mom. I really didn’t. I was just afraid that his mom was like mine, that she’d have Dad hauled off to jail, and I’d be left behind again.”
“That’s horrible, Charlie.”
“Well, what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s how Logan and I still are now. We can’t quite hate each other because we have too much to fight, too many common enemies, so we have to be allies. Then again, we can’t quite like each other either because we… Look, what I’m tryin’ to say is that I just wanna be back in the band. Mostly, I want to be part of Logan’s life. Maybe that night, I was trying to make you our common enemy, ’cause it feels like we need one in order to be friends of any kind. Maybe I was hoping that if he was mad at you, it would give us something to bond over. I won’t deny that you should probably kick me dead in the balls every time you see me, and I know you have no logical reason to forgive me or like me, or even trust me, but Logan listens to you more than he listens to me, with good reason. If I ask him to let me back in the band, he’ll say no, even if he knows I can be of use. He doesn’t feel he can trust me around you, no matter what I say about it, and believe me when I tell you he and I have rehashed that incident a trillion times. He says we’re cool and all that, but his actions speak otherwise. There’s really nothing cool between us.”
Ashley pursed her lips and
He ran a hand through his hair, a habit he also shared with Logan. “Yeah, well, that’s all over now. But anyway, I went with him to Logan’s house that night, and I already knew some bullshit was going to happen. My dad’s always been a mean drunk, but that meanness doesn’t go away, even when he’s sober—not that he was sober that night. On the way over, we stopped at a little grocery store. Dad bought some kind of cheap wine, and I asked for a candy bar, just a freaking fifty-cent candy bar. Of course he said no, but he laid one on the counter and paid for it anyway. I was like, Cool! I get a candy bar after all .”
Ashley had an idea of where the horrible story was going, but she didn’t bother interrupting him. She sensed that remembering that time and talking about it was hard for Charlie, maybe the hardest thing he had ever done. Why he had chosen to tell her was beyond her, but he had his reasons, and she felt it was only fair to listen.
Charlie sighed. “When we got there, to Logan’s place, he gave the candy to him and handed the wine to his mom. I realized then that he was just using those cheap gifts to show off, faking being some kind of good guy. The fucked-up part was that nobody even asked about me, why Logan got candy and I didn’t. I guess they just assumed I already had mine or figured I didn’t want one. I was a little kid, but I understood all that right then.”
Ashley unclasped her hands; the poor guy needed some counseling. He needed to get his self-worth back. “Again, I’m really sorry, Charlie. No offense, but I just don’t see what any of this has to do with, uh…well, me.”
“Bear with me. I’m getting there.”
“Okay…”
“That night, in Logan’s room, I jumped on him. I just went berserk and started hitting him. I was sure one of them would come in and whip my ass for it. Logan managed to shove me off, and we kept fighting like crazy, neither one of us saying a word. We just kept silently trying to kill each other in that bedroom…until we heard a much worse fight in the next room: my dad beating his mom. We stopped and looked at each other for a minute, then ran out like two bats outta hell and just jumped in. I didn’t care about his mom. I really didn’t. I was just afraid that his mom was like mine, that she’d have Dad hauled off to jail, and I’d be left behind again.”
“That’s horrible, Charlie.”
“Well, what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s how Logan and I still are now. We can’t quite hate each other because we have too much to fight, too many common enemies, so we have to be allies. Then again, we can’t quite like each other either because we… Look, what I’m tryin’ to say is that I just wanna be back in the band. Mostly, I want to be part of Logan’s life. Maybe that night, I was trying to make you our common enemy, ’cause it feels like we need one in order to be friends of any kind. Maybe I was hoping that if he was mad at you, it would give us something to bond over. I won’t deny that you should probably kick me dead in the balls every time you see me, and I know you have no logical reason to forgive me or like me, or even trust me, but Logan listens to you more than he listens to me, with good reason. If I ask him to let me back in the band, he’ll say no, even if he knows I can be of use. He doesn’t feel he can trust me around you, no matter what I say about it, and believe me when I tell you he and I have rehashed that incident a trillion times. He says we’re cool and all that, but his actions speak otherwise. There’s really nothing cool between us.”
Ashley pursed her lips and
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