chapter 5
i met carrol at the good earth cafe. i could never afford any of the wanna be hippy food, but she could and she liked the atmosphere. she looked visibly shaken while talking about darrels suicide. her voice tremored as she talked about the last time she had saw darrel.
" we had a fight over what we were going to do for your birthday" she said as she took a sip from her green tea latte. " i wanted to throw you a surprise party and darrel didn't think it was such a good idea. in fact he was upset about the whole idea of a party and even began to raise his voice with me" she continued.
I sat back as she went on about a supposed surprise party for me, that i had a feeling would have been a bizarre introduction to carrols fucked up sex life. i sat back arms folded thinking " does this bitch think i am this dumb? she hasn't even mentioned the death or how she feels about it yet. its just cover about what was really going on".
at 30 minutes of one sided conversation i could feel the anger well up inside of me. she hadn't mentioned the pictures once. infact it was like i had thought, she was hopeing this would all blow over.
"hold on " i said
" how about this? You and darrel were fucking."
she became very quiet and her lip quivered. " what do you mean?" she choked out.
"I mean you and darrel and some other guy were having some strange sex parties and were taking pictures of it and darrel finally had enough and hung himself"
" you fucker!" she growled at me "how dare you accuse me of ..."
"of fucking one of my best friends" i interrupted.
"or at least someone i thought was a friend."
she was silent, brooding, frowning. she was caught and was trying to not look like the bad guy in the situation, but that wasn't going to happen.
" just be honest. ok. just tell me you were having sex with darrel or whatever and be honest about it." I said and i ran my hand through my hair. " just be honest. i saw the pictured scattered all over the apartment"
she looked down, a tear running down her cheek, and still looking angry.
"alright i did it." she whimpered out " i m a sex addict. i tried to tell you. i have a problem ok."
" you know what? i don't have a problem. not anymore. Ill see you around" i got up from the table, mad as hell yet releaved in some ways. i had the gun in my pocket, but i was going to leave this peice of my life behind. there would be no manly show of out rage and no gun fire into a whore of a woman, who had just ripped my heart out. no today i would walk away fom this and go into the sunshine, of a better tomarrow.
i was going to go rob a liquor store and get the hell out of this hell hole of a city.
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