Falling for you; two
Camille-
What seemed like 10 million hours- but in reality it was only six hours later that we pulled up into a motel in some dingy town, It was about five pm and Logan was tired; I don't blame him he has been driving for the past eight hours straight with only a few breaks in-between.
We were going to get a room so we could shower, order some food for dinner then rest up for the rest of the trip tomorrow. We had about another seven or so hours to go and I really wasn't looking forward to them, I mean who drives this far when we have planes these days.
Logan tried talking to me various times throughout the so far but I shrugged him off every time- I didn't want to talk to him and I didn't have to either; just because he's decided to give me a home and a place to live doesn't mean I'm going to forgive him that easily after a few jokes and smiles- Yes, I was happy to finally have my brother back but why he did what he did to me better have been worth it and whatever lame excuse he's had seven years to come up with better be the truth and I plan on making him suffer for a long time before every things turned back in 'Happy families'
Why should I forgive him anyway? He not only hurt me but abandoned- the story of my life.
A knock on the passenger side door window startled me from my wandering thoughts and back into reality. Logan was bent down with a hand cupping his eyes as he lent on the window so he could see through the window tint.
"You coming or just going to stay here all night?" He joked, while looking at me curiously.
"Yeah" I responded unbuckling my seat belt and shoved the door open; hitting him with it in the process, he landed on the ground with a thud. "Oops" I said with a smirk and sarcasm dripping from my tone but still pretending to be innocent, like I didn't mean it.
Logan groaned and got up off the ground "Same old violent Milli"
"Don't act like you know me" I hissed and slammed the car door once again.
He winced and locked it as I walked off without another word to the main building, waiting out the front for him to catch up so he could pay for the rooms. When he finally got here he pushed open the door and I followed in after him- the bell hanging above the door made a 'Ding' sounding our entrance.
The old guy behind the counter smiled at us as we walked in "Room for two, King bed?" He asked already assuming what we wanted. I rolled my eyes.
I cleared my throat, No way was I sharing a bed with him. "No, Separate rooms- separate beds"
"Joined" Logan corrected handing his credit card over to the slightly balding guy.
He processed everything and handed the card back to Logan with a piece of paper. "Sign here for me Mr. Jackson"
Logan chuckled. "Wow, I've had to sign everything today"
"Who faults that?" I muttered rhetorically and took the key from the old man.
While he was doing what he was doing I went off to find my room, well technically it was 'Ours' but we had separate doors so it was just like having your own. I found it after about two minutes of walking along the 'B' section.
The room number was forty- two, I checked the number on my key to make sure it was the right one then slipped it into the lock- it unlocked easily opened up; the room was a decent size with a queen-sized bed in the middle of the room, A counter by the window with a kettle, toaster and microwave. There was a TV just at the foot of the bed sitting on a chest of draws and two arm chair, there was two doors as well which I'm guessing one leads to Logan’s room and the other to the bathroom.
I shut the door behind me as I walked in and plopped down on to the bed; it wasn't the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in but it would do, I have slept on worse and at least it wasn't that lumpy old top buck bed back at the orphanage.
God, I couldn't wait to finally have a decent shower; I'm pretty sure I smelt really bad and looked like absolute crap. I was defiantly looking forward to a shower where I could actually wash my hair with something other than soap and without the time limit of three minutes, which was barely enough time for the water to warm up because the water system was shocking.
A knock on my door had me getting up off my temporary bed and answering it, only to find Logan standing there with my garbage bag of stuff. "When we get to Brissy, I'll take you shopping- or well maybe Mandy can because she’s a girl and all- so that you can get some clothes and anything else a girl needs because I can't expect you to live off what you’ve got in that bag"
"Okay, Thanks"
"You’re welcome, the bathrooms all yours; just knock on the wall when you’re done"
I nodded as I watched him walk to his own door and shut mine once I saw him walk inside, I dumped my bag of crap on the bed and tipped out the belongings, I lifted up bits of clothing until I found the oversized shirt I wanted and proceeded to the bathroom to take my shower.
The bathroom was quiet small and clean, the smell of freshly used disinfected hit my nose and I took a deep breath in loving the smell, I know that's completely odd but when you’ve been in a place for five months that was fair dirty you’d understand.
I turned on the hot tap and waited for it to heat up before turning on the cold, I undressed out of my sweat pants and hoodie then took out my messy bun and as predicted ripping out a few chunks of hair with the elastic band ; I ran my fingers through my hair trying to remove some of the unwanted knots that had formed throughout the day.
When the shower was the right temperature I undressed out of my bra and panties and slipped under the water, shriving slightly as the warm water hit my cold skin for the first time. The warm water felt so good caressing my body in a full a stream, this I wasn’t used to- well for the past five months anyway- and relaxed as I let the water un-tense my shoulders and work its way down body. I couldn’t remember a time when a shower felt this amazing.
I just stood under the running water for a few minutes before deciding it was about time I started to wash my hair; I was actually excited to use shampoo and conditioner for once, so I took the shampoo from the rack and squeezed some into the palm of my hand and lathered it up through my hair, loving the feeling of the bubbles under my fingertips., when I was satisfied I rinsed it off and repeated the process with the conditioner.
Next, I took the body wash and literally scrubbed my skin clean, I never wanted to go through the system again, pretty sure that was third worse thing I’d ever been through and just like one and two, I never wanted it to happen again ever in my lifetime, even if that meant staying with Logan.
It’s the little things in life that people take for granted; I was one of them until I went through having absolutely nothing.
I shut off the water reluctantly, instantly missing the stream of water running from head to toe and reached out to the closet towel rack and grabbed it; wrapping it around my steaming body. I squeezed the excess water from my hair and stepped out onto the matt, feeling the softness underneath my slightly wrinkled toes.
After a few moments I towel dried myself and knocked on the bathroom wall, signalling to Logan that I was heading out so he could finally take his shower.
The moment I stepped into my room I checked to see if my curtain was closed before I dropped the towel of my now dry body and rifled through my stuff trying to find underwear, I completely forgot to grab them when I went for my shower, How stupid.
When I found them I pulled them on then smelt my shit, it smelt pretty yuck but I didn’t really have anything else so I’m just going to have to put up with it until Logan or this ‘Mandy’ takes me shopping.
I climbed into bed with a sigh and pulled the covers up until they reached my chin then rolled over onto my side; groaning when I realised the light was left on so I got up and flicked it off, almost screaming when I was in complete darkness, I’ve never liked the dark, I’ve always been afraid of it, well ore recently then when I was a kid because bad things always happened when the lights were turned out.
I quickly flicked it back on again so I could find the TV remote, when I located it I flipped the switch and rushed to it and pressed the power button, light immediately flooded the room as it flickered on, the reception wasn’t so great so I fiddled with the areal for a minute before the picture became clear enough to see what was going on.
There wasn’t much on TV so I settled with some cartoons and jumped back into bed, I knew that after those thoughts I wouldn’t be able to sleep well tonight, like most nights I had nightmares and they weren't pleasant.
A knocked sounded at my door and I jumped then I scalded myself when I realised the sound was coming from the door inside my room, which meant it would be Logan. “Come in” I called sitting up.
Logan walked in holding a pizza box in his hands and I motioned with my hand for him to take a seat on the bed and he did. “I hope you like Hawaiian, because that's what I got...” he mumbled unsure.
“Doesn’t everyone like Hawaiian?”
“I suppose nearly everyone does” He said and opened the box and took a piece, I did too.
“Thanks” I said taking a bite.
Logan cleared his throat and I knew he wanted to talk. “So how’s life been?”
“I don’t want to talk about it” I snapped, I really didn’t want to talk about it; it wasn’t just because I didn’t want to talk to him.
“Okay” he replied slowly before eating again.
When we both finished our pizza we watched TV for a while together, I felt a little uncomfortable having him sitting so close to me but I didn’t want to make a fuss, he probably wanted to just spend time with me and he hadn’t said anything but a few word to me since I snapped at him earlier but it was only because it hit a nerve.
He was acting like he hadn’t left me and mum all those years ago and that hurt, I just wanted to see him look like he felt a little bad for doing it but he always had a smile on his face, okay maybe he was just happy to see me but I wasn’t happy to see him and he would soon find that out, and he wasn’t going to win me over.
When he finally left my room it was about eight pm and he told me to rest up as we were leaving early- early as in about four am so we’d make it back just after lunch. I was not looking forward to that but he wanted to get me settled in and organised before his best friend and roommate came home, that was another thing I wasn’t looking forward to- meeting his creepy friends.
And as it was Friday tomorrow; tomorrow was the only day we could go down to SunShine High and enrol me, he apparently had it all set up but they needed me to go in for a tour, I didn’t want to but of course Logan is making me, so over all tomorrow is going to be one hell of a long day.
I once again flipped through the channels not really seeing what was on before I settled for some movie and tucked myself back down into bed; leaving the TV on while I attempted to sleep.
By the time one am had rolled around my eyes were felt like they were literally hanging out of my head, my eyelid were droopy and I could feel I was tired but I just couldn’t sleep, even though this was completely normal I was still mad because I had to get up in less than four hours.
Usually after a while of watching TV I will fall asleep considering I was up way earlier than I was used to today I should have been snoring my head off with drool leaking from the side of my mouth but no, I wasn’t- instead I was nearly bashing my head on the wooden bed frame so I could attempt to knock myself out or something but I wasn’t into self harm so that idea went out the window.
Sighing I shuffled out of bed to grab a glass of water and put some left over pizza in the microwave to heat up. Maybe eating would help, I was a bit hungry. When the microwave beeped I took out the plate and ate my food, careful not to burn the roof of my mouth as it was hot.
Patting my full stomach I washed up my plate and downed my water before heading back over and climbing back into bed for the third time already tonight. Finally after about an hour and a half later I fell into a light sleep, but not without the nightmare I predicted I would be having.
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