Cracked

by Lisett Alonso

  I go to my closet and pull out a pair of jean shorts with a black one-piece tank top. I let my hair down because it was wet. I then gather my stuff and headed out the door. Getting into my car I put the address to the nearest Walmart. It was a thirty-one-minute drive. Thank god that it was a superstore because that meant I can buy everything there. I connected to my Bluetooth and blasted AJR Burn the house down. I sing along as I pull out of the drive way and head down the street. Ten minutes later and my new favorite song comes on. Natural by Imagine dragons come on.

  Natural

  A beating heart of stone

  You gotta be so cold

  To make it in this world

  Yeah, you're a natural

  Living your life cutthroat

  You gotta be so cold

  Yeah, you're a natural

  I put the volume up more and lower my windows. Twenty minutes later and I am at my destination. Here we go. I pull up to a parking space and park. I pull out the list of things I have to buy and start walking towards the store. Once inside I grab a cart and head for the food section. I start grabbing the necessities. When I am about to grab the bread someone speaks next to me. I look at them and arch my eyebrow.

  “The bread your getting, is really good.” I politely smile and go back to put it in my cart. “And you know what will make it better?” I wait for his answer. “making it into a grill cheese sandwich made by me.” That is the worst pick up line I have ever heard.

  I start laughing. “Do you always try to pick girls with that line?” I stare at him.

  He looks at me and smiles. “Just the one who picks that type of bread.” I burst out laughing again.

  “And how is that working out for you?” he looks around then back at me.

  “Not well, if not I would have a girlfriend already.” He pouts and I burst out laughing.

  “Well if you want a girlfriend you better start fixing your pick up lines as well as where you pick up people.” I chuckle. “Anyways good luck.” I start walking away and he calls me back.

  “Wait, what do you suggest I do to?” He parks is shopping cart next to mine. I look up at him.

  “Well how about a restaurant, a bar, a party. I don’t know. Do your research, now ill leave you to it.” I walk away again and this time he doesn’t stop me. I swear this town has a lot of crazy people.

  An hour and forty-five minutes later I get out of the store. I got food, cleaning supplies, school supplies, a couple of hardware things I needed and kitchen supplies. When I get out of the store and head to my car I see three guys around my care taking pictures with it.

  “Hey sorry to bother you, but can you take a picture of us in front of this car please?” I nod and grab the phone. They pose and I snap a picture. I give them back the phone.

  “Oh this one is nice, look.” He showed the others. I waited for them to move but they did not.

  “Oh are you waiting for something?” one of the guys ask. He looks me up and down. “you know if you wanted our numbers you could have just ask and not been shy around us, here give me your number and ill call you.” He takes out his phone.

  “Um no, I don’t want your numbers, I want you guys to move so I can put my things into my car.” I said pointing to the car they were around. They looked at the car, than back at me.

  “no fucking way.” I grabbed my keys and unlocked the car.

  I walked towards them with my cart. “Do you want to see the inside? But it has to be quick I have a lot to do today.” They all nodded. They were speechless when I opened the car and saw the inside. A lot of people have this type of reaction when they see my Classic Recreations’ Ford Mustang GT500CR. It was my grandpas and he left it to me. And boy do I love this car. I love how it looks, with its red shine, and how it drives. It was my grandpas’ pride and possession. It cost him $204,900. For him that was nothing. Compare to the amount of money he had. The guys gush about the black interior and how everything is so detailed and well taken care off. I opened the trunk and started putting things inside. One thing I loved about this car was that it had a pretty good trunk size. And because I didn’t carry so many things everything always fitted. But that is not the case now. I have to boxes that have to go in the front which I am not happy about. I grabbed the banket I always keep back here and go to where the guys are still gushing about the inside.

  “Hey guys I really have to get going.” They look up at me and nodded.

  “Thank you for showing us. Its an amazing car. I saw it in one of the shows the fair was giving and ever since then I fell in love. How much did it cost you?”

  Smiling I responded, “I didn’t buy my grandpa did, it was his, when he passed, he left it to me. But he bought it for $204,900.”

  “Oh sorry to hear that, and dam, it is worth it though.” I smiled back. “Anyways thank you again, have a nice day!” They walk away and wave. I put the seats forward and put the blanket in the back seats then grab the boxes and put them on top of the blanket. I proceeded to wrap the blanket around the boxed like if I was making a burrito, so that the edges of the boxes wouldn’t break into the leather. When I am done, I put the shopping cart back and then head home. I found the paint I wanted here so I didn’t need to go to Harveys anymore. I turn the car on and it purrs to live. I smile and put my music on full blast while leaving. Panic! at the disco ‘king of the clouds’ came on and I started to sing along with them.

  Thirty minutes later I am pulling up to my apartment. I start to lower the groceries first and then the rest. Once everything is put away, I put music in the Bluetooth speaker and start preparing the walls in the bathroom first. I love painting, it gives the house a sense of personality and it also pulls me away from the world. An hour later the three walls in my bathroom are painted a light grey. I get out of the bathroom and leave the bathroom door open, so it dries faster. I then go to my bedroom move the bed and the night stands forward and proceeded to paint my back wall black. I’m doing one accent wall black and everything else white. I finish with that wall in -twenty-five minutes. I was really enjoying painting with this new type of roller, it has the paint connected so it’s definitely faster.

  I moved to the rest of the room. An hour later I am done with the other walls and head to the kitchen. My stomach grumbles and I go to the fridge and grab a Greek coconut almond yogurt. Before I can open it the doorbell rings. I put the yogurt in the countertop and head to open the door. It rings again.

  I yell out “I’m going!” I head down the stairs faster and open the door. “Hey what are you doing here?” Luke stands on the other side of the door, he has a loose summer button down shirt that has the first couple of bottom open, this gives me a glance at the top of his chest. He has black shorts and sneakers on. I glance back up at him and he is smiling.

  “Enjoying the view?” he chuckles “I would say take a picture, but I know you would do it.” I laugh and open the door wider for him. “Wait I have something for you.” He goes to his truck and pulls down the trunk. I see a box in it, but I don’t know what it is.

  “What is it?” I question. Looking back at him, he just smiles and takes the box out.

  “A surprise now open the door so I can take it upstairs.” I do as he says and let him walk in. I close the door after him and follow him up. When I near him and the box I can see more closely what it is. A mattress. I laugh and look at him.

  “You bought me a mattress? Who does that?” I keep laughing and shake my head.

  He smiles and says “Well I saw that you are sleeping in an inflatable one and well this was one was in discount, so I got it for you. As a welcome present.” I look at him and arch my eyebrow. “What, just thank me for it.” he crosses his hands over his chest and I roll my eyes.

  “Thank you. But why did you-”

  “Because I wanted to and that is it.” He turns around as if he is done having this conversation. I roll my eyes again and jump on his back, give him a kiss on the cheek, and get off.

  “Thank you.” He
looks surprised but quickly recovers. He clears his throat and looks around.

  “You went shopping I see.” I nod my head.

  “Yea I bought the important stuff and some things to decorate.” I go to the counter top and grab my yogurt, “do you want one?” I show him my yogurt.

  “No, is that what you are having for lunch?” He looks at it then back at me.

  “Yep.” As I was about to open it, he stops me.

  “Wait, that’s not food, ill order food, you like Chinese?” I look at him and narrow my eyes.

  “Ok but only if I pay. You paid for pizza last night.” I put the yogurt in the countertop and folded my arms over my chest. He saw I was not going to budge and rolled his eyes.

  “What do you want?” I think about it for a second and then tell him

  “Chicken lo-mei and a side order of crab Rangoon.” I put the yogurt back into the fridge and head over to the paint in the floor. I squat down and start to shake the white paint, I hear Luke in the background calling the restaurant. I put the can of paint down and start to open it. Luke appears at my side.

  “How is your hard?” He squats down next to me and takes my hand into his. He starts to inspect it.

  “It’s good it doesn’t hurt and its pretty closed off.” I went to pull my hand back and he hold it in place.

  “You should have put something around it, it could get infected.” He pulls me up “Come on ill wrap it up for you.”

  “no is o-” he looks back at me with stern eyes. I did not finish talking. “Okay fine, but only because you bought me a mattress, if not I wouldn’t have listened to you.” He laughs and guides me into the bathroom. He takes out the first aid kit, and proceeds to do what he did last night. When he flips my hand, he sees my knuckles, he stares at them for a couple of seconds than back at me. He searches my eyes, waiting for an answer that does not come. He shakes his head and finishes wrapping my hand. He lets go of it and puts everything back to its rightful place. He goes to walk out of the bathroom without glancing at me and I grab his hand. “I couldn’t find my gloves, so I just punch the bag with out them. My adrenaline was so high I didn’t notice my hands were bleeding till it was too late.” He looks back at me, I was telling half the truth. The first time it was a like that, somewhat.

  “Okay.” Is all he says and walk out of the bathroom. I follow him.

  “Luke I-” I stopped talking when his phone went off. Good thing it did because I didn’t know what I was going to say.

  “Hello?” he says to the phone, ‘Okay I’ll be right down there thank you.” He hangs up and looks at me, “That was the food, they are downstairs.” I nod and head for my wallet. Then go to the door and go down. When I open, a small brunette girl was there waiting. She is around 16 and is actually the first person I meet here who is my size. I smiled at her.

  “How much is it? I open my wallet

  “$16.04.” I nod and take a 20 out.

  “Keep the change.” She hands me the food and smiles up at me then head to her car. I close the door and head up. When I get up the stairs, I see Luke seating by the window. I approach him and put the food down on the floor. “What do you want to drink?” I look down at him. He looks up at me.

  “What do you have?” I walk towards the fridge and open it.

  “I have, water, orange juice, and sprite.” I grab a water for myself and look back at him. He is starring at my shorts, I smirk and clear my throat. He looks up.

  “Sorry, you are very distracting. Um just give me a water.” I laugh and get another water. I walk back to where he is sitting and give him the water. I sit down and grab the bag.

  “What did you order?” I ask as I open the bag.

  “House special lo-mei and vegetable egg role.” I nod and pass him a pair of chop sticks. I read what it says at the top of the container and grab his food and give it to him. I open mine up and start eating with the chopsticks.

  “Hmm so good.” I moan when all the flavors hit my mouth. “How is yours?” I look up at him and see that he hasn’t started eating. “What’s wrong did they mess up your order?” I put my food down and look at the recite. Nope everything is fine.

  “No I just don’t know how to use the chopsticks.” Glancing away I could see the blush that was coming up. I burst out laughing.

  “Here let me help you.” I go towards him and grab his chopsticks. He looks back at me.

  “So you grab it like this.” I show him with my hands. “Then you do the movement like this.” I showed him again, I grabbed a piece of his food and gave it to him he eats it while looking at me, his tongue darts out and licks his lips, I look at the whole movement and the clear my throat. “See easy, now you try.” I give him the chopsticks and help position his fingers. “Just like that.” He does the movement and goes and grabs some of his food. Mid way to his mouth it falls back to the plate. The look of annoyance makes me laugh again. “You have to hold it there so that it stays with in the grip of the chopsticks.” I showed him and he nods and tries again. This time he gets the food to his mouth. He smiles back at me and tries again. He succeeds so I went back to my food.

  “You are a good teacher.” He says in between bites. I laugh.

  “And you are a good student.” I wink and go back to eating. Ten minutes later and our Lo-mei is gone. I grab my crab Rangoon’s and see him make a face. “You don’t like them.” I show him the Rangoon.

  “No it has crab.” I shake my head.

  “Have you ever tried it?” he sakes his head.

  “No and I am not planning on it.” He grabs is egg roll and takes a bite.

  “I dare you.” I moved the Rangoon forward. He looks at it, then back at me.

  “what would I get in return?”

  “it’s a dare. You don’t get nothing from it besides the amazing flavor from doing it.”

  “Then no.” he takes another bite from his egg role.

  “alright what do you want?”

  “Many things, what are you offering?” I look at him

  “Name your price.” I wait for him to answer.

  “To finish what we started last night.” I look at him in the eyes and smirk.

  “We did, we finished the bed.” I fire back

  “We both know that I’m not talking about that, but if it does end with you and me on top of it, I’m okay with that.” I shake my head.

  “Okay deal.” He looks taken back “What?”

  “Nothing.” I look at him and move forward so that he could bite the Rangoon. I give him a couple of minutes to process the taste, and instead of seeing a disgusted face I seen one of surprise. I smile at him; he takes a final bite of the Rangoon and licks my fingers in the process. His eyes linger in mine as I take in a sharp breath. His touch awakens things in me that have been quite for quite some time. I pull my hand back and go back to my place. I grab a Rangoon for myself and look away from his eyes. When I finish with it, he is looking at me.

  “What?” He moves forward and brings his hand up to my face and brushes the corner of my lips. When he pulls back there is a bit of filling in his finger. He brings it to his mouth and licks it off. Just the thought of his mouth licking stuff sends a hot rushing feeling down my legs. He pulls back, I hand him another Rangoon because I was full and he ate it. I started to pick the garbage off and headed to the trash can that I bough today. I wash my hands and when I turn around Luke is right behind me. He looks down at my lips then back up to my eyes. I like my lips and his eyes lower to them. In a matter of seconds his lips are on mine, one hand goes to the side of my neck and the other one is in my waist. He kisses me with such hunger and passion that he makes me moan. He uses that opportunity to slip his tongue inside my mouth. My hands go up to his neck and I pull him closer.

  Both of his hands go to my waist and he grabs me and puts me in on top of the countertop. I wrap my legs around him and feel his erection. I moan again. He starts to kiss me down my chin to my neck. His lips leave a trail of kisses behind that electrifies
me. When he gets to my neck he starts to suck, I realize what he is doing and push him away. ”no hickey” he nods and goes back to kissing me. He grabs my waist and picks me up. We start walking towards the bedroom when his about to throw me on the bed the doorbell rings. “Fuck.” I breath out. He puts his head against mine and lets me go.

  “Get them out of here fast.” I nod and go to the door, down the stairs and open. Ethan is at the door.

  “Hey, is Luke here? I been calling him, and he hasn’t answer. And I was driving by and saw his car and thought he might be here.” He looks like he has been crying so I let him in.

  “Yea he is upstairs, come on.” He goes up the stairs two at a time. I follow him. He stops and stares at Luke. They both make eye contact, and Ethan breaks down crying. Luke comes towards him and hugs him.

  “She’s gone.” Is all Ethan saying. Luke takes a breath in and just hugs Ethan harder. I decide not to interrupt them and go to the bedroom to give them time. The look of desperation that Ethan was giving is one I know too well. Is the look one gets when they lose someone.

  Someone who was dear to them. Someone who made their life the way it is, and now that they are gone, they have taken a piece of your soul. I hear the door open and close. When I walk towards the living room, neither of the boys are there. I used to think that the worst feeling in life was when one was all alone, but I was mistaken. The worst feeling in life, is knowing that the person you love is no longer there and will never come back.

  Chapter 9

  Seeing as it was still early, I decided to finish painting the kitchen and living room, its now 7:00 pm, I’m finally done. I decided to start hanging the plants that I bought around my room. I am hanging them with rope, I saw this cool design in Pinterest that I wanted to do. Thirty minutes later I finish hanging them up. one room done, 3 more to go. I decided to go shower and do some online shopping so that I could get what I needed for the living room. Wayfair had everything I needed, in great discounts so I decided to get everything for the living room from there.