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Just get back to her.
One foot in front of the other.
After what felt like forever, a set of headlights came into view and I clumsily raised my arm, trying to flag down a spin. The lights weren’t coming closer, though. They were still and unmoving. Trapped behind a set of cast-iron gates.
Stumbling along, I continued to wave my arms around, needing to get to that car. To find my way back to her.
“Joe!”
Fuck, I was even hearing her voice now.
“Joe!”
There was something seriously wrong with me.
“Joe, it’s me.”
Blinking in confusion, I looked around. “Molloy?”
“Yeah, baby, I’m over here. The gate’s locked and I can’t get in. I’ve been here for hours.”
“You have?”
“Yeah, just keep walking toward the gate.”
It took me a moment to process her voice, and a little while longer to register the meaning behind the words coming out of her mouth, before I managed to switch my attention to the gate.
And there she was. Standing on the other side of what looked like a fifteen-foot cast-iron gate.
“Molloy.” Staggering forward, I closed the space between us, not stopping until I reached the gate. “Molloy.”
“I’m here, Joe.” Snaking a hand between the metal bars, she reached up and cupped the back of my head and leaned in close. “I’m right here, baby.”
“I’m sorry, queen,” I croaked out, resting my forehead against the bars she was resting hers against. “I’m so fucking sorry.”
“Shh.” Both of her hands were on my face then, fingers tracing my cheeks and brushing back my hair, as she peppered kisses to the parts of my face she could reach. “I’ve been so fucking scared for you.”
“I’m a prick.”
“You’re a huge prick,” she wholeheartedly agreed, still kissing and petting and nuzzling me. “I’m so mad at you.”
“Me too.” Trembling I reached a hand through the bars to touch her, to just feel her and assure myself that she was in fact real. “I think I’m broken.”
“You’re going to be okay,” she cried, and the tears landing on her cheeks dampened mine. “I’m not going to let anything else happen to you.”
“Get me the fuck out of here, baby.”
“I can’t, Joe,” she strangled out. “I don’t know the code to open the gates, and they’re too high to climb.”
“I do,” I mumbled. “I know the code.”
“What is it?”
“I, ah…” Blinking rapidly, I scoured my brain for the information that I knew I once possessed before coming up empty. “I swear I have it in my head somewhere.”
“It’s okay,” she replied, sniffling. “Don’t worry about it. You can stay here tonight with Shannon and Johnny.”
“No, no, no, I don’t want to stay here,” I groaned, clutching onto her with everything I had in me. “I want to come home with you.”
