SAVANNAH
Hey Benji
Could you send me Jaxon's address?
A few minutes passed before my phone pinged, the address staring right at me.
BENJI
About time
Need me to pick you up?
SAVANNAH
No I'm good, thanks
Don't say anything to him
BENJI
Say what?*wink emoji*
Talk later
I huffed a laugh and leaned back against the elevator walls.
29 | Alone In The Storm
Jaxon
Darknessloomedinmyroom as I shifted against the pillows, sketchpad balanced on my bent knee.Did I picture myself alone in bed on a Friday night?No, not really.Yet here I was.
My pencil moved almost absentmindedly across the page as I tried to take my mind off the one person I wished was here.The room was dim, lit only by the soft glow of the lamp on my nightstand and the occasional flicker of lightning outside the window.Rain tapped steadily against the glass, rhythmic, persistent.
I didn’t think about what I was drawing, I just… drew—lines, shapes, shadows scattered across the blank page until it came to life.
Familiarity breathed in as I outlined the curve of a shoulder.The tilt of a head.The way loose strands of hair fell forward, just barely catching the breeze—
My hand stilled.
A slow breath left me as I leaned back slightly, eyes scanning the page.
“Yeah… of course it is,” I muttered.
Savannah.
She was staring up at me, sitting on that beach at Sunset Creek, completely in her own world, books piled around her as she studied.I scrubbed a hand over my face, letting out a quiet, frustrated laugh.
“You just had to draw her.”
I dropped my head back against the wall with a dull thud, staring up at the ceiling for a second before glancing back at the sketch.
Two days.
It had been two days since that argument—since she cut into me in ways I wasn't expecting.My jaw tightened.Sure, she could be pissed about the fight with Chase, but to link it to our shared past was another thing altogether.And yeah, okay, I was an asshole back then—I didn’t think, didn’t care, said whatever came to mind and let people deal with it after.And yeah, unfortunately, she’d been one of them.
But I thought we were past that.
