take one minute, ” she says as she pulls me over into
the dining room where everyone else is at.
“ Rachel Darling, this is Ryan. She works at the office with
us. And Ryan this is Rachel ’ s mother
Lilly, ” she says waving Rachel and her mother
out.
I peek
up at the two of them and she tightens her iron grip on
Ryan ’ s arm; placing her other hand on his chest as if to
say bitch this is my man. Her mom is standing next to her with a
flighty grin on her face.
“ Oh
hello Miss Ryan. How lovely to meet you, ” Rachel says.
“ You
too, ” I
say.
Then I say the same to her mother
then quickly turn to Mrs. Callahan before anyone could see the look
on my face.
“ Mrs.
Callahan, I have to get going now. Thank you so much for an amazing
afternoon. You have always been such a joy for
me, ” I
say, kissing her cheek then quickly leaving out of the room and
house before anyone could say or ask anything.
I hear
them talking amongst themselves. I faintly hear someone saying Ryan
wait. But I don ’ t stop. I run to my
car and get in.
When I
turn it over, it makes a weird noise but doesn ’ t start.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Not now please.
“ Come
on baby, please start. Please, ” I plead with my thousand year old
beater, hoping and praying that she will start.
When I
try her again and she doesn ’ t start, the tears
start falling again. I have to get out of here before anyone,
especially Ryan comes out here and sees me. I
don ’ t want anyone to see me like this. I pop the hood and
hop out my car to look underneath the hood. Immediately smoke
billows from my baby.
Damn
it, she is overheating again. At least I hope that is what it is. I
scurry to the back of my car, get the 2 gallon jug of water I have
back there for just such occasion; and lug in up to the front of
the car. After taking the lid off and carefully pouring the water
into my thirsty radiator, I climb back into my car and pray that it
starts. It doesn ’ t do anything but
tick for a few seconds and make a loud noise, before it completely
gave out.
Boom!
Then
copious amounts of smoke starts coming from the car, a lot more
then before. I quickly hop out the car again to see under the hood.
I started to freak out when I see that it wasn ’ t
stopping.
Oh no what am I going to do, I think
as I start fanning the smoke with my hands.
“ Ryan
get away from the car now, ” someone is yelling from behind
me.
I turn and look to see every one of
the Callahan men running out of the house towards me. Mrs. Callahan
and the other two ladies were standing at the door with their hands
covering their mouths.
I
don ’ t know what the big deal is; its just smoke. Shrugging
them off, I turn back around to the car only to be confronted with
a face full of smoke; and searing heat.
“ Nooo, ” all the guys scream as I fall backwards on the ground,
hitting my tailbone hard on the ground beneath me; as well as my
hands getting all scraped up when I put them down to brace
myself.
“ Are you
ok, ” a
frantic Ryan says as he kneels beside me to help me
up.
I look
at his outstretched hand and am about to take it, when I hear I
shrilling voice from behind him saying, “ Ryan baby is she
ok. ”
I
glance up and see Rachel walking over to us. I quickly snatch my
hand back and use my own bloodied hands to get up off of the
ground. I could see in his face that he wanted to help me up, but
didn ’ t. I wonder why. Maybe its the fact that your
beautiful girlfriend is standing right next to you clutching your
arm. You pig!
Everyone else that was outside,
gathered around me, checking me out.
“ Oh
baby, your face looks like it might be burned, ” Mrs. Callahan
says.
“ What
about the car, ” I say suddenly realizing that I totally forgot about
my car, while I was stupidly swooning over Ryan once
again.
“ The
guys put it out with a fire extinguisher while your were on the
ground, ” she says and wrapped her arms around my
shoulders.
The
closeness of her