Riding the Pause
“Scanning the empty sleeping platform, he blinked his bleary eyes again, but it didn’t change what he already knew. Rachel was gone.
She must have packed up while he was sleeping and left. He couldn’t believe he hadn’t heard her go, but he had been helping her with the bourbon.
He dragged himself out of his sleeping bag and stumbled to his feet. A layer of snow blanketed the ground but the sky was blue and clear and not nearly as cold as the day before. Shoving his feet into his boots, h...e followed the tracks Apollo and Rachel must have made to the bathroom that morning and followed their returning tracks when he’d finished. Knowing she and his dog walked back to the shelter where he’d still been asleep made him angrier than he’d been at her leaving. Irrational, he knew, but that’s why they were called emotions.
He saw the protein bar waiting for him in the spot where he usually set his stove and something in his chest tightened.MoreLess
She must have packed up while he was sleeping and left. He couldn’t believe he hadn’t heard her go, but he had been helping her with the bourbon.
He dragged himself out of his sleeping bag and stumbled to his feet. A layer of snow blanketed the ground but the sky was blue and clear and not nearly as cold as the day before. Shoving his feet into his boots, h...e followed the tracks Apollo and Rachel must have made to the bathroom that morning and followed their returning tracks when he’d finished. Knowing she and his dog walked back to the shelter where he’d still been asleep made him angrier than he’d been at her leaving. Irrational, he knew, but that’s why they were called emotions.
He saw the protein bar waiting for him in the spot where he usually set his stove and something in his chest tightened.MoreLess
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