MARSHALL APARTMENT
The leather feels so familiar against
Alex's hands, even now.
His fingers hold the journal cautiously,
like it might explode at any instant. They pull it carefully from its place
at the back of the "junk drawer" in his dresser and he walks over to the
bed, unable to remove his eyes from it.
He sits down on the edge of the bed
but quickly moves himself back to the headboard, leaning against it as
he pulls his knees up closer to him.
Save for the times he has moved in
the past few years -- and the ample opportunities those times provided
for him to discard the journal -- this is the first time it has been out
of that drawer in a long time. He marvels at the passage of time as his
fingers reach to open the leather cover.
Five and a half years.
Five and a half years. That was once
practically an eternity to him. The idea of five and a half years passing
used to seem amazing, almost impossible.
It's still amazing to him now, albeit
for different reasons entirely. It's been five and a half years since he
put this journal -- once his best friend, the confidant that hid in his
dresser until he needed to consult with it -- away for good. Five and a
half years since his life changed so completely.
I should have thrown it away,
he thinks suddenly. But for some reason that isn't immediately clear to
him, the very thought of losing this book sends a terrified shudder through
him. He always knew the day would come eventually when he would no longer
be able to resist and he would have to dive back into the journal's pages
and back into the past.
That day is here.
Without even realizing it at first,
he begins to review what led him to this point. The visit from
Don several
days ago -- it's been burning at his brain almost nonstop. But it's more
than Don's support that brought him back to the journal. It's everything
that has happened in the past two years. Everything with Courtney and Lauren
and--
Jason. I never should have let
that happen. Not after what happened last time ...
His trembling fingers flip to the
first page of entries.
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