Im Gonna Get You Back – Eva Des Lauriers

It was hard seeing Delaney like that. “We both did.” I think back, try to remember. I know we stumbled back to my dorm and started reminiscing. About high school and the team and Clara. We talked about Legacy and how we both wanted to go back to what we’d been so excited to escape.

At least Woodhurst was familiar when everything else was so new. “I wasn’t handling the changes or the pressure well. My injury was fresh, my head a mess. The guys on the team are hardcore, and Coach is relentless … It was all so intense.” Delaney tried calling Clara over and over. I tried calling Mitchell, too. Neither of them picked up, and that made it worse somehow. Like we were the ones who were left behind, even though we weren’t the ones home.

Then Delaney lay back on my bed and started crying. Told me how lonely she was at school. I told her I was, too. The rest I mostly remember in flashes. None of them good. “There was no way she could drive, so she stayed over. We talked awhile. And … I know we kissed.” Clara’s eyes drill into mine, barely containing her anger. “And?” “I don’t remember much else.” Her eyes narrow like she doesn’t believe me.

“I know I fucked up—” Shame cuts my breath short because the details are fuzzy. But there is one thing I know for sure. “We didn’t have sex like this post is suggesting.” “Did you want to?” “No. The whole thing was kind of awful, actually—” “Oh, was it?” she snaps, her biting tone dripping with sarcasm. “Was hooking up with my best friend awful for you?” “Yes.” My voice is strangled. She goes still, some of the anger draining as it’s replaced with hurt.

“I can’t believe this.” “It was nothing—” “Then why keep it from me? Why didn’t you text me or call me or something?” Because I couldn’t hear her voice knowing she didn’t want me.

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Clara stared out at the lake below, a breathless, awestruck look on her face. Her green eyes wide and soft, color high on her cheeks from the hike. Camera in hand, she panned the vista, entirely focused on getting the shot and not at all aware that I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Nothing could pull her attention when she filmed. Not that I didn’t still try. “Look at how the light bends over those pines,” she said reverently.

“Just there. Stunning, right?” “Right.” The light was nice, but it wasn’t enough to distract me from her. But her turning the camera toward me was. While it didn’t bother me, being filmed made me self-conscious—too aware of my arms and hands and the fact that she saw so much through that lens. “Can I help you?”

I asked. “Don’t talk,” she said, a smile in her voice. “Stay broody. You look perfect.” My entire body rushed with heat. As charged by her as the world around us that bounced with sunlight. I pulled off my beanie. “I’m not broody.” “Have you seen you?” I pushed my hand through my unruly hair, sure it was sticking up all over the place with the way Clara’s eyes bounced to it. “Meaning?” “You’re, like, the definition of broody. Quintessentially broody. If I were making a documentary about the broodiest guys in Woodhurst, the list would begin and end with you.”

“Why would you make a documentary about that?” She scoffed. “It’s an example.” “An example of how you’re obsessed with me,” I teased, the corner of my mouth lifting. That rosy flush I loved blossomed across her cheekbones. When our eyes met over the camera, hers narrowed playfully. “You wish. As usual, just ignore me.” “As usual, that’s impossible.” Her responsive laugh was airy as she circled me, capturing whatever shot she envisioned.

There was a focused fluidity to her movement that reminded me of the hawks soaring above us. Free and attuned all at once. “How ready are you to get out of Woodhurst?” The question confused me a moment. We still had a few months before graduation.

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