THAT INFURIATING FEELING (CHASING FEELINGS #2) BY ALI HIDALGO – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Ali Hidalgo
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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June, 2017, The Day Before Move-In Day,
Sophomore Year Of College
“Stop!” I screamed, ripping the pillow off my bed and throwing it at my
closed bedroom door. I rubbed my socks roughly over the shag carpet as I
slammed my fists on the mattress, trying to provoke any sensation in my
body, anything besides the fury that rippled through my veins. Just as my
brain began focusing on the way my lungs expanded and contracted, as my
body honed in on my breathing—
“Juni, please. You’re being ridiculous!” my mother called from the
hallway.
“Agh!” I grabbed my other pillow and whipped it at the door, the anger
that had begun to dissipate sucking right back into my core like iron dust to
a magnet.
“Just leave her be for a bit,” my father said quietly to my mother, his
voice humming through the thin wood.
“She’s in there talking to herself again like a crazy person!”
I wailed as I grabbed my box—the problem object in this scenario—off
the bed. Hugging it into my chest, I sank to the floor and propped my back
up against the edge of my mattress. The corners of the wooden box dug into
my arms and fingers. I stared down at the intricate carvings on the top of it,
tears and snot leaking from my face like I was some sort of hysterical
showerhead.
Frantically, I unlatched the box and opened it, taking a deep breath of the
sweet vanilla perfume that emanated from the red velvet lining inside,
trying to force it past my plugged nose. I stared at its contents. Three Pez
dispensers.
Wonder Woman’s head on a red base. Alana purchased that one on our
trip to Florida.
A lazy-eyed Garfield. We loved to watch those cartoons growing up.
A jack-o’-lantern. She got that one on October 30, 2013. Her final
birthday.
“I can’t do it, Alana,” I said aloud. “I can’t do it. You have to come back.
The joke is over. Please come back now. Please. Please.
Pleasepleasepleaseplease.” I hugged the box into my chest with my arms
and knees, rocking on my tailbone and letting my shoulder blades crash into
the bed behind me repeatedly.
“Daya, you talk to her!” my mother said from the hallway. I imagined
there was also a light shove on my older sister’s shoulder to accompany that
command. My mother’s lips seemed to be perpetually haunted by those five
words. Her fingers were programmed to send my sister into the ring every
time I broke down.
The doorknob began to turn, and I damned myself for not having any
more pillows to throw.
“Go away!” I cried. “I just want to be alone! I just want five seconds to
breathe!”
“Ah, and you can’t breathe around us?!” my mother asked just as Daya
opened the door fully. All three of my family members stood squished like a
picture framed by the jamb. My father’s eyebrows wrinkled with concern,
my sister looked at me with a flat, silent apology, and my mother had one
hand on her hip, the other flailing through the air angrily.
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