Page 56 of Rocking Player
“Aww, well that’s silly.” Olivia said like she was teaching her fifth-grade class again and then added for measure like this was all math, “You loved him before anything happened to Dad.”
I dug out my card but didn’t type anything in as I asked, “Can you come and help me, now?”
Olivia said, “Pack your bags. Take a week on the road for your honeymoon. Jeremy and I can go to school together.”
“Thank you,” I said as I typed in my information.
This wasn’t first class, but the midnight flight landed me in Los Angeles at 5:00 am.
“Are you looking things up?”
“You know me well.”
It was better to talk in person, hopefully. I didn’t want to make another mistake and face-to-face was where I was most alive.
Hopefully, I could tell him he completed my life. I’d been wrong to hang up. The screen finally read "confirmed".
Yes. Olivia then said, “Oh, Indigo’s on the line. Hold on.” Guess I had no choice. I dug my small traveling bag out again as Olivia clicked back in and said, “All three of us are together now.”
Indigo asked, “So Olivia’s babysitting?”
“Yes, but you’ll help?” I asked as I grabbed my underwear and bras. Maybe I’d be right home and he’d tell me to fuck off. I probably deserved that, but if he didn’t, then I wanted cute underwear.
Unfortunately, I didn’t own many.
“This morning, but I’m off to Vegas tomorrow.” Indigo said, “Ridley and Nicole are both in to help though. Phoenix and his fiancée are coming to town and they want to take Jeremy to a concert.”
“That’s fine.”
“I confirmed with them to keep him overnight on Friday, so Olivia could have some time for herself. "Look, I’ll text you the hotel he’s staying at now. Did you get your plane ticket?”
Indigo was always the genius in finding out information for me. She’d found me tickets, found out where Michael’s team was staying in LA. I needed to buy her a huge birthday present but for now I held a hand to my heart and said, “It leaves in three hours. Olivia needs to get here fast so I can make my flight.”
I grabbed clothes without paying much attention to what and tossed it in the bag as Indigo said, “You act like Pittsburgh airport might be a problem when you’re flying to LA. Now when you land, that is a monolithic place.”
“Right. Okay. Good to know.” I swallowed and grabbed my stuff from the bathroom. “I’ll be fine.”
“Rent the car before you hit the road,” Olivia said.
Hurry up already and get here. Normally I’d have spent time researching the best price, but I quickly realized renting was cheaper than a ride share. So I picked the cheapest option, but today I was off center. I sighed into my phone and opened my laptop again. I used an app and found a car. “This is taking forever.”
“You’ll thank me,” Olivia said and I heard her car in the driveway.
I wanted to jump and scream but my son was sleeping. “I do thank you.”
The garage door opened. I hung up with them both, grabbed my bags, and threw open the door to my sister who was opening her trunk for me.
Then I ran down the stairs, tossed my bag in the back, and saw that all she’d packed for her trip to Vegas was a small backpack. I hugged her and said, “Goodbye.”
She followed me to my garage. “Look, you’re my sister, I love you but go fix your mistake.”
My skin was awakened, my adrenaline was pumped. I needed to tell him I loved him and wanted him unconditionally. “I’ll try. Hopefully, he’ll listen.”
“If he doesn’t, he might need time to heal,” Olivia said as she opened the garage door for me. “But you need to try.”
He wasn’t the one making unreasonable demands. I tossed my stuff in my car and said, “That’s not nice. I was the one that screwed everything up with my fears. I can’t believe I was that stupid.”
“Go.” She waved at me.
