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Pure Obsession (Finn) - Chapter Five
Date: 10/9/2014, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 20, Source: LushStories
hated myself. I squeezed my eyes shut and gripped the edge of the washbasin hard. All this time I thought I was hurting nobody and yet I had been. I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. Incoming call. It was my mother. I breathed out a humourless laugh. What was there to say? What did she want to say? Did she want to convince me to stop seeing Alessandra? Her words wouldn’t be enough. I knew that what I’d done was fundamentally wrong and yet I couldn’t lose Alessandra. She was the best thing that had ever happened to me. She gave my life meaning and focus, and in some crazy way, I genuinely loved her. Everybody lied, didn’t they? Lies weren’t such a bad thing. If I told her the truth, she’d think I was a psychopath and maybe I was but so long as she didn’t know it, everything would be fine. The emotions were getting to me. I breathed in and out slowly. Emotions were no good. Emotions made you behave rashly. If I kept on like this, dredging up memories and regrets, I knew I’d probably confess everything I’d ever done to the whole world, and then I’d lose Alessandra. It couldn’t happen. I needed to get a grip. I stared at my reflection, the brown of my irises, the stubble along my jaw, the hair which I’d run my hands through so many goddamn times. The truth wasn’t important. The past wasn’t important. I had to focus on the future. My future was sitting out in the restaurant, probably wondering what the hell had happened to me. I had to act normal. Normal. I could fix things with ...