And now I was suffering the repercussion of my stupid decisions.
“So that’s the reason why I’m here. Life sucks, huh?” he said.
I reached for the stereo and turned the volume into full blast. I just waited for him to stop talking before I drowned the car in songs. I wasn’t that ill mannered to just cut him off when he’s obviously having fun talking about his life.
And what kind of person tells someone whom he just met about everything in his life? Only this guy.
He just shook his head and laughed at me while I was turning the volume up.
The whole ride almost killed me! When he figured he couldn’t annoy me with his unsolicited tales about his life, he stepped on the gas and drove so fast that I thought I was going to die!
“You freak! Slow down!” I shouted at him. We were still a bit far from the city and there were no cars near us so he must have thought how fun it would be to race against himself!
He laughed. “Scared?” he said in between laughter.
“You’re going to kill us both!” I said as I was holding on to the seatbelt—as if that would save me when we crashed against something.
“Come on! Loosen up a bit!”
“You’re a freak!”
“At least I’m not uptight!”
I closed my eyes as I feared for my life but even with my eyes closed, I could still his laughter. He was enjoying this way too much! Maybe he gets off seeing people almost peeing in their pants because of fear! This sadistic asshole!
Praying internally, he finally slowed down. I opened my eyes and saw a sign saying that we were approaching the city. God, I was safe! My hands were grasping tightly on the seatbelt so when I removed them, I was slightly trembling. I was really scared.
“See? You didn’t die, did you?” he said.
“I almost had a heart attack!” I hissed to which he replied with a laugh.
“Almost,” he replied. “You’re still alive.”
I was fighting the urge to strangle him, throw him out of pickup, and to drive away from this freak. He was just so annoying. Though I just met him, it seemed like he knew which buttons to push.
“Where are you going, anyway?”
“Grocery,” I replied.
He nodded and then drove silently. If only he could be this quiet, then I wouldn’t have these murderous thoughts against him. I have met many people from all walks of life but none annoyed me so much that I had these morbid thoughts. Only him. Only this sadistic asshole.
We stopped in front of a grocery store. Good thing he didn’t stop in front of the usual grocery store the maids go to. I wouldn’t want them telling Adam that they saw me. I still needed my away time from him.
And I think it was doing me good. I mean, I hadn’t thought about him for hours already. It was a good thing, right? Instead of sulking and thinking about him and his ex, I was thinking about other things…
It was an improvement, nonetheless.
I hopped off the car.
“Thanks for the ride,” I said to him. I hated the things he did but I knew how to be grateful. Though he almost killed me with hisdriving,I was thankful that he drove me here. If not for him, I would’ve starved.
His brows were cocked. “You’re not gonna ride back?”
“I’ll get Uber or something.”
“And here was I, thinking we’re already friends,” he said with what I assumed was a pout. “I sang for you, lady!” he whined like a child.
“I didn’t ask you to sing,” I replied with a frown when I remembered how he murdered one of the songs. He was way out of tune!
“But I was entertaining, wasn’t I?” He grinned.
“You’re hopeless.” I shook my head.
But he didn’t seem to notice—or maybe he chose to ignore my reaction. “I’ll just get something and then I’ll pick you up in an hour.”
“But—”
My protest wasn’t heard because he rolled the windows up and then began driving away. I knew him for hours only but he sure knew the way to make it to my most annoying people list.
Good thing I was wearing my hoodie because it was cold earlier. I pulled my hoodie up and went inside. There’s no harm in being careful. Though I wasn’t really from Seattle and I didn’t have much friends here, I couldn’t deny that this was Adam’s turf. And being that I was his wife, there’s still a chance that people might recognize me. And I didn’t need that trouble.
I went inside and grabbed a basket. I didn’t know exactly for how long will I continue this hiding from Adam thing. When I decided to leave the house, I was thinking that I just wanted to get away from him. I was really pissed that moment. But now, I kinda missed him already…
Trying to get these thoughts out of my head, I dumped whatever my eyes fancied inside the basket. From the rate I was going, it seemed like I was gonna stay in hiding for at least two weeks. But I thought it was better than to not have no food.
I also bought charger and before I knew it, I was done shopping. I was putting the grocery bags inside a pushcart when somebody got the bag from my hand.
“See? I can be a gentleman.” He put all the bags in the pushcart. “You’re gonna eat all of these?”
“Yeah. Got a problem with that?”
“You…