day 8: i want you to leave me
Another drabble with my OCs. Angst.
Word count: 387
For the months after the world is shaken to its core, Chase doesn't see Jolie once. It's like she's been wiped clean off the face of the earth. All Chase's calls go to voicemail, all of her texts left unread. A cleanly executed dissapearing act.
Chase finds herself creaking up the stairs to Jolie's apartment, and when she knocks on the door, Jolie's Aunt Flor answers. She's exactly as Chase remembers her with the friendly crows eyes and her hair neatly wrapped into a bun, but she looks tired.
"Chase, dear. Come in," she says.
They sit down. Flor swirls a spoon around in a mug of tea. Chase has one in front of her, too, and the fragrance is too strong when it lifts up with the steam and invades her mouth.
"She's not answering my calls. I thought she'd be here," Chase explains.
"She moved out. Onto better things, I think."
Better things. What exactly does that entail?
"I'm sure she'll visit. I'll tell her you were here," Flor offers, and tilts her mug toward Chase. Chase notices it's got a crack in the lip.
"No thanks."
"I know you two were close. She really didn't tell you she was going?"
"Not a word, Flor. Not a word."
"Strange," says Flor, a vacant look in her eyes.
Soon it becomes clear that Chase is on the verge of overstaying her welcome, so she makes to leave. Before she does, she says she's going to use the bathroom, but instead of going to the bathroom, when she enters the hallway, she sneaks into Jolie's room.
The wall is bare, covered in tiny holes where Jolie used to stick so many pushpins in. Not all of the clutter has been evacuated, but all of the journals, some of the clothes, and her knives have. It's left the room a husk, like someone scooped all of the best parts away from it.
The bed is still there with that black comforter that Chase always lost her phone in. She always lost herself in it, too. She remembers laying there, passing out in each other's arms after making out until they were both a little dizzy.
Where did she go? It doesn't mattter. The message is clear.
Chase closes the door on that room for the rest of forever.
