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Violet rolled her eyes, but when back to her food. They ate and joked about college, remembering all the times they had done stupid things in their group. They talked about Liv and Lewis and how obvious it was that they liked each other. They talked about Micah and how they all knew she was going to make it big someday, and they talked about the few good memories they had before it all went downhill near graduation.
It was one of the best meals he ever had.
When they were done, Violet was in a good mood. She was laughing with him like they used to laugh, and he could feel it wriggling under his skin, settling within him.
It was a dangerous feeling.
“Hey, we’re near my apartment,” Violet said as they drove back to her school. “Do you mind if we go see if they’ve started work on it?”
“I don’t mind.”
Violet told him where to turn, and they pulled up to an old looking building, with a tarp over one side of it. It looked poorly maintained, with overgrown trees and old unpainted concrete. Trash was thrown in every visible crevice.
Seeing this awful place, and knowing Violet lived here made him want to lock her in his home forever. He thought his old home was outdated, but this was simply gross.
Violet leaned forward abruptly, and Charlie frowned, following her line of sight. Right on the front of the building was a red sign that said, “Sold.”
And judging by the look on Violet’s face, this was the first time she had seen it.
Chapter Thirteen
Violet
Violet was pissed. More than pissed. Maybe even furious.
“You can’t sell the building!” Violet yelled. She was standing outside of her old apartment, which had a sold sign on it. She had gotten out of the car and immediately called her landlord. She paced the vicinity, walking in circles as Charlie watched her from the distance.
“They gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse.” It was obvious he didn’t care too much. She could hear his loud TV in the background. He hadn’t even bothered to mute it.
“We had leases. Agreements!”
“And in those leases, it said I could break off any time if I decided to sell. And I am. You don’t have any legal ground here, honey.”
Violet groaned. She had read the lease years ago when she moved in, and she had thought no investor would be dumb enough to buy a building on this side of town.
Obviously, she was wrong.
“Listen, if you leave me alone about it, I’ll give your deposit back," her former landlord said. She pulled her phone from her ear to flip it off. It didn’t do anything, but it made her feel slightly better.
“I want last month’s rent too,” Violet added.
“Now why would I do that?”
“You want me to leave it alone? Then pay up. Otherwise, I’m going to the local media about it. I’ll find these investors and make both of you look so bad they back out of the deal.”
Her landlord muttered something, and Violet didn’t try too hard to make out what it was. She was mad enough. “Fine, but if I do, you keep your mouth shut.”
“Deal. I better get that check in two weeks.” She told him to send it to her school, and then hung up the phone. There was only one second of silence before she yelled into the darkness of the night.
“That bad?” Charlie asked,
“I want to wring his fat neck until it’s the size of his penis! I want to drag his sorry ass through the mud until we hit the fucking desert, and then I want to make him eat his own sorry excuse for a building brick by brick until it’s sunk in that he sucks ass!”
Charlie didn’t look perturbed by her rant. He had nodded along as if he had heard all this before - and he had. Usually directed at him, though.
“Fucking shitbag! I knew I shouldn’t have signed that lease! I knew Nashville was doing well but I didn’t think any investor would want this shithole!”
“It is a shithole.”
