Filed To Story: The Perfect Spiral Book PDF Free by Ashley Constantine
Five.
It was the early hours of the morning and there was no sign of him coming back. I was getting curious as to where he is? Where did he go to think? To be alone? I was exhausted and couldn’t stay awake for him.
Exhaustion claimed me last night, a result of the restless hours spent thinking about him. I found myself succumbing to sleep in the living room, cradled in someone’s arms.
I was gently lifted, carried through the quiet house and into my room. The cool, crisp sheets enveloped me, guided by a pair of unseen hands.
My head sank into the plush pillow, and I drew the covers up to my chin. I felt the mattress dip as a body settled next to me.
“Goodnight, sweetheart,” a voice murmured. I responded with a sleepy mumble, feeling a tender kiss on my lips and forehead. It was Wes. But oh, how I wished it was him.
The low hum of the air conditioner filled the room, a soothing lullaby that lulled me into a deep sleep. It was a respite I had been yearning for over the past few days.
Thump
Something wakes me up from my deliciously long sleep. I roll over to check the time on my phone. I see two messages on my phone from Knox.
Knox
I’m sorry baby doll. I didn’t know
Knox
I’m going to fix this.
Remembering last night. I throw back the covers feeling the cold air rush to my skin and run around my bed bursting my door open and then his. Seeing his room empty, bed made, and the quietness.
He’s not here. He had to have come home last night. He texted me. But he didn’t wake me.
“Hey! I was going to come in and wake you. He’s gone to do his ESPN interview downtown today. We’re all watching it downstairs together if you want to watch it with us?” I hear Kyle’s voice beside me.
Not taking my eyes off his room I nod allowing Kyle to move around me to go downstairs. I lean off the door frame sighing. I wish I’d spoken to him before he left.
Just to talk to him. Calm him, calm his nerves. I know how nervous he must’ve been. It was only fair that I tried to calm him down. Like he did with me in New York.
I trail downstairs after changing into my clothes and enter the kitchen with Boomer at my feet. I feed him his lunch and proceed to make myself some food seeing as everyone is engrossed watching the TV.
“Today we’re live with Knox Carter. We will be talking with him live in Savannah Georgia after the break. Stay tuned!” It cuts to a commercial. I continue to fill my plate with salad and cold chicken.
I sit beside Hannah at the counter with Ben beside her. Seeing his hand rest on her leg, I send him a cheeky smile which he sends a playful glare at me.
But my attention gets taken back to the screen in the kitchen above the dining table.
“Good afternoon everybody live from Savannah Georgia with the great Knox Carter today. How are we doing today Knox?” The reporter asks him.
I can see his nerves on the screen and I pray he relaxes. I can see he’s biting down on his lower lip making it look ruby red. He’s good at this stuff, he does this all the time.
“I’m good today Gerry thanks! How are you?” He’s polite but I can hear the shakiness in his voice that makes me cringe. Seeing his jaw tense, he heard it too.
“So another two years with the Giants? You planning on nabbing yourself another title this season?”
I begin to pierce my salad with chicken onto my fork and struggle to get it inside my mouth. I get attacked by the leaves hanging from it and groan at how annoying it’s being.
“That’s the plan alright Gerry, but we’ll take each game as it comes. No point thinking too far ahead in the future. The season hasn’t started but it’s a goal for the team” answering smoothly.
He’s in a sharp black suit that accentuates his toned body. He looks so good. You can see the upper part of his six-pack through this white shirt that is then cut off by the button clasped holding the material together.
That is one strong button.
His hair is neatly combed back like the time when we went to the People magazine event back home.
“Well, it’s good to have a goal and game plan. How do you prep yourself before a game?”
“I have a good breakfast, lots of protein to keep my energy constant. I usually have the blue Gatorade before I walk to the field.
No rituals, like the same socks or underwear, I don’t believe in that stuff. I listen to pumped-up music to get me hyped. That’s it really.”
“All that helped you win the Super Bowl title for your team? You didn’t have a strong start in the game, but you picked up after halftime. I know it wasn’t Beyonc? that pumped you up?
You mentioned someone helped you pick yourself up? Care to tell us who it was?”
Shaking his head with a smile on his handsome face. He sighed loudly. Running his fingers along the leather armchair he sits on beside the desk.
“If I shared that with you, I’d have every athlete after her getting her to hype them up too. She’s my secret. She helped me open my eyes a little to play my own game and nobody else’s”
His eyes flicker to the camera like he’s watching me. Hannah nudges me slightly and my mom turns her head around to send me a small smile. I see him playing with his hands, wringing them because he’s nervous.
“It almost sounds like you were playing for her? You made exceptional passes that day. Correct me if I’m wrong but statistically, that was your best game-“
“In a way I was. She put effort into hyping me up for the second half so I owed it to her to bring my end of the bargain in. Yeah, statistically and it felt like it was the best game I’ve ever played.
I wouldn’t change anything about that day. I threw numerous perfect spirals that felt amazing and that rarely happens to me” he smiles to himself at the memory resting his fingers on his chin.
Showing his pearly white teeth to the people. His nerves are fading as he relaxes into the seat being cool, calm, and collected.
“Nothing’s better than a perfect spiral! But it’s time to take a quick break. We’ll be back with more of Knox Carter after these messages!”
Another few commercials run. Including his Calvin Klein commercials, which we saw on the big screen in LA. After a few minutes more we stopped chatting to listen in again to him.
Listening to the introduction music, the screen occupies his entire face with him smiling at something the presenter said off-camera.
“Welcome back to the show, we still have the most talked about football player at the moment here with us, Knox Carter. Thanks to his popularity we’re taking in a lot of viewers today.
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