Believed (My Misery Muse)

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Author: Brei Betzold
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I growled.  Then
I fully woke up, my brother was calling at who knows what time. “Is Dad okay?”
    “Yeah, Dad’s fine,” Max said and I could hear the
strain in his voice.
    “Max, what is it?  What’s wrong?”
    He sighed. “Your apartment was broken into
tonight, Sam,” he said quietly.
    “Okay what?  I thought you had some friend staying
there.”
    “I did, she came home and found the place
trashed.”
    “Did you call the police?”
    “Yeah, they should be calling you later.”
    “Okay good,” I cleared my throat. “So you going to
tell me who’s been at my place now?  You know, in case the police ask.”
    “Jules,” he said quietly.
    “Wait, Jules was at my place?  Doesn’t she have a
place of her own?  I know she does, that little rat hole apartment over by
where Devi and Seth used to live.”
    He cleared his throat. “She was living there with
her ex, but she needed some place where he couldn’t find her.  So I stashed her
at your place, only he found her.”
    “Is she okay?”
    “Yeah mostly, she wasn’t there when he broke in.”
    “Mostly?”
    “Long story, I’m waiting at the police station now
for her.  She’s filing a report then I’m taking her to Cris’s until we can
figure out what to do next.”
    “Max,” I growled.
    “It’s not mine, brother.”
    “Fine, I get that.”
    “I just wanted to call and let you know what
happened.  I’m taking care of everything, but you’ll want to contact your
insurance company.  I don’t know what all he took.”
    “Are we sure it’s him and not some crazed fan?”
    “The police are looking into all possible
scenarios, but yeah I’m pretty sure.”
    I rubbed my eyes and looked up at the photos I had
taped to the bunk above me.  “I’ll call them after I talk to the police.”
    “Okay, look man I got to go but I’ll call you
tomorrow.”
    “Yeah okay, talk to you later.  Oh and tell Mom
and Dad I love them.”
    “Will do.”
    I hung up and lay back down in my bunk, looking at
the picture that was above me.  There was nothing I could do on a tour bus who
knows where, it was another thing to add to my ever growing to do list.  I
tossed the phone back on the ledge and covered my face with my pillow hoping to
drown out the voices in my head enough to sleep.

 
     
    Chapter 2
     
    Jules
    “No,” I said adamantly.
    “Jules, it’d only be for a few weeks.  Just until
the police find him,” Devi said.
    “Or we do,” growled Max while he glared at me.
    I looked down and fidgeted with the sleeves of the
long sleeve shirt I was wearing.
    “No,” I said quietly.
    “Why not, Jules?  You’d be safe, he won’t be able
to get to you there.  It would give everyone time to get the situation under
control without you getting hurt.” I could hear the again she’d left off.
    “I’ve already caused enough trouble,” I said
quietly, “just let me go.  I’ll go someplace on my own, I don’t want to drag
you into this more,” I said and looked up at Devi pleading.  “I don’t want
anyone to get hurt because of me.”
    “He’s not going to hurt any of us,” Cris said
staring at me.  “He’s just going to keep coming after you to get what he wants,
though.”
    I swallowed and rubbed my hands against my face
bringing them up into my hair and tugged. “Why do I always fuck up?” I murmured
to myself.
    “This isn’t your fault,” Devi said fiercely.
    “I knew he was in trouble and I stayed, that’s my
fault.  I could have left before it got this bad.”
    “Oh Jules,” Devi murmured and sat down beside me pulling
me into her hugging me.  “You didn’t do anything wrong, you wanted to help
him.  What he’s doing and what he’s done isn’t your fault.  It’s on him, he
made his own choices.”
    I wiped the tears from my face. “Are you sure
they’re really okay with this?  I don’t want them to do this as some sort of
pity or something.”
    “I’m sure,” Devi said smiling at me, “and

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