Reminders of him by colleen hoover performed by brittany presley and ryan west there’s a small wooden cross staked into the ground on the side of the road with the date of his death written on it scotty would hate it i bet his mother put it there can you pull over the driver slows down and brings the cab to a stop i get out and walk back to where the cross is i shake it side to side until the dirt loosens around it and then i pull it out of the ground did he die in this very spot or did he die on the road i didn’t pay attention to the details during the pre-trial when i heard he had crawled several yards away from the car i started humming so i wouldn’t hear anything else the prosecutor said then to avoid having to sit through details if the case went to trial i pleaded guilty because technically i was i may not have killed him with my actions but i definitely killed him with my inaction i thought you were dead scotty but dead people can’t crawl i walk back to the cab with the cross in hand i set it on the back seat next to me and wait for the driver to pull back onto the road but he doesn’t i glance at him in the rearview mirror and he’s staring at me with a raised brow stealing roadside memorials has to be some kind of bad karma you sure you want to take that i look away from him and lie yes i’m the one who put it there i can still feel him staring at me as he pulls back onto the road my new apartment is only two miles from here but it’s in the opposite direction from where i used to live i don’t have a car so i decided to find a place closer to downtown this time so i can walk to work if i can even find a job it’ll be difficult with my history and lack of experience and according to the cab driver the bad karma i’m probably carrying around right now stealing scotty’s memorial might be bad karma but one could argue that leaving a memorial up for a guy who verbally expressed his hatred for roadside memorials could be bad karma as well that’s why i had the driver take the detour down this back road i knew grace probably left something at the location of the wreck and i felt i owed it to scotty to remove it cash regard the driver asks i look at the meter and pull cash and a tip out of my purse and hand it to him after he parks then i grab my suitcase and the wooden cross i just stole and make my way out of the cab and up to the building my new apartment isn’t part of a huge complex it’s just a single standing unit flanked by an abandoned car lot on one side and a convenience store on the other plywood covers a downstairs window beer cans and various stages of decay litter the property i kick one aside so that it doesn’t get stuck in the wheels of my suitcase the place looks even worse than it did online but i expected as much the landlord didn’t even ask for my name when i called to see if they had any vacancies she said we always have vacancies bring cash i’m an apartment one and she hung up i knock on apartment one there’s a cat in the window staring at me it’s so motionless i start to wonder if it’s a statue but then it blinks and slinks away the door opens and an older tiny woman stares up at me with a disgruntled look about her she has curlers in her hair and lipstick smeared to her nose i don’t need anything you’re selling i stare at the lipstick noting how it’s spleeding into the wrinkles hugging her mouth i called last week about an apartment you said you’d have one available recognition flashes on the woman’s prune-like face she makes a hump sound while looking me up and down didn’t expect you to look like this i don’t know what to make of her comment i look down at my jeans and t-shirt while she walks away from the door for a few seconds she comes back with a zipper pouch 5.50 a month first and last month’s rent is due today i count out the money and hand it to her there’s no lease she laughs stuffing the cash into her pouch you’re in apartment six she points a finger up that’s right above me so keep it down i go to bed early but what utilities are included water and trash but you cover electric it’s on now you have three days to get it switched into your name deposit is 250 to the lat company brilliance audio reminders of him by colleen hoover performed by brittany presley and ryan west there’s a small wooden cross staked into the ground on the side of the road with the date of his death written on it scotty would hate it i bet his mother put it there.

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