At least if I hung with these two, they wouldn’t ask me why I left, what had happened, or why I was back. They wouldn’t ask questions because that’s not what we did; we didn’t ask questions.
King and Frost were desperate to keep us together – to keep me back here. We were the Three SnowmassHoles of Aspen. Together, we took what we wanted; apart, we were just three more rowdy snowboarders too full of themselves to matter. Channing had kept us at bay – more or less – and I’d always been slightly more inclined to her side of reason, but I had a feeling that she was going to have a different male figure on her mind than any of us assholes and the shenanigans that we got ourselves into.
I saw where they were coming from; I saw what they saw – only it wasn’t the truth anymore. It wasn’t the truth because I was fucked. But maybe that was a good thing because I was no longer inclined towards reason. There was no meaning to my life which meant the only thing left for me to do was enjoy the fuck out of it. Go big or go home. Except my version of ‘go big’ wasn’t going to be fit for any fucking Disney movie.
I wasn’t a snowboarder anymore. Definitely not a competitive one, probably not even an amateur one. When I’d picked up Channi—my board – earlier, it’d been like a fucking brand on my hand; it had been the first time I’d touched a board since the accident and all it did was taunt me – like handing a recovering alcoholic, three months sober, a glass with vodka in it. The board teased me, whispering my name straight into my soul, tempting me to ride her again. Not fucking happening.
I sat almost as quiet as Nick, turning on the truck and heading away from the house; it wasn’t home anymore. And because I was almost as quiet, I realized just how far I’d fallen. It’s always the quiet ones that are the most dangerous. I may not know all his secrets, but I wasn’t fooled into thinking that he didn’t have any.
“You weren’t serious that we were going to Frost’s, were you?” Emmett broke the silence again. And I shook my head. “Good. I need a hard drink or a good smoke.”
“Both.”
“And a hard fuck,” he finished, Frost murmuring his agreement.
I floored it out of the driveway, heading towards Big Louie’s. I’d shown up at the mountain today, but there were too many tourists for any locals to have noticed. At Louie’s though, everyone would see that I’d returned. And everyone was going to see that this Chance Ryder was not the one they knew – I was not the one who’d left almost four months ago. I was no longer a Wonder Twin. I was no longer the mountain hero. I was, however, still an asshole - for better or for fucking worse.
Aspen better look the fuck out – the SnowmassHoles were back.
The End.
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