Is It Possible to Love Two People part 4.
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We first met Running Hailey Bigs here in part one:
https://literotica.com/s/is-it-possible-to-love-two-people
Then in Part two Hailey keeps on running, but her life turns upside down.
https://literotica.com/s/is-it-possible-to-love-two-people-pt-02
Then in part three Hailey the deep betrayal in Hailey's life is discovered here:
https://literotica.com/s/is-it-possible-to-love-two-people-pt-03
For Christmas my mom wired me ten thousand dollars to help me get started at MIT.
Was able to purchase a rebuilt 1990 Isuzu Trooper, V-4, 3.0 Liters four by four with auto hubs and a manual five speed. Pretty zippy too. Four thousand dollars. I had finished all my work for credits and grades by Thanksgiving. Marie got me a two gas credit cards and a Visa card with a small limit that she would replenish. She had made her husband Phil, my fake dad enter into negotiations for Phil to buy out his cousin Tom.
I had been part of a news flash for North Bend and then all this shit was out in the open and I'd get stopped on the street or the grocery store by moms of my friends and they'd hug it out with me. They were real people and cared. Coach Julie had been fired by the school board.
I was living in the cabin and I'd discovered this song by Tom Walker called Leave the Light On. There were tons of covers and it was on the competition shows. It was about a friend worried sick of losing his friend to addiction and he talked about a house on the hill as a beacon and how he'd leave a light on for the friend and I'd wail away at the chorus, "I will leave the light on I will leave the light on I will leave the light on I will leave the light on pretty simple, but his fucking voice was deep and growly and then there was this line in the verse "Lately, you've been searchin' for a darker place to hide" that would bring me to tears. I wasn't on drugs or going to be, but I'd found the dark place and it had found me.
I was deeply into the ten thousand meter intervals, running, music and oatmeal raisin cookies were my safe place. My anger had subsided and I couldn't get my arms around how Tom hated me. I loved him with all my being. I read a book of poetry by a woman named Sylvia Plath called the Bell Jar that was stunning and about her life married to this philandering asshole. She had two kids and he fucked around on her.
This one quote gutted me, "If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
I realized that buried in that quote was a geometric foundation in that I was freed up if nobody owed me anything. I could not rent space in my heart and soul for people that would never be part of my life. I should be stingy about subletting my heart and soul so easily. Nor should I worry about anyone in my mind when I could not change any outcome in my past, good or bad. It was over.
That was towards the end of my last run before I left. I cleaned up the cabin and called Marie to see if we might go out to Cascadia for bye bye pie. She was in on it.
I told her how I'd been down and had figured out a resolve and she liked it. We had a simple cheese pie and chatted. She was getting really sad and I asked her if we could face time a lot. I said, "Mom, I'm only starting to understand the depth of your love for me. I expect to return in the summer, depending on running and ultimately I will return here to settle down and have a family. I want a lot of kids.
She had brought me some cookies and we ordered some ice cream. We were just about done when Julie, Tina and Tom were standing at our table. Tina was huge, twins maybe, eeesh.
Julie said, "We feel horrible about what has happened and how it happened and we'd like to apologize because Tina is going to have twins and you'll have two sisters."
"Ummm, " I said, "How do you figure that?"
"Well your dad and Tina are having twins."
I wonder why she didn't have the kids, but she didn't seem to be functioning with all the relevant information that was out in the open here. "I'm not related to the babies in any sense, he's not my biological dad.
"Ok, but he raised you and was a good father."
"He got paid to do it and he hates my guts, that's on record!"
"Hails, we want you in our life and we are sorry."
I looked at Tina she staring down at her belly and Tom was looking out the window. I looked at her and said, "Okay fine."
She said, "How about dinner on Christmas Eve?
I said, "Perfect.
They slipped away. Quietly
"Hails you'll be in Boston."
"Let that be their Christmas present from me.
I left on December fifth. It was three thousand one hundred miles. If I took five days it was six hundred and five miles per day. Twelve hours a day was fifty miles an hour. I'd stay on I-90 the whole way. Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and finally Massachusetts.
It was unseasonably warm as I left. It was in the mid fifties and drizzling, as I hit the summit of Snoqualmie Pass the sun was out and I crossed into Idaho at noon. I pulled into Billings, Montana at seven thirty. I got a motel room at the Super Eight for sixty two dollars. According to my trip odometer seven hundred and ninety two miles.
That's how it went, give or take, I was in Boston at midday on Monday, December ninth.
Before I left the motel, this morning, I texted Coach Hayde that I would be in town midday and needed directions. She texted them to me and said to call her when I got there. I was parked outside what looked like an indoors facility or basketball gym and I called her.
She picked up and said, "Hails, are you here?"
"I'm parked right outside this indoor facility and I have a blue Isuzu Trooper."
"Okay, I'm sending out Antonia Gastonetti, she's going to get you settled into your dorm and then, generally get you situated, Okay? Also the NCAA reduced our events to cross country, six to ten kilometers, just under four miles to six miles depending on the venue. Toni's a very strong runner. You will start as running partners."
Then she was there. She was tall, not quite as tall as me. She was absolutely the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Red hair like mine, but hers was shorter and there was a pink streak in her hair. She was queer. I was totally flummoxed as I got out of the Trooper.
"I'm Toni, you're the famous Running Hailey Bigs?"
She pulled me into a tight hug, our boobs were smashed together and she wouldn't let go and I melted into her and laid my head on her shoulder."