So It Goes Meaning Novels & Stories

he says Well, here goes nothing

Steady! Go!

- - - - - - - - - - Bike! Abeg I dey go… - - - - - - - Please, I’m going to... Oya na- - - - - - - - - - Ok No worry, I go hol’am- - - - - - - don’t worry, I will hold it Watin happen? All the money wey you no make

What goes around, comes around. The end.

With hands on his hips and deep lines across his forehead, the werebear stares intently. Finally, after a few beats of silence he says, “We go through it.” “Go through it?” Mason and I say simultaneously with confusion. “Yep.” Finn pops the P at the end of the word. “We don’t go over the mountain. We go through it.” I share a look with Mason, both of us wondering if Finn has finally lost the plot.

I looked around to see the others lined off behind me in a semi circle. "Shoo buddy!" Shoo buddy is an old saying that literally means oh fuck! I closed the laptop and sat back in my chair, no pressure. I didn't take my eyes off of him, didn't blink-swallow, none of that. I knew that no matter what came before, even permission for his daughter to go off to school with me that this was it right here. It was crunch time.

"Rodney, what does gone mean? What do you mean by you? Speak Rodney." Gone? Gone? What does gone mean? What did he mean by gone? What is gone? I must've forgotten the meaning of gone because what the fuck does gone mean? My brain couldn't comprehend anything at all. Seems they massaged my brain away at the spa because I don't know what the fuck gone means. "She had a heart attack this afternoon. The ambulance took her away in a bodybag." He explained, sniffing lightly. "Oh my God!!"

Should I keep going? “What the…”

"You're going back home." What?!

The hit of the coke is starting to work and even though I should be buzzed, I am just drowning in my own sorrows. I did this to her; I have to let her go. The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. If it comes back, then it was meant to be. If it doesn’t, then it wasn’t. I groan and move back to my desk and take another hit.