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“Did you have a random one-night stand?” Ryan asked, his voice was low as though he doubted the question himself.
“Oh my god, no. Do you think that little of me?”
A rumble of muffled voices began but I didn't listen, I was too busy staring at Kane. He stared back at me.
“It was me,” Kane shouted over the top of everyone’s voice.
Carter and Ryan twisted to Kane, as we stared at him for a time. Kane didn’t respond with anything other than a small smile.
Self-satisfied bastard.
“Fucking Kane,” Carter yelled at Lacey and turned and pointed at Kane. “Him, he has given you nothing but shit for months and you picked him.”
Kane was about to get up from his seat, probably to go and punch Carter, but Lacey beat him to it and stood behind him. She put her hand on his shoulder; she squeezed it a little.
“Yes, I picked Kane.” Lacey stared back at Carter, her voice finally calm and resigned. “It was always my choice, not yours, and it felt right.”
Carter stood with his hands balled into tight fists. Lacey glared at him. “I need some time alone,” he finally said and walked off.
“Maybe we all do.” Lacey sighed as she nodded. “I’m going to bed. Hopefully, we can have a grown-up conversation about it tomorrow.”
She turned and walked away and each one of us looked at her and waited for her the leave the room. Held off for her to climb the stairs and finally we heard her bedroom door closing.
“Why you?” I whisper yelled at Kane. But not because I was jealous. Somehow there was some hope we were changing history. But how?
He rolled his eyes. “Be a fucking adult for once, Seb. You lost this one.”
I narrowed my eyes at that comment, and wondered if he now remembered who we were. “I am an adult but I want to know why she chose you? You and her don’t get on, you piss her off, she pisses you off.”
“I already told you in the hospital. We’re fine now and we talked it through and everything is good between us,” Kane said. His voice was quieter than normal. “Better than good.”
Just at the time I wanted to ask what that meant, Carter came storming back down the stairs. “What the fuck happened?”
“No, Carter. If you want a discussion about it, then Lacey is involved in it, too,” Ryan said calmly.
He pointed at Kane. “No, I want to know your side of the story.”
“My side of the story is simple. I apologised to her for everything I’d said to her. We kissed and made up," Kane said.
“She did it because you apologised to her?” Ryan said incredulously, his voice suddenly raised and not so calm.
“No, she’d already decided because of the way we were all acting about it. You all pissed her off.”
Carter snorted. “So she fucked you because you didn’t get involved.”
“We didn’t fuck,” Kane hissed. “And there is more to it than that.”
“Such as what?” Carter said with a scoff to his voice.
Kane sighed. “I love Lacey and I know she loves me.”
“Oh,” I whispered and recalled what he said in the hospital.
“She was spending more and more time with Jack. One of us had to stop being immature and apologise to her, or she would now be with Jack and Blake,” Kane said. “Nobody was thinking of Lacey, you were all thinking of yourselves.”
“I didn’t,” Ryan said.
Kane rolled his eyes. “Mmm, whatever Ryan. I remember her coming to the house and you took her to your bedroom to study and not to the dining room, where you normally study.” Kane glowered as his voice got harsher. “You remember, you forgot to put a top on, just wearing your sweatpants with your dick swinging loose underneath.”
