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Kayleigh: Where are you?
I sigh as I type a response.
Me: Just went out for a minute. Almost back.
Pulling into the driveway, I’m glad to see none of the guys are back yet. Most of them should be arriving tonight and I think Jesse said he’ll be home tomorrow. I’m thankful for the empty house because I’m almost positive it will be filled with screaming in just a few minutes.
“You okay?” Dawson asks me.
I shake my head. “No, but it has to be done.”
We climb out of the car and make our way inside. I lead him into my bedroom and nearly die when I see the way Kayleigh smiles at me, dressed in my sweatshirt.
“Look who I found.” I tell her as Dawson enters the room.
She shrieks and runs to embrace him. “How was Aruba?!”
“It was incredible.” He answers but Kayleigh eyes him suspiciously when he doesn’t elaborate. “What?”
“Did you ask her?!”
“Oh!” He chuckles when he realizes what she’s referring to. “Yeah, she said yes.”
Being wrapped up in my own dilemma, I completely forgot he planned on proposing to his girlfriend over Christmas vacation. I give him a congratulatory pat on the back before we share a look. It doesn’t take long for Kayleigh to notice the tension.
“What’s going on?” She asks, glancing between the two of us.
This. This is when she leaves me for breaking her trust, again. I try to smile but I fail miserably as I walk over and sit on the bed, motioning for her to sit next to me. She obeys but continues to look from me to Dawson and back again, searching for answers.
“I told Dawson about your eating disorder.”
She doesn’t answer right away. Instead, she just stares at me, blinking and trying to register what I just said. I can’t help but squirm under the way her eyes are shooting daggers into my head.
“I’m sorry, you did what?!”
“Kayleigh, don’t be mad at him. He’s just worried about you.” Dawson tries.
“Did I ask you?!” She spits. Fuck, she’s furious.
“Woah, relax.”
“No!” She screams. “He had no right to tell you!” Her attention turns back to me. She’s going to leave. “Why would you do that?!”
“Because I got scared.” I answer like a four-year-old getting in trouble for breaking his mother’s favorite vase.
“That’s a really shitty reason.” She growls. “I didn’t even want you to know about it. Let alone someone else. You’re my boyfriend! I’m supposed to be able to trust you!”
This is what I was afraid of. I promised her I would earn her trust back, and I just did something else to ruin that. I’m so stupid and now I’m going to lose her, again.
“Okay enough.” Dawson’s voice is loud and startles us both. “Stop talking to him like he kicked your puppy. He cares about you, and so do I. Neither of us want to see you get hurt!”
By the grace of God, what he says stops her rage dead in its tracks. She sighs and runs her fingers through her hair before looking back at him.
“You’re not going to tell anyone, right?” Her voice is surprisingly calmer now.
“Of course not. But I am worried about you, just like Holden is.”
She gets up from the bed and turns to face me, putting her hands out for me to take. She doesn’t hate me?! She isn’t leaving?! I allow her to pull me up and our arms instantly wrap around each other. I press my lips to the top of her head, just glad I’m still able to.
