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“What? She’s sixteen. I couldn’t let her go unkissed any longer, it’s fucking pathetic!”
They all laugh, unkindly, and climb back into the car. And then they’re gone, without so much as a backward glance.
Shame heats me and keeps me frozen to the spot. I’m embarrassed to admit I stand there way too long. Hoping for…what? Their return? A miracle?
At the very least a message from Zie apologising for having to be so cruel to keep up the ruse of our ‘friendship’.
But I get nothing.
Even after I go inside and watch a film, even after I take a long bath and go to bed, even after I wake the next morning to an empty, lonely house…I don’t hear from him.
From any of them.
I’m the fucking worst. I don’t even have to look out of the window to know she’s in tears and devastated by my words.
There’s no excuse for it, but I really fucking hate Axel right now for making us do this.
I can’t believe Zie just kissed Peony like that! Right in front of all of us. And Axel’s dad no less. We were supposed to be distancing ourselves from her to make the separation easier but it looks like I’m not the only one who’s been having trouble staying away.
Fuck.
He didn’t have to be so cruel though.
I guess he doesn’t know that Peony has been kissed before. I’m proud that I was her first. It feels good to finally beat Axel at something, even if he doesn’t know it. I don’t need to gloat, just knowing that Peony chose me is enough.
I wished I could have been the one to give her a goodbye kiss though. I wouldn’t have ripped her heart out with some dick comment. I’m so pissed at Zie right now.
Axel too.
I’m not on board with this plan to leave Peony behind at all. But what can I do? His father has all of our balls in a vice.
Let them hate me. I know I’m doing the right thing. If there were any other way, I’d have found it by now. I’ve been wracking my brains for months trying to find a way to make this work. For us to stay. For her to come with us. Nothing was possible.
“Have you sorted the phones?” My father asks me.
“Yes. Did it last night.”
“Everyone’s?”
“All of ours, and Peony’s, yes,” I reply tightly. It was my father’s idea to cut all contact with Odile. And he didn’t leave me a lot of choice. Not with her life on the line. I just wished we didn’t have to be so cruel to keep her alive.
The guys will forgive me in time.
I’m not convinced Peony will though.
At least I got to be her first kiss.
