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“It’s like someone else I know.”
A flash of fear rolls through me. No, not fear. I don’t know what it is. It’s like being caught in a searchlight. For the last few weeks, I haven’t been afraid of Carlos. I don’t know if he ever suspected anything, but ever since that party, he seems to have been happier with me not heading out as much. But that hasn’t exactly been in my control.
We sit in silence for a bit, Carlos heading us through to the game and starting to play. But I sit there with the controller in my hands. Not playing.
He knows.
“What the fuck are you on about?” I ask.
Carlos sighs heavily. “You tell me,” he says, now turning.
“I think I’d like to know why you’re saying what you’re saying.”
“Oh, that makes two of us Sebastian. But I guess we all got our secrets. Dancing around the truth.”
He definitely knows.
I pause the game. “Okay, what’s up?”
Carlos licks his lips, calculating the next words he’s going to say. “I’ve been hearing rumors lately.”
“Well, you know what they say about rumors—”
“Yeah, but now there’s solid fucking proof.”
My heart skips a beat.What’s this?
“You know, man, I ain’t angry that you guys got together. I’m angry that you were so fucking petty that you felt you had to hide it. I’m a fucking adult man. We ain’t kids.”
He pauses, giving me one last moment to admit the truth. But instead, all I can think of is what he just said.He had proof.“You’re fucking following us?” My body lights up with anger.
Carlos throws the controller down now. “Dude. You’ve been seen at the movies, at the restaurant, at the beach, and at the fucking cafe. Look, you and Mimi can date and do whatever the fuck you want. But why hide it?”
His anger is confusing the shit out of me. Surely he’s angry at something else. “I'm sorry we kept it from you man but what are you so on about? You’re angry that we didn’t tell you. But why have someone follow us?”
“Pfft,” Carlos shoots air between his teeth. “Fuck no I didn’t..”
“Then where’s your proof from?”
“That ain’t a part of this conversation.”
I put my controller down too. “You’re gonna say all this and then expect me to tell you everything?”
“You’ve always been the one with secrets” Carlos shoots, folding his arms.
“What the fuck are you on about? We’ve just been working together for the last two weeks and you bring it up now? Like fuck, I’m not sorry, if this is how you're acting now.”
“You’re gonna apologize and then take it back?” Carlos says, looking at me like I’m a bug under his boot. “Let me guess, now you’re gonna hold the fact that you got me the job from Luca over my head too?”
“The fuck is up your dickhole?” I snap. “Your prison pen pal bitch break it off with you over a letter?” I gesture at the paper next to him.
He reddens. That’s pushed him over the edge. “Fuck you, man!” Carlos stands. “I got no issues stomping a backstabber!”
I rise too. “A backstabber? You’re the mother fucker who kept secrets about the fucking Russians. Yeah, I know. Those mother fuckers tailed us up the whole coast. Even left you a little love note. Well, they’rewaitingCarlos… What are they waiting for? Huh? Want to tell me that?”
Carlos turns fearful for a second. He pales and then swallows. “I don’t need to stick around for this shit.” He goes to leave.
“No, you can’t play that card.” I grab his arm and stop him.
