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The sight of my best friend, after not seeing or talking to her in such a long time, is too much for me. Before she can even get another word out, sobs break out of me as I fall into her arms.
I guess the bruises on my face is what made her speechless. I’m pretty sure they look even shittier now than they did last night. I got quite a few stares from people in the diner but I tried to keep my head down and didn’t pay much attention to anyone.
“I’ll chew you out later when you’re not a sobbing mess. So, for right now, just come in,” she says, hugging me. Despite all the different emotions running through me, her words make a laugh spill out of me. That’s what I missed about her. She could always make me laugh even when I felt like my world was crashing down over me.
Three
KNOX
We were almostto White Bridge, the town where our away game was being held. It’s almost three hours into our drive and I still can’t get the weird sensation I was feeling earlier to go away. It’s the same one I’ve been feeling from the moment I left Raine in the library to now, almost like a sense of dread that’s just stuck in the pit of my stomach.
Maybe it’s because it’s the first time I’ll be away from my baby after the incident and that’s what has me in knots right now. It’s a good thing I had one of our drivers bring my car to school for me before we left.
It will make it easier to leave and go back home to her right after the game. I was originally going on the bus the team usually goes to games with but then I changed my mind. It would take longer to get home and I wanted to get back to Raine as soon as possible.
I knew the guys would ride with me and I was glad for the company. I didn’t really want to be alone with my thoughts on the whole drive here. I’m already as unfocused on the game as I’ve ever been, and that isn’t good.
On the ride so far, the guys have been on their best behavior. We’ve talked about random shit, but so far, they haven’t brought Raine up in the conversation yet. I haven’t deluded myself into thinking that they won’t because my best friends are nosy fucks. I know it’s coming sooner or later.
“Sooo… you and Raine?” Asher questions, the first one to go. I look across at him in the passenger’s seat and he’s looking at me with a smirk on his face. His question opens up the floodgates that I knew was bound to happen when one of them decided to open his mouth. I guess we’re having this conversation now rather than later.
“I hate to be the one to say it… but I told you so!” Ezra exclaims with a goofy smile on his face.
“Totally saw this coming from the moment you said and I quote, ‘I hate her…’” Axel says next with a smirk firmly planted on his face as well.
Yep, and there we go. I knew the fuckers wouldn’t keep their mouths shut about her the whole way here and not ask… or rather, tell me their opinions.
“Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up assholes,” I grumble and that just causes them all to outright laugh out loud. “It’s looking more and more like I should kick your asses out of this car so you can hitchhike to the game!”
“Please, dickhead, you wouldn’t because you love us too much,” Ez says with a grin on his face. When I look back at him through the rearview mirror, he turns it into a cheeky-ass smile. I just roll my eyes at him without answering.
“Okay, we’ll quit ribbing you, for now. But on a serious note, what is going on with you and Raine now? You almost chewed us out a few days ago when we were at your place while she was sleeping on top of you and you thought we were going to wake her up,” Asher says with a roll of his eyes, like that was the most outrageous thing I’ve ever done in my life.
“I—” I say and then cut myself off. What the hell am I going to say or what the hell should I even say especially when I’m trying to figure things out myself? Everyone knows that I was a dick to her from the beginning, but none of them know why. I’m going to keep it that way.
“You?” Asher prompts and then chuckles when I throw a glare his way.
“Fine! Fuck, you assholes are worse than girls when it comes to gossip!” I snap.
“That’s stereotyping, dickhead,” Ezra says laughing.
“Well, you know what I mean, asshole!” I grumble.
“And you keep trying to avoid the questions,” Axel pipes up from his seat in the back, with another one of his smirks firmly planted on his face. If I wasn’t driving, I’d have loved to pop him one in the mouth just for being such a smug asshole right now.
“I love her!” I blurt out. Now that it’s really out there in the universe, I feel so much better admitting that to my friends. I haven’t actually admitted that to her because she’s not ready for that yet and won’t be for a long time.
Not telling her for now is what’s best for the time being. She either won’t believe me or she’ll want to kill me. There’s really no telling with her since her mood has been changing quite often in the past few days.
I’ll just have to show her what she means to me with actions instead of words. When I finally tell her how I feel, my actions will have already clued her in as to what is what. And if she doesn’t agree with me, then I’ll just have to make her see things my way. I’m not losing her. She belongs to me and only me. I’m not above fighting dirty, if it ever comes to that.
Asher lets out a long and low whistle at my admission and I just stare ahead as I wait for what he’s about to say. I know he’s probably going to say something real and honest. which means it’s probably going to be something I won’t like.
I can usually handle my shit when someone tells me something that I don’t like. Mind you, I only take advice from the people who mean something to me and not just any idiot on the street.
But the point is, you listen so that you can grow, right? But apparently when it comes to her and anyone telling me anything about her, I become deaf and dumb and don’t even entertain whatever the hell it is they’re going to say. Obviously, that’s why things are such a mess between us.
“You might have finally pulled your head out of your ass, brother, but I hate to be the bearer of bad news. She hates you,” he says and then winces at his own words because we all know it’s true. I mean, after all the shit I pulled, some of which she doesn’t even know about… well, let’s just say that I’d hate me too.
