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“It was college, Drew. You two hadn’t gotten together yet.”
“You never fucking told me! You could’ve told me before we started dating!”
“Why? What good would it have done, man? You were how you were about Lauren, and it wouldn’t have stopped anything. The only fucking thing that would have happened would be you making her compare the two of us all the time, and I didn’t want that for her. Or for you,” I say, my tone dropping at the end.
“You’re a lying, no-good bastard! You’re not my fucking friend!” he snarls, storming away.
“Drew!” I call after him.
“Lauren, get your shit! We’re leaving tonight!” Andrew hollers as he storms toward the stairs.
Lauren casts a pitying glance my way before she runs after her husband.
I look up at the top of the stairs as Drew disappears, the blood drains from my face, and I go stock-still.
Yesenia stands there at the top with a look of disappointment on her face. She shakes her head when I take one step, and she turns away, too, hobbling down the hall.
Shep grabs my arm. “Stop. Let her go, dude. Give her a minute.”
Stacey glances at me and disappears up the steps after her stepsister.
10 – YESENIA
I’d known from watchingthem together that there was something different about them. Lauren and Kincaid were linked in a way that the others weren’t. I’d watched how they exchanged subtle glances when certain conversations came up.
Although I knew they had all been friends since their primary years, I suspected Lauren and Kincaid shared a secret the others weren’t privy to.
Everyone returned to their rooms after Lauren and Andrew left. Tyler and Denise had tried to get Andrew to change his mind. Kincaid tried to come and talk to me, but I’d locked myself away in the room, and eventually, he gave up.
I’d fallen asleep early, jumped up earlier than everyone else, and caught a cab to the airport. I hadn’t waited on the others but simply let Stacey know what was happening.
Although she wasn’t happy about my decision, she said she understood and helped me get my luggage downstairs to the cab. That was only half of the battle because of my sprained ankle.
Once I arrived at the airport, that was another struggle entirely, one I had to fight with no one to assist me. One thing I’ve learned in life is that you can do anything you want to do with a little determination and grit, and thanks to my experience in life, I had plenty of both.
“I thought you were staying in Alta for another two weeks,” Carlos says.
