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At least that’s what I think when he showed up in the middle of the night. He doesn’t want to be alone either. I like that I can help him back.
A knock from the front door echoes through my small apartment. I jump off the mattress. My chest squeezes. Balthazar would just come right in so it must be Bree early for dinner. How am I going to explain all of this to her?
I force one foot in front of the other and peek in the peephole.
Casey.
I’m not sure if I’m relieved or disappointed.
I know I need to speak with him about our relationship, so I might as well get the discussion over with. When I open the door, he doesn’t look pleased. I try to ignore his exasperation and offer a friendly smile. “Hi.”
“Hey.”
Instead of waiting for me to invite him in, he brushes past me with a beeline straight to the living room.
“What’s this? You got a new couch?”
“Yes.”
Not a lie, even if I don’t expand on the why. Or the who.
He frowns and shakes his head. “You didn’t text me back.”
“I’m sorry. I had a lot going on this weekend.”
He huffs and rolls his eyes. “Let me guess. With your dick boss.”
In all the time I’ve known him, Casey’s never acted like this, never talked like this. I understand that he’s upset but this seems more than irritation about a lack of response.
I try to keep my own frustration in check and my voice calm. “He’s not a dick. He’s a nice guy.”
“Ha! Nice guy?” His finger jabs into his chest so hard I imagine he’ll leave a mark. “I’mthe nice guy. But like always, I’m fucked over and stuck in the friend zone while the asshole gets the girl who’s too stupid to realize what she’s got right in front of her.”
Well, right now, he doesn’t seem nice at all. “I’m really sorry. I’m not saying this to be mean, but I didn’t feel a connection between us even before I met Balthazar. I just don’t—”
“For two fucking years, I’ve been your study group partner, hung out with Alex and Bree, went to ballgames, decorated with all your Christmas shit. Everything you wanted. All for nothing.”
The confession stings. I can’t believe our entire relationship has been a lie. “I thought you were my friend. I thought you hung out with me and did those things because we were friends.”
“Yeah, and that’s all it got me. Be the nice guy and finish last just like they say.”
“Friendship isn’t finishing last.”
“It is when I should be your boyfriend. I should be the one fucking you.”
A darkness takes over his expression that causes me to shudder. For the first time ever, I’m afraid of Casey. Maybe Balthazar is right. He can’t be trusted. “I think you should go.”
As if he doesn’t hear me, he stalks to me, crowding so close I stumble backward.
“What is it about him? Is it because he’s forceful? Is that what you want? I can give you that too.”
He hounds me, following me step for step, and cornering me until I have no place to go but the bedroom. The space is so tight with the huge new bed, my thighs hit the side and I’m trapped.
Nausea swirls in my stomach from the evil in his eyes as he pushes me back onto the mattress so hard my feet fly up. He leans over me with his fists on each side of my head and his face hovering over mine.
“Is this what you want? You like it rough? You want me to fuck you hard like the tease whore that you are?”
My eyes burn from his mean words. Never in a million years would I have expected him to call me such disgusting names. “I’m not a tease whore.”
