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“No, I’m not choosing.” I say, putting my hands up towards him. “That’s… It’s not about that. I’m looking out for him like I would anyone else.”
“But he’s not just anyone else to you, is he?”
I can’t have this conversation with him right now, not when I haven’t talked to Carter, not when the man in question is passed out in the room with us, it’s just not the time.
“That’s not what this is about.” I tell him, before adding, “You’re having a party tomorrow right? We can talk then.”
Rhys stands tall, his hands in his pockets as he watches me intently. There’s a disappointed look on his face as he shakes his head.
“I told you I wouldn’t watch you with him.”
He turns on his heel and walks out, closing the door behind him silently, leaving me to wonder if those words meant what I think they meant.
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25
Thayer
When I wake up the next morning, I have a terrible feeling of dread in my stomach. I peel myself out of bed, careful not to wake up Bellamy who’s asleep next to me.
I rub the sleep out of my eyes as I look down at her tear stained face. I’d come home and found her in bed, absolutely devastated.
She’d caught Rogue cheating on her and they’d broken up.
I’d gotten into bed with her and she’d cried in my arms for half the night. My heart had almost shattered to pieces listening to her cry and feeling the sobs as they wracked through her body.
It was hard to believe that he’d do something like that to her, not with the way he couldn’t even seem to go two hours without seeing her.
But Bellamy had seen it with her own eyes so I’d shut up and held her until we’d both fallen into fitful sleep.
Now, she rolls onto her side, her eyes opening slowly, red rimmed and puffy from crying. She looks up at me with a depleted look on her face.
“Tell me it was a bad dream.”
I sit on the bed and place my hand comfortingly on her arm.
“I’m sorry, I wish I could.”
She groans and buries her face in her pillow.
“You going to be alright?” I ask her.
“Yeah.” She says, her voice muffled by the pillow. She turns her head to look at me. “Are you going to practice with Rhys?”
“No.” I texted him this morning and canceled, but he hasn’t texted back yet. “I’m going to see if Carter wants to go for a walk.” I tell her, my tone suggestive when I say the word ‘walk’.
“Oh, shit.” She says, her eyes widening. “Are we both about to be single?”
I shrug my shoulders and look away.
She reaches out to grab my hand and squeezes it, bringing my gaze back to her as she gives me a supportive smile.
“It’s a hard decision to make, but you’ve got this.”
There’s a knock at the door and then it opens slowly, Nera and Six poking their heads in from behind it.
“How are you doing, B?” Six asks, coming into the room with a cup of tea and cookies and setting them on Bellamy’s bedside table. “I can also get you something much stronger if you prefer.”
