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Holt had to fall in love with her best friend. Which meant last year, Kandi was around more than ever. She sat in the family seats with Hannah, right next to our bench. She came to the house on random nights with Hannah, rather than just at parties where I could easily avoid her.
My will was slipping with every run-in.
To be clear, I don’t remember much of last year. There was a lot of alcohol involved and even a small intervention from my closest teammates.
Holt, Nick, and Greg beat the shit out of me with the help of Alex and Finn.
My brother was sick, and I felt like I was drowning every day. I started doing better last semester, and that’s when I started trying to get with Kandi, or at least get close to her in any way I could, but it was too late.
I was too late.
She hates my guts, and I don’t even know what I did. Every time I tried to get close, she’d make a noise as if disgusted by my mere presence, roll her eyes, and walk away from me.
Did I do something when I was drunk? Do I just not remember?
I didn’t think I was that bad, but the way she looks at me tells me otherwise.
I get back to the party just as Braxton leaves to go to her. I want to stop him, but I don’t feel like starting a fight tonight. It isn’t worth it.
Each time I see Kandi coming out of some guys' room or her leaving with another has gotten easier to deal with. It stings more now that I know what I felt the first time I saw her is real, but I can’t act on it when she’s still pushing me away.
She hates me, and that has to be the first thing to change.
“What are you doing here?” Willa asks, finding me in the crowd with a red rim around her eyes, as if she’s been crying.
“Getting a drink.” I motion to the keg in front of me.
“You said you weren’t coming here.”
“I only said that, so you’d tell Kandi and that way she would be here.” My plan worked, but backfired when Kandi left early to hook up with the captain of the snowboard team.
“Bad idea.” Willa pushes my shoulder. She’s always kicking my ass. “She left after Vic said something about a rumor he heard.”
“What did the asshole say?” I fucking hate Vic. Is he spreading the rumors Kandi was talking about?
Willa punches my arm for calling Vic a name. “That’s my boyfriend, you’re calling that and I don’t know. I wasn’t there.”
“Why were you crying then?” I’m not a fool. I see the redness in her eyes, and I know what she looks like after a good tear jerker.
They’re always like that after Vic says or does something to upset her. Before she can answer, he comes out of the hall and wraps himself like a leech over Willa’s shoulders.
“There’s my girl! Baby, I’ve been looking everywhere for you.”
I glimpsed a girl fixing her skirt as she walked out of the same hallway. Asshole.
That’s why Willa’s been crying. She couldn’t find him, and won’t admit he’s cheating right under her fucking nose. And the next second, they’re making out in front of me.
“Hey, what did you say to upset Kandi earlier?” I shout to get their attention. I need answers.
They break apart and Vic shrugs. “I heard she likes it rough. It wasn’t anything bad. I was trying to set up my boy, but she thought I was flirting with her. Girl thinks everyone wants a piece.”
I’d bet anything he was flirting with her and she turned him down.
“That girl is trouble, Willa. I don’t think you should hang out with her anymore.”
I scoff at that. The only one who is trouble here is him, but Willa rolls her eyes and gives him a playful nudge as if he was telling a good joke.
She’s blind. I’ve tried to make her see what Vic really is, but it’s no use. This guy has her completely blinded.
