AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Rage spills out of me and all I see is red.
I look for Harlow but she just stands back, her fingers in her mouth as she watches the brawl unfold in front of us.
“What’s wrong?” I ask, walking towards her and she whimpers, hot tears streaming down her face and suddenly, fear consumes me.
Pacey shoves Austin off him and Tripp grabs Austin’s arms, holding him back. Riggs storms through the middle of them, his head twisting from side to side as he looks at both of them.
Anxiety swims in my chest, nerves prick my skin and I hope this is over.
“Pacey, you fucked up.” Riggs warns, his tone is low and Pacey just smirks, spitting out blood to the side of him.
“Did I?” Pacey challenges and I watch as Riggs’ once furrowed brows pinch a little deeper, his eyes darkening before widening at Pacey’s words. “What did you do a few weeks ago? Or should I say ‘who’.”
“Pacey, watch your fucking mouth,” Riggs warns him once more, but this time his tone has venom coating it, his tongue darts out as he runs it along his bottom lip.
Pacey looks past Riggs for a moment and towards my brother.
“What about you? Who did you fuck on prom night because I can’t be the only one that broke some sort of code that night,” he laughs.
My eyes move between all of them.
Nothing but silence.
“And you!” Pacey takes a few steps towards us, his finger pointing at Harlow, “Crier over there, are they tears of shame? Regret? Guilt?” he continues and Austin looks as confused as me.
“Can someone please explain what is going on?” I plead, my throat tight.
Tripp lets go of Austin and lurches forward, shaking his arms out.
“No one going to speak up?”
Silence falls over the dusty parking lot.
“Fine—”
“Shut up Pacey,” Riggs grits, his tone low and full of gravel.
“Nah, people want to come for me, but I’m not the only one who is going to be spilling their secrets tonight,” he shakes his head from side to side and he looks manic.
“Please, Pacey… you’ll hurt everyone.”
“And what?! I’m hurt. I have fallen in love with Aspen and yet it’s still not enough. You’ve pined over her for years, and the same for her with you. I finally done something about it, swooped in like the knight on the horse and saved the day so she could go to prom and for what? To find out she is ashamed of my feelings? Regrets sleeping with me? I didn’t force her into it, it was the perfect night. Or so I thought,” he twists his lips, his head dropping for a moment. He is hurt. His emotions mask his face. I edge forward but am soon stopped in my tracks. “Harlow fucked Austin, then Riggs fucked her.”
The words plough through me like a wrecking ball, all the noise that once was clear was now muffled and blended into one, loud noise.
“What the fuck,” I whisper, my heart in my throat, my pulse quickening under my skin and suddenly I feel lightheaded.
My best friend.
The one who knew just how much I love Riggs.
How much it’s always been him.
And yet…
My eyes are brimming with tears, my stomach churns and nausea replaces the anxiety. Slowly turning to Harlow, she is crying and apologizing.
She isn’t apologizing about Austin.
