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I gulped, “Yes. By the way, I heard Brennan dropped the charges.” Shifting the conversation to the main thing that occupied our attention the whole day.
“Yes. Matt said his charges won’t stick anyways.”
I smiled, “That’s great news, right?”
Why was he stand-offish? He was sitting away from me and his mouth was held in a tight line when he said, “Yes, it’s good news.” The look on his face belied the happy news.
“You don’t look happy,” I observed.
“I am happy that dick wad dropped those charges because they’re baseless. Plus, they won’t stick.”
I repeated myself, “Alright. Why don’t you seem happy about it?”
He handed me his phone with a stoic expression on his face. A picture message was on the screen. It was of me holding Brennan’s hand at the Café.
I gasped.
“I asked you twice, Sedona. Twice you lied to my face!” His voice, dripping with anger, “You said you were in a group study and all this time, you were holding hands with that dickhead!”
Lies, no matter how small they were, have ways of seeping into the surface. I knew I would not be able to say anything to appease him. He had warned me to steer clear of Brennan.
“Do you know how angry I feel right now?! I just learned that my girlfriend, who I’d protect from anything in this world, was holding hands with this motherfucker who was charging me with fuckin’ assault! Oh, and all this time, I was thinking she was in a safe place, that she was in a freakinggroup study!” His breathing was harsh as he unleashed his fury. His hands shook on his sides, his fists were clenched, and I didn’t dare move.
I honestly did not know how or what to say to make it better. I sat there, cringing with each word that came out of his mouth.
I scooted into the corner of the couch, pulled my legs up to my chest, and burrowed my head in my arms. The damning silence hung in the room. He paced for a couple of minutes and stopped in front of me. I was unable to lift my head to meet his eyes. There was silence. The last thing I heard was the door latch clicking in place.
I was exhausted. My mind couldn’t take in anymore. My heart was so heavy. I wanted to make things better but I ended up messing everything up with Zander.
Zander was probably going to leave me. He had every reason to. I lied to him. Not once, but twice in one day. I slumped my shoulders in defeat and clutched my arms around my waist. Tears slowly streaked down my face. I deserved this. I lied twice. I knew how he felt about lies. He absolutely hated them.
Zander
I didn’t know how long I’ve been in this bar. All I knew was that there was no way I could drive. I couldn’t even operate a cellphone. I texted Xavier and within minutes, he was calling me, “What’s ‘mmgrry’, dude? Is that a code for something?” His voice was loud on my ears.
I stuttered all the way through but managed to say, “Pick me up at Hudson’s.”
He said, “No prob. Be there in 20.”
Thank god for friends you can rely on. Not like girlfriends. Especially girlfriends who lie and meet with their ex-boyfriends when their boyfriend was being sued.
How the hell could she do that?! She was smart. When it came to that shithead, her actions were idiotic.
I thought she was in a group study! I should’ve known something was not right when she was evasive about it. Why did she have to lie?! Oh, that was right. Because that was her stupid ex-boyfriend who she had to cover up or help or whatever the fuck up!
A few girls approached me at my corner. Oh, how easy it would be to take them with me and drown whatever hell I was in into them. But I couldn’t even move a muscle in my mouth to talk to them. They were not HER. My body recognized the difference and it knew the distinction between her touch and other females!
A woman actually had the nerve to touch my shoulder and I coiled away from her. I was mad. I was upset. Angry and livid. But Sedona was still my girl. My lying girlfriend. I didn’t know what hurt more – the fact that she lied to me or the fact that it was because of him she was lying to me. What kind of hold did that asshole have on her? After 3 beers, 4 shots of my friend, Jack, and a couple more of rum shots, I stopped counting.
“Celebrating?” Xavier was here.
I ignored him and tried to stand up. He caught my arm before I plastered myself on the floor, “Whoa. Easy, Superman” I snatched my card from my wallet but Xavier stopped me, “Let’s go, buddy. All’s taken care of.”
Once we were inside his car, he warned me, “I will not forgive you, if you throw up and piss in my car.”
I had no urge to puke or piss. When the car moved though, I wasn’t sure if that was still the case. I climbed out of his car as soon as we hit the front of our apartment. Xavier asked if I’d be ok to reach our apartment or if I wanted to wait for him to help me up. I shook my head, “No. I’m cool dude.”
I was far from cool. I just wanted to climb onto my bed and sleep for a decade. The elevator ride up to the 3rdfloor was of no help. Within minutes of reaching my room, I stumbled into bed and darkness engulfed me.
