AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Now it just feels weak. It was weak of him to treat me like a dirty little secret.
Is he thinking about his already broken vow? The boy scouts would have kicked his ass to the forest clad curb.
I hope he is stewing in guilt. So much for owing him any sort of favors.
And I know, I only have myself to blame. It’s my stupidity for leaning on Landon Scott for advice, help, or common fucking courtesy.
Six
Landon
Friday is finally here. One week of school and somehow I’m already feeling the pressure. Not for myself, of course. I mean I’ve got a good handle on all my classes this year. It's boringly simple.
It’s Dee though. She is already failing Algebra. In a week. How does that happen? How one person could be so very bad at math is beyond me.
She isn’t stupid, anything but. Yet somehow we’re one week in and she’s already struggling. It’s the beginning of the year, this is the easy stuff.
It won't get easier.
I chew on my lip, knowing that if she doesn’t get the hang of what we're working on now it will likely set her up for failure the rest of the semester. The image of her falling face when she saw her test result passes through my mind for the third time today.
Algebra is my first class of the day and the hardest one to get through. Don’t talk to Dee. Don’t help Dee. Don't even think of Dee.
Knox told Reed and I after we found her with that disease Damon, hands groping her chest like she was the freaking volume button on a stereo.
Knox was a chaotic mess after that. Destroyed his lower level gym in under an hour. A pile of shattered glass and flipped benches were all that was left in the room.
I’m mad too. Furious. Somewhere between jealousy and shock over a girl I’ll never have.
Suddenly, I’m angry at myself too. I let myself push the envelope with her all summer. I stole a touch here, a fleeting moment of joy from the way she laughed at my terrible jokes there. It was intoxicating just to want her.
Maybe that was the appeal.
And yet, I still fucking want her.
I’m so stupid. So unbelievably stupid for falling for her this summer.
Landon Scott, A-plus student: terrible idiot friend who can't do the one thing he was asked.
I’m thankful for Knox, he's like a brother to me. His father, secretive as he is, lets us stay with him while he is gone. A wonderful way to get away from my own “perfect on the outside” family. Though, I have my suspicions that his father doesn’t actually know we're staying here.
But to cross Knox, I worry what he would do if he ever found out the secrets I keep with Dee. There’s two sides of him. The side I’m friends with, the version of Knox that can persuade anyone to do anything. The man who loves a challenge. Then there is the dark side of him. Some part of him that is so lost to himself, it terrifies me to think about what he would do.
There's an evil in him. I've seen it. I've seen how he threatens guys. Girls too really. Not the typical I'll kick your ass threats that come naturally to anyone.
No. These are fuck with Violet again and I'll bury your mother under your back porch.
That's the threat he gave Damon the morning after he caught the sleazy fuck in bed with her.
Those are the type of things about my life long friend that keep me from ever really crossing him. That and I’m not willing to get kicked out of his house... yet.
So I won’t talk to Dee. I won’t help Dee.
And it’s killing me.
“What’s the best way to forget your woes?” I think out loud to myself as I pull a large bottle of tequila from the Reyes family liquor cabinet. “Ah, my old friend.”
Reed saunters in and before I can look up a football flies toward my face. I nearly drop the glass bottle while fumbling for the ball. “What kind of woes could you possibly have?” His pale brows lift with arrogance while I continue to try and grasp the awkward ball.
