Believing lies

chapter 9

Before I could even tell River to not do anything, he was grabbing Beck by the collar, throwing him on the ground and getting on top of him, punching him.

"oh fuck," Celeste says as we rush over and try to pull River off, after about a minute of struggling, we successfully pull him off and he stumbles up.

"bastard," Beck says laying on the ground before glancing at me. River pushes me behind him a bit.

"calling me the bastard when you had the audacity to raise a baseball bat at Belle," River spits out huffing. "are you fucking insane?" He huffs angrily.

I slide my hand into Rivers before tugging River back a bit more, "I think this is your cue to leave Beck. You are never welcome him and we shouldn't even be standing this close, leave before something else happens," I tell him. Beck glances at us before his eyes flicker down to River and I's hands.

"River, come on, let's go to bed," I say before dragging River inside. I hear Celeste bite off Beck's head again before assuring our neighbors.

Celeste comes back and slams the door shut, locking it behind her, "My god if I thought about throwing a few punches at him he would leave," she sighs.

"how long has he been here?" I ask as River walks over to our fridge and pulls out our ice tray.

"a few minutes before you two arrived," she sighs, "I'm going back to bed, I have to be up in a few hours," Celeste announces.

"It isn't right to go to bed angry," I comment to her as I pull myself up onto the counter beside the sink.

"Yes well, I don't care, I can dream of punching Beck in my sleep, goodnight." She sighs and I watch her walk away.

I turn back to River who had a cloth with ice over his fist, "now this definitely wasn't how I thought this night would go," he sighs leaning on the fridge across me, I shrug. "I'm sorry I got so angry it's just,"

"You of all people don't have to justify yourself,"

"At least I got to punch someone," he shrugs with a sigh. I look him over once before flickering to his face. I hop off the counter.

"Okay, I wasn't joking about going to bed, come on." I grab his wrist and pull him towards my room.

"I honestly don't know what overcame me, I've never been physically but I guess all my emotions from dinner were just bottled up terribly and I saw red, very quickly," He says as he closes my bedroom door.

I chuckle a bit "I know, I saw it flash through you. Do want a pair of Callahan's sweatpants?" I ask and he shrugs but nods. I throw it to him before excusing myself to the bathroom.

"does it hurt?" I ask once we were both laying in my bed. He and I have laid in my bed plenty of times but not at night.

River chuckles, "I may have said I don't get physical but I know at least enough to punch without hurting my own fist," he chuckles and I smile. He lets out a loud and almost angry sigh.

"Are you still flashing red?" I ask and he hums. I slowly sit up and turn to him, he tilts his head to the side, I can see his green eyes taking me in. "I did mention earlier it isn't right to go to bed angry," I see him give me a forced smile.

"I just, after you told me he was your ex, something in me snapped and I thought back to the moment when you first told me he was abusive and how you couldn't even look me in the eyes until I made you and I just hated that, I fucking hated it." He tells me.

I sigh as I turn to him more, "I know it was hard for you to hear but I've had a year and a half of healing and I'm fine."

River sits up and I try not to glance down at his chest, seeing as he was shirtless "Baby," he sighs and lifts my chin up, "you may be thinking that but I know you enough to know that you really don't mean that and your still very much healing,"