Good Girls Love Bad Boys

Anger is in the Air

// Anne-Marie's POV //

I sat outside in the hospital corridor, a door being the only thing separating Dinger and I. I could hear the muffled arguing from inside, and I wanted to know what he was saying.

Don't eavesdrop, Anne-Marie. You know where that got you last time. I thought to myself. I sighed, remembering eavesdropping on Dinger and Jaislyn.

That made me wonder again, what happened with Jaislyn? That's one question I didn't ask him. I guess I forgot.

I didn't hear any talking. Maybe they were finished visiting? I needed to ask that question before I forgot about it again.

I got up on my feet and stood in front of the door. There was a curtain over the window so I couldn't even peek in if I wanted to. I raised my hand up to knock before I heard Dinger saying something....

"...And now, high school. You know Jordan, right? My best friend since primary school. Well, I knocked her up." I heard Dinger say from behind the hospital door.

I stopped mid knock. What? Did he just...? It felt like my heart stopped, and my stomach churned. I had a sudden sickness to my stomach, like I was going to vomit. He knocked Jordan up. Seana wasn't Jordan's sisters daughter. It was hers. She lied to me once again.

And not only did Jordan lie to me, Dinger seemed to have left that out when we had the talk in the hospital room just a couple minutes ago.

I wanted to cry, but at the same time, I wanted to walk in there and slap him. Why wouldn't he tell me something so big like that? Especially since Jordan is my best friend.

Well, she was. There's no chance she'll ever get out of this.

I swivelled around on my heels and stomped away from the door, not even bothering to look back. I shut my eyes tight, keeping the stinging tears from trailing down my cheeks.

Once I got outside, I ran. I ran and ran all the way to my house. My house was four blocks away from the hospital, and I sprinted the entire way. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I possibly could.

How could Dinger and Jordan leave that out? It was too big to even think about leaving out and they did. They both did. How could they? And to me?

I was embarrassed. I loved Dinger, but he had a kid. I couldn't take that away from him. Clearly he would want to be with Jordan so he could be with Seana. He wouldn't want to be with me, he's got Seana to take care of and Jordan right by his side. I'm just in the way.

I thought talking in the hospital room with Dinger, that maybe, just maybe, he loved me back. But I was wrong. My heart felt like it shattered in pieces and every piece was dragging down against the lining of my stomach. I still couldn't believe it.

I didn't stop running until I got to my house not even 5 minutes later. I slowed down and bent over, with my hands on my knees and panted. I didn't realize how tired I was until I got here.

I wiped the tears from my eyes and walked into my house. I opened the door and shut it quietly, listening to see if my mother was home. Lately, she's been asking me what my plan was, since I took my SAT's and I obviously graduated.

I didn't know what I wanted to do. I never really thought about it, and the fact that I was done school, a place I had been going to for 12 years, it was hard to believe that now was the time I had to start making something of myself. This was the real world now. And what's better than to start it off with a broken heart?

I heard footsteps upstairs and sighed. My room was upstairs, meaning there was a possible chance I'd have to walk by my mother.

I started up the staircase to the upstairs, holding onto the railing tightly as I walked. All that running got me tired, and I knew that as soon as I got to my room, I was going to plop down on my bed and have a nap.