𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

We get up to her room and he closes the door behind. I go and sit on her bed, shaking like a leaf in the wind.

"I'm so sorry about that Tal. I don't know what her problem is, honestly." He says looking through her drawers.

"It's no biggie, I mean it is Dylan can't step foot in her fucking spotlight. That was my fault.

I'm lying through my teeth, it's her fucking fault. She's lucky I made that promise with Don cause or else I'd be throwing hands.

Bryant finds a towel and sits next to me on the bed helping me out his sweater.

"Here." He says wrapping the towel over my shoulders and rubbing my arms.

"You know you really didn't have to go out your way. I would honestly much rather have drowned then feel this much embarrassment." I say wiping the water off my face.

"No I couldn't stand to see you go down like that." He walks over to the dresser again and rummages for dry clothes for me to wear.

"Why are you dating her anyway. She's literally a she-devil but in human form."

"If the hottest senior in school says they find you attractive and asks you out would you say no?" He says turning to me and laughing.

"I guess you have a point there."

He gets out an oversized sweater and joggers and brings them over to me. I take them and go into her bathroom to change.

"How do I look." I say stepping out and posing in the doorway.

"Stunning."

I go back and sit on the bed looking down at my wet phone in hand.

"Don't worry about that I can fix that right up for you, no cost. That's the least I can do." He says grabbing it from me and examining it.

"You're too sweet Bry Bry" I say mocking Dylan and laughing.

"I thought you looked really good tonight, well that was before.. you know... this happened."

"Yea, I tried some eyeliner which I guess was a bad idea seeing the circumstances."

Bryant takes my face and looks at me in the eyes.

"No it's still there. I can see it." He says pushing my wet hair out the way.

I let out a nervous laugh.

"You know Taleaz, you didn't need to put on eyeliner, you have a naturally beautiful eye structure."

"Boy what the hell. Was that some nerdy science compliment? " I say laughing taking my face out of his grasp.

"What? No." He says blushing.

"OooK whatever you say loser." I say poking his stomach.

He laughs trying to fight away my hands.

"STOP STOP!" He says catching my hands.

We laugh for a while until it subsided and we sit face to face my hands still in his grasp.

One of my arms is stretched over his chest and the other is pinned behind me. I can feel his heart beat start to pick up and I see him glancing at my lips then my eyes then my lips again.

Oh shit. This is beginning to look a lot like the situation I had with Adonis a few months back. But the only this is it's not Adonis. RETREAT RETREAT.

"Wow this got a bit Fifty Shades Darker, am I right?" I try saying with a fake laugh.

He ignores me completely and leans in. I can feel his breath nearing my face. I turn to avoid but he grabs my face steadying it. Would this be a good time to pray again?

His lips land on mine and my eyes widen but as I feel his tongue try and slither out I push away.

"Bryant! What the fuck man?" I say standing up and wiping my lips.

"You know I'm dating Adonis dude!"

"I-I." He mutters.

I bolt out the room and down the stairs. What the hell was that. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to the AV club again.

As I reach the bottom of the stairs, I hear slow clapping. What the hell? Please don't tell me someones having se-

As I reach the bottom I see everyone in the living room looking up at a projected video.

I look up and it's.. ME?

"Ah yes. The woman of the hour or should I say cheater?" Dylan says walking out the crowd towards me.

The screen is playing a loop of me and Bryant kissing. I can feel the panic set into my chest.

"No. NO! It's not what it looks like." I yell.

Bryant comes down the stairs and walks past me. He mouths sorry as he goes and stands next to Dylan. This was a fucking set up.

"Save it. We watched the whole thing, live and in 4k. Did you ever think for a second, I don't know that maybe the multi-million mansion you tried sneaking into earlier was just never going to have surveillance." She says slowly walking to me with her arms crossed

"Oh yea and baby monitors exist, genius."

Everyone looks at me but amongst the crowd Adonis emerges out.

"H-how could you Taleaz?"He says in a broken voice I can hear he's on the brink of tears.

"She set me up Donnie! I swear." I say running over to him picking up his limp hand holding it to my heart.

He snatches it out of my grasp and backs up slowly.

"YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME, DON!" I yelled.

Silence complete silence. From everybody.

"Now do you believe me everyone about what I said about her in the beginning just another defective delinquent. Are you sure your mommy didn't smoke when you were in the womb?" She says tilting her head to me.

I began feeling that same feeling I felt when that substitute yaga'd my hood. I can feel the tears fill my eyes and my knees begin to buckle. I ruined everything yet again.

I look up at the video and then at the quiet crowd of eyes that pierced into me like knifes, I then bolt out the patio door and into the woods never looking back. This time, I AM starting over.