Unexpected

Chapter 8.

Tears burned in my eyes and my head hurt. 

It was a dare? A dare?  A god damn dare! 

 

I blinked at Emery and pushed him back. “A fucking dare? Was it a dare to hurt me too? Or was it something to laugh about? Did you feel big after sending the letter? What did you want the outcome to be? Me hating you? Well Emery you exceeded it because I abhor you. Stay the hell away from me,” I hiss then walk away from Emery and run for the exit, I take my keys out of my pocket, and walk up to my car. I get in, slam the door shut, and speed off home. 

What sick mind would send someone a hate letter, oh yeah Emery. I couldn’t tell you how many sleepless nights I had because of the letter. So many harsh words were said in the hate letter, so many god damn words, letters, paragraphs. I didn’t know at the time what caused Emery to tell me such harsh words, but I guess I do now. A dare. A harsh and cruel dare. 

“Where’s Emery?” mom asks when I walk up the stairs, I ignore her and continue walking up the stairs. I slam my door shut, crank music on my stereo, and start throwing all pictures of me and Emery on the ground, braking the frames, taking them off my wall, and just letting my anger get the best of me. I was mad at Emery, I was mad at myself, I was mad at everything. Mad at myself that I spent all these years hating everything I do, making sure I never upset my friends like I upset Emery. I ruined my life because of his stupid dare. 

“Cedes?” I snap my head towards my door to see Cade looking at me with one eyebrow up and one down, his ‘concerned’ look as he calls it. “what the hell are you doing?” he asks. 

I sigh and look down at the picture frame in my hand. “Letting off anger?” 

Cade rolls his eyes and walks over to my stereo, shuts it off, walks over to me, puts the frame away, and engulfs me in a huge hug. I burst into tears. One of the things I love about Cade is that no matter what you tell him, he won’t judge or laugh, he’ll just listen. He’s like a big teddy bear, he’s comforting and understanding. A secret of Cade’s that no one knows about beside me and my parents is that his father is abusive. Of that abuse, he comes off as quiet until you know him. Of that abuse he needs to feel loved. I guess that’s why he’s so comforting. “What’s the matter?” Cade finally asks after minutes of silence. 

I sniffle and shrug. “I just hate my life right now,” I mumble as I stop crying. 

Cade squeezes my body. “Who do I need to beat up?” he teases and I chuckle. “now come on lets go see the guys.” I nod and unwrap myself from Cade and we walk out of my room and into the game room with Cade. 

“Kicked your ass!” Noah hollers as he throws the remote down on my floor and fist pumps in the air.

“Yo Cedes my main girl!” Matt yells as he pats the seat beside him on the bed. I walk over and sit down. 

“Where’s Emery?” Noah questions as he faces me. 

I shrug. “I left him at the store,” I answer and the boys burst into laughter. 

Who are my real friends? Oh yeah, these dudes. 

*

I sigh and hustle to Cade. Cade smirks and bends down, coach then drops the ball and I fight for it. Cade scoops it up and starts running across the soccer field until Chance checks him to the ground, hard. 

“Shit man!” Cade complains. 

Coach blows his whistle. “I know its nine at night and you’ve been practicing for two hours but you have five more minutes of drills, don’t make me move it to 10 more minutes!” Coach yells. Everyone starts looking at Chance, whose been moving the drills to 5 more minutes every time. Chance sighs but nods. He’s been checking everyone that comes in his way, for fun. I literally got the wind knocked out of me when he checked me down. Finally after five minutes Coach dismisses us and we start walking off the field and walking to our cars. 

“There’s a party tonight, come?” Cade questions as he bumps into me. 

I shrug. “Whose party?” I ask. 

“Drew’s.” 

I bite my bottom lip. “I don’t know…” 

“Come on, you’ll have fun.”

I roll my eyes. “Fine but an hour, that’s as long as I’ll stay.” 

Cade smirks. “Guess whose going to get wasted tonight with us?!” 

*

I blow out air and grab myself a beer on the counter top. I pop the cap off and push people out of my way and out to the porch where Noah, Matt, 4 other guys were playing spin the bottle with 6 girls I did not know. I sit away from them but enough space where I can hear what they’re saying to each other. The house wasn’t that packed to be honest, the party was barely in full swing as it was only 9:30 at night. 

“Yo, Cedes come play,” Matt says and I shake my head as I take a sip of the beer. Matt slowly nods his head, I laugh and shake my head. Matt flips me off then spins the bottle. I swear my friends are 5. 

“Hey.” I jump when someone sits next to me, I look to see Chace. 

I smile at him. “Oh, hey.” 

“Not a spin bottle person?” I chuckle and take another sip. “neither am I.” I roll my eyes. 

“You seem a spin bottle type of dude.” 

Chace rolls his eyes. “That actually hurts that you would think that low of me, so who are you with?” Chace asks.

 I nod towards Matt and Noah. “Then the others on the Lacrosse team but have you seen Ross?” I question. 

Chace shakes his head. “No, sorry. But I’ve seen Cade and Emery.” 

I crease my eyebrows. “Together?” 

Chace nods. “Looks like they were talking about something serious.” 

I sigh and stand up. “Hey I gotta go, but I’ll see you around?” Chace nods and I walk off back into the house.

Now why the hell were they talking to each other? 

“Hey,” I chirp as I walk to Cade’s side, glaring up at Emery. Emery looks down at me and Cade looks over at me. 

“What up shortie?” Cade asks. 

I look away from Emery. “When are you going to bring me home?” I ask. 

“Dude we’ve been here for 15 minutes….” 

“But I wanna go home,” I whine. 

Cade rolls his eyes. “Ask Emery to take you home, he took your dad’s ride.” 

“I think I’l-” 

Emery cuts me off. “Sure I’ll bring her home,” Emery says. 

Cade nods. “See you there you go.” Cade smiles and pushes me to Emery. “thanks dude.” 

“I hate you,” I hiss. 

“You love me, I’ll see you later at your house, Cedes!” Cade yells as he walks around people. I roll my eyes and cross my hands over my chest and stand in silence. 

“Well lets get you home,” Emery whispers. 

I take that back Cade isn’t my real friend. 

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