A Bed of Roses (Completed)

36.

Kai
Minutes later

"Kai, just calm down."

"I think y'all should just talk before you do anything."

"Because this is really all stuff from the past—"

"—and you know, I know y'all went through a lot about this specific topic but Carter had nothing but nice things to say about you to us and the guys before y'all came over here today." 

"I've never heard him talk about a girl the way he talked about you." Ivy went on, trying to be a peacemaker in the moment as we all sat in the living room together now, waiting for all of the guys to come back from wherever they were.

All of the girls had ended up following me and coming upstairs with me to make sure that I was okay and Tasha ended up getting riled up right with me once I'd explained everything to her.

Including all of Carter's lies.

Though I didn't know them well, I just needed to vent. I didn't want to hear sweet things and how good of a guy he was or how much he liked me because I wasn't hearing that right now. All I knew was that he lied to me and for a long time he did this.

I didn't want to hear it.

If he liked me so much, he would've never fucking lied.

Tasha ended up saying though that he'd most likely got influenced by the guys, especially Herb because Herb likes to lie a lot too instead of just telling her the truth about simple things which sounded like Carter.

Reminding myself of the condoms that he'd hidden from me.

But since I was about to speak up and say something to Carter, Tasha was finally going to do the same and speak her mind to Herb.

"I'm not talking to him about shit." I shook my head truthfully.

"He had all the time in the world to talk to me about this-"

"—three whole months." I went on, putting up three fingers as they all looked at me with empathetic eyes.

I didn't have shit to say or talk about with him. I was going to curse him the fuck out and then remove myself from this entire situation like I tried to from the start.

This was over and I'd played myself long enough in this dream land that he'd created, making me think that he really wanted me. When he could've just left me alone from the beginning like I'd asked him to.

We all sat there quietly for about ten minutes before we heard car doors slam and Tasha instantly stood to her feet to look out of the window.

"They're here." She said, plopping back down onto the couch beside me and I prepared myself to do damage.

I was so hurt and embarrassed in this moment, in front of people that I didn't even know at that. I'd just found out that the person that was supposed to be my boyfriend, had been lying to me for months about important things that would impact our relationship significantly.

Not even from his mouth though but from the mouths of strangers.

Strangers. I thought to myself in disbelief.

Everybody looked at me with raised eyebrows as I sat in my seat quietly, slightly leaning up to grab the large, glass, vodka bottle that Tasha had just brought upstairs and sat down onto the coffee table.

"Oop." Was all Tasha said, chuckling softly to herself as I looked at all of them with serious eyes.

I'm not playing with this nigga.