Finding Oriana

Chapter 5

CHAPTER FIVE

"He was my best friend." My head snaps to Kaiden's. I'm shocked to hear him say this.

"What do you mean, was?" I ask. I look at Baxter, and then my cousins. Only to then, see them all looking weird. What the hell is going on around here? The twins aren't saying anything and Baxter looks hurt. All the while Kaiden looks pissed.

"Okay, someone please tell me what's going on?"
"You want to take this Bax? Or do you want to tell her how you'd stolen my girlfriend away from me?"
I gasp in shock. I'm shocked to hear that not only did he have a freaking girlfriend, but also the fact Baxter had stolen her from him. But then I'm even more shocked when Baxter finally speaks.

"Oh, fuck that! Do you want to tell her the reasons your ex came running to me?"
Baxter practically shouts across the room. So yeah, obviously this wound is still open. It stabs at my chest now too, which also results in me, taking in another huge gulp of my drink. I don't think I want to hear the answer to this. But ever the stupid girl that I am I stick around just to hear the answer. Only to then totally regret doing so, too.

"Shut it, Bax."
Kaiden practically growls out making me feel a little scared for Baxter now.
"Oh no, let's not stop now. You've started this shit, now finish it. Tell her! Come on; tell Oriana why she came to me?"

Kaiden's looking pissed now but when I say his name, he turns his head away from Bax to look at me. But his face, however, well it instantly changes. Is that guilt I see? Oh shit.

"You cheated... you cheated first, didn't you?" I ask and I feel my heart crack. I feel the first rip into my heart. Just hearing he had been in a relationship with someone and indeed cheated on her. Oh, this doesn't give me any hope for us at all. I really can't see any hope for us. He must see that I know I know the answer to it and he attempts to come near me but I hold up my hand.

"Don't. Just don't, okay?"
I turn my head to look at Baxter and see he's staring at Kaiden with an almost gloating look on his face.
"Both of you can stay away from me because best friends don't do shit like that."
I look at Kaiden after Baxter changes that smug face to guilty.
" And boyfriends shouldn't cheat on their girls either. You chose to be with her and her only."
Turning to the twins now, I ask them to take me to my room. But not before telling them something that will no doubt piss them off. Yet I don't care because I'm pissed off, too.

"And both of you should find better friends. Ones who won't turn on you and disrespect you like because if those two can do that to each other? What's to say that they won't do that to you when you get girlfriends?"

Once situated in my room, I flop myself face down onto my new bed well it's not my bed but it is for the weekend. Oh, god, the weekend. I've got to stay here with them both for the freaking whole weekend? Oh, crap on a stick.
Please, just shoot me now. Suddenly there's a knock on my door and I don't want to talk to anyone right now so I tell them to go away.

"Squirt, it's me open up, sweetheart."
Oh lord, not now, Dad. Again, I don't feel like talking, but I open it anyway. I'm never one to push him away but before I open it I pop a tic, tac first. Oh yes, I can't be allowing him to smell the alcohol on me no way. When I open the door, I see he's smiling that is until he sees my face.

"What's wrong?" He asked after pulling his brows together. So, I pull back from the door so he can come, and before I park my butt on my bed again, I pick up my pillow and pull it to my chest hugging it.

"Dad, I-I think I think I've fallen, and it's with someone that I can never have someone that's so not what I need in my life."
I end that with a deep sigh. I'm sighing because I want him but I know he'll never want me. Not the way I want him to want me.