Moving In With The Enemy

Chapter 33 ~ "I'm Glad You Told Me"

I don't know what to do once I get home. I've been missing so many things lately, so many parties and fun nights out. I didn't want to go back and inform them that I'd made a stupid mistake.

I sniffle and step through the door, Walker's right there by the dinning room table. He looks guilty, no doubt because he's the one who broke the news to me. 

"Hey." I whisper quietly and he nods, looking down at the floor. It had been a few days since our talk about staying away from each other. I felt really betrayed, thank god I'd never slept with Dane.

"C'mere." He says quietly, nodding his head over and I nod, walking quietly until I can wrap around him. He squeezes the life out of me and I start to sob. I'd managed to hold it together the whole way home, but seeing Walker was too much.

"I'm so stupid." I cry and he shakes his head, lifting me off the ground.

"No Annie, he's the fucking idiot." He whispers. I just felt hollow, my mind was warped from this entire exchange, from feeling like I could actually work something out with a self-centred cheater.

"What's wrong?" I hear Mark ask, along with the sound of his door opening.

"Dane's a jackass." I whisper and Mark sighs. I hear another door open and that's Dustin joining the party. "We're done for good, forever, if you see him here, tell him to fuck off."

"What happened?" Mark asks. Walker won't let me down, it's a good excuse to hug him so I don't move away. My lower lip wobbles and Walker sighs.

"Mark, just cool off for a sec." He whispers, walking me to the couch. He sits down next to me, letting me curl into his side. I missed it here, I missed being so close to him. Now I don't have to feel so guilty about it.

Mark sits on my other side and Dustin sits on the coffee table across from me. I pull my knees into my chest and take a deep breath.

"I went over early this morning to see if we could iron out some of the problems in our relationship." I whisper quietly. "He looked like hell, I just thought he got a bad night of sleep." I continue, wiping a tear from under my eye. "I-I couldn't have him meet my parents the way we were, he doesn't tell me anything about him, we never have proper conversations and I just.....I felt exhausted."

I hadn't even properly processed everything going on, I hadn't thought about what he said to me, I can't even think about the cheating. 

"He was angry that I even thought talking was important. He claimed all we did was talk but he didn't.....he didn't know one single thing about me. I could name loads of things about him......it hurt like hell to have him get things wrong about me and then look at me like I was the monster."

"So.....what happened?" Dustin asks and Mark and Walker shoot him a look. That makes me chuckle a bit and they all look so confused. Dustin was always a few seconds off with social timing, he didn't always understand feelings and the way Walker and Mark responded was funny.

"Can you just say it?" I ask Walker who nods, clearing his throat.

"Last night I went for a run, I run in the city when I can't sleep and I ran past that dickwad with his tongue shoved down another girl's throat. I took a picture and I wanted to tell Annie.....but it was like two in the morning and I knew she was asleep. I texted it to her as soon as I woke up."

"While you were out with Dane?" Mark clarifies and I nod.

"I asked him why and he said that he was a man with needs and that I couldn't blame him." I sigh, sniffing in a breath. "He was a dick about it, I'd never seen him so.....mean to me. I broke up with him and left."