Deleterious

chapter 37

INDIGOS POV:

Elliot was infatuated with coins. He was talking about how they was made, why they changed over the years and why we have what we have now.

If im being honest, i zoned out most of the conversation. I couldn't stop thinking about the one person that was one my mind. Nate. What was he doing? Was he having fun? Was he with Cassie? What were they doing?

Many things they could be doing swamped in my head. Were they having much more fun than me and Nate? I wasn't even sure if i really wanted an answer to that.

Elliot was enough company anyway. But i started to hate myself because i really couldn't tap into our conversation like he wanted me to. I think he knew it too.

"You okay?" He asks me, snapping me out my thoughts about Nate,
"Im fine, why do you ask?"
"Your facial expression is telling me to shut up." He laughs and i blush out of embarrassment.

"Im sorry." I whine.
"No big deal."
"It is a big deal though. I mean, you ever can't stop thinking about the person you truly want but you know you can't have them or shouldn't want them because they did you dirty?" I ask him.

"Well, she didn't do me dirty." He says.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, i can't stop thinking about her and i want her, but she didn't do me dirty."

"You never told me you had a crush."
"We're not that close. I mean, you only talk to me when you want to make him mad." Elliot laughs.

"Oh im sorry."
"Don't be. I need someone like that in my life."
"Why's that."
"That overprotective shit is what i like, and Nate is very overprotective of you."

"Yeah, so overprotective that he fucked my best friend."
"Oh, i didn't know." Elliot says, biting his tongue.

"Everybody knows." I say to him and i laugh. The laugh isn't a laugh though, it's more like a pity laugh. The hurt i feel from such betrayal is strong. I hate both of them and i wish i never even meet Nate. My mind starts wondering and the next thing i know is my lips on Eillots.

I don't know why it happened, but im not upset about it. He doesn't hesitate. He catches my lips quick and starts kissing me back. The kiss is unlike any kiss i've had with Nate.

Elliot's lips taste like a mix of weed and cigarettes. It's different from Nates as Nates always taste like mints and wet wood. This is arguable a mistake. I know this because as soon as our lips touch, their pulled apart from a slamming car door.

I look out the window, only to see Nates truck with the headlights still on what i can only assume is his shadow walking towards the door.

"Oh shit." I say too quickly.
"What? What is it?" Elliot says.
"You need to hide." I say to him.
"Why? Your parents do know im here, right?"
"It's not my parents, its Nate." I tell him.

Honestly, id be less scared of my parents. Nate is something worse. Nate is unpredictable and scary and i right now, im fearing for Elliot's safety rather than my own. I know what Nate is like, im used to it. But i don't think i can accept it if Elliot is caught in between my impulsion and Nates angry.

"Okay, so?" Elliot says nonchalantly but the banging on the front door makes it sound like he shouldn't be so nonchalant about this.

"You need to hide." I say, getting up quickly and making it inside the hallway while Elliot follows behind me. "Here, get in the bathroom." I tell him. Before he can disagree, i shove him in the bathroom and make my way downstairs.

I can hear Nates yelling for me to open the door while his fist is banging in the wooded door. I open in, and Nate instantly flies.

"Where is he?" Nate says, skipping a few steps on the stairs to make it to my bedroom.
"Where's who?" I say, following right behind him.