Better than him

Chapter Fourteen: Emotional Breakdown

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Dakota's POV

I walk into school with Maddy and Kat along with Ethan, I look around and see a bunch of people staring at me and some giggling causing me glare at them

"Dakota fix your face, I don't have time for people trying something" Maddy says as we get to her locker, she's just as hurt as I am about all of this and I can't blame her

"Yea but no one's gonna try anything I mean Dakota beat Nate's ass, serves him right" Kat says as she texts in her phone and Ethan stands there awkwardly

"Yea but this whole things seems so out of the blue ya know" I say as I stand there, I look over and see Cassie walking in wearing a big hoodies

She's hugging herself and I can see her face is red like she's been crying, I feel the hurt in my chest expand but also my anger flair up

"Well I always knew she was a backstabber, I could see it coming" Kat says causing me to look for Cassie to her

"Shut up Kat you didn't know shit, plus this situation doesn't feel so black and white to me" I say as I look down at my phone and see Cassie's contact coming up constantly

"Come on Dakota you can't be that hung up on her, you knew her past before and you can't tell me this shocks you" She says and I roll my eyes

"Kat you sound very fake right now, almost as fake as Cassie" I say before walking away, I hear Maddy yelling for me but I ignore her too and keep walking

As I do, Cassie and I make eye contact and I can see she's giving me a pleading look but I look away and walk to class
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I look over some things my parents sent me at my desk when suddenly my phone rings, I grab it as I look at this analytics sheet in confusion before looms over and seeing it's Fez calling

"Hey Fez what's up" I say as I look through some other paperwork

"Yo I don't know how to tell you this man" Fez says and I can tell he's worried, I take my glasses off and lab back in my chair as I start to feel anxiety feel my stomach and the rest of my body

"Whats goin on aces you can tell me..what's up" I say

"Yo.....Mouse died man...I don't know how it happened but I just found out" He says and I feel my body shut down, my hands start to shake causing me to drop my phone

"Kota man, you there" Fez says but I don't say anything and I just feel myself start to break down, I grab my phone and throw it against the wall

I start feeling my anger build up as I start throwing and breaking everything as I scream, he was my only family for so long

My brain replays our argument over and over again as I punch holes into the wall, I feel my energy starting to die down as I start slamming my fists into the ground

I stop as I feel my body tremble and I just sob heavily on the floor, I feel hands on my back causing me to look up slowly as I sniffle a little

I turn my head and I see I'm faced with a very worried Cassie, I don't even have the energy to question why she's here and she doesn't give me the chance to as she grabs my hand and leads me to my bedroom and lays me on the bed before leaving the room and going to my bathroom

No words are exchanged as she comes back with a first aid kit and starts wrapping my very badly bruised knuckles before walking out of the room, I just lay back on my bed as my eye grow heavy and I fall asleep

Cassie's POV

I walk into the living room from Dakota's room and make my way to the kitchen and get the broom, i bring it back to the living room and start sweeping up the broken glass and paint chips and wall pieces

I throw away everything that's not fixable before picking up all the things that were knocked over, I take the trash out before making my way to Dakota's room to see her knocked out on the bed

I sigh and walk over to her, I run my hand over her face before kissing her forehead and moving her legs so that she's laying fully in her bed

I walk over to her closet and put on one of her hoodies before getting up on her bed and tucking her in, I lay back against the headboard as I just run my hand through her hair and just stare

"I'm sorry Dakota.....I really messed up and I regret everything, I don't know why I slept with Nate...I hurt the two people that I love- I mean...or forget it...I owe you both a lot" I say sadly as I feel tears coming down my face

"I should have just came to talk to you" I say before laying down and face away from Dakota as I just get lost in my thoughts

Dakota's POV

What did she mean by she should have talked to me....I knew something was up

But what

A/n if you guys haven't been able to tell if you read both of my stories on euphoria, they with contrast each other with this Cassie situation because of different situations, now I'm not going demolish Cassie's character like the show did because that was doing too much in my opinion, but I have empathy for Cassie in this story because she's a great example of being sexualized your whole sexual maturity and having issues that play into it so I'm "playing" into that the way I feel the show should have, love interest or no love interest

Enjoy:)