My enemy since childhood

Chapter 61

I didn't think a dinner could feel so awful. It was downright awful sitting here with these people, my so called friends, pretending to be having fun.

Thomas gaze rested closely on me, so dark, so glowingly hot. That is, the few moments that Kylie did not peck at his attention. Which kind of was all the time! did she really think he thought it was cute when she clung to him like that? it was just fucking disgusting! although maybe i wasn't the right person to judge anyone, i hated her, but even Thomas couldn't think anything but that it was pathetic, right?

The irritation and frustration was becoming almost unbearable so i clenched my jaw and searched Brooke's gaze but she was preoccupied with other things. Of course.

I poked around in the food which was largely untouched. My stomach rumbled but i couldn't get a bite down. This was not how i thought my revenge would turn out. Or revenge and revenge, i just wanted to make myself feel a little better after everything that happened.

"Why aren't you eating?" Jake asked, nudging me lightly in the side.

"I'm not hungry" i mumbled without looking up.

This wasn't like me, i completely disregarded everyone else so why was i sitting here feeling sorry for myself? well, because you are sitting about half a meter from Thomas, who has a clinging Kylie around his neck as if she owned him.

I didn't think i was a person who got jealous. Especially not jealous when it came to Thomas. It wasn't the first time i seen someone cling to him so i shouldn't feel anything at all. But apparently i did, i thought, snorting to myself. That was exactly the reason why you should never fall for someone like Thomas, you will only get hurt.

Annoyed, i put the cutlery down on the plate and leaned back in my chair. No use pretending to eat anymore. It was just a matter of praying to god that Ace hadn't had dinner before our meeting. Speaking of Ace, shouldn't he have heard back soon?

I picked up my phone which showed 6:47 a.m. okay, he will be done in like ten minutes and then i finally be able to get out of here. Not that i needed to stay, not really, but something inside me made me stay. Just the thought of sitting in the room and waiting for Ace to call while Thomas stayed here with Kylie. No, my body protested so hard that i couldn't move an inch.

Sure it hurt like hell to see them sitting together, but it would be much worse to sit alone in silence and have to guess what they were doing, my brain was already racing with thoughts and images i didn't want.

"You are so quiet today" Jake said forcing me to meet his gaze.

"What do you want me to say?" i asked, slightly raising one of my perfectly painted eyebrows.

"I don't know, but you are not usually this quiet," he said and leaned closer to me.

"Do you want to get out of here?" he continued in a whisper with a crooked, almost non-existent smirk on his lips.

"I want to, but not with you" i said and lightly pushed him so that he would straighten up.

If there was one thing that was good about Jake, it was that he didn't get mad or angry when i rejected him, he just laughed and put his arm on my back. Or he was just stupid, that he didn't understand that i was serious.