How To Stay Afloat (BxB)

Chapter 66: A day I'll remember as the worst

I feel someone holding me up by my shoulders and something wet and cold is pressed against my face.

Shit. My head hurts.

I open my eyes and bring my head up and lean my back against a wall behind me.

I'm on the floor of the school toilets.

"Thank god." Carla says. She's kneeling next to me and holding a wet paper towel to my face. "You had us worried."

Harry is just lying on his back on the ground with his palms pressed against his face. The person holding me up in a sitting position is Adam.

Austin did this. He punched me in the face. He didn't feel sorry for it. He doesn't love me. He cheated on me.

Why didn't I just hit my head against the wall and didn't wake up at all anymore? I can't deal with this.

"Hey. Should we get you to the nurse?" Carla asks me carefully.

"Did Austin say anything to you?" I ask her. She ran after him. Did he tell her something? Did he tell her it was all a lie? Maybe he just lied when he said all that.

She shakes her head. "No, Sammy, I'm sorry. He didn't wanna talk to me and told me to fuck off."

"You can't possibly still want him back." Adam says. "He cheated on you."

"He lied." I say, feeling the tears pool in my eyes again.

"You saw the video yourself. Just because he said they didn't do anything in that bathroom doesn't mean it's true." Adam says. "Apart from that I think I've seen them together before."

What? He said he doesn't know the girl. Why did he lie?

No. Austin didn't cheat.

"What are you talking about?" Carla asks us confused.

I let out a sob. "This is your fault! This wouldn't have happened if you had never taken those stupid pictures." I say angrily.

"What the hell. Would you prefer getting cheated on and not knowing?" Adam asks me.

"Adam, shut up, you're not helping." Harry says.

"What? I'm just telling him the truth." Adam says. "Everyone heard him admit it. He doesn't want you. Just accept it."

I cover my ears with my hands. "Shut the hell up. You have no idea."

"Yes, I do. I know what it's like to be fucking in love with someone who just doesn't like you back. Just give up already. It's only gonna hurt you even more if you can't accept it." He says.

He's talking about Harry. I get it. But Austin is not straight or whatever Harry labels himself. He loves me. He looked into my eyes and told me he loves me. That wasn't a lie. How could his feelings for me vanish just like that? It can't be the truth.

"Why are you even here? Fuck off!" Carla says angrily. "Leave! Get the fuck away from Sammy."

Adam stands up and I look up at him. He's wearing an angry expression.

"Leave." I say to him and he scoffs and stomps out of the bathroom.

"What an asshole." Carla says and sits down next to me as I grab the paper towel and press it to my nose myself.

Harry sits up and then crawls over and sits down on the other side of me.

As some guy walks in Carla just tells him to use a different bathroom and he spins around and leaves in an instant.

I let out a chuckle and so do the other two.

"Who did he talk about?" Harry asks me. "When he said he knows what it's like."