Out of Time

Chapter Sixteen

Christmas came and went and I missed about sixteen calls from Axel. Jake called me and told me about a "stellar party that we have to attend" in which I agreed to go to, on New Years Eve.

He came and picked me up as well as Ella and Annabelle. The house was about thirty minutes away, and for the first ten minutes we were all dead silent. Finally, Ella spoke.

"So, have you spoken to Axel?" She asked as I saw Jake look over at me slowly.

"Not since I told him I wasn't ready for a relationship." I said as Annabelle squeezed my shoulder.

"He's just a dick. We know this." Annabelle said as I shook my head.

"No, this was all on me. I overreacted. His family was so happy." I said as they all just looked at me.

"You ended things?" Ella asked as I nodded.

"Oh my god." Annabelle and Ella said at the same time.

"Girl you did not." Jake said as he pulled over and turned around to look at me. "You need to win him back tonight."

"Win him back? I still have him." I said as Ella slowly shook her head as she was looking at her phone.

"No, you don't. Becca does." She showed me her phone as my face flushed. Becca posted a picture of her kissing Axel as his hand was placed conveniently over her left boob. Her caption was 'ready to roll in this new year'.

I looked at Jake and it was almost as if he read my mind as he started driving, and faster than he did before. My mind was running a mile a minute as Annabelle and Ella talked about how they couldn't believe Axel would do that.

Thank god I actually dressed up for this party, including under garments. 

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When we rolled up to the party they practically had to drag me out of the car. This was considered a 'college party' as well, fucking fantastic. We walked in and drinks were instantly placed in our hands. Annabelle and Jake were whooshed away as Ella and I slowly walked in.

"I've gotta find him." I yelled over the music to Ella as she took my cup.

"Go make things right." She said back as she patted my back. "Midnights in two hours!"

I laughed and shook my head as I started to walk around the party. Based on Becca's picture, he was in the living room but that was also a solid hour ago. I walked into the living room to see Becca sitting on the couch, no Axel in sight. That was until he walked in with two drinks and wrapped his arm around Becca. She took the drink in that hand and leaned into him, while she winked at me.

I wasn't thinking as I reached next to me and grabbed the first person I could find and placed a sloppy kiss on their lips. The kiss intensified as their hand went up my shirt and around my boob. I slowly broke away and looked towards Axel to see him glaring at me. I smiled as I kissed the mysterious person one more time before looking at them. I held in my surprised look as I quickly walked away in hopes to find Ella.

I found her in the basement sitting on the couch by herself.

"Ella I fucked up." I said as I felt the tears forming.

Keep it together Briella.

"Why? What happened?" She said as she jumped up and walked over to me.

"I just kissed Kyler in front of Axel." I said with my hand over my mouth.

"Kyler?! Your ex?! Who raped you?" She said as she whispered the last part.

I nodded my head as the tears starting rolling.

"I'm such an idiot. Kyler started feeling up my shirt- I'm gonna be sick." I said as I shook my head. "I fucked up big time."

"We're gonna fix this. But first we're gonna fix your makeup." She said as she dragged me to the bathroom and touched up my makeup.

"Now- go out there and just talk to him. You've got an hour." She said as she dragged me upstairs  and looped her arm through mine as we walked into the living room. I put a smile on my face as we sat down right next to them.

Ella cleared her throat as she looked at Becca.

"So- Becca. What's the craziest place you had sex?" I smacked Ella as I shook my head.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" She said to Ella as she laughed. "I'm getting another drink." She said as she got out from Axels grasp.

Ella sighed and stood up and followed her into the kitchen. That left me, and Axel. Right next to each other.

I sighed as I looked at him. "So- you and Becca? Must be something with B names huh?"

He smirked as he shook his head. "So you and Kyle? Must be something with that rapist huh?"

"Ok what the fuck was wrong with me saying I needed some time?" I said as he shifted his weight to face me still with a smirk on his face.

"Oh I don't know. How it took you a week to even acknowledge me." He said as he motioned towards Kyle who was talking to a group. "and proceeded to kiss that asshole."

"Yet you're all over Becca?! What did you want me to do?" I said as he just glared at me.

"Just call me- or send me a fucking text so I knew you were ok. I spent Christmas worrying about you. None of your fucking friends would answer me either. So yeah- I'm done." He said as Becca came back in.

As she was walking back to the couch, I grabbed Axels collar and pulled him in and kissed him. He pulled away instantly as he stared into my eyes. The anger stared to fade away in his as he noticed the sorrow in mine.

Please kiss me, please kiss me.

"I can't-" he whispered as he stared at my lips. His breath smelled of alcohol.

"Please." I whispered back as I flickered my eyes over to Becca who was trying to walk closer but Ella was holding her back. "I love you."

With those simple words his eyes flickered from my eyes to my lips and he crashed his lips into mine. I heard Ella cheer before a liquid drenched me and Axel. We pulled away to see Becca pouring her drink on us.

"You're both assholes." She said as she dropped her cup and walked away. Ella laughed as she winked at me and left as well.

Axel kissed me again as he dragged me to straddle him. I pulled away as he pushed the hairs out of my face and then kissed me again.

"I love you too." He said as I smiled at him. Fireworks started going off outside as he looked at his phone and showed me the time of midnight. I pushed his arm down and starting kissing him again.

Here was to the much needed fresh start. That was gonna happen, even if it took everything from me.