The Darker Side of Me

Chapter 40: Listening Ears

I walked down the stairs in front of Charlie and prepared him for his grand entrance. "I'd like to grab everyone's attention," I said getting everyone to look at me. "Please, give a warm welcome to Charlier, Mr. Cowboy Casanova!"

He walked down the stairs with his hat tipped down over his eyes and his thumbs hooked in his belt loops, just like I'd shown him. Sarah's jaw dropped to the floor and everyone clapped for his entrance. He walked over to Sarah and took her hand in his. He kissed the back of it, just like I told him to and she blushed.

"Howdy pretty lady," he said.

Hunter coughed. "This pretty lady is taken," he said. Just the reaction we hoped for.

"Oh, is she? Well then, I must say that this youngin here is mighty cute."

He walked over to Sophia in her little Dorothy costume with her hair tied in two braids. He took we hand as kissed her on the cheek instead. She giggled and they walked to the door together. She turned her head and have everyone the 'well what are we waiting for' look and we all follows after them. Hunter and Sarah finally decided to go back to the party after I begged them to go. Sarah gave me one last hug before they headed off and I walked down the street to catch up with Tony and the kids. It looked like they already had bags of chips and about 2 pounds of candy in their bags. I caught up with Tony and he wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I sighed and put my arm around his waist. We walked around in silence, listening to the happiness in the voices of the kids for about an hour and we were now carrying a plastic bag full of pop that they were getting.

"Where's Logan?" he asked as the kids went up to the next house. "He's always with you."

"He got a little preoccupied when I got the call, so I just came over alone," I briefly explained.

"That doesn't sound good. How badly do I have to kick his ass?"

"You don't. It's fine, just forget it."

"Ah, no. Tell me everything and then I'll decided how much of a whooping he deserves."

"Fine. I went into a spare room so I could hear Sophia and when I came out I saw him consumed in Megan's lips. It was a bad idea to go to that party in the first place."

"Oh. How much did you guys have to drink?"

"A shot of tequila and a cup of coke and vodka. Why?"

"We'll if he was drunk then I was going to spare him his left eye. But that's not even a lot of alcohol. He can handle his liquor better than anyone in this pack and if that's all he had then he wasnt even slightly buzzed. What the hell was he thinking?"

"I wish I could tell you," I said sadly. "Maybe he just got bored of me."

"Or maybe he didnt. You don't even know how much he talks about you when you're not around. I mean he never shuts up about how perfect ou are, and how much he loves you an shit," he expalined.

"Maybe he's thinking of how perfect Megan is and just using my name as a replacement..."

"Stop! You know for a fact that's not true, so don't even try and convince yourself it is. I don't know what was going through his shithead, but I know that there has to be a reason he did it."

I thought about it for a minute. Maybe I ran out too fast. But then again, what would you do if you saw you're boyfriend of 2 months kissing another girl? Walk up to him and ask him politely to stop kissing her and leave the party with you? No. If anything you would walk up, throw the girl off of him, slap her, then turn around and scream in his face. Either way, you wouldn't think in the moment to get him to explain because you know that whatever he said, you wouldn't believe him anyways. But when it comes to Logan, I woul believe him in an instant, which is why I needed to get out of there. I needed to clear my head. He could very well lie to my face and I would say it's ok, even though I know in my heart that he's lying.