Midnights

🔨 Part 21: Ray 🔨

🔨 Chapter 19: Ray POV 🔨

Art by Wormwoody on reddit 

"The role you made me play of the fool"

-Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift's reputation

Now that the excitement and high of the first place prize has died down hours later, everything else comes front and center. Ray can only ignore it all for so long before she's screaming at herself to stop pretending nothing's wrong.

In truth, she feels like she's spiraling. Nothing makes sense but at the same time, everything makes sense. Randy's weird behavior recently, the looks he gave her a few days ago and all the moments where he looked like he wanted to speak but never did.

Like a coward.

The ravenette knows she has no right to be this upset, to be this hurt.

But she is.

She can't help it. No matter how she tries to reason it within herself. The constant back and forth between the devil and angel on her shoulder are starting to annoy her too.

Randy lied.

He didn't lie per se. You never asked.

Randy's keeping secrets from you. He's dating Violet and he fucked April before.

He fucked a girl who hates you and he fucked your best friend and you're just so fucking dumb trying to excuse his action.

She takes another shot as the Devil wins.

The squad's at some fancy club that the boys rented for them as a congratulations. They'd promised to celebrate officially when they were home with all their friends as well. Ray's happy they came.

She's happy Randy came but she's avoiding him. She saw him heading towards her after the championship ended with a giant grin which means his fuck buddy April didn't say anything yet.

Ray rolls her eyes at the bitter bitch she's become towards her best friend and her ride and die.

She takes another shot.

Ray's not sure how she feels about April right now. She's her gorl and she stayed with her the entire night. They didn't talk about it though. The next day they woke up to championship and focused on that. She put aside her thoughts and disappointment and replaced it with full fledge focus on the squad. Ignoring how upset she was with Randy and April from hiding shit is easy when something is there to distract her.

She moves to ask for another shot but is interrupted. She glares at the tall man that settles beside her. The raven takes a moment to realize the culprit's Ramee. The vulture takes a sip of his water since he doesn't drink after he says something to the bartender. When the bartender gives him another bottle of water, Ray rolls her eyes and states he's not even done with his own. She mumbles something to him about being a greedy bastard.

The vulture scoffs before forcing the water down the raven's throat instead. The raven sputters in shock at that before slapping his arm. The two giggle for a minute before Ray wonders if Ramee knows the girl he loves and his best friend fucked.

"Did you know?" Ray ask before she can stop herself. Somewhere deep in her mind she's telling, begging, herself to just stop. Why ruin Ramee's night like her entire life is? When Ramee's curious blue eyes meet hers, she says it anyway. "That Randy and April fuck."