Persephone- Completed

Three.

I knocked on the door and waited, looking back as he waited in the car for me to be safely inside. He'd thrown a strop about me coming here before the party and meeting him there. He didn't like the idea of me coming alone. He'd said people would think we'd broken up. 

I wished. 

The door pulled open  and Mia looked me up and down. 

"What are you wearing." 

"He chose it." I rolled my eyes. She pulled me into the house and stuck her middle finger up at his care before slamming the door shut. "I got some more screenshots." 

I pulled my phone from my pocket as we started walking upstairs, handing it to her on the photos, letting her read them herself. 

"Do we know who the girl is yet?" 

"He calls her Ash, so I'm guessing Ashley? But I can't think of anyone in our year by that name."

"He wouldn't have gone younger would he?" 

"Potentially? I don't know. If she is younger, he'd have good chance of manipulating her. Chances are though that she's from another school." I sat down on her bed, laying back and leaving my legs hanging over the edge. 

"He says I'm rude." Mia laughed as she handed me my phone back. "I can't believe you've been going through with him for the full month." 

"I haven't been sleeping with him." I smirked up at her. "I let him give me what I want and then stop him just before he's about to." 

"You are not." 

"I am. That's why he threw a glass yesterday. I pissed him off because I said no again." She pulled the chair out and gestured for me to sit down so she could curl my hair like she always does. 

"How much longer are you going to wait?" 

"Not much longer I swear maybe next week. I'm just waiting for him to slip up. He's gotten so close. He butt dialled me the other day you know. He was with her. I could hear her breathing. He said sorry he hit it whilst playing on the PlayStation." Mia brushed my hair out and I read through his texts. I hadn't had the chance to read them yet. "Next time he does I'm recording it." She nodded in the mirror and started curling. 

I miss you. xx

I miss you too Ash. I'll be over soon I'm just with someone. xx

"He was with me when he sent her these. I have a photo of us with the time and date on it." I continued reading. 

What are you wearing? xx 

Nothing ;) 

Okay fuck this I'm coming over now. 

I scowled and let out a deep sigh. 

"He told me his dad wanted him home." I chuckled. "He really thinks I don't have a clue and we're just going through a rough patch. He wants to take me out for breakfast in the morning but I told him I've got a training session with you. I don't want to see him really."

"What are you going to do instead?" 

"Probably the gym. I signed up to a new one on the other side of town. He has no idea I've even moved. I haven't been yet." She smiled, her shoulders moving up with a barely there laugh.

"I'm sure you'll have fun. Oh!" I looked at her in the mirror and she smiled. "There's another party tomorrow night. My brother's friends have invited us if you want to go." 

"I don't know. He'll probably be around tomorrow night. I can't keep away from him all weekend. He'll be suspicious. And we know how suspicious ends." I sighed. "I'll think about it and let you know." She nodded. "Which of Jake's friend."

"I don't know." She smiled. 

"Yes you do." 

"Stay still I'm going to burn you." She giggled putting her hand on my head. 

"IT IS HIM ISN'T IT?" I let my smile get big, laughing at her. "He didn't ask us there, he asked you." 

"No he asked for you too. Apparently one of his friends thinks you're cute." I raised my eyebrows. 

"We will keep that on the back burner until I've gone John Tucker on Will's sorry ass." 

"How are we doing that by the way?" 

"I'm going to throw a little party at mine. And I'm plastering the whole place in all of the evidence I've got of him." I smirked "OR, I could just act normal and call him out on it and make a huge scene." 

"The second is probably best Pops." She looked at me in the mirror and Sighed. 

"It has to be public. If it's not he'll come back and gaslight me. If I do it around everyone he will get pissed and try to hurt me. I know it's risky but-" 

"But it's the only way you get out of this as the victim. Because he will spin it like he always does." 

"Exactly." I sighed. "I'm so angry. I've gone past crying now. I'm exhausted with having to pretend he's not walking over me. I think he knows I'm not the delicate little flower I was before I knew. He knows something's going on with me but he definitely doesn't know what." 

"Are you sure you're okay Poppy?" She put the curlers down and spun the chair, bending her knees so she was down at my height in front of me. "This can't be easy, knowing he's with her." 

"It's hard and it still hurts. Like right here." I put 4 fingers into the middle of my chest "But I know it's going to hurt him when he sees me too. I've got the outfit in my head and he's going to go mad at that alone. Then I can let it all out on him for everyone to see." I spun the chair round, looking in the mirror and running my hands through the curls. "Then I get to be the bad bitch I am. I can finally live. And breathe. And exist. Without the fear of what he's going to do or say."