The Things You Will Never Know

Chapter 6

Hi again! Thank you for all your kind comments about the last chapter!

This one is like 90% dialogue so I hope that's ok, but it kinda had to be done.

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PRESENT DAY

Chris' gaze is almost searing. It lacks the danger of the way Reece looked at me earlier, when he had me pinned against the freaking wall. I still can't believe that happened, but now isn't the time to think about how he made me feel.

"Brianna told me all about you and Reece today." He eventually says, his expression remaining neutral so I have no way of reading him. His eyes though, they still study me like he's trying to see right into my soul.

Fucking Brianna Carlisle...of course she told him. She's the girl that Chris has been in an on-again, off-again relationship with for the last few years. She's your stereotypical beautiful, blonde queen of our high school. If we were in America, you just know she'd be the classic cheerleader who's dating the captain of the football team, or something equally as cliché.

I try to hide my distaste for her from Christian but I'm sure he sees it; It's hard to hide when I dislike her so much. And no, my feelings towards her are not just because I'm secretly jealous that she gets to have Christian; I'm not that callous.

She's given me hundreds of valid reasons to hate her over the years, like how she made my life hell when we were growing up and I never told anyone about it, not even Cal. Eventually, after what happened seven years ago, I realised I had bigger problems than her and I finally gathered the courage to stand up to her and not let her torment me any more. And, of course, that just made her hate me even more, but apart from the occasional rude comment or 'accidental' shove in the hallways, she hasn't got the nerve to do much more. Not after what I did to her the last time she tried something, anyway.

"And what exactly did she tell you?" I scowl at Chris, knowing that if Brianna has the opportunity to spread some kind of gossip now, it won't just be Christian she spills it to. I'm pretty sure Reece and I will be the centre of attention in school tomorrow thanks to her, and I curse him for putting me in that position. We were too reckless today, but it's not his fault alone. I wanted it. I let it happen.

"She said you guys were having some kind of heated argument, and that clearly, there's something going on between you two." He drawls, somehow sounding like he's both uninterested, and yet, like he might just want to know exactly what that something between me and the boy he hates is.

"That's...great." I groan, now absolutely dreading tomorrow. It doesn't matter that Brianna doesn't know exactly what is going on between Reece and I. The details aren't important. All that matters is that she's never been able to keep her mouth shut, especially when it comes to me, and now she has a connection of mine that she can exploit and twist however she wants to. If I was any other girl getting cornered by Reece Buchanan in the school hallway, then there would be no story, it's pretty much a daily occurrence, but I'm me, and I have a reputation for being a loner, an outcast...a weirdo, so the reason Reece Buchanan was talking to me will be hot gossip in the microcosm of our school for sure. This whole fucking town is practically built on gossip and stories; Why would Haltonshaw High be any different?