The Beast Across The Lake

Chapter 26

                                                                                  

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Isabella
I wasn't nervous when I came face to face with him. My childhood love, the person whom I thought to be my soulmate. I would have thought that it would take me years to get over this betrayal.
I simply felt nothing but a jab of annoyance as he burst out of the car.

"Caleb? Out Of all people, it had to be Caleb?" He began yelling almost immediately.

I pushed past him and headed towards the door but he followed.

"You slept with him, after everything we've been through? Then you show up here after disappearing for days dressed like a fucking hooker!"

I opened the door and headed for the kitchen to inhale whatever headache medicine was within sight and he was at my heel.

"That guy put me in the hospital, how could you? Did you know your mom filed a police report because no one had heard from you since you went out with Kyla, turns out the entire time you were with Caleb- Hey, I'm talking to you!"

I winced a little at the mention of Kyla's name. How could he say it like he hadn't  been cheating on me with her for months?
I still couldn't believe that I was the one being screamed out. Was this his way of proving a point, that he was much more hurt then I must be, by out-angering me? Surely common sense was not amongst us for this conversation.
I swallowed two aspirins and followed them with warm water.

"Izzy, say something!"

"Shut the fuck up Holden!" I finally burst out, slamming the glass down and rupturing it.

He stared at me for a moment. Now that I was looking at him, I could tell that he hasn't slept in days. The bruises on his face from the football game were still visible, his messy hair hadn't been cut in too long and the bags under his size were nearly a reddish shade.

He hadn't looked this bad in ever. Regardless, I felt no empathy. I suddenly wanted to be curled up in Caleb's arms again. I shut my eyes for a moment and fought back the tears. I thought about how impossible it felt to lose him.
Holden's irritating voice started again.

"I know that I did something wrong, but you hurt me too, much worse then you can ever imagine-" he continued but I had just enough of his crap.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" I began," my best friend, Holden, my best FUCKING friend?!"

He opened his mouth as if to say something again but I didn't let him," you've been cheating on me with Kyla, laughing about it behind my back for months! I saw everything, the entire text message history from when you first hooked up when you were supposed to be at the cottage this summer."
He swallowed and it seemed like he didn't think I knew as much.

"Did you think that I thought it was a one-night thing? No, I know everything. The 'study' meetings, the Ubers back to your place after her and I would go out, the bathroom of that bar we went to right after school had ended, it's not me that's the monster, it's you!"
I pointed a finger right in his face and the tears were freely streaming down my face now.