Had To Be You

Corny With An H | Ch: 31

TRIGGER: Slight elaboration of mature scenes (by the end of the chapter). Kindly go ahead at your own risk.  

Am I still terrified? Absolutely yes. And now I know why Leo wanted all of us to forget about it. It's been a whole week now. After that random text, which I'm assuming was from Hyde.

I've been in shock. All that awesome food and I wasn't hungry at all. I remember, breathing heavily, at the table after seeing that text, I started panicking. Liam noticed. He slowly grabbed my hand from underneath the table and did a little nod, asking me what's wrong.

I silently passed him the phone and he remained silent. He gulped. Put the phone inside his pocket and rubbed my thigh asking me to calm down and continue eating.

And I did. But I was still shook to my core. I eat everything that was on my plate. First salad, then pancakes then pie, but none of it really mattered. I didn't know how it tasted, I just knew that I had to finish the food or everyone's gonna get suspicious. I saw Liam struggling with the pancake by the end. And he loves pancakes. 

And just like that, a week passed and no one spoke of it. I told Chloe about the picture and she was as terrified as I was. Chloe must've told Jasper about it. We haven't really had any discussion about it in school.

So the only person that doesn't know about it is Austin.

Leo told Chloe that it happened before Austin broke in. Hyde spiked Leo's drink with some kind of drug that made him unconscious for a while, like he could walk and stand but wouldn't know what was happening with him.

But after coming back home and sleeping that night, things started flashing back. He remembered what happened. And he was shattered, terrified to his core. He knew that there's nothing that can be done. And that Hyde might do it again.

So he pulled all that big brunch thing-y to keep him distracted the whole day. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't but none of us spoke about it.

This whole week was kinda depressing with the whole Leo and Hyde thing on our mind. I couldn't properly focus on anything.

And seeing Hyde's face everyday in school was nerve wracking. He'd walk by us, come to the class and ask me questions like nothing really happened.

I couldn't answer anything because all I could see was that filthy face with a faint smile on it, knowing that he won. He even stopped me once after the class and told me that I wasn't doing well in his subject.

Each and every word that came out of his mouth sounded simply disgusting. I kept looking at him with a cold face while he always had a little smile creeped out by the corner of his lips.

I'm not sure if that is the case but Leo was behaving much differently than us, and as much as I want him to be okay, it always seems that he's in denial. That he's just avoiding the fact that things got so screwed up.

And I wasn't going to force him to explain why he was behaving the way he was. So all of us just acted the same way he did and tried to forget everything.

Things got pretty much normal by the next two weeks. Liam and I were in a good place and mum wasn't aware of it. Liam would sometimes sneak up to my room and we'd watch movies, eat cookies and chips and fool around a little.

I open the closet to find myself an outfit. I wear a brown crop top and loose blue jeans. Apply a little lipstick and pop in a mint.

Then I escort myself down the stairs to the living room. Mum's sitting on the couch doing some paperwork.

"hey."

"Oh hey," she replies, giving me a quick glance and then back to doing her work. "You off to somewhere?"