𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

I could see the concern in Eddie's eyes as I sat silently besides him, chewing the skin around my nails at Kathleen's words. I couldn't stop thinking about them, I couldn't stop beating myself up over them. I hated the thought of people seeing my flaws and hating them just as much as I did. Were they that obvious?.

"Princess.." Eddie finally spoke to me after his intense stares. "Talk to me." I watched his fingers intertwine between mine and pull my hand to his lips, leaving a gentle kiss on the back of it.

"I'm fine." I nodded at him with fake reassurance, trying to convince myself rather than him. Eddie sighed sadly and moved his spare hand to the side of my face, keeping his eyes locked onto mine.

"I hate seeing you anxious, sweetheart." I saw the sorrow in his expression as he spoke to me softly. "Please, tell me what's on that pretty mind of yours." A small smile lifted on the side of his face.

"It's not even anything that serious." I started with a dry laugh. "It was something Kathleen said to me before..about Paige." My eyes couldn't stay focused on his from the nerves racking up inside of me, but Eddie stuck his fingers under my chin and lifted my head so I was looking at him again. "Paige's intentions with Kathleen are apparently truthful and the only reason she keeps trying to push Kathleen away from us is because of me. She hates me, and..and she said all these shitty things about how I can't stand to see anybody else love Kathleen more than me out of spite or jealousy, I don't know..but she hates us." I shrugged, feeling more angry than upset. "She hates me because she thinks I forced Barb and Kathleen to split up, she hates me for dating you and for choosing to be friends with Kathleen..all these things that don't make much sense but then she said it's me.." I remembered back to what Kathleen said. "Just before Kathleen left, she told me that she didn't want to choose between us, but Paige had mentioned it to her and said it was because Kathleen shouldn't be friends with somebody who only cared about herself and that I was using our friendship to try and manipulate people into thinking I didn't care about what social circle you was in because I was a nice girl, but in reality, I'm not." Eddies hands dropped from my face and squeezed into small fists.

"And what did Kath say?." Eddie said with gritted teeth, his eyes staring straight ahead now.

"She said she told Paige to stop trying to get involved, because she didn't know anything about me, but Paige's argument was that Kathleen was fighting for a fake friendship purely based off of manipulation." It was awful to think about, because Kathleen should never have been put into a predicament like this, but Paige had taken it too far and was about to start world war three between our friendship group.

Eddie jumped up out of the bed and started to pace around the room in only his boxer shorts.

"Ed?." I asked him, not quite sure why he had all of sudden gotten so furious over the knowledge.

He shook his head and ran his hands through his hair as he stopped still in the middle of my room. I sat and watched the boy take in deep breaths before leaning his head back and exhaling.

"I've had enough of her." Eddies head lowered back to its normal position as he twisted it to face me now. "I could only just tolerate the way she was making Kathleen look." He scratched the back of his bicep. "But to bring you into it and say shit that she has no fucking idea about isn't on, Kim. I told you not to do anything this year, but I never said I couldn't." A dry chuckle escaped Eddie's lips as he indicated he was going to take matters into his own hands.