Untitled love song

Chapter 23

I ran.

I kept running.

Tears stained my cheeks as images and voices clouded my thinking process.

Can't keep her legs closed. Henry punched Jack. Henry knows what happened.

I sat down in the 'Garden Of Eden' section of the arena. It was pretty secluded and there was no one about, so no one noticed when the tears began falling.

I sat there and cried for what seemed like hours. Henry hadn't come to find me. Maybe he was too busy cheating on me as revenge, to make us even. The overthinking was putting my mind through hell and so I put my head in my hands and drew my knees up to my chest in order to make myself as small as possible to destroy the thoughts that were destroying me.

"Scarlett?"

I looked up in the vain hope that Henry had found me.

"Oh. Hey," I smiled a watery smile up at the bright green orbs that were staring down at my blue ones.

"Are you okay?" James sat down beside me with a genuine look of concern on his face.

"Yeah," I said through my teeth. "No." there was no point in lying anymore.

"Wanna talk about it?"

I took a deep breath.

"My boyfriend punched my ex boyfriend who happens to be his cousin but doesn't know that his cousin is my boyfriend and he'd go insane because this morning he told me he was in love with me and then he fucked the girl he fucked me over with and he just basically told my boyfriend that last week I kissed him." I finished, gasping for breath.

"Fuck."

"Not helping."

"Sorry, but fuck."

"You know it."

"Well where's this boyfriend now? Because if he really cared, he'd be here now, just saying."

"Hey!" I started to get to my feet. Sure he was right, but it didn't mean it wasn't agony to hear the truth.

"Scarlett wait! Look just come and sit down it's okay. I shouldn't have said that it was stupid, I'm sorry."

I looked down at James who was knelt down doing quite possibly the greatest puppy dog eyes I've ever seen.

"Okay, okay, you're forgiven." I sat down beside him and put my head on his shoulder, causing him to put his arm around me. It felt natural. Like he'd never been away. But he had and I couldn't forget that.

James broke the silence. "So I'm guessing now you've got a new boyfriend, there's no chance of me and you, y'know?..."

"No one can know and no one will know anything about that, got it?" My voice turned cold and serious but I didn't care, this was important.

"I know. I've kept the secret this long Wilson."

"Sorry..." I muttered an apology. That's one thing I hate about James, he can always get an apology out of me, no matter what.

"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

James and me both jumped and looked up at an enraged Henry. His fists were clenched and he was red in the face.

"This is the new boyfriend then?" James raised his eyebrows towards the infuriated boy standing above us.

"Good guess,"

We both stood up to face Henry.

"Well?!" He practically screamed. "How are you going to explain this one?"

I stepped over towards the 6"2 figure towering above me clearly fuming.

"Come on then! Or have you got nothing to say?" Henry looked from me to James, his eyes filling with hurt.

"It honestly isn't why it looks like! James is my oldest oldest friend, he's like my big brother and he found me here crying so I told him about everything. Nothing happened and nothing has ever happened between the two of us, nor will anything ever happen between us, okay?"

I looked towards James for support and surprisingly, he nodded.

But Henry still hadn't replied, the tension was agony. No one spoke for what seemed like a decade until finally Henry inhaled as if he was going to speak and as my heart was on the verge of exploding, he said the word that caused me to jump into to his arms and never want to leave them.

"Okay."

Henry put me down onto the ground before kissing me lightly on my lips leaving my heart racing.

I heard clearly forced coughing from behind me causing me to have to desired effect and turn, in order to see who the sound was coming from.

James stood there, his lips slightly parted, as if in annoyance, and ever so slightly red in the face which I put down to the secret effort it is to fake cough.

I returned to look at Henry. He too was red in the face, his fists were clench, as if even looking at James made him angry.

This time it was my turn to fake cough.
"Right come on babe, let's go back and find the others. We'll probably see you around James?"

James smiled, "Yeah, I'll see you around, oldest friend." he winked as he said the last part of the sentence which I hoped to god Henry didn't see.

He did, of course.

The grip on my hand tightened as we walked away.

"Hey...." I stopped walking when we were out of sight from James, "what happened back there?"

"I don't want to talk about it." His tone was cold but he didn't appear to be angry with me on the hole so I pursued it.

"Too bad boy, because I do." And with that I jumped on him causing him to fall to the floor. We both led there laughing for a while before I composed myself and asked him once again, "What was that about?" I sat up and folded my arms across my chest.

Henry sighed, knowing he wouldn't win. "You really want to know?"

"No I'm just pestering you because I'm bored." Sarcasm fell from my mouth.

Henry flicked me and I cried out in mock pain, "Okay, well I didn't notice until he winked at you, before it was just a face I thought I'd seen around the festival before. But then that wink..." he paused, and I grabbed his hand, playing with the cracks in his palm. "James is the guy Milly was cheating on me with."

I choked on air. Causing Henry to pat me on the back.

"B-b-but James would've told me. And what about Tom?" Nothing about this situation made sense.

Henry ran his fingers through his messy hair, "I guess he was either too ashamed, or didn't want to damage his stainless rep. And as for Milly and Tom, they met here yesterday, just after I told Milly about me and you."

"Okay...so I'm guessing when you saw James and me, you thought another girlfriend had cheated on you with James?"

"You guessed it." Henry put his head down.

I lifted his chin up like you would a sulking child.

"Well it's a good thing I love you too much to even look at another guy."

My hands flew to my mouth, had I really just said that? Shit.

I hid my face in Henry's chest in humiliation whilst he laughed, not in a mocking way thankfully.

This time he lifted my head up.

"Girl, I love you too"

He planted a kiss on my lips leaving them tingling.

So this is what happiness feels like.

I knew I was falling too fast, but I couldn't stop.

Authors note:

Who's James? And what's the story between him and Scarlett?