Supernova

Chapter 10

Y/N's POV: 

"Ash...you've got to know that you are like a sister to me. I didn't realise that you had feelings for me, especially that deep; I thought that our flirting was just playful banter and close friend stuff, you know? I didn't mean to upset you, Ash. Please don't cry", I spoke as tears continued to fall down her cheeks and off her chin. "Gosh. Please don't cry. I'm sorry" I got up and kneeled down next to her chair, embracing her in a hug as she continued crying. "It's okay. It's okay. I'm sorry"

"Stop. Stop saying sorry. It's not your fault I fell for you. You were just being you and I ended up falling in love with that amazing person. But it hurts to see you now that you've told me you don't feel the same. And staying in the same house as you will hurt even more. I don't think I can stay with you."

"Please no. I understand that you aren't able to be around me for a while. But please don't go. I may not feel the same way towards you as you do to me, but I need you safe"

"Y/N, it won't work. Not right now."
"I'll move out-"
"Y/N, stop. I'm going to book a girl's holiday to Barbados and come back in a few weeks after I've sorted everything out"
"When did you decide this?"
"Now"
"And who would you go with?"
"Troian Bellisario. She's always asking me if I want to go out to her house there. And I can only assume Ashley Benson will be there too. I'll be fine. I miss the both of them, and this gives me a good reason to see them."

I sigh, knowing that I was defeated. "Okay. You can stay here until you leave. Will I still be able to call you?" She hesitated. "Maybe not for a bit. It's just going to be too hard for me" I nodded. "Shall we go see where the other ladies are at with the fire? I wonder if they've noticed the lighter on the table yet" She chuckles at my poor attempt of a joke as it's more of a fact, but she shakes her head reluctantly. "I think I'm just going to turn in early tonight. I've got a long day of planning tomorrow" I give her a small, soft and sympathetic smile, however her eagerness to leave upsets me slightly as it hurts me to think that this time, it is me that caused her to be hurt, regardless of my unawareness to the situation mere minutes ago.

Elizabeth's POV: 

Once I had calmed down and had wiped all of my tears on my older sister's now black marked t-shirt on her shoulder from my run mascara, I walked over to the other side of the fire pit and picked up a lighter that Y/N must have left out to light the fire. I chucked for a moment as I thought about her and what she would have said if I hadn't of found it and we hadn't of managed to get the fire started by the time she and Ash came out. "Y/N fingered Scarlett in her trailer", I blurted out.

"Sorry what?!" My sister screeched out, eyes wide, and hands flailing about in disbelief. She repeated her exclamation, waiting for me to say more. "What, when, where, why, how, who?" I sighed, lighting the fire and adding some twigs from the ground on top to help fuel the small flame. "Scarlett called me immediately after it happened yesterday. She told me that she knew of my feelings towards Y/N and needed to talk to me in person. So, she came round to mine last night at 9, we sat down in the kitchen, and we had some wine and she explained how Y/N went to her trailer earlier that day to talk about me. Apparently, she was upset because she thought that I was mad at her because I was avoiding her. I mean, I was avoiding her a tiny bit, but that's only because I have been thinking about that stupid fight that we got into about Scarlett herself!"

MK threw me a blanket from one of the lounge chairs as we began to feel the slight breeze nip at our skin through our thin summer layers. "After Scarlett had had a few glasses, she admitted to me that she is (as she put it) 'highly attracted to Y/N', and that she had sex with her in her trailer, but that afterwards, she felt terrible because she knows I like Y/N. But the thing is, I feel terrible because I'm so worked up over someone who doesn't like me as much as I like them, and it hurts so much. It hurts to see other people close to her and be attracted to her. It hurts to hear about her sexual encounters. And it hurts that she doesn't like me like I like her" Some time went by where only silence filled the air. "Does Y/N know you know about her and Scarlett?"