Tangled hearts | Fool for his bitterness 2

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Damien pushes his unlocked phone into the palm of my hands, I stare at it and then at him, "A bit too early for the 'I don't chat with other girls' phase, innit?" He chuckles "Your phone-number, silly." I gasp and laugh "Yeah, right .. haha" I start typing in the single digits of my number and even type in a name, when I hand it to the boy again he reads the name out loud "Damien's #1, huh? That's a lot of pressure for you, isn't it?" I start to play with my hair in a flirty manner "I can work perfectly fine with pressure." He chuckles again, "I am convinced."
"Wanna go somewhere more private?"
I ask Damien to spice things up a little.
He nods and I lead him upstairs into an empty room, it even is a bedroom.
"Lucky, aren't we?" He laughs "I could even have fun with you in the bathroom" he says, my finger sticking at his lips and caressing them gently "shush boy, kiss me already." It bursts out of my mouth and just as I told him he does, his tongue is exploring my mouth while mine is his.
His hands begin to squeeze my breast gently and his kisses beginn to wander down to my neck, causing hickeys all over my neck.
I feel so lost in his touch and my whole body is craving it, I just want him to take control,
"D-do it~" I whimper as he unbuttons my hot-pants.
But of course, before we can even start what we were about to do the pushed open door and some boy-ish voice interrupts us, "Penny?!" Damien and I jump up and I button my pants again, as I focus in who is standing there I start to feel sick, it's Jeremiah, of course it's him. I was trying to get over him, I was trying to move on as much as I can but no, he needs to ruin it once again.
"What the hell are you doing here. Leave me alone Jeremiah." I yell at him but my voice is still getting silenced by the music that's blasting in the background.
"Shouldn't I ask what you are doing there?!" He sounds so controlling it drives me nuts, "Are you serious? We are over Jere, there is nothing that I own you. We are over?" He looks so stunned and just gazes me up and down with a disgusted expression, "We're better going home, you are too drunk for this." Jeremiah grabs for my wrist but luckily I can pull my arm off before he gets to me "Wow.. you know what, Jeremiah? You start to remind me a bit too much about Josh, maybe you wouldn't try to sexually abuse someone but right now, today you are just as compulsive as him. First you cheat on me, the girl that was there for you after you tried to push me as far away as possible only because you can't handle sadness and now you demand me what to do and what not?! Fuck you." It's silent, Jeremiah just stares at me and Damien who is standing behind me exhales on my shoulder.
"You are making a big mistake with that guy, I know him, he is just another player, but if he is the one that can cure the problems you have then do that." He leaves the room leaving me wondering how and why he even got here.
"So Jeremiah, huh?" I nod and turn back to Damien, "Yeah, I guess I was too much in love to see his true self." Damien sits down and almost places me next to him, leading me the way with his hand only to then place it on my waist, pulling me closer "We've all been there, don't you worry about it."
For the next two hours we just sit there and talk about broken hearts, the universe and the opportunity it offers us and tones of other random but yet beautiful things.
I take a look at my phone "Fuck, it's 1:59" Damien looks at me and I begin to explain "Conrad waits for me to drive back home!" I hush to the door but before leaving him there all by himself I say "Thanks for the comfort!" And almost down the stairs I run back to the room he is still in "don't you dare to not text me!" I try to sound serious but I somehow end up sounding like a silly girl.
I rush downstairs, past all the people and finally arrive outside, immediately I spot Conrad and hush over to him.
We both get in the car and begin to yap, chat and argue about the most unnecessary things.
We laugh till the morning, till we finally fall asleep next to each other on my bed.
For a moment it actually feels so peaceful and I forgot about the whole Jeremiah situation.

However. Surprisingly it in fact did not take long till the peace was disturbed.
It's been around 3 hours since I fell asleep but that won't change the fact that it's already 10am, I get waken up by Jeremiah and Belly, they seem to be in the yard, or maybe even in the pool? I can't tally recognize it but they for sure be so loud that I can't fall back to sleep again.
I roll over and suddenly my face is only inches away from Connie's. For a moment I just stay like that and admire his peaceful body.
"Are you starring at me? Kinda creepy not gonna lie." A voice says and I jump up, "What the hell?! Ehmm no? You were just in the way." Conrad chuckles and sits up as well "I couldn't sleep either. They woke me up about an hour ago I just pretend to sleep, eventually I'd may have fall back asleep again." The elder brother explains and gets up, I realize that the only thing he is wearing is a black boxer shorts.
I turn away and yell "Dude, where are your cloths?!" He giggles "probably at the same place as yours." I look down at myself and notice that all I am wearing is a black bra and panties as well. I start covering every inch of my body with the blanket and embarrassed I collapse onto the soft mattress of my bed again, "don't be so dramatic, it's the same as a bikini." Conrad says, but anger just pulsates through my veins. I get up with the blanket wrapped around my upper body as I walk towards him, "Like a bikini?! That's a whole different level of revelation." Conrad throws his hands in the air like a suspect "okay, okay, I apologize!" He yells while I put on my actual bikini but still covering my body with the blanket, I make a 180 turn and face Con "I have a fun idea!" His gaze changes from natural to annoyed within seconds "That can only end bad" he groans with a tone of jokey laughter "ouch!" I throw the blanket at him, revealing my bikini "We're going to have some fun time in the pool!" Conrad seems to obviously judge every single detail about my plan but as stubborn as I am I couldn't care less about it, "Put on your damn swim pants! We're about to rock this swimming pool down there!" I push him through the floor towards his room and then throw one of his old swim shorts at him "You really have no stylish cloths in here, don't you?" He pretends to be hurt by my words but all I say is "Put on the pantsss" and suddenly kicks me out of the room, leaving me standing like some sort of hook up in front of his door.

A few minutes have passed and Conrad finally comes out, the sun shines through the window and reflects on the surface of his face and the flat belly, he looks actually stunning..
I can't believe my own eyes so I try to distract myself by pulling the boy down the stairs, over to the big door and finally to the pool.
Of course we aren't as lucky as we were thinking, as soon I take a step outside I can hear Jeremiah and Belly joking around, water splashing right in front of my and Conrad's feet.
Belly remains quiet as she gazes at me and Jeremiah turns around, facing the both of us, "Hey Penny.. and Conrad.." the younger brother says almost ashamed, as he should though, "How was the party?" Jere adds to spice the conversation up a bit but all I want right now is to cool down my body, slowly I enter the pool, leading Conrad inside as well while keeping eye contact with Jeremiah "After your little interruption? It was actually great. Couldn't have wished for anything else." I sound a bit ironic but I actually mean it, Jeremiah's visit disturbed me at first but after a while of getting comforted by Damien I actually enjoyed the night again.
Jeremiah doesn't seem so happy about my answer though, he remains rather quiet and goes a bit deeper into the pool, making room for me and Conrad.

Time passes quickly and suddenly I find myself in a pool with Jeremiah and Belly making constantly making out, Connie starres at me "I knew it was a bad idea" he whispers in a mocking way but I can see how the other two stop in track. Jere just looks at us while Belly starts confronting "If you don't like what you see just leave." She acts so tough it makes me wanna scream, how could she be this cruel to someone she once considered he soulmate.
I don't care how she acts towards me but Conrad literally went through all paths of hell, he is the most caring human ever.
"Watch this sis!" I yell, they both stare at me and without hesitation I start kissing Conrad.
At first he feels unsure about it but at some point just goes along, we begin to French kiss and just simply make out as they did.
Belly makes disgusted sounds but Jere.. he just stares.. why does he stare at me like that..? Why does he keep on acting like I still would mean something to him? After all he did cheat, not me.
Does he know my heart still only beats for his? Was it just a coincidence that they both were here at the same day? Was it grief or did he kiss her because he actually wanted to?
My brain hurts from thinking about Italy I may even catch myself crying, at least I am on the edge of it.
I break up the kiss and leave the pool, while doing so k grab a fresh towel and wrap myself up in it, I Strom upstairs to the bathroom, locking it and just sliding down the door. I feel like throwing up, but nothing would come out anyway.. I didn't eat anything since like one or two days. I physically can't. Not after what they have done to me.
"Penelope?" A soft voice asks while I hear a knocking sound, I feel too drained to figure out if it's Jeremiah or Conrad so I just get up and open the door, of course it must be Jeremiah.
"Penny please listen to me.." I roll my eyes at him but still keep the door open, just in case he may wants to apologize for all the pain he caused, "Penny I know that what I did hurt you, badly.. you didn't deserve to be treated that way.
And if this Damien makes you happy then go and date him.." "there is a but, isn't it?" I cut the boy off, leaving him stunned for a moment "but please don't make Belly go through the same pain as you are going through, she is still recovering from her and Conrad's break up.. and seeing you two doesn't help." My heart sinks when I hear him say these words, is he actually serious? He can't be.
"Oh my god. After all these miserable things you have done I just gave you the chance if apologizing, to me. To tej girl you cheated in with her twin sister. You fucking drain me.. I try to keep my shit together all night, meeting a boy that actually seems to be interested in me but then you come and just ruin it, as you always do. I tried to be nice to you because after all you are just grieving but there is a point where not even I can just swallow it down, leave me alone Jeremiah Fisher. Just fucking shit up and leave. Go back to your new girl, hold her like you held me, kiss her the way you did me if that's what completes you but please just leave me for the love of good finally alone."
Jere stares at me, he seems to be confused but after a moment he understands the assignment and leaves, without a word. He just leaves..
It seems so peaceful but at the same time hurtful..