Sunkissed Serendipity

Chapter 69

Julian

She's still staring at me. Even though I have broken it off with her, I have finally given in to what she wants.

It's nothing. Just a joke.

So what was I thinking when thinking about our relationship? What relationship? The one that was a joke?

She steps closer to me, and her voice drops when she asks, "Are you breaking up with me?"

I cock my head to the side and say, "Just giving you what you want."

"What I want?" she asks, her hands fidgeting at her side. Her eyes swell up with tears, furthering my anger at this situation. "You don't know what I want."

I scoff, crossing my hands across my chest.

She looks at me with a bewildered expression, something that told me she was having trouble seeing me this way. Well, so was I.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" she shouts at me suddenly. "You're acting all standoffish, and then you're breaking up with me," she continues, her voice rising. "And then you're treating our relationship like it meant nothing, like—"

"Did it?," I cut her off, my voice lower than hers but holding more anger. "Did our little relationship mean something to you?"

She blinks. "Of course."

I feel like I am growing angry, unlike myself. But I have been trying to suppress my emotions, and it was so hard to do. It was so hard to do when she continued to pretend like she didn't know what I was talking about.

"No, it didn't," I say quietly. "Our relationship obviously meant nothing to you when you classified my kiss as "just a joke."

Her eyes flinched at something really quickly, and I felt the ugly side of me want to snicker at the fact that she finally understood what I was talking about. She walks forward and then says, "You overheard."

"Overheard the fact that my so-called girlfriend couldn't even say that I was your boyfriend," I cut in, anger seething off my tongue. "You couldn't even—" it comes back to me again. It makes my blood run cold and my words disappear.

She walks closer to me, her eyes holding back worry when she asks, "What?"

I finally looked back at her. The girl in front of me is so much different than the one I spent the summer with. Suddenly everything looked different; everything changed.

"No one knows about me," I barely whisper, the thruth haunting my tongue.

She blinks, but I can tell she cannot find anything to say to defend herself. Bevagse she can't. It's true.

"No one knows about me," I repeat again, voice louder. "You've been keeping me a secret from everyone you know."

She still doesn't say anything, so with my final nod. I say, "Perfect. Fine. You're embarrassed about me. I'll do you a favor. I'm staying away from you."

With that, I turn my back and head into my house. I don't even bother to look behind me when I close the front door behind me. I felt too many things at the same time, and I needed to breathe.

"You sent Isla away," Jack says when he sees me pass the living room. "Why did you do that?"

"Because she doesn't fucking belong here," I shout out in anger. My brother blinks, and it's then that it suddenly hits me. I didn't give a shit about hurting my brother's feelings. The thought makes me run to my room, unable to look my brother in the eye again.