Unexpected

Chapter 31

(Three days before Cedes is back at Mass!)

I stare dumbfounded at Emery. Third base?! I couldn’t have, no. He’s lying but why would he lie about something like that though? Noah…. Oh my God, this totally means I cheated on Noah! No doubt about it! 

“You-” before I could start yelling at Emery for not stopping everything last night there’s a knock on the hotel room. Emery and I stare at each other. Emery groans but walks past me and opens the door, I lean against the bathroom door and look at a horrified Max. 

“Thane.” is all Max says before Emery turns to me. 

“Stay here and lock the door, alright? Don’t let anyone come in,” Emery orders, I quickly nod then the two are gone. I rush to the closed door and lock it from inside. 

Thane, the guy who came here the other day looking for Emery and the one who claimed to be Emery’s best friend. It felt like I was trying to break a code without knowing any rules. I felt lost being here and not knowing Emery’s past, not knowing his friends, and why Emery is the way he is. I want to know what’s wrong with Thane and why he is bad. I want to know the answers to questions I don’t even know yet. 

With a sigh I push myself off the door and walk over to my suitcase, I take off my wrinkled dress, grab today’s clothes, put them on, and walked into the bathroom. I brushed my teeth, washed my make up off, washed my face, pulled my hair into a messy ponytail, and then put some deodorant on. 

I love Noah so I don’t understand why the hell I could’ve gotten that far with Emery. I love Emery but as a friend. He ruined everything between us when he never talked to me, no matter what excuses he has it just isn’t going to work on me anymore. If Emery does like me in anyway more than as a friend than he has to stop because he had our whole life to make a move or something but he never took the chance. Noah did. 

I guess I wanted to go on this trip to see if anything would change but it didn’t. My feelings for Emery hasn’t grown and I definitely don’t like him in any romantic way. I guess the only reason I was questioning liking Emery was because of his mysterious ways. He was a code waiting to be cracked and that intrigued me but the more I got closer to cracking it the harder it got. Emery changed and I just had to deal with it. 

*

“Can you please tell me what happened between you and Thane?” I whine once Emery comes back to the hotel the next day. Emery continues to brush his teeth and ignore me but his eyes met mine a couple times in the mirror. “Emery, I just want to know.”

Emery spits, sighs, and then turns around. “It’s a long story, Cedes.” 

“And I have time!” I exclaim. 

Emery groans and puts his toothbrush on the side of the counter. “I’m sure you don’t want to hear about it.” 

I roll my eyes. “Please tell me,” I snap as I slap my hand on the bathroom door so he couldn’t leave. 

“Can I tell you the story sitting down?” I roll my eyes but we sit on the bed, across from each other. “a couple years back I met Thane from a couple of sports we did together, as we got closer I saw him deal some drugs for the first time. I was surprised Thane was a dealer but it wasn’t a shock. I confronted him as to why he did this and he just told me it brings him energy. Me being the stupid 15 year old kid I was, told him to count me in, in this stupid dealing. Thane being Thane immediately agreed as he thought it would be cool for us to start dealing with each other. After a couple weeks of dealing I had met Thane’s friends, his friends being Max, Riley, and all them. We all immediately hit it off with each other and that was great in this business. Now, weeks and weeks after working with everyone we had gotten a new buyer. This dude was offering us thousand of bucks worth of weed and we were just packing him with weed everyday. The first couple months he was paying up to his 40,000 dollars worth of weed, everyday. Now we weren’t complaining with how much money this dude was giving us because hell it was 40, 000 dollars everyday. We were in heaven. 2 years ago this buyer bought 812,000 dollars of weed. Now, he told us he didn’t have the money with him but it was complete bull. Weeks passed and passed and we never heard of this dude again. Now, we were panicking because he just jacked us! Somehow Thane got to this kid, now him being the boss, he wasn’t very pleased when he came face to face with him,” Emery pauses and takes a deep breath. As I just listened to Emery, I didn’t know what to think of. “Thane had beat this kid shitless. He died. Thane didn’t like that he killed this dude, no, this was not good for Thane. So Thane thought he would frame his workers. He had framed me, as well. After weeks of you know getting the right evidence and stuff we were all free and Thane was sent to jail.”