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Chapter 13

Pov Len
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A migraine had grown in my head immediately once I woke up and I felt like throwing up every organ in my body. Resting my hand over my eyes to make everything pitch black, I slowly sat up and eventually removed my hand to look around. I'm in my room? How did I get here? What happened last night? After calming down a bit, I felt an arm wrapped around my waist grip tightly and pulled me further and into  another body that was in my bed with me. Slowly I ran my eyes along the arm to the face of the man laying next to me and saw it was London.. Without his shirt.. That was on me! I looked down to see I didn't have any pants nor a bra under the shirt. I started to panic while frantically getting out from under the covers and off the bed, onto my feet. I tried not to freak out as London started to wake up from all the rustling I had caused. I blushed a bit while watching his muscles become tense as he sat up and rubbed his eyes. Woah. "Good morning, gorgeous." He smirked at me tiredly, laying back down and resting back on his elbows. "How did I- Why am I- Did we?-" He chuckled a bit before responding to all my questions, knowing exactly what I wanted to know. "I drove you home after you blacked out at the party from overdrinking with Cade, I changed you but didn't peak since you were burning up, and no we didn't do anything, you just asked me not to leave so I cuddled up with you and was planning to leave once you were back asleep but I guess I fell asleep too." I honestly felt a little disappointed but I knew that was wrong of me to feel that way.

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Though I did sense that something wasn't right and I had a good reason to think about London the way I was, even though it was.. Interesting. Wait, no!  I  can't sleep with THE London Williams. I have a boyfriend and we're just friends, right?

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After a while, I and London hopped out of bed and walked out of my room to see Night in the kitchen making breakfast for us and not asking anything about why He was here and in my room with me. "You guys eat up. Especially you, Lenny. You need it." "Lenny, huh? That's cute." London said as he sat down next to me and started eating his breakfast. She smiled softly as she set my plate of food in front of me on the counter in the kitchen once I sat down. After eating, London ended up going home and I stayed here with NIght, binge-watching shows and movies with her. "I'm gonna go make some more popcorn," she said as she paused the show and got up with the bowl. As she walked to the kitchen, My phone buzzed and I checked it to see it was Tom.

Tom:
I want to let you
know that we don't
have to do anything if
you don't want to. :)

I felt happy at first until I started to wonder why he finally was letting me off the hook. For months, he's tried so hard until now, why? From the corner of my eye, I noticed Night heading back this way so I quickly turned my phone off and set it back down. "You okay, Len?" I looked at her blankly before finally getting out of my head. "Yeah! I'm just fine. Let's get back to this movie." Before she could say anything else, I grabbed the remote unpaused the movie, and continued watching it.

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Every once in a while, I constantly checked my phone to see if Tom had ever said anything else or thought of something to say but never responded and never said anything else. His text had completely taken up my entire attention and I couldn't help but wonder why he randomly texted me that. "London and Tom got in a fight during the party last night!" My eyes widened and slowly turned my head to look at Night, pressing her hands over her mouth in shock. "WHAT?!" Her hands threw off her face for a moment to say "THAT'S WHAT I SAID WHEN I FOUND OUT!" then slammed her hands back over her lips. I was in so much disbelief. That's why London took me home and not Tom. And why Tom hasn't said anything else to me all day? "Why did they fight? What happened?" she sighed and frowned as she rested her hands on her lap. "It's not my place to tell you. You need to talk to London about it." I don't understand. Why didn't London tell me anything about this? Why is Night just now telling me and why won't she tell me why they fought? What did they fight about? I'm so confused. So many questions and thoughts were spiraling in my head and it wasn't helping with my headache at all. "I think I'm going to throw up." I ran straight to my bathroom and threw up in the toilet for the first time today during my hangover. I never should have agreed to that dare with Cade and there is no way I'm going to try drinking more than him ever again. I also need to fight this hangover by tonight so I can sneak out and go see Tom and talk to him about what happened.

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Night followed after me and held my hair back as I threw up a couple more times then gave me some company as I sat on the bathroom floor. After a while, we headed back to the living room continued the movie, and watched more shows for the rest of the day.  "I'm pretty tired so I'm gonna head to bed. Goodnight Lenny." I hugged her before she got up and said goodnight as she walked to her room. I waited at least 30 minutes after I heard her door shut before turning the TV off and rushing to my bedroom. Quickly, I changed into a white tank top and gray shorts with just plain black shoes. I tiptoed to the front door and quietly snuck out of the dorm buildings and to my car. Once I made it into my car, I hesitated at first before powering it on pulled out of the parking lot, and drove to Tom's house. As I pulled into the driveway, I saw a car parked behind Tom's that I'd never seen before and felt a sudden chill go down my spine. Getting out of the car, I started to overthink what I was about to do but I felt I needed to do this. I walked up to the front door and saw that it just happened to be unlocked and opened it. Slowly walking in, I looked to see a trail of clothes that suddenly made my blood run cold. Step by step, I followed the clothes to Tom's room and heard disturbing sounds that I was praying weren't what I thought it was. Maybe he's just watching a movie and this is all a misunderstanding. There must be an explanation for all this, right? I was only trying to give myself hope until I recognized one of the voices and knew exactly what was going on.

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Without hesitation, I barged into the room, and what I saw only disappointed me. Two faces turned to look at me and one of them was Tom. A squeal and yelp was let out from the woman and Tom quickly got off her as she pulled the covers over herself. I felt no heartbreak but only a little shock at what I had gotten myself into. The only shock was that Tom had cheated on me with the one person who almost ruined a huge part of my life, Silvia. Watching them frantically try to put themselves back together by putting on their clothes to cover up was pathetic as I frowned in dubiety.  I couldn't move as I was frozen in shock and was only able to look away. In a couple of seconds, I looked down to see Tom holding my hands while on his knees, begging me to only see that this was just a misunderstanding and to give him a chance to explain. "I trusted you. I let you walk in my life and be a part of my family and loved ones. You took advantage of me and tried to only use me and when you failed, you tossed me to the side for her." His eyes started to water up but I knew it was all fake to just make me feel guilty and keep me from leaving him but I had no worry nor hesitation of yanking my hands away and stepping back. "Len, please just give me another chance! I beg you!" He looked so defeated and pathetic in tears as he crawled towards me, begging me not to leave him. I only stepped further as I looked at him with a cold, disappointed glare. "I did give you another chance. " I sigh heavily before I continue.

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"I knew that you had been cheating on me for a while but you continued when you knew this is only the worst thing to do to someone and you took things way too far. You are a wreck." I could only feel despair that I thought was awaiting him and I since I now know it will never exist. He quickly pulled himself together and got back on his feet, letting me get a good glance at him as he was just in his boxers and had lipstick marks all over his face and neck. "Len. I want to marry you. This is just a one-time thing. I promise you that it will never happen again! Just give me one more shot. I won't disappoint you!" I scoffed with an unconvinced laugh as I looked away. "You already have and I now want nothing to do with you. Just stay away from me and never come near me or any of my friends again."

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He had begged and pleaded for what felt like hours until I had finally had enough. "Goodbye, Tom. Good luck with Silvia." It was so sad and uncomfortable watching him have a tantrum as I walked out of the house and back to my car. Once I opened my car door, the rain started to pour and only got harder by the second.

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It made it hard to see but I didn't stop driving. I didn't feel like going home yet so I just drove around anywhere I could until my car started to slow down. As soon as I pulled over, My car
shut off and broke down. I was stuck with no way home, by myself, in the pouring rain. I waited for a bit as I tried to think of something to do until I got an idea.

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I grabbed my phone and quickly checked my location and I just happened to be down the road from London's house. Without another thought, I got out of my car and started walking. I started to walk faster and faster and I began to shiver and get soaked from the harsh and violent rain that only continued to fall on me. I finally made it to London's house once the thunder and Lightning came along. Frantically, I knocked on the door and then patiently waited for my call to be answered.