g o r g e o u s • connor bedard

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"quinn" i shyly say, not wanting anyone to ask questions, but the one thing about this group of people is that they are all extremely nosy.

"WHAT?!" jack and luke yell in unison, looking over at their brother in shock and disbelief. Luke was mostly just shocked, but jack looked genuinely hurt. it made me hurt.

quinn stayed silent, except for a smirk that crept on his face. no one could wrap their mind around it, they were all silently whispering to each other, trying to figure out when, why and how it happened.

I was too busy watching everyone scramble, I didn't even notice the look connor gave me, he looked hurt, betrayed even.

everyone asks me so many questions, but me and quinn stay silent. The only person that deserves an explanation is connor, so I whisper to him that if he comes to my room tonight I'll explain everything.

after what seems like hours of interrogation which got no where by the way, we decide it's time for bed. I make my way up to my room and change into my pink silk pjs, ones that connor got me.

i was just about to crawl under my blankets for my nightly tiktok scroll when I hear a soft knock on the door. before I could say anything I see a sad looking connor creep through the door.

"hey babe, come," I say, patting on the empty spot next to me in my bed.

He makes his way over silently and sits next to me, crawling under the blankets too. "So what happened with you and quinn? was it while we were dating?" he hesitantly asks me.

"oh no no, don't worry. I would never cheat on anyone, especially not you. It was the night after we broke up though." i start unwrapping the events of that night. "I went to blakeny when I saw you and that girl, we went to the bar and I guess quinn had a game in chicago the next day, so he was at the bar too. I was really drunk, and so was he, and one thing led to another and..." I trail off at the end, since he already knows where that goes.

"so you didn't cheat on me with quinn?" he is almost scared for the answer.

"no baby, I didn't."

"did jack know?" a small smile creeps onto his face

"hell no, he would have never dated me then."

our conversation is interrupted by a knock at the door, assuming it's layla I invite her in. it was not layla.

"oh sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt anything," it was jack, he starts closing the door, but he deserves an explantion too.

"No jack, stay." I point to the foot of the bed, telling him to sit so I can explain.

I tell him exactly what I told quinn, I didn't cheat and there was no intention to hurt anyone.

"so when you came to the lake house, quinn didn't know you, how does that make sense?" jack is genuinely confused.

"well after it happened we both just pretended it didn't happen, so it was all apart of the act. you guys weren't supposed to find out like this." i try to justify the way me and quinn acted.

"were we ever supposed to find out about this?" jack questions me, almost looking hurt by the whole thing still.

"well, not you. But connor I swear I was going to tell you at some point." I just don't think that jack needed to know about me and his brother, it would've broken him, and it did.

after a couple more minutes jack leaves, but I make connor stay.

we both lay there in comfortable but complete silence. at this point it's 2 in the morning, our bonfire went longer than all of us had anticipated, so i turn off my fairy lights and start to drift off, when connor sits up and just stares at me.