How To Be Straight

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CHAPTER 24

      [ Calvin ]

Derek was going to be the father of someone else's kid.

Not my kid.

Someone else's kid.

And Gina's, of all people.

I loved Gina with all my heart. After all, she kept me company the past three years when Derek found it fit to move on without me. She was the one person who bothered to talk to me and the one person who didn't make fun of me for being gay. If someone asked me a month ago, I would have said that she was my best friend in the entire world.

Right now, though, I hated her.

And I hated Derek, too.

They were going to have a baby together and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make myself be okay with that. It wasn't okay. It was horrible. It made me want to scream. It made me want to cry. It made me want to seriously hurt someone.

So when Monday morning came around, I trudged angrily through the school hallways until I arrived at my locker, frowning at the busted dial as I twisted my combination into it. My eyes involuntarily drifted to the locker next to mine which belonged to Nicolas. I couldn't help but think about how he was doing and I really hoped nothing bad was happening to him.

I clicked open my locker and prepared myself to be faced with the mirror I had taped on the inside, but gasped when I was met with a handful of photographs spewing out from the locker and slowly floating to the floor. Kneeling to the floor to get a closer look at the photos, my breath got caught in my throat when I saw the subject of the pictures were Derek and some random blonde girl. They were kissing.

I didn't stare at them for long because one glance was enough to anger me. I gathered all the photographs and crumpled them into unrecognizable paper, stuffing them back into my locker.

I already heard about Tanner's stupid party and I was stupid for thinking Derek wasn't going to attend. It didn't matter that I yelled at him. He just kept living his life like nothing happened and made out with a random chick to prove that he didn't give a damn about me.

"Did you hear what happened?" I heard a voice say. I closed my locker to see the face the voice belonged to propped against the locker next to mine, even though I already knew that voice like the back of my hand.

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Did you not get it through your thick skull when I said we were done? As in finished. Completed. Over. No more. Stop talking to me." I adjusted the strap of my backpack and turned to walk away, but naturally, Derek's hand latched onto my wrist, holding me back.

He scoffed. "Calvin, I don't have the time or patience for your silent treatment bullshit."

My jaw dropped at his blatant disregard for my boundaries. "Fuck you," I spat at him. "I don't like you anymore. Leave me the hell alone." Using my other hand, I tried to free myself from his grasp, but I continued to underestimate his strength.

"Calvin, I had sex with Dina before I even had feelings for you. And yeah, maybe, she happens to be pregnant with my baby but it's not like I was planning it. Surely, you can overlook that."

I gave him an expressionless stare. "A baby is a bit hard to overlook," I deadpanned.

"What?" His brows furrowed. "And a creepy ex-boyfriend isn't? What the hell, Calvin? You don't see me getting mad because you had sex with Frenchy on more than one occasion."

God, I fucking hated him! My situation with Nicolas couldn't even be compared to this. Whether or not Derek had feelings for me when he screwed Gina was irrelevant, because he still did it like the heartless asshole that he was.