Secrets // Ethan Dolan

9. Asshole

Chapter 9, Asshole

When I came home, my mum immediately noticed something was wrong. I didn't know how she noticed, but she did.

"What's wrong, honey?" She asked me with that sweet voice of hers but I cut her off by saying that I was going to my room. I know that it was pretty harsh of me but I just didn't feel like talking to anyone. Not even to my mum.

I made my way to my room, going straight for my bed. I was already getting lost in my thoughts and I didn't even know Ethan that well. How could this bother me so much? I know that I didn't love him, it was too early for love. But I couldn't deny that there was something inside of me that desperately needed to get to know him better.
I can't let this happen. I couldn't be fixated on only one boy, one boy that I hardly knew. A boy that didn't even care about me.

"Katie, what the fuck is wrong with you?" I whispered to myself as I draped the sheets over me. You don't know him. You've talked to him like once. Don't let this happen. Don't go head over heels.

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I heard music playing in the background. Was it music? No, it was a phone. It was my phone. My phone was ringing. I opened my eyes and scanned the room, noticing that it was already dark outside. How long did I sleep?

My phone stopped ringing and I quickly checked the time. Almost 11 pm. I felt the need to let out the anger that was still inside of me, so I quickly threw on some running shorts and a tank top. After putting my hair into a messy pony tail, I silently left the house, scared to wake up my mum.

I started running to nowhere in particular, but after about 20 minutes, I found myself running to the Dolans' house. Should I do this? I asked myself, Should I confront him and tell him what I think about him? Shouldn't I just run back home, go to school tomorrow and act like nothing is wrong and I don't know him? The second option sounded much better but even then, I just kept running.
After a minute or two, I saw his house come up in my eye sight and I started running faster. It was now or never.

I pressed down the door bell, only realizing now that what I was doing was wrong and I should head back while I still had the chance. But then the door opened and I couldn't.

"Oh Katie, hey." Grayson's voice sounded through my ears and I turned around, greeting him with a small smile.

"Hey Grayson, is Ethan home?" Grayson was such a sweetheart, I didn't understand how Ethan could be so different.

"Sure, I'll call him downstairs."

My heartbeat rose when I heard footsteps get closer and soon enough, the door opened again, revealing his beautiful face.

"Hi," He was obviously not interested in knowing why I was here as he was scrolling through his phone, "What do you want?"

"I want to talk." I said sharply. What was I even going to say?

"Then talk." he was leaning against the doorframe looking so unbelievably hot that I almost forgot what I actually came for.

"You're an asshole." I simply said, not knowing what else I could possibly say.

The look on his face changed, as if something in him switched. "Now what did I do wrong?" His voice was cocky.

"What didn't you do wrong? What about waking me up and taking me to some creepy-ass building in the middle of the night and not talking to me the day after? What about completely avoiding me? What about being a complete ass-"

He cut me off: "I'm an asshole? Babe, don't start this shit with me. You hardly know me, yeah I just wanted to have some fun and my friends were too lazy to go do something with me, so I asked you. That still doesn't mean that we're friends. Jesus, stop obsessing." He hissed the words at me whilst looking directly into my eyes.

Obsessing? Obsessing? Okay, maybe I was acting a lil' bit crazy but he still didn't have the right to go ignore me like that. So that's what I said: "We had an adventure and yeah it was only once and I didn't expect us to become friends but you could just say 'hey' to me in the hallways instead of walking in the other direction. And by the way, if you hardly know me, why did you even ask me to come with you if you don't want to become friends?"

"Just fuck off, will ya?" He sounded annoyed, so I decided it was best for me to leave. I "Fucked" off, as he said it. Hannah was right, what an asshole.

"I can't believe that I even thought for one split second that you were a nice guy." I spit those words at him, leaving him at his doorstep.

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Wednesday evening. Hannah called me about half an hour ago to tell me that she was picking me up at 9. We were going to some new club in town. I didn't really feel like going, but my mum said that it was a good thing for me to go out some more and maybe meet some new friends.

I walked downstairs when I heard Hannah honk and my mum complimented me by saying that I looked very pretty. I just gave her a smile and walked outside. Please let this night be fun.

11 pm. Hannah had already downed a few drinks but she still looked pretty sober. She had introduced me to some of her friends, but I mostly stayed in the background.
I liked observing people, I found it fun to just watch other people have fun, listen to their conversations and see how they change after a few alcoholic drinks.

And to be honest, I had fun. Dakota and Ryan, two friends of Hannah, involved me into their conversation and we talked for about a good half hour. The night was fun, until he walked in.

Why the fuck was he here?

Ethan walked in with a smirk on his face. His friends surrounded him, all with the same cocky smile on their faces.

I could only pray that he didn't see me, but as someone tapped me on the shoulder, I knew he did. "Hey, Katie." He gave his words some power by winking at me, but I just looked at him with disgust in my eyes before turning my head. If he thinks that I'm just gonna talk to him after Monday, he's wrong.

Another tap on my shoulder.

"What do you want from me?" I snapped at the guy behind me.

"Ehm, hey Katie."

"Mikey?"

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HELLO EVERYONE, I'm sorry for uploading so little but I had a really busy week and my motivation was a lil' off but anyways a big shout out to dudaalvarez for being amazing and commenting on my story.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Any guesses on who Mikey is?

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Janne