Complication

Chapter Thirty

Lucas's POV:

The whole day all I could think about was Gina. What was with me? I didn't even have any strong feelings toward her anymore. But something made me just want to be there for her. Yet I'm stuck here, riding my list of horses and lounging hers. I love riding, but I know she would much rather be here than locked in the house, basically forced to think about her sorrows.

Wait, that's it! I have to convince Brandon to let her come here! That would brighten her mood! I set out for Brandon and bump into him by one of the warm-up rings, watching random people school their horses. He puts his crutches on the ground as he takes a seat on the bench.

"Hey Lucas. How was Harvard today? Did you get him to stop pulling on your right rein?"

"Yeah, yeah" I say too focused on the topic I needed to say to answer his question fully. "Hey, can Gina come tomorrow to school Casper? He was pulling on me a lot on the lounge line and I feel that he will do better with a rider on him."

He thinks for a second, "Maybe I could ask Jackie if it's okay if you hop on him."

"No!" I blurt out. "I mean, Casper needs Gina. I won't do any good, especially in the most important show season for us. I would just mess it all up."

He sighs, "Lucas... you know that we can't overwork her. We need her here, yes we do. But she needs to be here, healthy. And I think that a week off for her to relax would be the best thing for her."

I clench my jaw, knowing that I'm not going to win this. Knowing that he won't understand. "Okay, I'll lounge him again tomorrow and see what he's like. Maybe it was just a one time thing..." I say before walking off.

My watch says that it's 4:47 pm yet I feel like I've been here for way longer. I head back to my house, saying "Hello?" as I walk through the door. I get no answer so I walk up the stairs and see her room door open. I walk in and sigh when I see her passed out on her bed. I glance around the house, noticing that nothing has been moved or changed around the house I know that she hasn't moved since I left seven hours ago.

I leave her, not knowing what to do to help her. My stomach grumbles and I immediately think of how hungry she must be. I jog down the steps and make her a turkey sandwich and make myself one too, gobbling it down in seconds.

I bring her plate up to her room and place it on the nightstand, leaving her room and closing the door behind me.

Suddenly my mind was racing, unsure on how to handle this. My body begins to shake a bit and I instantly know this feeling. I'm craving Morphine. Ever since I got off of it I would have random times like this where I really considered going to get more. I needed something to get my mind of this, anything. I turn around to go back into Gina's room but quickly decide against it. She has enough shit on her plate and doesn't need to deal with me.

I jog down the stairs and into the basement where I've made my room out of it over the past couple of years. Call me greedy, but I wanted a bigger room than my original one. Anyway, I thought that maybe I could sleep it off, wake up in the morning feeling refreshed?

I layed there for a half an hour, not even close to falling asleep.

Maybe just one time won't hurt me...

No! I can't, this is the cleanest I've been in a year, I can't back down now.

But I need to get my mind off of it.

Suddenly, like planned, Emily calls my phone.

Perfect, I think. Emily seems like a great idea right now.

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The bad part about Emily coming to my house is that I now have no idea how to get her out. Like in the next five minutes. And she really wasn't a good idea in the first place. What's wrong with me? I let her come to a house where Gina is moarning. I should be supporting Gina and not sleeping with the person she hates most.

"Okay, I have to run back to the barn to do a night check." I lie straight to her face and I throw on a t-shirt.

"Doesn't your big, fancy trainer do that for you?" Se asks, refusing to get up.

"Not tonight. Come on..." I hate what I'm about to say but if it means her leaving my house..., "Why don't you come with me?" I could ditch her once we got to the show grounds or something.

With that she perks up and jumps out from under the sheets and quickly puts her clothes back on. "Yay, I can't wait to see your horse. What was his name... Harvard?"

"Yeah" I mumble and walk up the two flight of stairs with Emily in front of me.

When we get to the top of the stairs I see Gina walking down the next staircase, slowly once she see us.

Shit.

Despite what I thought she would do, she smiles to Emily and me and walks past us into the kitchen. She grabs a glass and gets water from the fridge door. "Hey guys" She says and I'm surprised how normal she made her voice sound.

Emily rolls her eyes and turns toward me, "I forgot you where staying with little miss 'Oh no! My boyfriend tried to protect me! now I have to break up with him!" She acts out in a baby voice. The she turns toward Gina, "I'll make sure I'll tell Justin you look like shit."

I was about to say something but Gina turns to me, totally ignoring Emily. "I'm going to go talk to Liam."

"Liam?" Emily speaks before I can. "You mean that dark haired, blue eyed, yumminess that I slept with last night?" Emily asks, totally unashamed.

I see Gina freeze and Emily saw it too. "You know what Lucas? I'll catch you later." She smirks, knowing that she hit Gina's soft spot. And she's gone.

Now I'm left with Gina, tears weld up in her eyes. I go to explain, even though I had nothing to explain to her. Liam never told me about him and Emily, so how could I have possibly known that bringing Emily here would lead to this? But I knew deep down that bringing her here was a mistake.

Before I could speak through the silence, she walks to me and I wrap my arms around her, letting her cry into my chest.

She cut herself off after a short minute and wipes eyes. "You know? I really shouldn't be surprised. I only knew him for a month and after the party I should've known that something else would happen. But I'm just a stupid idiot that thought that he could actually care about me." She rambles on but I cut her short but pulling her towards me and wrapping my arms around her.

How could he do this to her? After he told me that he thought she was the one. "Shhh" I comfort her. First thing tomorrow, before I go to the show grounds, Liam better explain himself.