Fight for you

Part 17

Part 17

When I walked into Jay's house I was met with the most awkward situation in my entire life. Jay opened the door for me and he saw that my clothes were kind of ripped and I was bleeding so I looked a bit of a mess. 

"Hey, can we talk?" I asked Jay. 

Jay moved to the side and let me in, I walked into his living room to find Ryan already sitting there, on the egde of the couch, scared to touch anything in case it broke and Jay stabbed him with a fork. When I walked in Ryan looked up at me and suddenly I had flashbacks of when he rejected me, told me he didn't love me and I felt myself go red with embarassment. 

"Zo-" Ryan began but he was interrupted when Jay entered the room. 

"Thanks for inviting unwanted guest into my house Zo" Jay said spitefully. "You don't have the right anymore, we are over remember?" 

"I know, I'm sorry I just really need to talk to you guys" I said. I looked at Ryan who was still looking nervous. 

"About?" Jay asked. 

"Something you both know about, and I need answers." I demanded.

"What the hell do me and this nerd here have in common?" Jay asked, looking at Ryan with disgust. 

"Zoe I nee-" Ryan got up to leave. 

"No Ryan, you need to stay" I said. Ryan sat down after looking at the serious expression on my face. I drew in a deep breath preparing myself for the information I was about to get and how it could change my life forever. 

"Jay, Where were you the night Shaun died?" I asked. Jay looked at me, hurt. 

"Why?" Jay asked. 

"Just answer, please" I pleaded. I didn't know what I wanted to hear but I needed to hear it. 

"At that random party that you weren't allowed to come to?" Jay said. 

"Were you wearing the Jacket I got you for your birthday the week before?" 

"Yeah I wore it to the party but I guess someone else took it so I left without a Jacket" 

"When did you leave the party? and were you alone?"

"Wait a second!" Jay protested suddenly. 

"What?"

"Why doesn't the nerd get any questions?" 

"He will, once I'm done asking you" 

Jay groaned. "Whatever"

"So Jay, did you leave the party alone? and What time?" I asked, I felt like I was interrogating him. 

"I left at around 12"

"Were you alone?" I asked. 

Jay was quiet for a while, he refused to make eye contact with me, his eyes were glued to the florr instead making me even more suspicious. 

"I asked, were you alone?" I said, louder this time. I felt in control for once, that was never how I felt when we were in a relationship. 

Jay shook his head in silence.

"Who were you with?" I ask. I braced myself for what I was about to hear. 

"Tracy" Jay replied. I stayed quiet for a while, that's not what I was expecting. Tracy was a girl who left school a couple of months ago, she was really quiet and I never really spoke to her.

"Tracy?" I repeated. 

"Yeah, we were both really drunk and she suggested we go back to her house to sober up but when we got there she kissed me and I kissed her back. One thing led to another and-"

I stopped him before he could go on. I knew what he was going to say but I needed to decide how I felt. Jay cheated on me? After our 1 year anniversary he cheated on me with some girl he hardly spoke to? I felt hurt, broken almost. I felt like an idiot because he was able to keep this from me for this long but I also felt anxious. This meant that Jay had nothing to do with Shaun's muder and that would mean...

"Zoe, I'm really-" Jay began.

"Forget it, its done" I replied. It came out harsher than I expected but I was hurt, and he needed to know. I turned to Ryan as I ran through the questions in my head I needed to ask him but the main question was where do I start? 

"Zoe are you okay?" Ryan asked.

"Fuck off nerd, don't start your sensetive shit in my house." Jay said rudely.

"Jay!" I exclaimed, telling him to shut up. "Ryan, I'm fine, but I need to ask you questions too" 

"What is this all about Zo?" Jay asked. 

"Its important Jay, lets just leave it at that" I said "Ryan, where were you that night?" 

"What was the date?" Ryan asked. 

"June 22nd" 

Ryan stayed quiet for a while, he wasn't looking at me. "Oh." 

"Where were you?" I asked. 

"I was out" Ryan said, Jay was staring at him and I could tell ryan was intimidated. 

"Okay, Ryan you come with me, thanks Jay" I said, I got up and grabbed Ryans wrist and began to walk out of the house. I was at the door when Jay stopped me, he took my wrist and pulled me close to him. 

"Zo, I am really sorry and I still love you so much"

"I know" I replied. I walked out of the house with Ryan, we were both walking but we didn't know where we were going, we were both quiet because we didn't know what to say and I knew what to expect. 

"Ryan" I eventually said as we got to a park bench "remember when you told be about your past and you said you left it because people could get hurt or something?" 

Ryan nodded, still not making eye contact with me. 

"What did you mean?"

"I meant people could get really hurt" Ryan replied. I groaned. I was going to get no where with this. I needed to know and for that I needed to tell Ryan I knew. 

"Ryan listen" I began. "I went to Caleb to find out who killed my brother, turns out he was selling and doing drugs with your brother and when I asked Caleb who killed my brother he told me that it was you"

Ryan still didn't say anything. I felt my heartbeats get faster and harder and I felt like my heart was eventually going to jump out of my chest and onto the floor, I was nervous for many different reasons. There was a huge lump in my throat and eventually tears in my eyes, I started to cry, I felt weak and vulnerable, but I needed answers. 

"T-tell me Caleb was lying Ryan!" I exclaimed hysterically. "Tell me you're innocent! Tell me you didn't kill shaun!" I was yelling now, I hand both of my hands on his shoulders, shaking him, trying to get him to talk to me, tell me he was innocent. I stopped.

"I-I can't" Ryan eventually said.

"What?"

"I did kill him"

Sorry to end it on a cliffhanger there but I wanted the next chapter to be a flashback from Ryans point of view of that night! 

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