Do It Again

Chapter 23

"What the hell are you doing?" Ryland yelled.

"Ryland!" I pulled the blanket up to cover me. "Wait, I can explain."

"There's nothing to explain! I can obviously see what you two were doing. There's no way to lie your way out of this one. Why would you do this?" He was pissed.

"Why would you just barge in?" I fought back. "This isn't your room. It shouldn't matter what Blake and I did anyway. You're dating Brittany and Rocky and I aren't together."

"You know why I'm upset over this!" He stepped closer.

"Why are you upset." Blake jumped in. "She doesn't belong to you."

Ryland got right in his face. "Because I love her too!"

"You do?" Brittany whispered from behind him.

Ryland's face lost all color to it. "Brittany. That's not what I meant." He said quickly.

Brittany backed up. "Sure didn't sound like it."

"Let me explain." He moved toward her.

"There's no need." She wouldn't let him close. "Apparently I'm not good enough."

"Brittany, wait!" Ryland chased her back over to their room.

"What just happened?" Blake whispered.

I looked at him slowly. "Everything just went downhill."

"Are we still in trouble?"

"I think Ryland's in more trouble than us right now."

"What are you gonna do if he tells Rocky?"

I shrugged. "Hopefully he doesn't. Maybe I could make a deal with him or something."

"Does he really love you?" Blake asked quietly.

I looked away. "He loves Brittany more."

"Why haven't you told me about this? I thought we told each other everything."

"We've been trying to sort it out. I told him he had to get over me." I got up off the bed and wrapped myself in a blanket. "I should go get dressed."

Blake jumped up and grabbed a pair of pants. I quickly went into the bathroom before he had a chance to say something else.

"We aren't done talking about this." He was at the door the second I locked it.

"Can I at least get dressed?" I rolled my eyes. I knew he wouldn't drop it.

"How long has he liked you?"

"I don't know. He just told me the other day." I leaned against the sink. "This whole idea was bad. I should have never decided to bring everyone to a hotel to stay. Nothing good has come out of it"

"Don't say that. You got to spend time with Brittany."

"Yeah, and break up her and Ryland."

"This wasn't your fault. Ryland's the one who said it. He shouldn't have walked into our room anyway. You can't blame yourself."

"But I am." I slipped my shirt on over my head. "She's my best friend. I should have done more to prevent this whole Ryland thing from happening." I opened the bathroom door.

"What was there that you could have done?" He followed me over to the bed. "Tape the door between us shut?"

I looked away from him. "I could have stopped him from kissing me."

Blake stopped moving. "How many times did you kiss him?"

"In all or while we were in this hotel?" I didn't know which was worse.