Treegan- loving my best friend

Chapter 10:

"Keegan? Open up, it's Marlene." She yells from the other side of the door.

We stay silent.

"Keegan! I know you're in there!" She yells. My heart best is gone through the roof, and I'm so scared. "Stay here, I'll go down." He tells me grabbing his jeans. I nod my head and kiss his cheek. I hear him run down the stairs, I put his shirt on and peek out over the stairwell to see what's happening.

He opens the door, and Marlene is stood there. "Good evening." He greets her. "Why did you call for me?" He asks. "Why are you at Troian's shirtless?" She asks. "I asked you first." He tells her. "I knew you were here, someone's been telling me. Now you." She says in a serious tone. She pushes him backwards inside and shuts the door behind her.

"I-I'm. Can we wait until Troian comes out of the shower? She's just about to get in, she won't be long." He lies nervously. "Quit stalling, Keegan. I could make her lose her job over this, tell me, why are you shirtless in her house?" She raises her voice. "I-I." He stutters nervously.

"It's my fault." I say walking from the room. I should not of done that. I walk down the stairs, and accompany Keegan. "Well I found your shirt!" She exclaims, Keegan nudges me pointing out I was wearing his shirt. Good job Troian. "So..." I say awkwardly. "So this is a thing? Who knows?" She asks us.

"You, and I guess whoever seen us!" I tell her, honestly, I thought we were careful. "We were planning on telling you Tuesday, because we want to date, we wanted to tell everyone Tuesday, but someone ruined that for us.." Keegan says sighing. I reach out and hold his hand nervously. "Let go." She orders, and I immediately drop his hand.

"Okay, can we at least come to some sort of agreement? So we can date? I really like him." I plead to her. "No, definitely not! I'm not letting you two date!" She yells. "But Marlene, we-" He starts saying before she cuts him off. "I heard it all before from Lucy and Ian, and Tyler and Ashley, but it never worked out. I know they're all still good friends but we can't lose another friendship." She says.

"This is more than a friendship, it always has been and always will! I can't just stand by and let her go, this is for real, no games." He says staring at Marlene. "Let me think about it, I'll let you know soon. Just be more careful and lowkey. No one else can know, don't make it public until I approve, or Troian loses her job." She states pointing to me.

I smile a little and nod my head quickly. I have a bit of hope for this, I'm hoping she'll just come around and let us date, but trying to convince Marlene out of her beliefs is difficult. "Wait!" I yell stopping her from opening the door. She turns around slowly and stares at me. "Yes?" She asks. "Two things. First, thank you. Second, who seen us exactly? You said it was anonymous, but we talked." I state.

"I would prefer keep it anonymous, to stop any possible drama, and so on." She says. "I want to know, who was planning on ruining my career!" I exclaim. "I can't." She tells me. "You can, it's okay. Nothing can happen. I won't hurt this person, I'll even pretend I didn't hear it! I can keep a secret!" I beg her, desperate. "Marlene." I demand with tears in my eyes. "Who? Who would do this to me?" I whisper in tears.

She takes in a deep breath.
She holds my hand.
I'm getting scared.
Who would do this?
That's when her mouth opens.
And I wouldn't ever think this person would hurt me...

"It was...."