Part Two to Gage: What happens after your whole world comes crumbling down? Follow Bliss and Gage as they take the reader through the journey of their senior year and the aftermath of the Facebook posting gone wrong.
After Gage left, I went up to my room and started thinking of the questions I would ask him for the assignment. I couldn't help but think of his words. He was right, our whole relationship I never once asked him about his life or where he wanted to go. I never questioned his family home life. Even after all that he said I had been perfect for him. Key word he used was I was. Past tense meaning he was over her. Just like I should have gotten over him. But there had been something in his eyes; something that I just couldn't quite get past. I sighed and rolled over grabbing my laptop off my night stand. I hadn't been online in a couple of days due everything coming to light with Blaze. The last time I had been on, some of the posts blamed me for Blaze posting the pictures like it was my fault that he drugged me. After that I almost shut the whole thing down for good but then Gage had commented on my page. Something I never expected but his words told the others to leave me alone and that Blaze did what he did because he was sick.
I logged onto the site and scrolled through the news feed. Nothing too exciting mostly posts about the party on Saturday, which Matt was claiming was for Gage's birthday. But everyone should have known better. It was a chance for Matt to use Gage's new popularity for his own advantage. I read through all the 200 comments from the classmates that said they would make it to his party and they wouldn't miss it for the world. Gage had gone though and liked all the comments himself, and I clicked onto his name. His picture was of him smiling big into the camera. It was from the night of our first date. The night he took me out onto the water and watched Jaws. Where things got heated and we ended up curled up on a blanket after I took his virginity. I moved through his pictures, all pictures that I had seen before. I clicked onto his uploads and stopped scrolling. He had just recently uploaded a picture of himself lying in what I assumed was his bed shirtless, his abs rippling down to his v-line.
Gage uploads:
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I bit my lower lip and reached for my phone. I hesitated as I scrolled for his name. 'Leave it be.' I thought setting my phone back down on the bed. My eyes would not move off of his body. My finger lingered on the like button for a moment before shrugging and pressing it down. I didn't know what I thought would happen by pressing it, but I never expected my inbox to light up. I opened the box and Gage's name was blinking at me.
"Stalking me now?" His message said.
I read the message trying to think of something to say. Finally I came up with, "Not at all. I didn't realize it was a crime to like your pictures."
"I'm kidding with you Bliss, relax."
"Oh, sorry...so that picture."
"What about it?"
"Just a first I've seen from you that's all."
He was quiet for a minute. "Like it?" He finally said and I could feel that smirk of his spreading across his handsome jawline.
"Eh, I don't want you getting a big head like my brother so I'll say its okay. Could be better."
"Lol, How?"
Bliss typing....nothing...Bliss tying...
I must have deleted, rewrote then deleted a bunch more times before I finally said, "Wouldn't you like to know."
"That's the best you came up with after all that erasing?"
"Shut up, I have to go, I'll see you at school tomorrow." I said, as my cheeks grew red.
"Okay, see you tomorrow. Goodnight ; )"
"Goodnight Gage." I said putting my computer into sleep mode and setting it down beside me.
I rolled onto my side, there was no way I could fall asleep now. Not with him on my mind. I rolled onto my back, to the other side, tossing my blankets to the floor. I lay looking up at the ceiling. My mind drifted back to the night of Jaws, the way his hands touched me, the way he kissed me. I closed my eyes feeling his weight on top of me. 'How could he still have this much power over me after everything that had happened?' Granted it was my entire fault but still. I should be over him not laying here thinking about being under him. I got up and made my way to the shower. After letting the hot water take over my body and the cold start to stream down onto my skin, I finally shut it off and headed back to bed where sleep eventually took me over.
