Playing for Keeps[Kingx#1] [COMPLETED]

Chapter59

Edited by Nokotoy

Beautiful cover by : @savage_pepe

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ELLIE LIES ON THE bed, staring at the window, she wants to cry out but she can't. She felt numb with the pain of losing the man who's become a big part of her life.

She remembered Archer making that sweet promise to her. Saying that he'll give her all the love he never get as he knew how much it hurts being thrown away.

From that promise alone, Ellie knew that Archer must be hurting a lot too. He probably thinks that her love for him was fake too.

How will she convince him that her feelings were true? Archer's so stubborn. He won't believe it if she just explained by words. She needed to express it somehow.

She wished that Archer would come in through the window, saying that he believed her.

"Honey?" she heard her mom from the other side of the door but she didn't answer her, "Your friends are here"

She had told her mom about Archer, not in full detail, her mom understood where she's standing so she gave her space.

Her parents also seem to be aware that Archer is Mr. Frost's step-son.

She don't know if she wants to face her friends now, what if they hate her too? They never keep secrets from her but she does. She bet everybody in school knows what happened already. She bet Isaac planned that too so she'd lose friends and Archer's 'fan' would hate her too!

She heard the door burst open, making her head snapped towards it. Tori stormed in with Amy.

"Heyy..." she sat up.

Tori sat down beside her with her eyes narrowed on her, Ellie knew right away that she'd mad. Maybe she hates her too!

"How could he?"

They hate her too!

"I- what?" she blinked. Had she heard the question wrong?

"How could he said those words to you! A guy comes in the lunch room and says that some guy was beating a girl up in the empty room then people rush up there. By the time we arrive we heard what he said. You played him, so what, but he had no right-"

"Okay, Tori point taken" Amy says trying to calm Amy down.

"Wait, wait" Ellie interrupted them, "Yo-you guys are not mad at me?"

"For what?"

"For keeping...that from you"

Tori sighed, "Of couse we are. For keeping such a big thing from us. We're more hurt than mad. You know that you can trust us"

"Oh" Ellie said staring at the colourful pattern of her blanket.

"But, what kind of friends would we be if we hate you or show you that we're hurt by your actions when you need us the most"

Ellie's eyes widen in shock, touched and relieved, her lips tremble before she threw herself at them and hugged them, then she finally cried. She hugged them for awhile while crying her heart out. All the tears she held back came out freely.

"There, there" Tori said softly, "Cry your pain out for now"

"What you did was very very...naughty"Amy said instead of using 'bad' "Didn't know how you pulled it off either but we're still your best friends"

"He had every right to be mad at me, you know" Ellie sniffed, she felt the need to defend Archer.

"Yes, he does. But we're your Bff so we have to be angry at Archer even if he's right!" the girls laughed.