Hidden Dimples

❀ Chapter 20: Trust - pt. 2

❣ Celestine's POV ❣

"I trust you."

To say I was shocked would be an understatement, I was completely bewildered. I knew Storm had a thick wall built around him. He didn't like to let anyone in, to give anyone a chance to break him, to see him vulnerable. I always thought he would go talk to someone else he was more comfortable with, but I guess he was comfortable with me.

I didn't understand why, there was so many other people out there who he could trust, to talk to, maybe even a shrink, but hey, I'm not going to make him think I assume he's completely bonkers to send him there.

As for me. Do I trust him? What even is trust? I don't seem to know anymore. The last time I trust someone other than my mother, that person gave me a bloody nose. Trust is to be earned, no one knows about what happened except for the people who went through it with me. I intend to keep it a secret, maybe one day. One day when I trust someone enough with this unimportant pice of information that seemed to be better off being a story than a past, I would let them know.

I nodded at him as he started to speak, sucking in a breath, "Remember when I told you about my sister?" He paused and I nodded, "Eventually I had to go to high school and that's where all the drama starts happening. I met this really pretty girl, she's called Leyla.

She had a whole head of red hair, one streak of orange, stormy grey eyes that matched my name. She was slim, had the curves in the right places, she was talented as well, captain of cheerleaders and all.

I joined football at that time to get rid of some of the energy I had. Coach saw I played well and made me captain. So eventually my popularity status climbed higher as I started crushing on Leyla. She noticed me and we became friends. One day our coaches think we should date for an image, you know, so we'd be the school's relationship goals and couple model and all that bullcrap." He paused and let me seep in all the information as I took a deep breath and motion for him to continue.

"At first I was down for it and dedicated myself to her. Thus, the note sticking and park walks. Sometime later, my feelings went away and we broke up. She didn't like me then but after a few months, I started to want her back, to really like her and she did the same. We eventually started dating for real. It was perfect, I was happy but one flaw in that relationship was that she never made me smile. No one has.

After 6 months of dating she started becoming really touchy and needy. She wanted to take things to a higher level whereas I wanted to wait. One day we had a talk about it and she told me how much she really loved me and wanted me to show how much I feel for her in return.

I wasn't all for it, as you may say, I was hesitant, reluctant. She told me it was going to be perfect, she was going to please me in every way possible and how much she loved me. I believed her, that time, I was so blinded that I believed her. I let her take my first time and when I woke up the next morning, she was gone." He said shakily.

I pulled him into a hug, seeing tears brimming his eyes. I knew he was heartbroken by it, who wouldn't? I remember that time he was staring at his phone screen, murmuring how much he missed her. I get it now, I get why he's so conserved. I knew why he was so afraid to fall. Because it broke his heart last time he did.

Apparently he wasn't done, "She wasn't there for the next few days and I was left completely shattered. One day she came back. With a new guy. I decided not to jump to conclusions and approached her. She would look at me with that unimpressed look most of the time and I didn't understand why. I decided it was enough and sat her down to talk to her.

It was all a plan. A competition. To compete on how many guys would get with her. Apparently she had been cheating behind my back the whole time and I didn't even notice it. I was the hardest to play by and she made a bet on how long I would hold up until I caved into her 'charm'. I felt so stupid. So I broke it off with her and promised to never fall so blindly again. She left the place and I haven't seen her since.