Complicated

Chapter 3

"What'd she say?" I feel my stomachs turning at the possibilities.

"She said they smoked and th-they" she stutters, not making eye contact with me. I don't even know if I want her to continue. But I come to realization.

"Skylar! Spit it out! I need to know!" I am tired of this back and forth. I need to know what happened behind that closed door, no matter how much it hurts me.

"They had sex, Victoria." The words are finally slowly release from from mouth, each one striking me like a knife, harder and harder. Within minutes I've lost my two closest relationships. How does this happen. Yesterday my life was perfectly fine, today its slipping through the spaces between my fingers. I realize that I haven't been breathing and take a sudden breath of thick air.

"Ar-are you ok?" She sounds so nervous.

"I-I need some air." She leads me through the crowd of intoxicated bodies. I don't dare to look for them. I know it will not end well if I do.

As soon as the late October air whips my face, I feel tears sting my eyes. I inhale and before I can breath it out, I am crying. Hysterically. The water is now streaming down my face. How. How could Toni and Erich do this? Join up and plot my death. If this seems dramatic, it is. In my head, I'm confused, and tired and I just want to escape. Skylar is right by my side when I look up, tears slowly rolling down her eyes at the sight of me like this. Of course she would be crying. Shes so sensitive and fragile, just like me. That's why she was so afraid to tell me.

I wipe the tears as they continue down and face her. I try to convince myself that I'm ok.

"I-I need to find him"

"No Vicky. Stop chasing after him. He doesn't even deserve your time." Her attempt at comforting me fails.

"Thank you, but I need to at least try to talk to him."

She nods, looking undecided, but its not her decision. Unfortunately, it's mine.

I head towards the body of students and spot them sitting on the couch. Erich looks up at me, shifting to look less comfortable with her. I can't say her name. She is a pathetic, two-faced..

"Can we talk?" I ask calmly, trying not to give away that his secret is no longer hidden from me.

"Umm..wel-"

"We need to talk." I grab his hand and lead him up to the room he was in two hours ago. Toni whines as I take him away from her. I shoot her a glare and her voice is muted by the music, and then covered by the silence of the second floor.

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