Sweet Poison

Sweet Poison (Ch. 30 part 2)

I told Dylan everything about me and Wade since he was one of the only guys I truly trusted. He listened intently throughout the entire story of Wade and I. He surprised me with the attention he showed me and how instead of acting like my little brother, he transitioned into a protective older brother. After I told him the only thing he could do was stare out the window speechless and all he could mutter was a dry "that sucks".  I agreed fully with him about that realizing that the normal Dylan was back.

"We should go somewhere." Dylan suggested, lounging on my bed like he owned the place. I could only roll my eyes, but luckily his sentence took my mind off of all the anxiety I was feeling. Between Eli using and totally forgetting about me not even 24 hours later and Wade coming to stay with us I was a total wreck. By the way Dylan kept secretly shooting me worried glances, I figured he could sense my dilemma.

"Where?" I sighed, wondering why I had been so easy with Eli. I had never been like that with anyone and I guess now I was paying for it.

"My house."

My sharp eyes slammed into his. "Why would I go over your house. Do you think I want to see Eli, don't you think I want to avoid him and never ever see him again?" I hissed.

Eyes wide at my sudden bi-polarness, he raised his hand up  in surrender. "Calm down . . .jeez. I was just suggesting that because you looked like you were slowly losing your mind."

I didn't reply to him, instead propping my face on top of my hand and staring out the window in deep thought. Even though a part of me was hurt and never wanted to see Eli ever again, a bigger part wanted to see him or just catch a slight glance at him.

 After I talked to Dylan, me and him walked to his house and surprisingly it wasn't that bad. Dylan kept the conversation going and nearly had me laughing on the floor with his crazy antics and remarks. We arrived at his house about 40 minutes after I left my house.

I walked up their drive-way and Dylan led me to the backyard. At Dylan's side, I snorted with distaste arriving in the backyard. There Eli was chilling and smoking with that brunette girl( bitch) I had saw him with a few days ago.

My walking stopped and I tensed prepared to make a quick get away. However, Dylan noticed and with a knowing smirk, he grabbed my hand and dragged me towards them while I struggled fruitlessly. When Eli heard our footsteps in the grass, he glanced up. My fighting of Dylan stopped as our eyes connected. I was trying to go for a cool and collected fascade, so he wouldn't notice how affected I truly was by what happened last time I had saw him.

Eli quickly put his cigarette out and walked towards me with a purposeful stride. A smile crawled on his face which made my heart flutter. He reached out and gave me a hug. I didn't hug back, but it was like he didn't even notice. "I've been trying to get in touch with you for like three days. I'm sorry Elissa if you thought anything and-"

I cut him off, crinkling my nose. "You smell like smoke, you told me you would stop."

He gave me a deadpanned expression, looking at me like he couldn't believe I had just said that. "Yeah I did, but for the past three days I was pretty stressed you know and-"

"Yeah but you told me you would stop, you lied." I crossed my arms stubbornly, our eyes locking in what felt like a show-down. He was implying that after our argument and me ignoring him for three days straight, had made him start smoking again. I was starting to wonder when was Eli going to start taking the blame for his actions. I realized I was starting an argument on purpose but I couldn't help it. I had thought I was at least a little bit ready to see him, but after walking in the yard and seeing that brunette and him together still, I realized I wasn't.

The tension between me and him was getting pretty bad as we continued our silent stare off, when Dylan quickly cut in between us. "Listen I know you're mad Elissa, but I just can't take this. Eli he's constantly blasting music at night because of you and Eli she is constantly crying and you know who has to fix things?" He pointed at himself, looking like he was ready to hit something. "Me! So are you guys going to make up or what? This becoming really annoying because I did not sign up to be a couple's therapist" Dylan said glaring at the both of us throwing his hands in the air self-righteously.

I looked at Eli who was looking at the grass and then I glanced at that girl. She was staring at me with a tight lipped smile, her eyes scanning me with a scornful look like she was studying her prey. Dylan looked at me as I was glaring at her and once again had to be the peace keeper. "Oh um this is Shelby, Elissa and Shelby this is Elissa", Dylan said pointing to us both.

"Hey",she grinned with false enthusiasm.

"Hey", I slightly rolled my eyes, putting my back to her letting her know non-verbally that she was irrelevant to me. Yes I know, bitch mode activated.

 Turning my back to her, my eyes connected to Eli who was smiling at me. "What?" I hissed still annoyed with him.

He opened his arms that smile that took my breath away adorning his face. "Come here", he smiled. I crossed my arms and turned away. "Aww come on",he said. his arms appearing and wrapping around my waist. He placed his chin on my shoulder, nuzzling my neck. I giggled and he kissed me on the cheek and turned me towards him. "I'll stop and I'm sorry if you thought anything was up, we're just friends, we've always been friends, and will always be just friends", he said trying to cheer me up.

I looked at him, eyes narrowing in suspicion trying to figure out if he was lying or not. The openness to his face and the pleading in his eyes, told me all I needed to know. With a satisfied smile, I nodded. "Okay." He hugged me and Dylan start clapping.

Dylan clasped his hands. "Okay good you guys are all cheered up and if any more problems happen, please, please do not come to me." With that, he begin walking to their house like, let out a sigh like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulder. Eli and I merely laughed at Dylan's theoretics and watched as he walked inside. We then turned towards Shelby. Seeing her face, my good mood seemed to plummet almost immediately. "This is one of my best friends. I've known her since I was seven." He smiled looking at her with total respect. I smiled at that, secretly screaming with frustration, and then smiled at her. 

She got up and nodded at me. Even a blind man could see that this Shelby girl was just putting on an show of acting nice. "Hey" Forced smile set.

For the rest of the day I listened to  Eli and Shelby tell me stories about when they were little and all the funny, crazy rugrat things they did. I smiled, nodded and laughed but secretly wished they would both just shut up and turn on some TV. Throughout the day I picked up on little red flags about Shelby. One of the biggest being how Shelby is a little bit too touchy-touchy with Eli for my liking but he's pretty content that they are just friends. So I'm happy for right now. She may have feelings for Eli, but as long as Eli doesn't have any feelings for her than everything should be okay. Right?

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