Miss Jackson

Chapter 28

Delilahs Pov
My eyes ease open and I squint at the bright light coming in from the window. I roll over to curl up to Brendon for warmth but he isn't in bed. I sit up and stretch my arms out, once I stand up I throw my messy hair up in a bun, being naked and refusing to conform to Brendon's "wanting to be naked all the time" thing, I pull on his white button up that I wore last night until I ripped it off of him, I must have broken a few buttons when doing so because I'm only able to button the last 4, leaving the top part open.
I wipe my face to help wake up and then go out to the kitchen and hear that adorable voice of his singing Sinatra. When I come around the corner I realize he's making coffee and pancakes.
I sneak up behind him and quickly wrap my arm around his waist making him jump.
"Oh, hey D" he looks down at me with a smile the reaches his head down to kiss my lips, I lift myself on my pinky toes to help and after we kiss go back down to my normal 5,'4 height then go sit down at the table
"D...I have to tell you something. It's been eating at me for a week now. I should have told you the day it happened but...I didn't" he turns to me, adjusting his glasses. Oh no. He cheated. My heart drops for a second and I gulp. We've been together for 3 months, is he already sick of me?
"Y-you can tell me" I swallow the bile in my throat from trying not to cry.
"A week ago, after Caroline came here..."
He cheated on me with Caroline!! I should have seen it coming.
"And she found out about us. Someone how so found my private Twitter" he coughs after telling me. So he didn't cheat but Caroline knows, I'm still upset he didn't tell me about that. I stay quiet for a second and sit back, folding my arms against my chest and begin chewing my lip.
"Caroline knows..." I ponder. "Why didn't you tell me?" I ask.
"I was afraid how you'd react."
"If you would have told me earlier,we could have figured out what to do together. I'm honestly a little pissed Brendon" I stand up.
"I'm sorry Delilah. I should have said something..." He shakes his head.
"You didn't though. And now Caroline is probably in the middle of telling the school and your going to get arrested!!!" I shout.
"That's thing, Caroline-"
"I don't want to hear it" I yell and go to the bedroom, slamming the door. How could he not tell me about this! Our whole relationship is based on keeping it quiet and when someone finds out, we should both know so we can figure it out together. The police could be on their way right now.
"Delilah" Brendon's voice pulls me from my thoughts as he also knocks on the door. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you but there's something you should know...something Caroline said" he tells me through the door. I keep my mouth shut, pondering what she could have told him. She probably told him that she is going to call the police and in his defense he said I was 18 and this was consensual from the start. She probably countered with threatening to tell that school in Arizona about how we're dating and after hearing about that they would take away his ability to teach there and take away his teaching license. All of this for what! A relationship?? Yes I love Brendon but I don't want him to give everything up for me. That's just not fair but...if we broke up, where would I go? My parents are in jail, Brendon's all I got.
"Delilah...please let me in so we can talk...hiding in the room is kind of childish" he urges. And there it is, the very premise of all this. I am too childish for him. He's in his mid 20s and here I am, just turning 18. I am a child and I'm in an adult relationship. I'm in too deep to let him go.
"Delilah...just...open the door" he groans. I pick myself off the bed and slump to the door, unlocking it and letting him in.
"I am too childish for you aren't I?" I point out.
"What...no-of course not." He shakes his head. I fall back on the bed and then sit up where he sits next to me.
"I'm only 18 Brendon. I'm too young and immature for you. You're going to be a professor soon and you'll be dating a high school senior." I look at him and then at my hands.
"Why are you being like this. I love you Delilah and from the start I never wanted anything to happen to this relationship. I still don't. It'd break my heart if we ended things."
"But Brendon...we're crazy to think this could ever work without people knowing about us."
"You're right. People will find out about us. But it doesn't matter. Nothing is going to happen."
"I don't know Brendon..." I stand.
"What is this about?" He asks, looking up at me with those big brown eyes of his.
"Bren...I just don't want you to lose your job over me."
He laughs and I raise my eyebrows in confusion.
"We're way past that ever happening D" he stands up and takes my hands, stroking my hands with his thumbs. "You don't go to that school anymore. When I become professor, that has nothing to do with you"
"We still dated whilst I went there. There's proof"
"And who's going to tell anyone?" He asks.
"Caroline. Obviously" I say in frustration and pull away from him.
"That's what I didn't tell you. She gave me her word she wouldn't tell anyone"
"Oh. She gave you her word? Then we're fine" I say sarcastically.
"I know Caroline. When she makes a promise, she keeps it."
"What promises has she kept for you Brendon? I can tell by the way she looks at you that she wants you."
"I know she does. She's told me. But she knows how I feel about you."
"I know women! We stop at nothing to get something we want. And in this case it's telling people were together to get us to break up so she can have you" I yell louder.
"That doesn't even make any sense. I would never want anyone besides you D. You know that. I've loved you for four years before we started dating. I had one fling with Caroline before you showed up"
"You've had SEX WITH CAROLINE?!" I shout at the top of my lungs. "Why haven't you told me that?" I ask.
"I didn't think it was important"
"It's very important. Oh my god. This changes everything...I have to go Brendon. I-I just need some air." I try to stay calm as I pull some clothes on. "Delilah. Please don't leave. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. Please" he pleads. I ignore him and leave the house.
How could he not tell me he's had sex with her, she's obviously still hung up on it and refuses to let him go.
I get in my car, slam the door and drive off in anger.

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A/n: I am so so so stupid. Guys, I fucked up. This whole Caroline thing...When I introduced Caroline in chapter 16 I said her name was Katherine and that Brendon and her only kissed. I fixed that, it now says her name is Caroline and that they had sex once.
Feel free to murder me. Sorry for any confusion