BENEATH HIS MASK

CHAPTER 25 (PART A)

A/N- this chapter is dedicated to my friends @pranusuhasini pransuhasini and @shinneycrystal shinneycrystal 

I stare at him for a minute not being able to say anything. I turn to the other side to try to gain my composure. I didn't even want to look at him right now.

"Rebecca?"he calls out to me but i didn't want to respond, i didn't want to show him that he effected me the way he did.

"i better find my friends." I say without looking at him and just walk away from there.

i shouldn't have kissed him back. Why did i kiss him back? I ask myself over and over. I felt so pathetic at the moment. i acted like an idiot and now i have to pay the price for my idiocity. I was so stupid to think he could like me and more over i was so stupid to act on it. I should have known that no matter what, he was emotionally a secluded person. I felt like i had broken the promise i made to myself all those years back that the next time i get involved with someone i would be smart and careful but what i did a few seconds ago was foolish and reckless.

I have to find my friends, i think to myself. But i had no idea where they were. Hell i had no idea where i was. I grunt in frustration as i thought i was definitely lost, but i thought i heard cindy yell.

"damn it andy. what the hell has gotten into you?"

I try to walk towards the source of her voice. luckily for me they kept on arguing which helped me to locate them.

I finally found them in the parking lot. Cindy looked frustrated with her arms crossed and andy looked exasperated as well. there were just twenty feet away from me and i sighed in relief.

"that jerk deserved hell of a lot more." Andy said exasperated. I slowly walk up to them, wondering what the tension was about.

"since when are you the violent kind? I have known you for five years and i have never seen you punch a guy before."

I froze at my spot when i heard this. Andy punched someone? why would he do that?

"well what did you rather have me do then? Cindy he tried to grope you . he was lucky he walked away with just a punch."

"you almost broke his nose." Cindy yelled.

"well, he's lucky that my punch wasn't strong enugh to finish the deed." Andy said snarkily.

So he hurt someone who tried to hurt cindy? looks like andy was finally coming out of his shell.

'' do you know who he was? He was the son of a councilman. You are lucky he was drunk and probably will not remember anything tomorrow. If he does..."

"if he does, i will say that i was defending my friend from a drunk man who had no idea where to draw the line. And if they aren't ok with that, maybe they will be ok when they hear that my friend is the heir to the Mathews fashion enterprises."

"woaw, where was this protectiveness when he asked me to dance and you just let him?"

"you were the one who said yes to him even though i was your date." Andy said in a frustrated tone.

I froze at my spot as i heard their conversation. I was merely ten feet away but neither of them had noticed me as they seemed so involved in their fight. I was walking up to them until now but judging by the tone of the conversation which was brutal and yet very much needed in order for them to get everything off their chest, i didn't know if i should walk up to them or walk away from there so i froze in my spot, unable to decide what would be better for them as they continued to fight.