My Deal With The Devil's Son

Chapter 13

Re-cap:

I giggled, hopping onto his back as he ran through the hallway. As we were about to escape to the safety of the foyer, we bumped into Scottie coming out of the men's room. He looked at us with both confusion, hurt and just plain anger. Uh oh, I had really done it this time.

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"White, fancy meeting you here," Daniel said. I could just tell this was going to end badly.

"Could say the same for you," Scottie almost growled. He definitely wasn't pleased to see him here. He was probably confused as hell too, days ago I hated his guts.

"Easy man, what's the problem?" 

"My problem?" Scottie asked. "My problem is you."

I tried my best to shrink back and hide behind Daniel, hopefully blending in with the walls. Somehow, I don't think my outfit was best camouflaged with the dark red walls.

"Me?" Daniel asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Yeah, you." 

"Look man, I don't know what your problem is, but take it elsewhere. I'm trying to spend some time with my girl." Wow his girl? I was Daniel's girl? Scottie looked beyond pissed. He had obviously put two and two together. He then turned to me,

"I thought we were seeing how things were between us tonight? To see if we could be something more?" 

Daniel slid me off his back onto my feet, wrapping his arm around my waist pulling me to his side. I could feel Scottie's gaze burning into me but I didn't look at him, I couldn't. I couldn't even look at Daniel. I felt so ashamed, I felt like I had betrayed them both. 

Daniel squeezed my waist, comfortingly. I looked up at him to see him staring back at me expectantly, waiting for an answer. I knew I couldn't delay it any more.

"Listen, Scottie, when you asked me out yesterday, I tried to tell you I wanted to be just friends but when you suggested it to be a trial date, I just didn't want to hurt your feelings. I didn't want one of my best friends to be hurt because of me," I tried my best to explain.

"Why didn't you just tell me? You could have saved me the embarrassment," he said. It almost tore me apart. The one thing I tried to prevent happening, happened, but it hurt more. 

"I tried," I whispered.

"And that doesn't explain why you had us both here tonight." I bit my tongue. I knew he was right.

"I think you owe me the truth on this one occasion," he said. I sighed and braced myself.

"I accepted to come tonight with the intention of being friends, then I went to see Daniel and he asked me out tonight but I kind of forgot about our plans. I didn't want to cancel on you and Daniel and I were already on our way here. I'm sorry, I--"

"Hold on a second," Scottie interrupted. "I mean so little to you that you forgot about me?"

It was my turn to get angry now. How dare he accuse me of not caring. It was because I cared we were in this situation.

Daniel intervened then,

"Hey, don't talk to her like that!" He was about to take a step forward but I caught his arm, not quite ready to witness another one of their fights.

"You stay out of this. What you going to do anyway? You couldn't take me last time," Scottie gloated. Right now, I really didn't like who he was turning out to be. It was like him and Daniel were switching personalities.