Destined to Fall

Chapter 17

As I woke up this morning, I still couldn't shrug the thought of what happened last night. The kiss. The tongue. The warmth of his body. The confession. And the part where Christian became so drunk that he looked like a drug addict.

I quickly get into the shower and pull out some clothes to wear, along with tying my hair into a high ponytail.

As I walked into the school compound, I'm actually very positive that today was a good day. But as soon as I step foot on the amphitheater stairs, heads started turning at my direction. People started glancing at me, some with a judgemental mental face, some smirking , some smiling. I quickly walk over to the amphitheater and sit down. Just as I thought I can finally get a peace of a time, my friend, Zara came to me.

Zara's a really, really annoying person if you don't know her or if you're not able to deal with her. But to me, she's just perfectly fine to me. I trust her like a lot. With secrets , with things that I prefer not telling anyone. Somehow, I just couldn't resist pouring out all my problems and secrets and things going on in my life to her.

Being annoying as she is, as usual she came and sit beside me but this time, she started speaking right away. "Hey Abigail! How was party yesterday?"

"What?" I tried to act as if like I know nothing about it

"Oh you know, the party that Lola hosted. I've heard a bunch of things from it but there's this one thing that somehow concerns me."

"It was good." That's all I manage to say, not willing to let her know about Ethan, yet.

"Oh is that so? It seems like it was beyond good hm?" She teased

"Oh c'mon Abes. Everyone's talking about you and Ethan already. People couldn't shut up and stop shipping you both." She laughed

I was genuinely surprised on how people manage to know about it. I pulled her to the side of the amphitheater where we can get our own space and I began questioning her. "What in the bloody fuck did you just told me?"

"Abes, people are knowing that you and Ethan are already a thing. Didn't you check your social medias? He literally posted a photo of you looking at the sky on Instagram, smiling with the caption "touch her and I'll kill you."

"What?! I didn't even knew that he took a photo of me! What else do you know, Zara?" My heartbeat quickened and I got even frustrated as time passes.

"Nothing much really. Just people talking about it and shipping you both. Its getting really viral now." She casually said as if like it's not a big deal

"Oh my god."

"Dude you should be happy. Ethan loves you so much."

"HOW THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BE HAPPY WHEN IM NOT EVEN ONE PERCENT READY FOR THIS WHOLE MASSIVE TON OF BULLSHIT SPREADING AROUND THE SCHOOL?! And plus, we just started getting close yesterday and we just kissed, nothing much." I raised my voice, regretting for doing so because people were looking at me

Zara grabbed my arm "you both kissed?!" She whispered

"Yes." I looked down as I started blushing

"Oh no this is bad. This is bad."

"What? Why?"

"Don't you know what happened to Carmen?"

"No." My heartbeat is speeding up, faster than I ever thought and I think it can leap out any moment

"Carmen is Ethan's ex. The same thing happened to her. They were in a party and they started kissing. Rumors went flying, and they did their thing and broke up not long after because carmen found out the truth of his affection towards her."

"What do you mean?" I asked, starting to get really confused

"He only 'loved' her only because of her appearance. And nothing more than that. He used her for his own pleasure."

I gasped at her words

"You might be different though. But I'm just saying, be careful with his actions. Anything can happen. He might love you because he genuinely do or you could end up like carmen. And all of us know that he's a playful boy as well. He loves playing around and flirting with girls. You know that as well as I do."

I looked at her, and I stood up as walked over to Ethan.