A Dare Turned Into Reality E.D.

Chapter Eight: The Contract Part 1

Isabel's POV:
"Grayson you're crazy if you think I'll ever go out with Ethan." I said.

"You don't actually have to go out with him, I'm just asking to pretend to be his girlfriend just for a week." He replied.

"Doesn't he even know about this!? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't agree to any of this because he hates me." I answered.

"That's why I brought you here. He's been in his room all day and doesn't want to talk to anyone. I think if we both talked to him about this he would go back to being his usual self." He looked at me with puppy dog eyes and I just couldn't resist.

"Fine." We walked through the hallway leading to his room.

We entered his room and the lights were off. He was laying in his bed shirtless.

I turned on the lights and he got up from his bed.

"What is she doing here?" He asked Grayson.

"Dude please don't start with your shit. She's actually here to help you." Grayson replied.

"Help me?" He chuckled. "I don't need any help especially not from her." He got on his bed again and covered himself with the sheets.

"Hey let me talk to him okay." I told Grayson.

Grayson nodded and walked out of the room.

I walked towards his bed and took the sheets off of him.

"Wtf? Leave me alone!" He snapped.

"Look I know that you don't like me for some reason but that doesn't mean you have to be a dick to me when I'm trying to help you."

"Help me!? How the hell do you intend to do that when you don't even know why I'm like this!" He got frustrated and got up from his bed.

"That's why I'm here. To talk to you. To listen to anything you have to say." I walked towards him.

"You wouldn't understand! Just get the hell out of here. I want to be alone." He replied.

"Do you think I wanted to be here in the first place? No, but I did it because I'm a good person. You've been an asshole to me this whole time when I didn't even do anything to you yet I'm still here. You might be right, I might not understand what you're going through but trust you'll feel better when you let it all out." I turned him around and looked at him in the eyes.

He looked weak and upset.

"Why are you doing this to me? Why don't you just leave me alone so I don't have to suffer anymore?" He grabbed my face and just stared into my eyes.

I grabbed his hand from my cheek and led him to his bed. We sat side by side.

"Ethan... How am I making you suffer? I never did anything to you." I got up and looked away from him. "I want to know why you're always a dick to me."

He got up and now he was the one who turned me around to face him.

"Do you really want to know? Fine I'll tell you, but you have to promise me you won't tell anyone." He sat back down in his bed.

"I promise." I sat next to him and waited for him to explain.

"When I bumped into you that day at the airport, I thought you had the most beautiful hazel green eyes I've ever seen. I was gonna talk to you, but you left so quickly. I thought I was never going to see you again, but then I did. When I saw you again something came over me I don't know what it was, but I wanted to get to know you. To talk to you and hang out with you." He paused and looked down at his shoes.

"I- I don't know what to say." I replied.

"Don't say anything, just listen please." I nodded and he continued.

"That day when we hung out at your house I realized why I was so interested in you. When you told me everything about yourself and when I looked at you from up close.. It hit me. You were exactly like my first love. She had the same beautiful eyes like you do, she had light brown hair just like you, and she was so outgoing just like you. Everything about you reminded me of her and I couldn't deal with that. I loved her so much and she did me wrong. She cheated on me and left me like I was nothing. She never cared about me, all she cared about was my looks and popularity. The day I found out she cheated on me I made a promise to myself that I was never going to fall for another girl again. That's why I'm like this. That's why I mess around with girls. That's why I don't do serious relationships because I don't want to get hurt again." He got up and put on a shirt.

"That's why I'm always having this bad boy/fuck boy image, because I know if I shut down my feelings that I would never get hurt again. My heart became cold and cruel, so I don't care if I hurt girls anymore. They're the reason why I'm like this. You, you remind me of her and that's why I'm such a dick to you. She treated me like shit and I thought that it would be fine if I did that to you, but it's not. I'm sorry."

It took me a while to take in everything he said to me. I felt so bad for him. How could someone be so cruel, but I felt angry at him at the same time. Why would he treat me this way just because I reminded him of that girl? I'm not like her, but I understood him.

All I could do right now is hug him. Hug him tightly and let him know I was there for him.

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