Three Knocks

Chapter 33

Hailey's POV:

I faced the most shocking view for a while in front of my eyes. My mom and Justin were there in the same bed, naked. Only two words described my mind and thoughts there: shocked and disappointed.

"Mom? Justin?" I stuttered again while I tried keep myself together.

They both turned around and pulled quickly a blanket over their bodies. They were as shocked as I was. "Honey, this isn-"  my mom tried explain but I raised my hand to stop her.

"Yes, it's exactly what I see but hey, I was just thinking about that earlier you know. That how you have been able to stay away from men so long... Finally you understood that it's time to move on from dad, so congratulations of that" I clapped my hands before I turned around and walked out from her room to my own.

I just didn't expect she could do it with almost half younger man, I thought when I laid down on my bed. I  didn't expect she could do it with Justin. To be honest, I wasn't sad because of that really but the fact that Justin had accepted probably straightly her wish. After everything which had happened between us.

I wasn't mad to mom because she didn't have even idea that there was something going on between me and Justin. It wasn't her fault. I would be mad for Justin if someone.

I heard how mom talked to Justin and soon he walked to my door. "We need to talk" he said but I just turned my back to him. "Not interested. I'm tired" I mumbled and acted like I was falling asleep. "It won't take long" he continued still. Seemly he wasn't giving up on getting what he wanted so I couldn't nothing but accept his request. "Okay, but quick" I sighed.

I grabbed my shirt and pulled it on me before I followed him outside. The sun had landed below the horizon already and it was a little cold outside. I pushed my shoes on from the hallway.

"So what now?" I asked when I got the door closed after me. "It just happened, you know. It wasn't nothing serious, we just-" he started but I just rolled my eyes. "Sure" I sighed and I was ready to go back in but he stopped me. "Don't you have something to tell too, Hailey. Maybe something to apologize?"

"Like what?" I asked. "Well, for example that you left with another guy out and left me here hanging. You would have at least texted that there came something between. We could have changed the date" he mumbled. "I didn't remember that anymore. I would have done that if I did" I sighed and looked begging to the door. I had started feel cold already.

"Sure" he rolled his eyes now. "There's no reason to act like a bitch to me when you was one who screw up" I hissed. "Oh yeah, and you did nothing right? Yeah, of course" I mocked him and laughed out. "I didn't. Like I said it just happened and to be honest, when I think it now, I don't regret it at all" he said proudly of what had just happened.

"Sweet revenge, huh? You happy now?" I asked disbelieved what he just said. "Yeah, maybe" he admitted. I looked him a while before I slapped him on his cheek. "Fuck you! Get out of our yard" I yelled to him and pointed his own house.

He didn't seemly take that serious at all when I heard him start laughing to my action. "Awww, that's only cute from you, Hails" he tilted his head and smiled evilly. "You think that you can make me feel bad but for third time already. I. Have. Done. Anything. Wronh. I didn't decided to go out with some random guy" he said.

"To be honest, I should be that one who is hurt, not you but hey I am not" he chuckled and opened his arms. "Because I don't like judge people, you know. People make mistakes, especially in young age when they don't know anything about life yet"

I would have wanted to start yell at him but I contained my mind and just gulped my anger. "Get out of our yard" I mumbled and pointed his own house. "10 seconds" He chuckled and shook his head. "You can't probably even imagine how ridicilous you sound right now" he said.

My blood started boil again. "I'm not the bad guy here. For the 100th time, I didn't fucking rrmember that we had planned something for tonight until I came back home"  I yelled. "I was about to text you and apologize but then what I found from my mom's bedroom. Yeah, you laying there all happy and in cloud nine" my voice changed quieter.

"I was ready to do anything to make up that I forgot our date... anything..." I sniffled. "If you had done that a hour earlier, it would have been possible still" he said low but didn't look at me. "You did your own choices and I get it. I'm not mad to you, Hailey. I can't be. Maybe I just set too high goals to reach... I thought that you could make it but I was wrong" he shook his head.

"I should have known" he repeated. I hated how he still kept blaming only me on this, even he had done bad things too. "And maybe I thought a little too much of you, Justin. I really thought that we could become something..." I quietly said. "How stupid I was.. seriously... When I thought that this could really work" I chuckled and turned around.

"First time tonight, I agree with you. It was stupid as hell to think that" he mumbled and grabbed his keys from his pocket and started walk away toward his house.

"Yeah but just one more thing" I yelled after him. He turned his head over me and stopped to listen to me. "There happened nothing between me and Marcus, that boy. He asked me to go party of our friend. I said yes because I didn't remember I had plans for tonight" I told to him and made him nod. "I just wanted you to know that" I added and he nodded again.

"Okay, Hailey. That's fine" he said and I could hear him sighing before he walked away. I didn't know was it because of relief or because he might have been tired of arguing with me.

I walked back inside the house, took off my shoes and shirt, before I made my way to my room and locked the door behind me. I heard how mom knocked on my door and asked me to let her in but I didn't. I didn't want see or talk with anyone tonight anymore.

I was tired and sad. I pulled a blanket over me and closed my eyes but every time when I tried fall asleep, I heard Justin's words in my ears:

"Maybe I just set too high goals to reach..."

"I thought that you could make it but I was wrong"

"That was stupid as hell to think that (we could become something)"

I didn't notice that I had started lightly cry. I didn't want to do it but I couldn't nothing to it that I felt bad on that moment. I would have wanted just jump a few hours back and do everything different way then. No patries with Marcus, no arguing with Justin who seemed to be right of everything in the end when I started think about it now.

If I had refused to go in that party with Marcus, I would have been probably laying under Justin's arms right now. Listening his heart beat which could sent me to sleep. But that was just a broken dream now.

There wasn't coming moments like that anymore. The bridge between us was broken and fixing it would take months, maybe years. And still it couldn't ever be the same.

There was no hope of getting him back anymore. No more knocks on the door which would have given me those extra beats to my heart.

I had lost him.
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And that was the last chapter of this book. What do you think about the ending? I know that some of you may be pissed about the ending but there may be coming more... on the sequel

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