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» Twenty-Eight

The satin bed sheets clung to my skin as the small beads of sweat ran along my body. Wilmer and I didn't exactly dry off after getting out of the shower, we just moved to the bed instead to continue.

"Can we finish our conversation from before?" I asked, not wanting this moment to end, but knowing that it had to. We could fight this, and we needed to discuss it so that we could prepare.

Wilmer tensed up at the mention of the situation. "What is there to finish? I got fired, and you got suspended."

"We can fight it, there's nothing in the rules forbidding a student and teacher relationship of any kind. We can threaten to sue them and they won't want that, so they'll cooperate and it will be fine." I explained calmly as I wanted him to understand. I just wanted to move on from this and go back to normal, and we had an opportunity to do that but he needed to hear me out first.

"What if I don't want to fight it?" Wilmer asked. Ouch, that hurt.

I placed my hands on my hips as I raised my eyebrows, "You would rather us break up?"

The man sat up, facing me with a serious look on his face. "Demi, I'm leaving anyway."

My stomach dropped and my heart began to beat rapidly, I was afraid that it was going to explode. "What?", maybe I didn't hear him correctly, or maybe I was just imagining this entire situation.

"I'm leaving on Friday morning. I can't risk your education, this will ruin your life and I can't do that." What? I didn't know what to say to make him stay, my mind felt foggy and clouded.

"If I leave and cooperate with them, then the headmaster will put in a transfer for me for NYU, you don't have to leave, I don't want you to."

A single tear slipped down Wilmers face as he shook his head, "I'm sorry, Demi."

Silence grew upon us for a moment, and I had a gut feeling that there was something that he wasn't telling me. "What aren't you telling me?"

"There's nothing else."

"Tell me." I ordered, staring at the man blankly.

"The headmaster knows there is no rule against student and teacher relationships. He knows the risks, but the risks to him are better than the media finding out about our situation and thinking that the college did nothing about it. Parents don't want to send their kids to a place where students are sleeping with teachers, vice verse, and are getting away with it."

I took a deep breath, "Okay so he knows, but there's more, isn't there?"

Wilmer took in a deep breath while nodding, "He told me that he would write a letter of recommendation for me to teach at Harvard, and in the mean time I would be able to teach at a community college in Massachusetts if I left without a fight and without a question. He also told me that you wouldn't be penalised if I agreed to this. I didn't agree to anything at the time, but after you told me that you had been suspended and what he had threatened you with, I wrote him an email with my resignation. I have my plane tickets ready, and he's paying for me to stay in a hotel until I sell this house and can afford a house there. Demi, this gives both of us a chance to do what we love without any consequences of our mistakes..." Wilmer trailed off as the word slipped from his tongue.

I didn't think my heart could drop further into the pit of my stomach until that moment. "I guess I'll pack my stuff then."

Wilmer frowned, confusion filling his eyes. "We have until Friday though?"

I let out a scoff, I wasn't even going to conceal my frustration towards him right now. "I don't want to make any more mistakes, Wilmer. I'm sorry for putting you in this predicament in the first place." I threw the sheets off of my body, not caring that I was naked as I rummaged through his chest of drawers. I pulled out every item of my clothing before slipping on a dress and shoving the rest in a plastic bag.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that we were a mistake...Demi, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I love you so fucking much." The man took a moment as tears brimmed his eyes, "You're the most important thing in my life. I just think that now is not our time. Maybe once you're out of college we could work."

"We could work now, but it's too difficult for you, so you're running away from it." I snapped back as he flinched at how harsh the words sounded. I had never spoken to him with so much anger in my voice before.

"I'm sorry, but if we're meant to be then we will find our way back to each other." I was stuck between wanting to laugh and wanting to cry. I was in shock at how quickly this was all unraveling, and how carelessly he was treating the situation.

I clenched my jaw in an effort to keep myself from crying. "Are we really breaking up?"

A sob ripped through my trembling lips as Wilmer nodded his head, the tears streaming down his face were mimicking mine. I couldn't hold it back anymore. I was angry, furious at his decision in this, and even more so at the situation, but I needed him. I needed him to hold me and tell me that it was going to be okay. I needed him to pretend, even just for a moment, that everything was okay.

Wilmer wrapped his arms around me, his hand tangled through my hair as i sobbed into his chest, digging my short nails into his bare skin as I never wanted to let go.

"I love you Demi, I love you so much, and I'm so sorry it has to be this way..."

So this is the last "chapter" of this book but I do have an epilogue coming and I know you guys are going to love it ;)

I'm sorry about all the drama, it's exhausting but thank you guys for all of your support x