Someone Like You (A Chandler Riggs Fan-Fic)

Chapter 13

By the time I get back to my room, tears are already falling down my face.

I fling open the door and see Tasia and some other guy practically swallowing each other's faces.

"Oh..God..sorry. Um.." I subtly wipe away my tears and look at the ground.

Tasia pushes the boy away, stands up and begins walking towards me, while the boy sits confused on the bed.

"What's wrong?" she asks, concerned.

I wipe away more tears before replying.

"Um..nothing. I just tripped and scraped my knee." I say remembering that she doesn't know about what my mom did. No one did. Only...Chandler.

I grit my teeth at the thought.

"You're..crying because you scraped your knee?" she asks pathetically.

"Yeah..I know..stupid me." I chuckle.

She leans in closer.

"Are you on your period?" she whispers.

Yes! That's the perfect excuse!

"Oh! Yeah..yeah. I- I didn't want anyone to know..but I guess I made it pretty obvious huh." I say fiddling with my fingers.

"It's okay. Here..I'll tell Patrick to leave and me and you can hang? Sound alright?" she ask.

I nod my head and she hugs Patrick before shoving him out the door, and then plopping onto a bed.

"Come on." she says.

I sit on my bed, opposite from her.

"So..what's up with the clothes?" Tasia asks and I look down remembering that I'm still in my spandex and tanktop.

"Oh..um...I just had to go to the bathroom." I lie.

"Mhm..so..what's new?" Tasia asks pulling out a cigarette and lighting it.

"Oh..sorry. You want one?"

"Um..yeah sure." I smile and take the cigarette from her hand. I hold it between my lips as she lights it and I take a small drag.

"So..like I said..what's new?"

"Um..nothing really. What about you? How was the party?" I ask, blowing smoke out of my mouth.

"Eh..just like any other party, I guess. But hey, where were you this morning? I came back and you weren't here." she asks suspiciously.

"Oh..um.." I can't lie to Tasia. She's too nice. She's my friend now, I guess.

"Listen, Chandler came to the room last night and..and well he was drunk off his ass. I walked him back to his room and then.." I hesitate.

Tasia looks completely unamused, leaning back on her elbow, blowing smoke from her lips.

"And?"

"And well..he asked me to sleep with him."

Tasia squints her eyes at me.

"You..had sex with him?"

Oh. Whoops.

"No! No..I meant like..sleep..sleep with him. He just wanted me to lay with him. And so..I did."

"So..did something happen that I'm missing here?"

I take a long drag of my cigarette, inhaling and then exhaling the smoke. I honestly feel terrible for doing this..but something inside me..likes the feeling. I reach over to the ash tray and throw my cigarette in it before falling onto my back.