My Brother's Best Friend (J.P.D.L)

Chapter 41

Joel's P.O.V

     Everything was going perfectly, we had just finished our meal and I am honestly so glad I finally decided to ask out Annabeth on a proper date. She looked so radiant and beautiful and oh that smile... it was so unique and she honestly was so breathtaking. "Joel you are staring again," Annabeth suddenly said blushing, bringing me back to reality. "S-Sorry, you are just so beautiful," I replied stuttering slightly as her blushed cheeks became slightly more at the simple compliment. "Joel stop it you are just being nice," she replied as she looked down slightly. "I'm being honest baby you are so goddamn beautiful," I replied as I reached over for her hand and wrapped it in mine. "You are so cheesy and I can not help but love it," she replied as she looked up smiling warmly.

"What can I say I am one hundred percent irresistible," I replied teasingly as I winked at her earning yet another smile and a small giggle. "I do not know how someone like you is single," she replied. "Well I'm trying to change that," I said slightly. "Do not be so confident Pimentel my last boyfriend is no longer with us," she replied smiling slightly. "Wait is he dead?" I asked a bit curious. "Nope but sometimes I think that would be better," she replied looking down slightly, as she tensed up a bit and let go of my hand suddenly ... "You do not have to talk about him sorry I brought him up," I replied a bit worried. "Actually I feel like it is time you knew about him... you have been so sweet and honest and it is time you knew the real reason why I was so afraid to fall for you..." she replied a bit quieter than usual.

"Baby you really do not have to," I replied as I took her hand in mine one more time. "It is now or never," she replied sighing heavily as she squeezed my hand a bit before continuing ... " his name is José Antonio and I'm pretty sure you do not need his last name to know who I am talking about," she said as she gave me a sad look but she was right I did not need no last name. I knew damn well who she was talking about ... believe it I was not always Yoandri's best friend. I know shocking but before I had come along Yoandri was best friends with José Antonio.  Jose was your typical douche bag aka fuck boy... he was never nice and slept around with whoever he wanted.

I know what you are thinking how could Yoandri hangout with someone like that?! Well Yoandri was not always sweet... they both honestly brought the worst from each other. Yoandri and José Antonio the best of buddies forever or so everyone thought. But one day José Antonio was never seen again and a new Yoandri was re-born. And not long after me and Yoandri became the best of buds and no one spoke of that raven haired boy ever again... Well now until now... "When my parents realized who Yoandri was turning into they tried their best to help but they never thought the reason behind yoyo's sudden change was not a something but instead a someone, so they let the subject go and instead of helping him they apparently helped me by sending me to a private well behaved school while Yoandri continued his bad boy reputation... But that was when things went bad," she said as she took another deep breath and held onto my hand tighter. 

"Once school began Yoandri was sent to public school and I was sent to the preppy paid high school my parents had signed me up for not knowing things would take a wild turn, it turns out that preppy rich girls are not really goody two shoes after all," she said smiling slightly as she furrowed her eyebrows a bit. I noticed she did that a lot but mostly when she was thinking back on something or just remembering a certain memory. "Every Friday we would sneak off to party or make our own party at someone's house, and to be completely honest preppy kids are as normal and crazy as normal non preppy kids just with money," she added on as she laughed slightly.

But she was right preppy or not us teens were all mostly really crazy. "Anyways I'm getting a bit off topic, it was in one of these parties where I met him, José Antonio, I did not know who he was at the time, Yoandri had never ever introduced him to us or even bother to mention him at all and we were never actually looking hard enough to see who he hung out with," she said rolling her eyes a bit as she continued her story. "Eventually one thing led to another and somehow me and him ended up being a thing, not a couple completely but not strangers either, just a thing, I did not sleep around with him if that is what you are thinking, and do not feel guilty for thinking that, trust me everyone thought we were," she said as she balled up other hand into a fist.

"We would just sneak off and make out somewhere, however he never talked about himself, he did not like to, the less I knew about him the better we would be he used to say and me being the little naive girl I was I did not question him at all," she said sighing slightly. "Annabeth you can stop when you want you do not have to tell me everything, it is all in the past right?" I said as I tried to comfort her. "But I need to, like I said you have been so honest with me and I really want you to know since you are in fact part of my life," she said smiling slightly as she stroke my hand with her thumb. "Do you want to go inside the car? For more privacy?" I asked as she nodded her head up and down. "But the basket and the table," she said looking around a bit concerned. "Do not worry about those baby, my brother has already offered to clean up after, since he did in fact lose the bet," I replied as I chuckled slightly making her smile once again.

     "Yoandri is always loosing bets with me too," she replied as she giggled slightly. "Yeah el yoyó no sirve para las apuestas," I replied as I took her hand in mine and led her slowly back down to the car. "Such a gentleman Pimentel," she replied smiling as I helped her back in the front seat and then made my way into the drivers side and proceeded to get in. "Always baby but now do you still want to continue with your story?" I asked as she looked at me with a slight smile. "Yes Joel so listen closely," she replied giggling as she took my hand in hers again and continued her story. "What we had went on for months and never did I come to think he was just using me to try and get in my pants," she said as she rolled her eyes once again.

"To make the story short, spring break came along and well I decided to invite him home to meet my parents, not realizing he knew more about me than I actually told him," she said as she continued to tell me the story. But truth is I had heard it this part of the story. However I had no idea it was about Annabeth. Since no one knew who she was then. But now it all made sense adding her name in where there were blanks but anyways the story goes like this... Yoandri apparently ended up dating one of Jose Antonios flings and he wasn't so fond of this.

So to get back at him he decided to hit him where he knew it would hurt more, his family. Bad boy or not Yoandri still cared for his family deeply. So José Antonio knew that this was the best way to make him regret messing with his girl toy. The story says José Antonio dated Yoandri's sister just to use her and get her to give in to him so he could just then humiliate her and Yoandri. Luckily for the girl she never gave in. However he did try to force her into it which did not end up pretty for José Antonio. Yoandri's sister was left broken and left to never return.

Yoandri distanced himself from everyone to try and keep the story from spreading. But it turns out Jessica had been one of José Antonio's last girls and she was the only one who knew about what had happened other than Yoandri and well José Antonio himself. The only thing she never got was the girls name and it eventually blew off and me and Yoandri ended up being the best of friends. I guess no one really cared to remembered what happened and to be honest I did not either. Until now of course when Annabeth brought it up once again. She had been the girl who fell for her brother's best friend and almost ended up paying badly for it.

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I tried to make this as long as possible but I love to procrastinate and never got it finished. Anyways the upcoming chapters will start to get longer since this story is lagging a bit. But this also means this book is coming to an end. Not yet but soon. Stay safe and I'll be back with another update as soon as possible.

P.S. now you all know why Annabeth was so scared to fall for yet another of her brother's best friends 😉