Truth or Dare (Jack and Finn Harries fanfiction)

Chapter 65 part 1

We were all staring up at the board. Past the entrance, we were in the section of the airport where gates veer off to different flights. Another destination moved off the bright electric board. Another plane was off to an exotic international destination. Another opportunity for escape, gone.

"We just need to pick one," Finn snapped angrily, looking down at his thick black watch that was latched tight to his tan wrist and scowling at the time. It was almost 6 and through the glass walls surrounding the airport, early morning sunshine started to stream through in to the departure airport.

Soon, Andy would wake up, early like every morning, to continue investigating where his wife had gone. While pawing around his pile of papers maybe he will come across Jack's note. Or maybe the silence of the house, with no sound of Jack's light snoring, may alert him to our disappearance. Maybe he would pass by Finn's bedroom door ajar and see no Finn sleeping. Either way we must be gone before that can happen.

I sighed at that thought, that I was leaving Andy with no wife and no sons, alone. But I shook myself from that line of thought quickly, I could not dwell on things that I could not change.

Next to me, a still exuberant Jack stood staring up at the destinations board like a whole world of opportunities were waiting on the other end at our destination.

And Jack was in the right state of thinking, but I couldn't quite get myself positive and out of the hole that Finn had shovelled me into.

He was mad with me.

And rightfully so, I sighed again. I had fucked his brother. But that didn't stop it being painful to watch his vacant, cold eyes avoid my eye contact as he stared up at the board.

Jack had taken Finn to one side almost instantly as they had arrived at the airport and talked it over with him in a hushed and embarrassed manner.

"Oh for fucks sake!" Finn had exclaimed as he walked off from the conversation abruptly, shoving Jack aside, roughly, when Jack had leant in for a brotherly hug. It was 20 minutes of me holding back tears and conversing awkwardly with Jack before Finn resurfaced, angry and cold to me.

While Finn was gone I began to question.

"What did he say, Jack?" I asked after a silent lag in the conversation. I said it quietly, hoping to convey the deep sugar coating I expected from Jack.

The raw truth would have surely thrown me off the edge.

"He was really quiet Liv," Jack looked at me, sadly for a small while and then moved back to watching in the direction that Finn had disappeared to.

I nodded and looked down at the ground for what felt like forever.

After a quiet moment Jack added:

"We shouldn't have fucked." And then he breathed a long, deep sigh.

•••

For a long time I just thought, it felt like something I hadn't done in a long time. Consequences, peoples feelings, my future, all these little factors I had neglected, for my own satisfaction.

I was a bitch and a slut. I was careless with love. Too rough with it and I left it when it began to get it tough.

I didn't deserve either of them. I didn't deserve anyone right now.

I knew that I loved Finn, and I wanted him, without exception. Without a single thought to Jack or to Joe or to anyone else I might have had feelings for.

Because Finn was all I saw when I thought of my future.

But I had lost him.

•••

Finn turned sharply toward me.

"Liv, since you have trouble making decisions I'll just give you two choices, can't be that hard, can it?" Sharp, sour rage seethed from Finn's sarcastic mouth.

He was asking me to pick where we were going together. But Jack knew what he was referring to and winced at the scaring jab.

I looked away from Finn's glaring eyes back up to the board, a small tear sat on the edge of my eye and I rubbed it away briskly before it had the chance to run down my face, embarrassing me.

"Southern or Northern hemisphere?" Finn jabbed again at me, with his angry voice.

"I don't know, Finn," I whispered quietly and timidly, not wanting to make the wrong decision and infuriate him further.

"Just like all your decisions!" He shouted, and Jack stared at him in amazement. Finn bounded close to me and held his hand to his head in frustration.

I looked directly at him, into his cold eyes that had became a muddy, accusing abyss. Tears rolled down my face and my eyes stung. A salty tear ran over my lips as they trembled. My cheeks flushed and there was no hiding my crying.

But my tears did not stop Finn and as Jack moved in, to comfort me, Finn pointed and in a low angry growl he spoke:

"You can't fucking pick anything, between northern or Southern, between me or him!"

"So you fucked both of us," Finn laughed bitterly, and I decided that nothing on earth could hurt as much as this did.

I looked away because my eyes were clouded and looking at him struck daggers into my heart. I couldn't speak, I couldn't move and though Jack rubbing my back gently was supposed to be comforting, I couldn't be touched.

"I'm so sorry, Finn, oh my god I'm so sorry," My throat cracked and I gurgled through the my wet mouth. It was a whisper that I'm surprised he heard but he did.

"That doesn't take it back," Finn said neutrally, and he moved back from where he was standing close to me toward the board.

"I'm going to inquire about a ticket to LA that's departing in half an hour," He picked up his black leather duffel bag briskly, that was perched on the ground upright and before bounding off toward the information further along in to airport he paused:

"And you guys can come if you want, I really don't care,"

I followed close behind his quick steps.

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