Complications

Chapter 33 - Reputations

Speak of the devil much?

After a moment of us saying her name, Selina appeared in the entry to the balcony with Monika and the rest of the guys behind her.

"I heard my name." She smiled, walking over to us. "All good things?"

"Well, friend." I smiled, patting her shoulder, as me and Ishmael put our arms around her shoulders. "You can be a good person and help us out."

"I don't like where this is going." Selina said, slowly trying to back away from us.

"Nono, not a big deal exactly." Ishmael smiled. "Just need to use your..alluring? Qualities?"

"To help us out." I smiled aswell, finishing Ishmael's sentence and tightening my grip on Selina.

"I have a feeling this involves Keegan." Rosalie said, walking over to us, sitting on a bench.

"Jealous are we?" Monika winked at Rosalie. "We get it Rosalie, you thought you had a connection with him when you sat on his lap at the cafe but-

"I will punch you." Rosalie said, giving a cold glare to Monika.

"Ooh touchy subject." Ramon smirked between coughs, before silencing himself and hiding behind Abram.

"I am not going to be bait." Selina stated, as we turned our attention back to her.

"For the sake of revenge and the fact he almost killed Mitchell and Aria - yes, yes you will." Ishmael said sternly.

"Dude chill," Angel began, walking over and slumping next to Rosalie. "Why so serious?"

"Oh well it's not like he didn't attempt murder on your best fri-" Ishmael began, before I cut him short.

"He's just aggravated." I said quickly, turning back to Selina and wincing. "Pleeease?"

She rolled her eyes at me before breaking into a groan,

"Ugh..fine. What do I have to do?"

"Interesting you ask." I said. "Because we don't know either."

"So we need a plan?" Abram asked.

"And a good one at that." Rosalie said. "Keegan's gonna smell something's up from a mile away the second Selina starts to suddenly talk to him all lovey dovey after he pulled that stunt on Aria and Mitchell."

"I can handle it." Selina said. "Just tell me what our goal is here."

"A confession." Ishmael replied. "We need him to confess, everything."

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Selina's POV:

And so the plan was set for school in the following weeks.

I would slowly start getting closer to Keegan, and the plan was to make him fall for me. And when he'd done so, I'd need to get him to believe I was on his side, and get the confession from him.

But of course, that was total bullshit.

Obviously, Aria, Ishmael, Angel, Rosalie, Ramon, Abram and Monika didn't have a clue that I was even talking to Keegan, let alone the fact that I was in an actual relationship with him.

Meanwhile, me and Keegan had our own plans that we'd also discussed the morning before I went to the library.

We were going to, one by one, get our own revenge on my so called friends. And I know you're thinking, what did they ever do to me? Why would I side with the enemy to begin with? Well, let's just say they made mine and Keegan's life torture since Year 7 with the whole rumour of him crushing on me, but in the years following and the midst of all that, I actually fell for Keegan and we got together, keeping our relationship secret. We also decided to let bygones be bygones; forgive Mitchell for robbing his love letter to me on Valentine's Day in 2013 - after all we were kids, immature kids, plus, we wouldn't be together if it wasn't for Mitchell and his antics.

That was, until things changed.

I could bet my life Mitchell hasn't even told Aria half of what his family and their situation is like, let alone what he did to actually make Keegan's life a misery. 

Oh, you thought it was the Valentine's Day thing?

Oh please, how petty did you think Keegan was?

You'll find out what happened with Mitchell and Keegan did in a minute, but in the meantime, I'll let you in on our plan.

One by one, we were going to target the perpetrators who were involved in this ordeal that Mitchell began - no matter how little or large each of their roles were, they were going to pay.

And the first - Rosalie.

What was promised to be kept a secret amongst our two posses of 14 and 15 year old's, escalated to an outright betrayal after she and Angel took to social media regarding the issue that had risen between Mitchell and Keegan earlier that year. 

It destroyed Keegan's reputation, made him look like the predator and made him an outcast amongst his own friends, turning to Wayne and Toby as comfort company after everything started going downhill in his life. 

And with Wayne and Toby came further problems, but those'll be kept for another time.

I think it's time Keegan explains what really happened between him and Mitchell that caused this irreparable mark on his name, his friendship, and his heart.

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Keegan's POV:

So where to start then.

Year 10 was just starting, and I'd already turned 15 the weekend before school officially begun.

I'm sure you remember Austin? Aria's infamous ex-crush?

Well, he always had a thing for parties, and so he threw one to kick off the academic year with a bang the first week back on Friday night. Only our year group was invited, but of course, the younger years would always find out and somehow try to sneak in. The Year 11's had their own things to get along with, and didn't exactly bother with us though.

Anyway, so one of these Year 9's who managed to sneak in..was Mitchell's younger sister.

And I know what you're thinking, I know.

'Doesn't Mitchell only have an older sister?'

Well my friends, you do remember earlier on that Aria assumed, or found out I suppose, that there were rumours of there being 4 siblings in the Riley family. Mitchell, his older sister, and two younger siblings. One boy, one girl - twins in fact.

But the sister, the younger twin by like what? 6 minutes or something? I don't know man, I just know the twin brother was older. 

ANYWAY, the sister, who shall remain unnamed for now, snuck into Austin's party.

And there was a ...misunderstanding is how I should phrase it.

And I was accused.

Of something that happened to her that night.

Mitchell, being the loyal friend, trusted that I had nothing to do with it, and I felt like we'd moved on from the whole problem. Until shit started to hit the fan in his family, and it somehow traced back to me and that fateful night.

You wanna know what happened, don't you?

I would say ask his sister yourself, but ghosts aren't real..

..Right?