Truth be Told ✔️

Chapter 25

My stomach was truly full of butterflies as I climbed into Seth's car to see him for the first time since last night, when the drama that was my high school went down. Despite the numerous texts I had sent both Maddie and McKenzie, threatening them should they tell anyone about me and Blake, I received no response which left me where I was right now.

On the edge of a nervous breakdown.

I even had the car running for Seth in hopes to soften his mood should he know and be angry about it.

He approached and plopped himself down in the worn down leather seat of his pick up truck. Unusually quiet, his hand went along in its rut en route to turn the keys to start the car, only to realize at last that the car was already running.

He looked over at me. "Did you start the car?" He asked in disbelief. "Alexa Baker, the girl who was too afraid to push on the gas pedal to get us out of that mud, started the car?"

I pursed my lips. This was sarcasm, I was pretty sure. And not a mean kind of sarcasm. Playful perhaps, or at least playful enough at this time of morning.

Was this a good sign?

"Yeah?" I said slowly. "I know that you like it when your seat's hot."

He narrowed his eyes. "Hmm. The car is still intact, which means you didn't break anything, but don't think I'm not on to you. What's the catch here?"

The catch is that I dumped my best friends again to get back together with your arch rival for a relationship that you didn't know about even before we broke up.

Well...

He didn't need to know that catch. And it didn't seem like he did.

"It's nothing," I insisted. "I'm just anxious to get to school, that's all."

"I don't believe it."

"Believe it because it's happening. Can we go now?"

Seth snapped his fingers in realization. He looked over at me. "Were you also the one that toasted the strudel for me?"

"Yes because apparently unwrapping those things takes like ten minutes for you!" I snapped. "Can we go?"

"Get your own license and we'll drive whenever you want to. But when you're sitting in the passenger seat of my car, you don't tell me what to do," Seth warned.

"I do if I know the exact thing to say to Taylor to get her to withhold sex on Homecoming night."

Seth threw his hands up in the air. "See this is why I don't get girlfriends! They may be good for some things, but then they also need stuff and people like you use them against me."

"I see no problem here."

"I see a big fat hole in your case."

"You mean my very sensible plea for you to just push on the damn gas pedal and stay on the right side of the car until we arrive at school?"

"Yes!"

I groaned. "God for once in your life stop procrastinating and let's go!" I growled.

Seth crossed his arms across his chest. "Apologize."

"For what?" I exclaimed.

"Being rude and suspicious."

"Get over yourself."

"Respect your elders."

"Not when they can't take their canes out of their asses and appreciate the youth that take care of them."