Fight for you

Part 20

I called Jay back. 

I had too. Something at the back of my mind told me that I should hear him out, but the more powerful voice in my head told me to call him back because he was part of that family. 

"Zo, thank god" Jay sighed with relief "I didn't think you'd call me back"

"Did you know Ryan before he started school with us?" I asked, my intentions behind this conversation were not to re-kindle whatever relationship I had with Jay, it was to find out the truth. 

"No, who cares-" 

"I care. Don't lie to me Jay, although you are pretty good at it" I surprised myself at how spiteful that actually sounded. I had no right to be mad at Jay, I did kind of cheat on him too. 

"Can we meet up?" Jay asked. 

"Fine. Meet me at the park in 15 minutes" 

I arrived at the park after 20 minutes, I was late. Jay was on time, he was standing in the park waiting for me, holding a bunch of flowers in one hand and the other on the back of his neck. He smiled when he saw me. This was the sort of thing that would have made me fall at his feet a few weeks ago but right now it was different, right now I wanted to throw the flowers at him and run away, as far and as fast as I possibly could. 

But I didn't. Instead I walked up to him and just stood there. 

"Hi." Jay said, a small smile on his face. 

"What?" I said, in a much more spiteful tone than I expected. 

"I miss you. A lot. I hate being like this with you, we've been together for years Zo, we are a team, you're my partner in crime" Jay said.

"Literally?" I scoffed. 

"What is wrong with you?" Jay asked. 

"Jay, I'm so sick of the lies. I want to know about you and Ryan." 

"What about us?" Jay asked. 

I paused. "Tell me what I need to know first" 

Jay let out a long breath before pulling his arm out to the side, ushering me towards the bench to sit down. I sat down and Jay perched nervously beside me. 

He let out another breath before he started talking. "Ryan is my faternal twin brother. We were never close though, in fact, my parents seemed to always love him more. Anyway remember the day I told you I was going to live with my cousin?" 

I did remember, Jay had called me that night telling me he was moving to his cousins place because it was closer to our school, I thought nothing of i back then, we'd only been together for 3 months. 

I nodded before Jay continued "I didn't go because of school. It's all such a blur but I was walking home from football practice that day and I saw Ryan walking home too, naturally I caught up to him so we could walk home together. So we were walking and we walked into a shop to buy something and when Ryan opened his wallet there was a picture of you in it." 

I could see Jay's face tensing up, clearly angry at the memory. "When we left the shop I asked Ryan why he had a picture of you, my girlfiend, in his wallet. He was quiet for ages before he told me that he liked you first and that you were his first love." 

Jay paused "Zo, I love you and you know that would have pissed me off. So yeah, I punched him, pretty hard." 

"So then you moved out?" 

"Yeah" Jay replied. 

My mind was all over the place. Jay looked at me again and opened his lips as if he wanted to say more. "Go on?" I said. 

"Shaun was there that day" 

"What?" I said.

"He must have been going to his army camp or somehing and he saw me hit Ryan. He didn't know we were dating then but that's why he never liked me" 

It all made sense now. "Then what happened?" I asked. A lump in my throat making each swallow painful. 

"Shaun asked me what the hell I was doing and I told him that Ryan was my brother and explained the situation, but Shaun still picked Ryan up and walked away with him and I don't know where they went, probably home." 

"Or to see Caleb?" 

"Caleb?" Jay asked "Caleb is a prick Zo, stay away from him" 

"He's your brother too right?" I asked. 

"What? No, Caleb was like a mentor to us, he called us his younger brothers but again, he liked Ryan more. I guess that's just how it is, even with you" Jay looked at the floor. 

My heart felt heavy. "Jay stop." 

"That's the truth Zo. I love you" 

I looked at Jay, He was finally the guy I knew when we first got together again. With that thought I started thinking about how me and Jay first met...

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