Accidentally Married

Chapter 10: "I broke your girlfriend, sorry."

"I can't be with him anymore."

"Then why have you been with him for almost three months?" Kelsey asked.

"I don't know. I thought that if I stuck with him, maybe I could bring back those old feelings. I thought I still loved him but maybe it wasn't love in the first place. What even is love? How do I know if it was love? Did you know that we haven't kissed this time around because I feel like I'm cheating on Levi?" I rambled, from the back seat of Kelsey's car. 

"You kind of are," Vanessa said, from the passenger seat. We were currently on our way to Vanessa's family's cottage in the countryside. As we had two weeks off school for the Christmas holidays, we had spent the first week of the holidays with Vanessa and her family at their cottage for the last two years. The second week we spent with our own families. This was the the first year that we going to the cottage by ourselves without her family.

"That's not helping," I complained. "Also why am I stuck in between these two buffoons?"

"Hey, I heard that," Josh said, waking up. He'd spent the whole journey sleeping and Elliot had put headphones in and turned up his music when he realised that us girls were going to gossip, which was why I'd felt okay talking about Levi. I'd explained it to Vanessa when we stopped at a service station for a toilet break and she'd almost killed me for not telling her sooner but she understood why I hadn't told her. "Also what's this I hear about cheating?"

"Nothing," Kelsey said quickly. "How much have you heard?"

"I only heard the bit where Fallon called me and Elliot buffoons." I breathed a sigh of relief. "And I heard her contemplating the meaning of love and thinking she was cheating on Levi. So, spill. Why do you think you're cheating on him?" Kelsey and Vanessa burst out laughing and I slapped my forehead, cursing myself for speaking about it in a car where they would find out.

"I'm married to him." Josh looked at me silently before laughing. He pulled Elliot's headphones off and said, "El, you might want to listen to this." I sighed and told them the whole story. I knew it was time to tell them because I didn't really know how much longer I could hide it from them. I'd already kept it a secret for three months and I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders when I told them.

Josh gasped and pulled me into a hug which was difficult, seeing as we were wearing seat belts. "You're my sister-in-law."

"Wait, Vanessa, you knew that Levi liked me, didn't you? That day Josh told us his mum was engaged in the cafetaria." 

Vanessa grinned and nodded, turning her self as much as possible so she could see me. "Yeah, he told Jamie and Jamie told me. Speaking of Jamie, I may have invited him and he's bringing Levi."

"And I may have invited Miles," Elliot said quickly. 

"Great," I yelled, making Kelsey laugh again. Josh patted my head out of sympathy.

Soon, Kelsey was pulling into the driveway but there was already another car there. As we got out, we saw that Levi and Jamie were sitting in there. Vanessa got out and almost skipped over. She kissed Jamie and asked if they'd been waiting long. Jamie shook his head and said they'd only reached a few minutes earlier. Vanessa unlocked the door and we followed her with our bags.

"Welcome, everyone to the Miller family cottage. First things first, we need to sort out rooms. There's five rooms but my parents's room is off limits, so we have four rooms to work with and there are eight people."

"You take your room," I said. "Since it's your family's cottage. Kelsey and I can take a room; Levi and Jamie; and Elliot and Josh can share a room with Miles because they invited him." I glared at them.