The Way He Does

Chapter 24

Rihanna - Sledgehammer

Adrien parks the car near a local park which isn't really busy. A few people are here either reading books, walking their dogs or they're just here with their companions. I wait for Adrien to ask me a question regarding what happened before, because I just don't know where and how to begin.

"So?" He says and I clear my throat.

"Why are we here?"

"Because I'm only going home with you until you explain to me what the fuck is going on." He says in a clear tone that I have to shudder. I can tell that I'm pushing his buttons, but maybe Adrien needs this kind of challenge, cause I know that no one has ever really challenged him before. My fingers trace the patterns of my pants while I'm collecting my thoughts.

"Alright alright," I roll in my lips in and take a deep breath. "Vicky and I were having a small argument because of you."

"Why?" He narrows his eyes.

"Because she has this misconception about you." I stop at this sentence and let Adrien process it before I continue. "She kinda can't stand you."

"What?"

"We were talking and then she kept asking me questions about our 'relationship'," I say in quotation marks. "She thinks you're not good to me."

"What does she mean with 'not good to you'?" I throw my head back. "You might as well go more into detail."

"She thinks you're not treating me right. What isn't there to understand?"

"You're throwing this at me and expect me to know what to do with this information. There could be many ways of not treating someone right. What does she think do I do to you?" I turn my head in his direction meeting his eyes. I didn't want to.

"She thinks you're abusing me." He is silent for a few seconds, his eyes tear open. I wish I have never seen this expression on him. "Adrien..."

"Your friend thinks I abuse you?"

"Yeah." Adrien's knuckles turn white as he's clutching his hands tightly around the steering wheel. I have never seen this amount of anger radiating from him.

"Lola, why does she think I abuse you?" He asks as calm as possible but a tornado rampages inside him. "What did you say to make her believe that?"

"I didn't say anything. She asked me if you abuse me and I said 'no', nevertheless she believes you do. I would never claim you abuse me. You never did and I know you never will. I didn't even tell her about the kinky stuff we do, I really don't know why she would think that." Quit lying Lola. Adrien stays quiet.

"Adrien, please believe me. I was crying and said something questionable and my friend is a little over dramatic, maybe that's why she thinks that."

"What was questionable about what you said?"

"I-" my words get suck in my throat. I don't wanna hurt Adrien, but I don't really know if you can hurt him. He's a very robust human who probably hardened, that words won't really affect him that much. Thinking about this really hits me in the heart, because I am emotionally so invested in what we have that everything he says to me affects me. Knowing that he wouldn't really care if I even attempted to break his heart hurts so damn much.

"I said that maybe getting with you wasn't a good idea. But I was mad and depressed at that moment."

"I see." Is the only thing he says.

"I didn't mean to."

"Are you sure about that?" He scoffs.

"I'm just so confused about everything that has been happening in the past few weeks." I admit to him.