Explicit [GirlxGirl - Complete]

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

I slam the front door shut. The frame rattles and the glass window quivers at the force. I glance at it to make sure that I haven't put a crack into it and then survey the front room. My glare could probably melt this entire house down. My chest rises and fall, heart racing, and my breath erratic. I clench my hands, fighting back the angry tears that want to break through. My whole body is shaking with how much I want to rip everything apart.

She has to be here. She's got to be here somewhere.

I don't know how I know that she's here. With whoever she came and left the dance with, she could be out of town by now. I push down that though—even if it is the rational part of me—and search the living room, the dining room, and then the kitchen.

Just as I'm about to head upstairs to pound on her bedroom door, I hear the back door open and close. I narrow my eyes and turn back around, away from the staircase and around back.

Lianna is there. She's wearing a shit-eating-grin. Her eyes are sparkling.

I can't help it anymore. The fire that's been burning inside me since Darren helped me up and into the car has reached it's tipping point. My blood is boiling and all I want to do is get my hands around her neck and make her feel the pain that I've felt.

"Was that funny to you?" My voice is shaking with how much emotion I'm fighting back.

Lianna soaks it up. She kicks off her pumps into the corner--not where they're supposed to be--which pisses me off even more. She's radiating. It's as if ruining people's lives rejuvenates her health.

I slam my fist into the wall. The energy coursing through me needs to be let out. I'm fighting back, but I don't know how much longer I can keep it at bay.

Her eyes and smile are egging me on. They're calling me a coward. They want me to lose control. It would only make them happier.

"Maya," she says. Her voice is dripping with sweet poison.

I cover my ears. "Shut up!"

My eyes clench shut, but I can still see her. She everywhere around me and I can't escape it. God. Please, just make it stop. I want Liza back. I want us to go back to the way things were. I want to turn back time when Lianna wasn't here and I didn't have to tiptoe around my best friend.

When I open my eyes again, Lianna is a blurry mass. The tears fall freely without resistance.

"Ever since you got here, you've been tearing my life apart! How do you think I feel? Did it ever occur to you that I don't want you around?"

Her face falls. The smirk and the gleam is gone. I eat the emotion up, grasping onto with everything I have.

I laugh darkly through my tears. I choke up. "What are you even doing?"

I gesture towards her. "What did you think this would do? Embarrass you? Embarrass me? What about Liza and Zoey? You've destroyed two peoples lives."

She steps forward, shaking her head with anger matching my own. "They got what they deserved. Zoey's had it for me and I just showed everyone who she really is. And what about Jack? He's a fucking perve!"

"You don't get to decide!" I scream. "You-You-slut!"

I push her away as hard as I can.

She falls back. Her head slams against the back door.

We fall silent.

As the word left my lips, I regret it. The word is foul. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and the world as I know it crumbles down around me. The tears sting. Lianna stares back at me as if I've driven a stake through her heart. A flash of lightning, a rumbled of thunder, and rain pelts against the back door. I stand frozen, my life flashing before me in broken fragments.