The QuarterBack~ A Grayson Dolan love story

Chapter 27

Ivy's POV
Dads wedding ring, why does he have this, Unless he was with him that night. I pick it up to make sure and there was my mothers name on it, it's definitely dad's. I get the shivers, I knew there was something fishy going on.

I put back the file and take the ring.  I have to tell Nate, I think to myself. I hurry to the door and as soon as I open it. I was shocked to see the scene in front of me. "Ivy!" Jacob says. "Don't!" I sigh and tears begin to form around my eyes. "Ivy please" Zoe yells.

I quickly go downstairs and open the door when I'm faced with Erika and Grayson. "Eew What are you doing here?" She asks, "better yet tell me why your dad has my dad's wedding ring?" I yell at her with tears falling down my eye.

"What?" She asks confused. "Ivy! Please we.." Jacob says and I look behind to see both of them with tears. "You what, Jacob! You kissed her, and you kissed him! It didn't mean anything? Is that what you're trying to say?" I ask. "I'm sorry" Zoe says and tears fall down. "Ivy what's going on?" Nate asks. "Please take me home!" I say and hug him.

"Yeah of course I just got to find Cindy!" He says and turns around to look for her. I walk out and sit on the stairs. "Stupid fucking heels!" I whisper yell and begin taking them off. I sense a warm body sit beside me. "Can I see?" Gray says and takes my leg to help me take off my heels. I look at him, all of this time, I was blind sided by how cute, and good Jacob was that I forgot, I am not good enough for him and I'll never be!

"Where'd you didn't he ring?" Grayson asks. "In her dad's office!" I reply. "What does that mean?" He sighs. "I don't know, but he lied, he said that dad wasn't with him that night when he clearly was since he has the ring!" I reply.

"Ivy, you don't know that, he could have had the ring, please think before you do anything or accuse him of anything" he sighs. "Of course you too, well Sorry but if your girlfriends dad had anything to do with my dad's death, I'm not going to try and protect her" I get up frustrated.

"I didn't mean it like that" he sighs. "Ivy you ready?" Nate asks with him, Cindy and Julia. I nod then give Jacob and Zoe one last look then Grayson and walk towards Nate's car.

Julia and Cindy hug me and Nate looks at Jacob confused. "What happened?" Nate asks confused. "Let's just go please" I say, if he found out what Jacob and Zoe did, he would kill Jacob.

We get in the car and head home. As soon as we arrive outside, it was silent Julia hugging me as I was on her chest, Nate and Cindy looking concerned and at each other in the front. "Ivy what happened?" Nate asks.

"I found this!" I say and get the ring out of my purse and hand it to Nate. "Is that his wedding ring?" Nate says looking concerned. "Where'd you find it"He turns around angry. "Erika's dad's office!" I reply. "But But I I don't understand, what does this mean? Was dad with him that night? Did he lie?" Nate asks and I shrug.

"Is that why you were crying?" Cindy asks. "No uh I think things are over between Jacob and I!" I say as I while my tears. "What did he do?" Nate sighs in disappointment. "Nothing! He um did uh nothing, we just got in a stupid fight and you know I broke up with him" I lied. "Are you sure?" He asks. "Yup" I lie again.

The only reason I'm lying is because no matter what him and Zoe might have done, I still want deep inside to know the truth before Nate gets involved in anyway.

"Okay well you guys can go up I will follow you, don't worry about it, I'll figure it out, just go have some rest!" Nate says and gives me a smile that I could tell was filled with sorrow. Me and Julia go up the stairs and then I go into my room to peek through the window. I see Nate hitting the steering wheel and Cindy trying to calm him down and he then breaks down.

"Are you going to tell me the truth?" Julia says and shuts the doors "what do you mean?" I reply. "What the fuck happened?" She says. "What I told you!" I shrug. "Cut to the chase Ivy, I can tell when you're lying, I swear to god, if Jacob hurt you in anyway.." she says angrily. "No no he didn't hurt me, I-I saw humans Zoe kiss" I sigh and fall on my bed. "Zoe, Like our innocent Zoe!" She says and falls to the bed next to me.

"Yeah not so innocent now I guess" I fake chuckle. "Aww I'm sorry, you know, I would kill her if she wasn't much taller than me, as for now they're both dead to me! I love you okay!" Julia chuckles and hugs me. "Don't be so hard on them, I got myself into a situation that everyone knew the ending to" I reply and give her a warm smile. "What do you mean?" She asks confused. "Nothing, I'm going to have a shower!" I reply and get up.

"Okay" She sighs. ""Girls night with Jacob" She asks with a smile. "Much needed" I smile back.

I go in the bathroom and look at myself. God, I never felt so insecure in my own skin. It was obvious though, Why would someone like Jacob go out with someone as hideous as me?

I look at my body as I take off my Dress. I felt, ashamed, to be who I was, why couldn't I have been born to be Erika, although she has a terrible personality, somehow it works for her, she gets all the guys, all the money, anything she wants and most importantly both her parents are with her.

I look at myself in disgust then open some music, and get in the shower. I open the water and look at the wall. I usually sing along to the music, and at this moment I can't hear anything, I'm too deep in my thoughts to focus. What if Erika's dad lied? But what if he didn't, just like Grayson said, I could be way overthinking the situation!

But what if I'm not?! If I keep silent  I could possibly be an accessory to a murder, or, If I speak up I could ruin my credibility and everyone would think I'm crazy? All for the more reason for everyone to think of me as weird. I wouldn't just be known as the girl with dead dad but the weird girl with the dead dad. Just for all the more reasons to make me more insecure than I already am!

I couldn't help but to think of the worse, what if he murdered my dad, but why would he, what could he possibly have against my father, nothing! What if he lied about dad never making it to the bar that night? Will that also mean that dad drank and got himself into this mess?

I groan in annoyance from my own dumb conspiracies. I'm probably overthinking this, hopefully, and then I exhale loudly.

I get out of the shower and wrap my body around with a towel, I brush my teeth and put face cream then moisturizer my body after. I brush my hair and moisturize it as well, and I get out to see Julia and Cindy on my bed. Cindy smiles at me and I smile back. "Julia told me what happened" Cindy says. "Please don't tell Nate" I sigh. "I won't but he is going to find out, and when he does you better hope he doesn't do anything to hurt Jacob" she says.

If He does find out, Nate will go crazy, actually that might be an underestimation. Nate might actually kill Jacob that's why I need to find out what happened fast!

"Well that's all tomorrow stress, all I want to do is just watch movies, hopefully ones about hating guys, maybe I'll go lesbian actually" I joke trying to lighten the mood. "Gosh darn it, just when I got in a relationship too, you have really bad timing!" Julia jokes back. "Well if you wanted this you should of just said so" I smirk at her with my eyebrows lifting up and then they laugh.

I put on my oversized T-shirt and threw one to Julia who was still not changed but Cindy was. "Safe to come in" Nate yells, "yes" we yell.

He comes in and smiles at me. "Umm Julia you feel like Making something in the kitchen" Cindy says and hints Julia to leave us alone. "Oh yea" Julia says and they leave.

"So um what does this mean?" He asks and sits on my bed. I could tell he was stressed and torn apart. "I don't know, but I do know that we need to tell mama" I sigh and sit on the bed. "What if this means he lied?" He asks. "Then he goes to jail" I reply and sigh. "I know you hate her, but I can't, I cant let Erika like we lost ours! It's not her fault" a tear leaves his eye and he looks at me.

I hug him, "I know Nate, but if he knows something or he lied to hide something, it means that maybe dad didn't do this to himself or he did I'd not know. I just, I really want to know, I can't be clueless anymore. I need an answer!" I reply. "What if the answer ruins their family's life?" He asks and I look at him, "part of it ruined ours" I sigh.

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What do you think the truth is?

Until next time, X