Boomerang

Chapter 14. Truth or Dare: Destructive Edition

Sawyer

     We made the mistake of playing truth or dare. It started out innocent enough. The dares consisted of eating odd foods, prank calls, and of course kisses. It was as if we were fifteen again and I was more than thankful for the lack of pressure. That was until Zeek decided he was over the dares and wanted to try out a truth. To think, everything was going so well too.

    “Truth or dare?” Jordan mumbled between groans.

    “Truth.” Zeek replied.

Everyone was still giggling at Jordan who was trying so hard not to throw up the three raw eggs and half bottle of soy sauce that Maria dared him to eat. "Maria you should do it, I think I'm going to hurl." Maria grinned while she took a few seconds to think. She was never one to ask the normal kind of questions. She's an out of the box kind of girl.

    “What’s the worst thing someone has ever requested you to do and did you do it?” Maria asked. At that point, Jordan couldn’t keep the egg soy sauce concoction down any longer and he sprinted to the bathroom. When I looked back over at Zeek, he was pale as a ghost.

    “You okay?” Zeek stared at me with his big brown eyes, fear and sadness shown through. Almost like he was afraid of his answer. It couldn’t be that bad, could it?

    “Sawyer we should talk.” My stomach twisted. Nothing good ever comes from those words.

    “Why can’t you answer the question in front of everyone?” Serenity questioned with an irritated tone.

    “Please Sawyer.” Zeek continued to maintain eye contact with me as he pleaded for me to grant his request. I didn’t want to talk to him alone, I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know anymore. There was this nagging feeling that whatever it was, it had to do with me. Though I racked my brain for some kind of scenario where I had asked something terrible of him, I came up empty and curiosity got the best of me.

    “I think you should just answer the question.” I tried to mask the panic in my voice. I did an awful job. I clung to Serenity’s hand, hoping that whatever he was about to reveal wasn’t actually that bad.

Zeek ran his fingers through his hair before releasing a loud sigh. “I was asked to-. Fuck! Sawyer please can we talk alone?” I could see he was frustrated and scared, but I was too nervous to move or even respond. I wish he would spit it out, rip off the metaphoric bandaid. Almost as if reading my mind he spoke again. “Do you remember that day you hit me with your door?” Still unable to form words I nodded a ‘yes’. “Caroline asked me to meet her there, said she needed help with a project. I thought it was school related, I had no idea how delusional she was. I mean she wanted my underwear for shit’s sake!”

    “Wait, why would she want your underwear?” Maria interjected.

    “She, uh. She wanted me to put them in Beau’s truck.” Zeek was looking at his feet, I’m assuming afraid to see what my reaction was.

    “Why-” I trailed off. Caroline was obsessed with Beau, that was common knowledge and so was the nickname all of the guys had for her.

    “I told her I would never do anything to intentionally cause you pain and that you’ve been through enough. I never thought that when I refused to help her that she would do it herself!”

    My head was spinning, I felt like I was about to pass out. Serenity squeezed my hand and pulled me onto the couch. The panties were Caroline’s?! Why? Was she really that disturbed. What. The Fuck. I felt like I was in one of those romance mystery movies from the life time channel. I was completely dumbfounded. Then it hit me. “You knew. You knew and said nothing. You knew and I fucked you!”

    “I don’t know for sure that she did it!” Zeek defended.

    “You’re not that naive Zeek.” I retorted. Does he think I’m an idiot too.

    “I didn’t want to tell you because what if it wasn’t her. What if Beau really did cheat?! I couldn’t let you get hurt again!” Was this guy serious? Who did he think he was, superman? Well I’m not Lois Lane and he sure as hell isn’t Clark Kent.

    “Too late!” I shot back.

    “Sawyer-” I cut him off.

    “Don’t you get it? You cheated me out of an option, the ability to choose for myself. You omitted information that you knew could have changed everything. If I had known about Caroline’s ridiculous plan, I would have talked to Beau. Because yeah, maybe he did cheat or maybe he didn’t. But it would have been my choice, my decision to make.” I stated a lot calmer than I thought possible. “Then you let me like you, really like you. I thought you were a good guy, but I was wrong. So damn wrong.” The corner of my eyes burned with tears as my entire body began to shake.

    “Sawyer.” Zeek took a step toward me, but Serenity and Maria firmly stood in front of me. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean too. I just didn’t want to see you get hurt.” He looked defeated, hurt even.

    “Plea-se le-ave.” I whispered. I couldn’t look at him anymore. I couldn’t get a grip on reality. Did that really just happen? Without another word Zeek slowly walked to the door and out of my apartment. The last thing I remember hearing was the clicking of the door as it shut behind him and Dan saying, “well that was unexpected.”

    That it was, I thought before the darkness took over.

*Author's Note*

Zeek finally told Sawyer, too bad it might be too late.

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