You're the one

Chapter 1- The bet

“How could you?!!?”  I screamed in his face.  He just looked at me not a single expression on his face coming out.

                “Daniel how could you do this to me? I thought you loved me and cared about me and wanted to be with me. It was all a game to you, wasn’t it? You wanted to see how long it took to get in my pants just like everyone else tried wasn’t it!?!? I’m so glad that I never slept with you! That would have been the worst mistake of my life.”

Daniel looked up from the ground he had been looking at and had a smirk on his face. I knew about the bet a week after we almost did have sex but I couldn’t go through with it. His friend had told me about the bet because he didn’t want me to get hurt. I had been so sick about it all that Alex had taken me out and we had gotten little drunk and things happened between the two of us. Alex was my first and it was because we were drunk. Things have been a little awkward for us but we still talked. That was the night I decided I would confront Daniel about it all.

                “Bravo Graciella. You figured it all out on your own. I didn’t even have to tell you anything and you just figured it all out. Oh wait you are weak. That is all you will ever be.”

I slapped Daniel across the face with pure hatred and disgust for the guy that I thought was in love with me. I guess however I was wrong.

                “What Daniel can’t handle that a girl, the weak little girl standing in front of you just slapped you across the face? Can’t handle the fact that you lost the bet and didn’t get in my pants. Thank heavens you lost!”

Daniel just looked at me with anger in his eyes and raised his hand to smack me when someone grabbed his hand and threw him into the locker.

                “I suggest you not raise your hand again at her. I heard everything that just went on and believe me you wouldn’t like it if this whole school found out now would you Daniel. Your little reputation would go down the drain.”

I looked up and saw my very pissed off best friend Alexander holding Daniel up by his shirt. Daniel went to look at me and Alexander slammed him even harder against the locker.

                “Don’t look, don’t speak, don’t even think about Graciella again or I will beat you to the point you are in the hospital. Now get out of here!”

Alexander threw Daniel on the floor and walked over and grabbed my hand. He dragged me out of the school and into the school parking lot. He unlocked his truck and picked me up and set me in the car. Once he closed the door he walked over to his side and got in. He just sat there with his hands on the steering wheel.  I could see his knuckles turning white with how tight he was squeezing them in anger. I pulled up his middle console and slid over by him and laid my head on his shoulder.

                “Alex thank you so much for that.  I don’t know what I would have done without you these past four years despite what everyone has said about you being the bad boy of the school and what happened between us.”

I heard Alex chuckle at that comment and I knew exactly why. You see Alex and I grew up together but when Alex was seven his dad died in a car accident and his mom couldn’t bare the memories so they moved two states away and I didn’t see him until he came back Freshman year. However, when he came back he wasn’t the same old Alex I knew when we were kids. He was what they called the bad boy in school. I was the good girl of the school and never got into trouble. When Alex came back we didn’t recognize each other until about two weeks into the school year when we got partnered up for a project and we went to my house to work. That’s when we realized who each other was.  We have been inseparable since that day again. Still we are the same people that everyone thinks we are.  How could I tell Alex about my situation now.