One More Mistake | ✓

19 | Pities & Broken Toys

"You ruined me"
"I plan on returning the favor"

One More Mistake
Chapter nineteen

❱ When I first walked in Royal high after it was announced that Sterling Haze was dead, everyone treated me like I was a broken toy. It was like they were almost afraid of looking my way. Though their pity stares and their fake apologies were far from sorry. It was almost like they were all mocking me, I felt weak and pathetic

I never thought I'll go through that again but I did and everyone in the hallway looked at me with the same look but this time I didn't feel pathetic, this time I felt nothing.

As I walked down the hallway, my eyes wandered around. When I finally found the person I needed right now, I walked through the crowd until I was in front of him.

"Why is everyone staring at me?" I glanced around until my eyes fell back to Sterling who was now looking at me with a similar look. Though this time I did feel something because this was Sterling who was looking at me.

"What is it?" I didn't want to sound vulnerable but I did and I couldn't do anything about it.

"Why didn't you tell us?" He asked me while his eyes followed my every move, trying to figure me out.

"Why didn't you tell me?" This time he sounded hurt and I wasn't sure what I needed to tell him. I looked behind him and found all of them there, the elites, staring back at me with nothing but a pity look though they were trying to hide it.

"What the fuck was I supposed to tell you or everyone else, I didn't think I needed to tell anyone anything" by the looks that were thrown at me, it made me feel powerless and I didn't know how to deal with it so I did the thing I'm best at which is by blocking everyone out, even Sterling.

When I spit that out to his face, he looked around before pulling me away from the crowd and outside the building. I didn't notice that the elites followed us here until I turned to face Sterling.

"Stop looking at me like that, and tell me what the hell is going on!" I hated when he looked at me like that, I wasn't used to it.

"Caine..." all he had to say is one name, one damn name to make me block out Sterling. I seen his lips move but I didn't hear anything that came out of his mouth.

I couldn't believe what came out of his lips, I didn't mention anything about Caine, ever. So why was he now spilling out Caine's name in his lips, like he knew him like I did, like he was there visiting him in the hospital afraid he'll leave and never come back, why?

"Thea, are you even listening to me? How come you never told me Caine was sick?" When he touched my shoulder that's when I snapped out and looked up at him.

I took a while to form out the words, ignoring how weak I sounded.

"How do you know about him?" When I asked him, my eyes suddenly snapped behind Sterling and looked at the person who knew about him. When I met Rory's eyes, they were smiling but that look was evil.

"Everyone knows about it now, everyone is talking about it" When I looked back at Sterling, his eyes stared at me with sadness, something he couldn't hold back.

The whole school knew Caine and I were engaged, but assumed we broke it off when he "left". Little did they know that Caine was here all along and we were still engaged, they all must think that I'm finding out about this now.

"I know you thought he left you but he didn't and only left you because he was sick" instead of telling him he was wrong and that I knew he was here all along, I shut my mouth and nodded. I couldn't tell him about it here, not when we have the elites hearing us.

"Yea I understand, I'll just need time to get through this" Sterling only threw a pity look before leaning towards me and hugging me softly. I was taken back from it, Sterling and I never had that relationship where we had to show our care for each other by actions. Me and Sterling just knew we would always care for each other. So when he hugged me, I didn't do anything else than just stand still while he hugged me.

Though, the more I thought about it, the more I had the feeling to hug him back but as soon as my hands were coming up to rest on his back, he leaned away.

"I need to get going, class is almost starting" I nodded my head as he smile before taking off. The elites did so as well except for one, Rory. He was leaning against the brick wall, his head down but I could still see his evil grin.

"I would've kept that secret well enough, you know, but you just had to go and fuck it up didn't you?" His harsh words threw me back a bit but I didn't let him intimidate me.

"What is wrong with you? I begged you not to tell anyone about Caine. He's sick and didn't want anybody to know about it, you shouldn't have told the whole school about it, not because I told you but because of Caine. I know you two were once good friends, really good friends" he didn't say anything but just stand there like he couldn't give a damn but I know he did, he had to care. At least I think he had to care, there must be something between Caine and Rory. There has to be a reason behind all the hate, I know there is.

"I wouldn't consider Caine and I good friends, not right after he ruined my life by taking the only thing that matter to me" when he spoke those words out, I've seen his regretful eyes look at mine.

"What was it?" I asked back, taking a step towards him. He didn't say anything and suddenly it clicked, it wasn't something he was talking about, it was somebody.