The Player Games (Dana Vaughns Love Story)

Chapter Twenty-Two

Marie sat on my spinning chair, twirling her hair. "Cole told me something," She sing songs, and I look up from my phone as I lay across on my bed, and Autumn and Rachel turn the heads towards Marie, there eyebrows quirking up the same way mine did. "You are just like him. He did that to me," I say, groaning but smirking at her. "Yeah, when you told him you love Dana!" She exclaims, and Autumn, jumps up, bumping heads with Rachel who did the same. "What!?" Autumn exclaims, her eyes wide. "How come you never told us this!" Rachel says, shaking my shoulders.

"I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you guys when we were all together. It sort of accidentaly slipped out with Cole," And that worried me a little. What if it slipped out with Dana? I wasn't ready for it to all end so quickly, and quite frankly I don't think he is either. At least I hope not.

Rachel begins to dance around the room, as Autumn joins her, doing a little waltz type of thing. I chuckle at them, shaking my head, and Marie grabs a pillow closest to her, chucking it at them. "Not right now!" She says, and Rachel raises her eyebrow, "What?" "We're happy," Autumn chimes in. "I am too, but we have to focus on the main point," Marie says. "Arizona is in love," Autumn says, "Shes finally in love, thats the point." I roll my eyes, and Marie notices. "Does Arizona like being in love?" She asks them. My eyes widen, I had never really thought about it that way. Do I? I mean, I definitely had the feeling of dancing around my room like my sister did, but my sisters' relationship truly ended in hurt. Which scared me a lot. Especially since Dana was a player like me before we got together. But like I was saying, I felt like dancing around my room, and I also felt like my mouth would fall off my face because I usually smile a lot just from the thought of him. Oh my god, there is no getting out from now.

Unless he does what he who shall not be named, cough, cough, Kayla's brother, did.

"I don't know," I mumble honestly. "Now that I think about it, it is very terrifying." Changing the subject, I looked at Autumns phone that was lying on the ground. "Did Amelia ever call back? I wonder where she is." They got the message that I wanted a subject change, so she picked up her phone to see. "Nope, still no call or even message," Autumn replies, searching through her phone. I decide to text Will, asking if she was with him. I hope she is okay. She said she would be here soon like two hours ago. After I get his reply, I sigh. "Will said that Amelia was going to visit her aunts, I guess she forgot to inform us," They nod understandbly and Marie gets up. "Let's watch a movie," She suggests, and I stand up. "The Neighbors it is," Rachel states, and Autumn rolls her eyes. "You only want to watch that because you think Zac Efron is hot," I giggle at them. "As long as I keep Dave," I state, closing my door behind me after throwing my phone on my bed.

We all get settled in thirty minutes later with a bunch of snacks, and sodas on my coffee table that was in front of the couch. We turn on the DVD, and Rachel and I share snacks because we were the ones that bond over Zac Efron and Dave Franco. The things I would do to them both, to be honest.

After getting halfway through the movie, someone knocks on the door so I head to get it alone. They can continue watching anyways. Opening my door, I was expecting Dana but found Dalton. I smile at him excitedly, and he smiles back a little. "So, I need to talk to you about something," I raise my eyebrows, but ask no further questions, as I headed inside. He follows behind me, and once we enter the living room, I announce to the girls that we were going to my bedroom. Once we get into my bedroom, I notice my phone was ringing on my bed. Seeing it was Dana, I decided he could wait.

"What do you need to talk about?" I ask him, and he bites his lip nervously. "Dana." He answers quickly, and my phone begins to ring again. I sigh, silencing it. "I get it. Just like Cole said the other day, don't hurt him, he's like your brother. I'm not going to hurt him for Christs sakes!" He shakes his head quickly, "Its not your hurting him," He says, and bites his lip again. "Its him hurting you."

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Flashback

My sister came into my room, her fists clenched as she walked in. "I'm so tired of people," She says, running her unclenched fingers through her hair. "People keep on saying, Toby is going to hurt you, blah blah blah. We have been together for two years, he would have hurt me by now, ya know?" She turns to my silent figure, as I play with my fingers my eyes casting downward. I didn't want to tell her about the rumors Kayla was spreading at my school. They were terrible. Things about her brother finding a different girl each night, things about those girls being better looking than her - which I don't is even possible, my sister was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. EVER. It would be really hard to believe Toby would even do something that would cause him to lose somebody as valuable as my sister.

So, making a smart, or dumb move, I decided not to tell her. "That's stupid," I agree with her. "He already knows that if he hurts you, I'm coming after him. He doesn't want that to happen, trust me." She chuckles, her tensed posture relaxing. "You always know what to say Sis," She says, sitting next to me. "You are really smart for a fifth grader, you know that, right?" I shrug, a blush coming to my face, "Eh." She smiles, laughing. "You know, I really am in love! I can't wait to see your future boyfriend, how happy he will make you, and how terrifyed he will get when I give him my threats like you gave my boyfriend." My smile becomes hers, almost a match as I fall backwards on my bed. "He will be as perfect as yours, sissy, I promise. He will have an amazing smile, and soft eyes that will make me happy when I see him," I say, daydreaming up a perfect guy. I frown when I remind myself how old I was though. "But I have four years until I can fall in love." She shakes her dyed red hair, that falls to her eyes. "No, silly, you can fall in love whenever you heart desires," She says, and I smile again. "I want to be just like you, sissy," I say, playing with the bracelet she had given me. "No, no. I want you to be just like you. You are perfect the way you are. Don't let anyone change that, or your thought of that okay? I will be really angry if you do," My eyes widen. I never wanted my sister to be angry with me. She has always been my favorite person.

She even covered my ears when our parents began to fight, and covered my eyes when they began to kiss, because uck.

I never want to lose her.

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"What? Why would he hurt me?" Dalton looks like a deer caught in headlights, and my phone begins to ring again. I sigh, picking it up. "Why weren't you picking up, damn it? I need to talk to you," My eyes widen in surprise at Dana's tone of panic. "Where are you? Is Dalton there?" I look at Dalton who seemed to be going through a little battle with himself internally. "Uh, yeah, and at my house, why?" I question, and he curses again. "Why?" "Just don't listen to a word he says, he's drunk right now." My eyebrows furrow, he doesn't seem drunk. What was happening with Dana? "Wh-" "Just don't damn it! Goodness Arizona, just listen to me," I glare at my wall, feeling suddenly angry at him. He can't just tell me what to do, and expect me to be okay with it. "No, I'm going to listen to whatever he has to say," I spit out to him, and Dalton looks at me but I ignore it. "You can't tell me what to do." "Arizona, I swear to g-" I don't listen any further, and I hang up my phone.

I sit on my bed, and pat the spot next to me, trying to calm down. "Come along, Pond, just tell me," He chuckles nervously, but remains standing.

"I think Dana cheated on you."

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I wanted to update soon so yeah, here it is. It was a pretty short chapter, but I guess you could say it was eventful oops. IF YOU LISTEN TO BLANK SPACE BY TAYLOR SWIFT I JUST WANT TO SAY IT REMINDS ME OF THIS STORY OKAY LOVE YOU GUYS BYE.