HIDDEN PAIN 𐦍 GarrothXReader

33| Confession

Y/N'S POV

My hands shake as the video of Talia ranting ends. She was yelling, cussing, making herself look like she's the one who had to deal with so much shit during Intermediate school. 

I was literally beat and here she was, faking tears, yelling into the phone over how much of a bitch I was to her.

She wasn't the one who had to deal with being beat against a fence everyday. She wasn't the one who had to go home to foster parents who drank until they passed out, or also beat me for doing something they didn't like. 

She had rich parents who loved her and would buy her anything she wanted; she didn't even have to ask. Everybody loved her; and not one person dared to mess with her or her 'friends.'

She actually ended up getting the boy she wanted in the end. Yet, she still feels the need to destroy any chance of me making friends. I haven't seen her in over a year. 

I would've assumed she would've forgotten about me and moved on from her bullshit.

"She looks mad." Garroth turns his phone off. "What happened?" I inhale a shaky breath, leaning back against the alleyway wall.

"Talia was my best friend. One of the first actually." I let out a deep sigh. "She was nice at first. Had a nice life. But as all of us do, she hid her venom. She liked this boy, but the boy liked me. I knew it and I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to hurt her. I didn't want to seem stuck up and selfish." Sirens come down the street. 

"So, I was riding on the bus one morning and that boy came up to me. He was nervous. I could tell. He asked me to one of the dances we were having and my response was, 'Sorry, dude, Talia likes you. I'm not gonna betray my best friend. Maybe you should ask her.'" I pause; looking over at Garroth's focused expression. I bite my tongue before resuming.

"What I didn't know at the time was that two girls, that, hated me with a passion and were dying to be Talia's best friends, were sitting right behind me. I got to school that morning and couldn't find her to tell her what'd happened." I click my tongue. "Before lunch someone had beaten me to it. They completely lied to her about what had happened and she believed them."

"She believed strangers over her best friend of three years." Tears well in my eyes. "From that day on, she treated me like shit. She roped her friends into it as well. That guy? Who liked me but not her? They started dating." I look up, tears rolling down my face. "But in the end I was still happy for her because she looked so happy with him. Even if she treated me like shit, I couldn't see her as a bad person." I wipe the tears from my face, sniffling.

"Why?" I look over at him. He looks confused, yet amazed. His blue eyes staring into my E/C orbs, asking me for an answer. I gulp, my eyes finding the wall in front of me.

I shrug, "I don't know. I... I was manipulated by her. She was toxic and I realize that now. All of it over her thinking I stole her crush. It's bullshit." I shake my head.

"So everything she said was a lie?" He asks. I nod, my eyes still glued to the wall.

"You don't have to believe me-"

"I do believe you." He quickly says. I look over at him, extremely confused. Usually no one believes me especially that quick. He must sense my confusion because he begins to explain. "For the past months I've known you... you don't seem like the person Talia was making you out to be."

"How do you know I'm not lying?" It's a stupid question. I don't even know why I asked it.

"Are you?"

"No."

"Then I believe you. I believe you... because I trust you." He breathes out. My eyes search his face looking for any signs of him lying.