The Girl Next Door

21

"What the fuck?" I snap, jumping up from my bed, glaring at where Bridget was standing.

"How dare you!" She screams, marching over and getting right in my face. "How fucking dare you! Do you even know what you've done?" Her face red and wet, she'd been crying. A lot.

"What are you talking about?" I cross my arms across my chest, not even hiding how angry that I am at her, especially now that she's torn the blinds out of my window.

"You told Noah! You told him everything! How fucking dare you? That wasn't your fucking place and you know it." Shes yelling so much, and so hard that her spit splattered across my face.

"First of all, you need to get the fuck out of my face. Second, at some point you're going to have to realize the only person who fucked up in this situation, is you. You were the one fucking around with two guys at once, you were the one toying with our emotions. Noah deserved to know, and he asked me. I had no reason to lie to him, especially when you wouldn't tell him yourself."

"I told you not to tell him, Casen!"

"He deserved to know. I'm not going to sit here and fight with you about this bullshit. You need to leave."

"I'm not going anywhere. You've made a huge fucking mistake. You ruined everything I had with him! He dumped me. He left me, Casen! Because of you. Because you couldn't keep your fucking mouth shut about things that don't involve you."

"You are one selfish bitch." Kiki speaks from behind me, surprising Bridget and I both.

"What the fuck did you say?" Bridget spits, glaring at Kiki, who's playing with her fingers like it's no big deal.

"You're a selfish bitch. How can you say it doesn't include Casen? You were fucking around with him and his emotions, leading him on. You broke his heart, and cheated on your boyfriend. It absolutely includes him, and he did the right thing. Noah deserves to know the truth. You don't just get to walk all over whoever the fuck you want, whenever you want to. The world doesn't revolve around you."

"Like you're one to talk." Bridget rolls her eyes.

"Alright, seriously. You need to stop. You don't even know Kiki, and whatever the problem is between us, you're not going to bring her into the middle of it. She's such a kind fucking girl. Okay? Unlike you. She's not wrong, you've fucked up. You need to realize that." My voice is calm now, and I find myself stepping in front of Kiki, like I'm trying to protect her from whatever Bridget is going to do next. "You need to get out. And if you don't, I'll call the cops. In case you didn't know, breaking and entering is a crime. And so is destruction of property." I knew it was a little dramatic before I even said it, but I needed her to leave.

"Whatever Casen." She shakes her head. "Whatever. I'll get you both back for this. Just fucking wait."

"Get out." I snapped again, gesturing to the window. Finally, after moments of angry silence, she climbs back through the window and into her own room.

"Fuck," I run my hands through my hair and walk back over to the window, pulling it closed and trying to lock it. "Of course the fucking lock is broken."

"We could run to the hardware store down the street, maybe they have something we could use? You really should find a way to keep the window locked so she can't sneak in here anymore." Kiki walks up behind me and wraps her arms around my waist, leaning her head against my back. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Today has taught me a lot." I chuckle, wrapping my hand around both of hers. "I think I might of dodged a bullet with that one." I feel her body tense up against mine. "You okay?"

"Ugh. I was going to tell you in a couple of days." Kiki groans, "I don't want to ruin our night."

"You can talk to me Kiks." I smile and turn around to face her, my hands wrapping around the back of her neck, softly. "Seriously. It's okay."

"I've found some things out... About Bridget I mean." Kiki's eyes are full of worry, but she doesn't break the eye contact. "Dude, she's not the kind of person you thought she was."

"What do you mean?"

"She got expelled from Bellview High our Freshman year, because she beat the hell out of some girl for making out with her ex boyfriend, then she transferred to Creekville. She's done some terrible things to the girls here." Kiki pauses, looking up at me, trying to gauge if she should keep going. "Tessa was dating Harley late freshmen year and it pissed Bridget off for some reason, she called Tessa's mom and told her she was from Planned Parenthood and had positive tests results for pregnancy and chlamydia."

"Wait, what?" My heart drops to my feet.

"Yeah. Anther time, she poured an old smoothie in a girls gym locker before the long weekend. The poor girls stuff all got ruined and everybody teased her for the locker room smelling horrible afterwards."

"Did she plant test answers on someone?" Kiki nods in response to my question, and opens her mouth to say something, but I speak before she can. "And she put weed and vodka in someone's locker?"

"Yeah, Casen, how'd you know?" Kiki's looking up at me with shocked eyes.

"She told me Mallory and Stacy did those things to her." I chuckle and run one of my hands through my hair. "Fucking crazy bitch." I can't help but questioning how I could have ever trusted her.

"I hate to say this, but I think we need to be really careful. Could you maybe change bedrooms or something? She's really been sneaking in here... Who knows what she could do."

Instead of responding, I pull Kiki closer to me and kiss her cheek.