Secrets Hurt

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PLEASE MAKE ME SMILE AND VOTE BY CLICKING THAT STAR AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN... GRACIAS!!!

I try to take in as much air as possible as I stare at Tariah. I finally manage to tear my eyes from him and found myself staring into the terrified faces of my other two best friends. They were looking at me as if I was a ticking bomb that was gonna explode anytime soon. They looked very concerned. And they were right. I was teetering on the brink of insanity. I could feel it trying to suck me in like an all-consuming black hole. The tug was almost too hard to fight.

First, I find out my dad is a cheating husband who kept me away from my birth mother, then my fake mum who is my step-mum is a mistress that destroyed my family and now Tariah, my best friend, is a spy for my dad and kept me from my mum all this time too.

It felt like someone or something has been conspiring against me, turning my whole life into some kind of sick joke. I knew I was in shock right now, drenched in some sort of numb, detached feeling, I could feel the other hostile emotions bubbling their way to the surface and fighting to take control.

And then I snapped. It overwhelmed me, rising up from the most darkest part of my soul where logic and reasoning wielder no power. This was pure rage and anger. And so I screamed at the top of my lungs until my voice went hoarse and my throat burned, bringing tears to my eyes.

"Get out!!! Get out of my sight before I do something I regret," I yell at Tariah,

"Karla, I'm so sorry, let me explain," He says,

"You want to explain? Do you think any explanation you'll give will make me forgive you?" I sneer at him, chuckling hysterically, hurling the cushions on the couch at him,

"Karla, let's all relax a little, I know it's hard, just hear him out," Amber says calmly to me, while Xena grabs the cushions from me,

"Oh so you're gonna take his side? Where you in on this too?" I sneer at Amber,

I hear someone in the room gasps as I felt a stinging sensation on my left cheek, Amber had slapped me, she looked furious.

"Is that how little you think of me? I know you're going through a lot but I've been your best friend since we were born, you're not gonna insult me like that, okay?" She yells at me,

I and Amber hardly fought, and even when we fought she never hit me or tried to hurt me with words or anything, she just wasn't a confrontational person. So I knew I had messed up when she slapped me. I love Amber and since my circle of friendship is about to reduce, because I couldn't imagine forgiving Tariah, I didn't want to lose Amber too. My shoulders slump in guilt.

"I'm sorry," I whisper to her and she gathers me into her arms,

"I'm sorry for hitting you," She mumbles into my hair as she squeezes me softly in a hug,

"Let's all just calm down, okay? Karla, You and Tariah have been friends for over 4 years, just hear him out please, before you decide on whether you're gonna severe all ties," Xena says,

So I sat down on the seat farthest from Tariah, I didn't trust myself not to reach over to him and smack him silly. Everybody takes their seats, Cynthia excuses herself, saying 'It's your issue, you guys have to hash it out together alone'. She pulled Price along with her and they go into her room and shut the door behind them.

"Okay, Tariah go on," Xena says,

"I know nothing I'm about to say can justify my actions..." Tariah begins,

"Yeah right, captain obvious," I say, pretty annoyed,

"I'm sorry Karla.... We were in Junior school when your dad approached me with an offer, that was a week after Xena had befriended me and I met you and Amber, he told me that he'll pay me a monthly allowance of $2000 and pay for my tertiary education if I watched over you. He said, your mum had abandoned you when you were little, he said she was dangerous and crazy and wanted to harm you, he told me that you were not aware because he didn't want you to worry, all he needed me to do, was to keep an eye out for your mum and do everything possible to not let her near you. He said I had to inform him as soon as I saw her. Throughout our junior and senior school, she showed up 5-7 times, wanting to see you, I would inform your dad as soon as I saw her and I just had to stall her for 5-6 minutes and your bodyguards will take care of the issue. I never could afford coming here to U of Wales without your dad's recommendation and payment. I didn't get my scholarship. I'm so sorry Karla. My family needed that money." Tariah says,