They met at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances, in a world that was not theirs. They had no choice but to move on from each other.
Five years later, Griffin Walker and Harry Styles meet again. How will it end this time?
LOVE BUILT ON LIE...
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GRIFFIN E. WALKER December, 2014
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
He soaked in the news dropped on him though it was nothing more than lies made up by people who had no more else to do during their free time than to cook up stories, worthy enough of spreading like some kind of virus.
Intently, I watched him. For someone who only heard a gossip, the boy sure seemed to take it for solid truth. Making me wonder why that could have been, some parts of me were terrified to even question. Personally, it made me very happy to know all the things I did know regarding his relationship, yet all of a sudden, I felt strangely out of the loop. The look his face decided to model was like a brand-new piece, walking on the cat walk right before my eyes.
Believe it or not, the madness I felt thinking about my best friend was not enough to push me to believe she'd cheat on her boyfriend. Not when she was cheated on once upon a time and it crushed her more than she likes to talk about it. Clearly, because her current man had no idea it ever happened.
"That's just a rumour," he said as a matter of fact. Reassuring himself more than me. That caused me to chuckle and earn a confused look from him. Again, he was being his open-book-self. Saw right through the failed attempt of covering up how he felt. Which honestly, for the millionth time, made me wonder how my best friend was not able to use her brain, read between the lines and stop all of their petty arguments by softening the blow.
"Okay," I replied gently, not feeding into his imagination.
Then, as very much expected, he spoke again. Desperation coated words and hopeful eyes. "I mean, Aiden is our friend—my best friend. Even though we have only known each other for so long, he would never do something like that, I know it," he defended the person in question, making sure that I knew that as much as he did.
The Walsh boy and I had a rocky road behind us, even before us, if honesty is the key here, so if anything, these rumours caused me to want to make our road even rockier. Whilst you need two people to tango, with how well he managed to fit himself in the cracks that my absence left behind in Nadine's life, I had no doubt it gave him the green light to talk her head full of nonsense.
"Okay," I nodded, not that interested in how good of a friend he was. Always thought he was kind of shady, never there but everywhere at the same time. Popping up in places during times when someone needed something or someone. He had a sneaky way of getting what he wanted, which was attention most of the time. If you really think about it, Nadine had all that to give him, with Harry and I both being on the top of her shitty people list, it made it much easier for her to focus on Adrian in order to not think about us.
"Who told you this?" he questioned curiously. My answer was a long hum, indicating that I would not be revealing anything. It was bad enough he knew of this rumour going around, simply because his relationship with my best friend was already at the bottom of the ocean. Who knew how deep it was? I sure as hell did not. Which is why I didn't want to make things worse and reveal the source. "Why are you telling me this? You know we are already fighting enough."
