Bi-stressed

CHAPTER 64

"Are you okay?" Her eyes are teary and she throws her arms around me, comforting me while my head is burried against her chest, slight sobs being heard from her mouth.

"I look like shit, I know I do." I say, forcing a pathetic giggle and look down at the floor.

"No! You look worn out. Did you have any sleep at all?" She asks, bringing her hand to my chin and lifting it up for me to look at her.

"I don't know. Wait, how are you even here? Weren't you going for vacations?" I ask Lyra.

"I knew something was off with your voice when we spoke on call yesterday afternoon so I cancelled the trip and came here as soon as possible."

"Why would you do that for me? Are you crazy? You should have gone!"

"You're a very close friend of mine and I couldn't go on a trip with your worried face on my mind."

"Come here," she adds and squeezes me in a hug.

"Your dark circles are fucking dark. Looks like you haven't had proper sleep these past days. Tell me how you feel. Tell me everything!" She doesn't demand like otherwise instead cups my cheeks, showing empathy. She's the only one after Kim and Luna who actually understands how I feel and can read my mind. How I wish sometimes, that Luna, Kim and me could go back being our trio. I wish things were different, I really wish.

I tell Lyra everything about Hardin.

"You need clarity. I think you should speak to Hardin about the confession and kiss. Kissing him made it only worse." She says.

"I know that shit was fucked up! I regret."

"You don't regret. I bet you." She raises her perfectly arched brow at me.

"I do because I cheated on Zac!"

"And you don't because you always wanted that. I know exactly why you must have did it."

"Why?"

"First, you did just because you wanted to. Second, because your runminative thinking assumed Zac doing the same."

"Okay." How does she know exactly.

"I'm right! I don't understand what relationship you are in when you don't trust your boyfriend."

"He just stopped in the middle of us making out to answer that damn call, guess it was more important than me. He told me to mind my own damn business. He said if I went for Elaine's birthday, he would never speak to me again. He barges out of the house, after toppling down my study table. I mean that's no way to act. I get it he's hot tempered but he doesn't have to blow up on me and tell me what to do. Then he shows up at the party, fighting with Travis. Not to forget he risked my virginity for a bike race. And then when I asked him for space, he shows up with that girl. What am I supposed to think of him and that girl. I dont mind if she was his friend but like I never seen her before and she looked like a random chick to fuck around with!" I'm breathless as I finish my speech and I feel bad as I tell her about Zac.

"He risked your virginity?!"

"Kind of. Forget it!"

"Tell me!" She demands and I can feel her hatred towards him at the mention of this.

"Zac was having a bike race and the guy he was having it with, told Zac that he would have to let him sleep with me if he won. Zac didn't agree to it but he was dead sure he would win so he gave in. When Zac was almost near the finish line, Travis shouted out to him, reminding him about sleeping with me which made Zac furious and he kicked his bike causing himself only to fall and meeting with an accident."