Never have I ever.... been in a love triangle

4

Did I hear him right? I know I did, but what if I didn't?
"You broke up with Shira?" I ask, my voice sounding all croaky. I fumble with the hem of my dress, waiting for his response.
"Why, did you break up with her, Ben?" I manage to get out, looking into his ocean blue eyes, which only heightens my anxiousness.
"I broke up with her because.... she was horrible to me. Only liked me for my money." Ben tells me, his eyes not quite reaching mine.

I slouch back into the plush white sofa, crossing my legs, and smoothing our my dress.
"No other reasons?" I ask, perhaps giving him a hint.
"No." He says. Which, Lord above hurts. He never liked me. He just broke up with Shira because he realised he could get someone else. How could I let me, Devi Vishwakumar, fall for such a lowlife like Ben Gross? I know I need to say something, perhaps to make myself feel better for being rejected by Ben, so I say thing in the very back of my mind.
"Paxton rang me. I think he wants to start hanging out." I look him right in his eyes when I say that, looking for any traces of pain, hurt even, not even a flinch. He truly didn't care at all.
"Yeah, so?"
"He kissed me, after the party. I think he might like me."

I don't expect much of a reaction from Ben, so you can imagine my surprise when he leaps out of his chair and looks down at me in complete disbelief.
"Wow, Devi! Wow."
"What?" Why has Ben went from 0 to 100 in a matter of seconds?
"So you go around kissing whoever you fancy do you?" His tone comes across as angry, but I can hear the sounds of sadness in his voice.
"Have you gone mental? What is wrong with you?" I snap at him, feeling my anger rising. Threatening to boil over.
"It's just. You kiss me. And then, then Paxton? Are we just players in your twisted game?"

I give him a look of what I hope to be complete disbelief. Well this wasn't what I was hoping for when I got all dressed up for stupid Ben Gross. Stupid, stupid.
"Why are you being so dramatic. I mean your the one that's suddenly so uninterested in me- why shouldn't I go out with Paxton? Since when do you have any say in who I date?" I'm glad Ben's parents aren't here, as this argument probably would have been very embarrassing for them. I mean it's bad enough Ben's their only child....
"I'm not uninterested in you Devi. You know that!"

That's when the anger flushes out of me, and is instead replaced in tears. Why have I let Ben see my cry?
"I don't know, Ben. You never liked me, you were just seeing who else you could date whilst you waited for another Shira to come around." Tears are spilling down my face, ruining my makeup that I spent a considerable amount of time on. But that doesn't matter because Ben has yet again seen me at one of my most vulnerable times.

"Devi- I'm sorry." He walks right up to me looking right at me instead of facing him I coward away and reach for my coat to leave. I'm halfway at the door when Ben grabs my wrist, pulling me in...

~~~~Authors Note~~~~
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