The Ex (Lesbian LGBT Story)

five

Carter

I stared hard at Jane, sizing her up, curiosity getting the better of me. I hadn't seen her since our sophomore year when she switched schools, leaving me behind.

She looked very different. Her hair was thicker and reached just past her shoulders. Her eyelids had dark make up on them and a slight smile appeared on her face as she stared back at me.

"Hey." She said and I wasn't sure what to make of it. The words sounded so easy coming from her, but all I could remember were the evil things I faced when I was with her.

"You're back in town again?" I asked nervously, holding my hands tightly together.

"Yeah, I'm going back to school in a week, I'm just getting papers signed." She told me and then leaned in. "I'm sorry about before. When I treated you like that. I did change." She paused, thinking her words could ever possibly fix the damage. "Or at least I'm trying to." She smiled down at me, her green eyes meeting my dark ones.

"Yeah, okay." I looked over at Ariana, who was walking towards us. "I've moved on from that."

Ariana looked back at Jane curiously as she stepped beside me. There was an awkward moment as her and Jane sized one another up. I could tell Jane knew what was going on before I even said anything.

"Hey, I'm Jane." She held her hand out and Ariana took it, glancing at me.

"I'm Ariana, Carter's girlfriend." She flashed a smile and I saw Jane give her a harder look now that she knew this information for sure. She sighed.

"Funny! I'm her ex." Although, this did not sound funny at all.

Ariana shot another worried glance at me and fake laughed. "Well that's interesting." Her cheeks flamed red from embarrassment.

"Yeah, we have to go now. See you in school." I pushed Ariana out of the store as fast as humanly possible. No need for this situation to become any more awkward.

"What the hell?" Ariana hissed between her teeth once we were a safe distance away. I still was looking over my shoulder nervously.

"I had no idea she was back, I swear. I don't like her, she was the worst person I've ever dated, it was way back at the start of high school-"

She kissed me, shutting me up. "I get it. She seems.." Ariana just laughed instead of finishing her sentence. I could've guessed what the ending of it was. I laughed with her as we started to walk more.

"I met her in eighth grade and we dated during freshmen year after my first girlfriend, Clarissa. Jane put me down and all of that kind of stuff. After we had been together for five months, she became emotionally abusive and made me do things I wasn't ready for, like drugs and those things." I shuddered, as the past came to me in bits and pieces.

"She left me a few weeks before the accident." I muttered to myself and looked up in horror to see Ariana staring at me curiously now.

"What accident?" She stopped walking and pulled me down to a table inside of a small cafe. "Jacob told me something about last year," She said, unsure of how to explain. "I'm really sorry. I had no idea people were hurting you like that. It won't ever happen again. Not while I'm here." Her eyes met mine stiffly.

"It's okay. I'm better now and I know what to do when people do things like that. I did spend almost two months in a hospital, with constant therapy. It was awful." I laughed lightly, trying to use humor to diffuse the situation, but Ariana's eyes remained intense.

"I'm really fine now, honestly." I told her.

"I'm trusting you. I like you too much to be losing you. I need you." She brushed her hand against my cheeks, which were surprisingly cold.

"I like you too." I held my hand out and she slid hers into mine, as if my hand was made just to fit the shape of hers in it. I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face.

#

I came home to see the front door wide open. Jacob was standing down the hall from it, in the kitchen speaking to someone. I squinted and to my horror I realized the person he was stooped over was Jane.

"Jane! Wow, what a lovely surprise." I called out, teeth clenched, stomping through the doorway. I dropped my bags onto the floor with a loud thud.

There was no way I would allow Jane to ever come close to thinking she could he allowed into this house.

Jane turned from my brother and smiled at me - but I knew when she was up to something. She was always up to something.

She had the type of smirk she only used when she was planning on destroying you. I knew that smirk all too well. Jane turned her away from me. "I was just telling Jacob how lovely it was to see you and Ariana at the mall."

Jacob's eyes narrowed on me, in a teasing way. "Yeah, I was a bit curious as to why you were with my ex girlfriend." I bit my lip as he spoke, trying to think of a good enough lie.

"She felt bad about the break up. She called me and told me she wanted to take me out shopping. Who am I to refuse?" I shot Jane a nasty look and she winked back at me. "So I said yes and we went shopping together. Is that a problem?" I met his gaze and pretended to be curious.

"Oh. No, no, not at all." He allowed his casual grin to slide back onto his face and he patted Jane on the shoulder. "It was good to see you." His voice sounded off. That was Jacob, being polite even when unneeded. "Have fun, you two." He had no idea that I was no longer single, but I chuckled with him and watched as he left, shutting the door behind him. I waited until I heard his car crunching over the gravel before I pounded.

"What the - What are you thinking?! Hurting my brother like that?" I snarled through my teeth. I cornered her into the wall and the smirk she was making made me even more mad. "Stop doing that! There is nothing funny about this, you stupi-"

She leaned in closer. "Nothing funny, huh? How about this?" And suddenly, she was kissing me. Her breath was minty and fresh... I let it go on for about five seconds more before I realized what was happening. I shoved her angrily away from me. My heart pounded with an unusual pump of adrenaline.

"You can't come back and act like you actually want me in your life. I don't like you. Do you not remember all the things you did to me? How you made me feel? I lost myself for you, and in the end; I did it all for nothing. You still left. I worked so hard to get myself back together and I'm not going to let you ruin anything for me." I hissed.

"Oh.. You're already ruining everything for yourself. Are you kidding me? Ariana? She's your brother's ex, and you love her. I remembered her from back then. You made the mistake of reintroducing us." Her face hardened. "How is that not wrong? You're just going to end up more hurt." She used the same icy tone I was using.

"Whatever." I snapped. "Just back off. You already ruined my life before. Stop trying to do it repeatedly." I opened the front door and gazed at her, expecting her to realize the obvious... and she didn't.

"Leave."

"Are you going to tell him?" She demanded. "I would hate to be the one to inform him of your outside activities." She laughed.

"Just leave! You're making my life so complicated and you've been back, what? A day? Go back to wherever you came from!" I growled. I could feel the urge to punch her building.

My thoughts were also busy swirling around in my head. What would I tell Ariana? Should I even tell her that my ex kissed me? Or that I may have kissed her back, even if it was for less than a second...? I knew how I felt about Ariana, but would she believe I felt nothing for Jane?

Jane snapped her fingers, bringing my attention back to her. She was inches away from me now, her hand on the doorknob. "You better tell Ariana and end things. Or else." She twirled, opening the door and going over to her small pink car.

My hands clenched into fists. I was completely doomed. There was no way Jake wouldn't find out.