Drunk & Sober : IN LOVE

Chapter 27

Austin's POV:

I literally had to drag myself up in the room. Suddenly my feet started feeling heavy and my vision got blurry.

I was sweating because I knew I had to tell them the truth. I couldn’t ask anyone else to do it on my behalf as I was the only one who knew what was actually happening so far.

I went near the window looking out at the picturesque scenery in front of me while my hands were in my pockets. I heard the door getting closed and this caused me to turn behind to see everyone in the room sitting nervously on the bed.

“What’s the matter?”, Alan asked with a frown on his face. I looked at Rebekah because I knew that whatever I had to say will affect her the most.

She nodded at me to tell that she was fine. I smiled faintly at her while rubbing my sweaty hands on my pants.

“Talia, why did you spike the martini that you brought to Rebekah’s room?”, I asked the red headed girl whom lately I felt I knew nothing about. She passed me a smile as if I was joking before looking at everyone else and then asked, “Wh…What do you mean by that? Why will I spike Becca’s drink?”

I laughed loudly looking at her attempts to act all innocent, “Cut the crap Tal. Do you remember when I saw you outside Rebekah’s room?” She nodded at me and this caused me to elaborate further.

“Your face turned pale as soon as you saw me but I dismissed it because I thought I was overthinking about things. Then I saw that martini glass on the table and I drank it. I couldn’t attend the goddamn party for which I travelled 17 hours because I couldn’t stop puking. This definitely means that you had spiked her drink because for some shitty reason you didn’t want her to attend the party.” I looked at her waiting for her to answer but she just folded her hands and said, “Yes. I definitely brought the drink but I did not spike it. It must be someone else who wanted to play some stupid prank.”

“Is this all you have to say Tal? And what explanation do you have for the simple fact that as soon as you left the room I was the one to go inside to meet her and in that interval there was no one else in the room except her and it is quite obvious that she won’t spike her own drink.” I looked at Rebekah and she was all in tears, her face looked numb and she just kept looking at Talia to get some answer that proves that she is a worthy friend and I am wrong.

To be honest when I found out about it I couldn’t believe she could stoop so low. “I…I have no explanation but I am not the one who did it. I can never do that to my best friend”, Talia said while her face was devoid of all colour.

“I really didn’t believe this first but everything was right in front of me and it would be stupid of me to ignore all the clues. I came to the party to tell Becca about this but then the DJ started playing rock music and Rebekah was out on the dance floor. I stood right beside the stage trying to figure out some way to tell her so that it could hurt her less. But then I saw something that swept the floor beneath my feet and suddenly I knew there was no easy way to do this because no matter how hard I try to sugar-coat it, it will hurt her. It hurts me to even say this right now but how could you do that to her? How could you make your own best friend feel exposed by cutting the straps of her dress?” Tears fell down her cheeks as she looked at her own hands to what I supposed was a look of embarrassment and guilt.

Rebekah covered her face with her hands and wept loudly. I was about to go comfort her when I saw that Rex was standing by her side and was doing every possible thing to make her stop from shedding those precious tears.

Yes, I love Rebekah from a very long time, long enough for me to even remember. She never knew this because she never really saw me that way.

For her, I was just a good friend with whom she used to sleep occasionally. I never really told her because I always thought that maybe now is not the time.