Curious

62

"I'll go back to be there with you if you want." Juan offers, giving me a small smile and shrug when I tell him what happened with Oscar. 

I shake my head, smiling sadly. "It's fine. What he said hurt me though." I look away from his face on the screen. "I know Mark says he probably didn't even mean it and it just came out because he had too much to drink, but things you say when you're drunk are just things your sober self is too afraid to say out loud." I shake my head, picking at my manicure. It's a bad habit I've had for years now. My nail tech lectures me about it every time I see her.

"Wow. That's an interesting way of looking at it." 

I shrug, looking at his tired face on the screen. Considering he's in bed already, I'm probably keeping him up. "It's true. I mean, come on, everyone gets way more bold when they're drunk. You do things your sober self never has the courage to do. Maybe he's felt that way since the first time I took Joel to meet Eduardo and he just never said anything."

He nods. "Maybe. I'm sure he really regrets saying it now though. Just..don't call or talk to him until he makes the first move. I'm sure all you guys need is time to be okay again."

"Believe me, I don't plan on talking to him until he's ready to apologize for making me feel shitty. My feelings are hurt, but I'm also extremely mad at him. I don't think I've raised my voice at him since our huge fight after my Mom died." I smile, seeing his sleepy eyes. "I'm keeping you up, aren't I?" 

He shakes his head. "No, keep talking, it's fine." his eyes flutter and open slowly. 

"I'm just gonna let you go Juan. We'll talk tomorrow." I laugh. "I love you, goodnight."

"Love you too." he says quietly before hanging up.

~~~

I wake up to my doorbell being rung many times in a row. I groan, almost rolling down the stairs as I try to reach the door before the doorbell is rung any more times. "What?!" I shriek, swinging the door open when I see that it's Elizabeth who's at the door. 

"Good morning!" she smiles, handing me a cup of iced coffee which I gladly take.

I walk slowly behind her into the kitchen. "It's fucking eight in the morning. What the hell are you doing here?" I growl out, mad that I'm up at this time when I could still be sleeping.

She drops the box of donuts on the island, leaning against it. "Donut?" she asks, offering me a long john. I yank it from her, with narrow eyes. "I got an early start to my day." she shrugs. She pulls out her phone excitedly. "Look at these super cute dresses. We have to buy them!" she exclaims, shoving her phone in my free hand. "Keep scrolling. There's really cute ones on this site." she turns and opens my fridge. 

"Yeah they a-" I stop when a message pops up on the screen: 'I had a great time last night. Thanks for getting my mind off of this whole thing with Anna.' My jaw drops when I see that it's Oscar who sent her the message. 

She turns when I don't continue my sentence. "What's wrong?" she asks anxiously, already reaching for her phone. 

I yank the phone away from her reach. "Where were you before coming over?" I ask suspiciously.

"Give me my phone." she continues to reach for the phone that's in my hand.

I throw it on the counter, crossing my arms over my chest. "You were with Oscar." she turns pale. "Stop sleeping with my brother!" I exclaim, scrunching my nose in disgust, walking out of the kitchen and into my living room. She follows closely behind me.

"It just kind of happened!" she defends nervously. 

I scoff. "How does that just happen?!"

She shrugs, guilt clear in her face. "He called me late at night and he sounded upset. He asked me to go over, so I did. We just talked for a long time. And then...well, you can imagine what happened after." 

I roll my eyes. "Liz, what are you doing?" I ask, sighing. "I don't think he feels the same way you do. He's just using you for sex, Elizabeth. You're going to end up getting hurt."

She looks down, shrugging again. "I feel like he might like me too, I don't know. I mean, it's not like he called me and we had sex right once I got there. He told me why he was upset, how he felt...it was more then just sex, Anna." she smiles, looking up at me. 

"He talked to you about me?" I ask, shifting uncomfortably. "What did he say?" 

"I don't know if I should tell you..." she trails off. "He doesn't even know I'm here." 

I stare at her blankly. "No, bitch, you have to tell me now." 

She groans. "Ugh, fine. I mean, what he said wasn't bad." she shrugs. "I could tell he felt really shitty about what he said to you. He said his heart broke a little when he heard you crying from inside. I told him that he should definitely apologize to you, but he said he feels way too bad about it right now to even talk to you. He feels really bad about it, Anna." she frowns. 

I look down. "At least he knows what he did was wrong." I shake my head, looking at her. "He can be such an asshole when he wants to be."

"He can also be really sweet when he wants to be, you know that." she nudges me, smiling. "I've seen how great he can be with you."

I nod. "He can also be great." I groan. "But when he wants to be a dick, god can he be one." 

"You're gonna forgive him though, right?" 

I scoff, looking away. "Of course I am.  I'm not losing him again over some stupid shit he said. I'm just mad and hurt right now, and I'm staying this way for a while. He needs to realize that he just can't go through life with grudges like this one forever. It's not healthy." I shake my head. We both stay silent for a few moments before I look over at her slowly. "So you like, actually have feelings for Oscar?" I ask.

She nods. "I think so, yeah. Ugh, he just makes me feel like no man has ever made me feel, Adrianna, you don't even know." she sighs, smiling. 

I swallow uncomfortably. "In what way?" I ask slowly.

"Every way." she smiles even wider then before. "Like last night for example, he poured his heart out to me. No guy I've ever been with has done that before, they just fuck me and leave or ask me to leave, but he made me feel like I was more then just an object." she shrugs. "There's also about a thousand things that make me go crazy about him in bed, but you're his sister, so I'll spare you the details." 

I cringe, nodding my head. "Please do." I turn so that I'm facing her. "He was really hurt when he found out Julia cheated on him, Elizabeth. It's going to take him  a while to be able to trust anyone ever again. I don't want you to get hurt in case he can never fully let you into his heart, Liz." I frown. 

She nods. "I know. I'm kind of scared of that happening, actually. I've thought about it a lot." 

"I just hope this works out for you, Elizabeth. I would hate for you to fall in love with him just to be heartbroken about it later." I smile sadly. "Hopefully it doesn't happen though." 

She nods, slowly. "Yeah...I hope so too." 

I try not to worry her too much, but this has heartbreak written all over it.

A/n
Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'm going to try and speed things up for the rest of this book so that I can move on to the sequel. Feel free to let me know what you guys thought of this chapter!