His Effect [h.s] AU

𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧

"Four is starting to get on my nerves." Madi says, taking out a shirt from the rack, inspecting it and putting it back before moving on to another. We were currently at the mall, shopping around for clothes and things Madi does not need but she brought me along anyway to spend time together.

Over the time we've been here, I told her all about what happened last night with Four. From when I came on to him drunkenly to him leaving so sudden in the middle of the night. I let out a sigh and sit down on a bench. "You need to question him more, Josephine. You need to be breathing down his neck when it comes to these things. You're too easy on him." She adds.

It's true I don't question Four a lot and I do let things go, but I've learned with my brother that questioning him was useless and that maybe that's the way it is with guys. "I think it's too soon, I don't want to come off as crazy." I say.

Madi simply rolls her eyes. "I had to pick Esmer up this morning from Zach's house, she was so out of it." She says and I look to her.

"What do you mean?" Was she at the party with them?

"Well she called me asking if I could pick her up because Zach was drunk and so was everyone else there. If I had known Four left you for a party I would've given him my piece of mind."

"You saw Four?" I ask, sitting up and she nods at me slowly, almost as if she thought I knew. He did tell me he was going home after, but I'm pretty sure he never did. Of course, he did lie to me about going to Thomas's house and instead his text suggested he was actually going to the club.

"He was waiting with Esmer outside in his car, she was covered in hickies and whatnot." Madi shivers and I look at her in disbelief. "Had I known you weren't with him, I would've questioned the hell out of him."

As if on cue, I receive a text message from Four but I leave him on read. He was going to lie to me and then act like nothing happened by texting me, hey? I don't think so.

"Did Esmer say anything about what happened?" I ask Madi with furrowed brows and she thinks.

"Mm, she just kept saying how drunk they all got and that there was a lot of girls." As she says this, my heart sinks. My mind raced with thoughts of Four having his hands on some other girl or her hands all over him.

Suddenly, I didn't feel so good and wanted nothing but to just go home. And that's what we do, Madi drops everything she was doing and we go back to my place. Maybe I was overthinking things, maybe Four wasn't around the girls, maybe he turned them down whenever they would get close.

Maybe that's why Four leaves randomly sometimes and then comes back. What if he leaves to have sex with some other girl and then comes back to me? I did basically tease him last night. My brother goes with him most of the times, I could question him on where they go but I doubt he'll tell me anything. I don't know if Four thought much about dating me as much as I did, but I hoped he did and respected that.

"Hey," Madi's soft touch brings me out of my thoughts making me turn to her. We were already in my room and I was by my window. "Don't think much of it, I'll ask Esmer about it if you want me to." She offers me a soft smile and I hug her.

"I don't like how this feels, having to worry about a guy." I groan into her shoulder and she chuckles.

"And that's why I don't do relationships." She says and leads us to the bed where I lay on my back.

"I feel so...powerless. Like I can't control myself and my mind from thinking about the endless possibilities where Four is with someone else." I admit and Madi strokes my hair.

"Dating does that to you," She says. "It makes you go crazy, but if you find someone who's worth it, then it doesn't matter. Unfortunately, I haven't met my match so I stay away from relationships. However, sex while being single is great."

I roll my eyes and she laughs at me. I receive another text from Four but I don't even bother, I was upset and I wanted him to know it.

As the hours pass, Madi had left and I was alone in my room watching movies on my laptop for the remaining of the day. Four had stopped texting me after the third message and I didn't know how to feel about it.

I got in the shower at around ten and got ready for bed so I could be well rested for school in the morning.

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Once I brush my teeth, I quickly put on my school shoes over my socks and look at myself one last time on the mirror before straightening out my skirt and leaving my room. Jaque was waiting outside for me with an apple and a water bottle.

"Took you long enough." He says as we walk towards my car. "If it's going to take you ages to drive us to school, I'm going to need my car back."

"Good luck trying to convince mom and dad about that." I say as he fumbles with his seatbelt.

"I crash into the fountain once and now I'm a bad driver." He grumbles making me roll my eyes.

"No, you were on drugs, you crashed into people's mailboxes before you crashed into the fountain." I point out, remembering the night very clearly.

"They have plenty, they won't notice one missing."

"They all have a tracking device, I'm pretty sure they would." I say and Jaque let's out a long annoyed sigh.

"Well, it's not like they'd be here to notice I have their car. I'm sure they'll be busy with their new unborn child." One thing about Jaque, as much as he loves attention he hates feeling ignored and left out. I'm sure mom's pregnancy is a slap to the face as much as it is for me. It feels like 'hey, we fucked up our first borns let's see how the next one turns out'.

"How are you holding up, by the way?" I ask regarding last nights atrocious announcement.

"I don't want to talk about it." Jaque takes a bite of his apple and remains silent the rest of the ride to school. I say nothing else on the matter. When we reach the school, everyone's out in the courtyard as per usual. I quickly park my car on my spot and Jaque is the first to walk off, leaving his apple core on the cup holder making me groan in annoyance.

As I'm grabbing it with a napkin to dispose of it, I feel a presence behind me making chills run down my spine and when I stand up straight, I see Four with his back against my car and a very angry look on his face, almost startling me.

"What—"

"Why didn't you answer my texts?" He cuts me off, taking me aback. "I texted you yesterday and you ignored me."

"I don't know, maybe because I didn't want to talk to you?" I bite back, disposing the apple core in the near trash can. I then walk back to my car to grab my backpack.

"Well you could've told me that instead of having me wait outside your house all night, thinking something happened to you!" He was outside?

"Well, clearly I'm fine." I reply coldly but that only seems to anger him even more that I see his jaw clench and unclench.

"Don't do that again." He warns and when he begins to walk away, I call out.

"Well don't lie to me again." I retort and he stops and turns back around, towering over me. "I know you were at Zach's club, I saw your messages."

"Yeah, I had to pick things last minute." He says. "And what are you doing going through my phone? I don't go through yours."

"You said you were going to Thomas's house and then you'd be going home, and you don't because I don't have anything to hide."

"Well things tend to change, Jo. Zach needed me to pick some things up for his club and then I went home." There he is lying to me again.

"Is that why Madi saw you there this morning?" I say and Four's eyes flash with something I can't point out. "You were with Esmer, and she said there was girls all around last night."

"She was coked up." Four fights back.

"So then you were there?" I cross my arms and he stays quiet. "You know, there's no need to lie to me, Four. I can handle the truth."

"No, you can't." He grits and abruptly shuts my car door making me jump back as he gave me a prolonged hard stare.

"Why are you being such an asshole?" I question, an angry look on my face. Four only looks me up and down, the furrow between his eyebrows still very prominent before he walks away.