"Just Friends."

Chapter Ten.

Chapter Ten. 

            Jonah was lying on the ground beneath me and he was in misery. His nose was bleeding, his eye was already swollen, and all I could think about was how stupid it was of me to agree to come here tonight. I didn’t want to in the first place. Scott called Casey and said the both of us were welcome but I knew Justin would be here and I should have known he’d react like this. Just because we don’t have sex now doesn’t mean he can go around and punch the shit out of people for no reason. I know Jonah and I know how much he cares about me. Cheating wasn’t even a possibility.

            “I’m so sorry.” I whispered. “We shouldn’t have come here tonight.”

            “Babe it’s okay. That dude is just crazy. He’s psychotic.”

            “I know and I don’t believe him Jonah. I trust you, okay?”

            Bringing him up from the grass, he pulled me into his lap and he kissed me without thinking, me just smiling as I gently caressed his cheeks and tried to avoid his bloody nose. It killed me to see him in pain and to know that Justin is the one that caused that made me sick to my stomach that I ever started this friend with benefits thing with him in the first place.

            “Good. You know that I’d never do that to you in the first place Reina. You’re a really special girl to me.”

            I kissed him again and we went to kissing for a half hour until Lexi came outside and asked where Justin was and then I explained to her what happened and after she seemed to be extremely pissed off, I told her to tell everyone that we were just going to leave early, standing up from the ground and holding onto his hand as we headed back to my car.

 Justin’s Point of View

              I can’t even begin to describe how I’m feeling right now. Walking the streets of this town in the cold for an hour hasn’t helped like I thought it would because usually people say when you’re pissed a walk helps relieve your stress or you know, clear your head a little at least. That wasn’t the case because I’m still walking on this damn pavement with tears in my eyes and feeling like my head’s going to explode.

             I never should have fallen for her in the first place but as I’m continuously thinking about it I realize that it wasn’t my decision. Falling for Reina was completely out of my control and I knew I never should have fallen for her in the beginning but it ended up happening and now I feel like my heart just got ran over by a damn train. The worst part about all of this is that I’m still thinking about how she’s going to feel when she finds out that asshole is cheating on her and how hurt she’ll be.

            That’s crazy that someone can wreck you emotionally as a person but as much as they hurt you and as much as you can’t stand them, you still care. Why the hell do I still care about her? This has never happened to me before and normally if a girl like Lexi were to get pissed at me or something and a guy was cheating on her I wouldn’t care and as bad as that sounds it’s just the truth. I don’t care about Lexi but suddenly Reina comes into my life and now all I can think about is her crying and it makes my stomach twist up in such a gut-wrenching way because I hated to see her like that. Seeing Reina cry was something I hated beyond comparison.

            I felt led on. Regardless of whether or not she never admitted that she liked me like that, she never should have done the things she did. If all we were to her was fuck buddies then she never should have cuddled with me like that and she never should have held onto my hand like that. She never should have done those things because those memories keep replaying in my head over and over again and no matter what else I try to think about that’s all that’s circulating right now. I’m going insane.