The Player's charm

Chapter 23 - Then why lie?

Today we started choreography for the next round of the competition. The song was Dior by Pop Smoke.

Brandon did not really have choreography ready, so we all worked together. At 7 pm we took a break but Brandon asked me to stay in the studio with him.

I stayed with him, thinking that he is probably going to ask me to help him choreograph but we just danced, freestyling and playing around with music until he started getting really close, coming up behind me, touching my waist and stomach.

I moved away from him and turned around, facing him as I spoke. "Brandon, what are you doing?"

He moved in closer to me but before I could react, he placed a hand on my cheek and kissed me. I pulled away from his kiss immediately.

Even though Mason and I were not really a couple and this is Brandon Hanes kissing me, cheating is still cheating and I hated every aspect of it. I walked over to where my things were and picked up everything and got out of there.

I stared down at my phone contemplating life. My phone was open to Mason's contact and I called, he answered almost immediately.

"Hello." He said but I kept quiet. I did not know what to say. I knew I had to tell him but things were already weird between us because of last night and I did not want to add on to that.

"Babe, is everything okay? Do you need me to come get you?"

"No, it's okay. I'm fine. Sorry for calling." I said before ending the call.

"Kelly, I'm sorry." Brandon said coming out of the studio.

"Brandon, stay the hell away from me."

"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking."

"I have a boyfriend."

"Oh come on, you call that guy a boyfriend. You can do so much better than him."

"Like you?"

"Actually, yes. I'm a much better guy than he'll ever be. You should have never been with him in the first place."

"I don't care what you think about him. He is still my boyfriend and that doesn't give you the right to kiss me."

"I know and I'm sorry."

"Well, I'm leaving." I said before I started ordering an Uber, thankfully there has one close by.

"You're not going anywhere, we still have rehearsal." Brandon said grabbing my arm but Dinno stepped in and pulled his hand off mine.

"Okay guys, let's just calm down. It's probably just a misunderstanding." Dinno said trying to calm the situation. "It's fine, Kelly can leave if she wants to. It's perfectly fine." Dinno continued.

My Uber arrived and I climbed in immediately, going back to campus, to Dylan's room where Mason, Dylan and Greg were and I asked Rachel to meet me there as well. I put my phone on charge on Dylan's bed, Mason's phone laid close to mine.

We just chilled together, played some PlayStation. Mason didn't question what happened or my random phone call but then he went to his phone.

"Baby?" I heard him say from behind me.

"Yeah?"

"Did something happen between you and Brandon?" Mason asked calmly.

I turned around to see him holding my phone.

"What?"

"Babe, you heard me. Why's he texting you so many times?" He said walking closer to me, all attention was on us.