You All Along

Chapter 39

SONGS FOR THIS CHAPTER

Just Give Me a Reason (Pink)

Say You’re Just a Friend (Austin Mahone)

Fall For You (Secondhand Serenade)

Illusion (One Direction)

Stockholm syndrome (One Direction)

For the First Time (The Script)

Jeff’s P.O.V

It has been 3 months since I knew Adam was her roommate, and that I saw him basically groping her. I have been stalking Layla’s profile on Facebook and Instagram and literally all other social network account she has. And in each picture I see them growing more and more comfortable around each other which made me glow in jealousy because the only person she should be comfortable around is me, not him. I made some friends that go to the same classes as me, and live in the same block as me, but Elsa is the one I hang out with the most. As per usual, I finished my class and there aren’t any more classes until next Tuesday so I have like 3 days to rest. I waited for Elsa outside her class, and took out my phone to stalk her again.

Picture of Adam sleeping / caption *look how cute he is <3 *

Picture of Layla and Adam playing chess on a bed *Captured by Gina. Adam sucks at chess*

Picture of Adam and Layla laughing while sharing a burger *Captured by Dave. Adam took more than half of it*

And I just scrolled through all her previous pictures to see them having fun and my hate towards Adam surfaced back, and all I wanted to do now was to give punch him, like I did in school, that fine day. Ugh.

I dialed her number to make her talk to me, more than him.

“Hello?” she asked.

“Hey, um are you busy?”

“Uh Jeff. No we are just driving back to the dorms. We went shopping for new bedspreads. Oh Adam and I got identical ones, but different colors.  Mine is purple and gray and Adam’s is blue and gray. Is there anything going on? How’re you?” Cool, they have something identical now.

“No, um I just missed you and wanted to see what was going on. You’re okay with Adam right?” I asked.

“Aww baby, I missed you too! So much! Nothing much really. Yesterday was our last day of class. And everything is fine, don’t worry,”

“Oh, um I’ll call you back; you know I love you right?”

“You have no idea how much I love you Jeff. I am so excited to come back home next month, for Christmas!”

“Oh my god, I forgot. Shit sorry sorry! Yes when will you be coming?”

“Say another 3 weeks?”

All the students from Elsa’s class started leaving so I quickly said goodbye to Layla and shut the phone. She ran to me and sat kissed my cheek before saying, “I don’t have class for another 3 days! I can finally get some sleep!” and threw her hands up in the air and did a victory punch in the air. I kissed her cheek in return and stood up before holding her hands and walking back to the dorms. I dropped her off at her room, and walked to mine. While walking back to my room, I checked her Instagram to see a new post. It was a picture of Layla and me when I took her out on her first date. The picture with the light on the background and we were kissing. It was a brief kiss, but filled with emotion and the caption was *I miss him so much! I can’t to see you in three weeks Jeff! I love you so much!* I smiled at all the memories we shared together, and smiled as I reached my room. I decided on showering first before planning what I was going to do for the rest of the evening.

I returned from my relaxing shower 30 minutes later, and made myself a cup of coffee, before getting dressed. I pulled on a pair of loose sweats and a black fitted shirt and sat down on my bed. I took out my phone, which was already on Layla’s profile and I saw a new post, 3 minutes ago. It was a picture of Adam shirtless, wearing only khaki shorts and Layla was wearing the same short the day we first skyped and a really tight sleeveless crop top. That didn’t fuel my anger as the next thing that came. Adam was holding Layla by the waist, pulling her closer, while kissing her on the neck, when the picture was taken. The caption was *Captured by Gina. They both are so cute! I ship them till the end of time!*

I shut the application and dialed the number; one of my classmates gave me if I needed something to help me forget. Which I really needed now.

“Hello?” A deep voice answered.

“Hey, Um I’m calling from room 15G. Uh Phil gave me your number, if I needed some booze. Do you have any?”

“Oh cool man! Yeah how much do you want? The strong or?”

“I don’t know. I might need a lot. And strong please,”

“Uh, yeah. How about six strong? Will you come and get it, or do you want me to come?”

“Could you come and give them to me? How much is it?”

“Its 60 dollars in total. I’ll be there in 10 minutes, man, open the door when I knock. I don’t want to wait with booze in my hands in campus rounds for long,”

“Yeah sure,” and with that, I took 65 dollars out of my wallet and waited for him to come around. I really needed this. Layla wouldn’t like one bit of what I was doing, but hated what she was doing so I guess it’s my turn to spark her hatred.

Just as he told, there was a knock on my door 10 minutes later, and I ran to open it. “Here you go! These are pretty strong and usually I get drunk by the second one. Are you sure you can drink these alone?” he asked.

“Yeah I’m sure. Here is 65 dollars, keep the change, thanks,” I said and shut the door in his face. I heard a mumbled thanks before footsteps towards the other side of the block.

***

By the time, I was done with the third bottle; I peed three times, and could barely stand up from the floor. My hair was a total mess, and I was sweaty all over. But her face and Adam’s were still on my mind, like they were fucking tattooed to my brain. That was not why I spent 60 dollars so I set on finishing the rest of the of the booze.

By the time I was done, I had to hold on to an imaginary pole to stand up and gain my balance by holding whatever was on my way to the door. I shut the door loudly and stormed my way to her room. It’s a good thing we both didn’t have a roommate.

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