sweets || bryce hall

Chapter 24: Calm Down

(I changed the last chapter accordingly, but I decided to now only have Tony, Thomas, Quinton, and Noah go in the other room to call Bryce.)

Blake POV

"Hey Thomas." Josh says, setting the phone in the middle of the counter.

"Hey, I'm in a room with Noah, Quinton, Tony, and I. Griff stayed with Dixie." Bryce begins angrily pacing.

"How many more people know?" Blake asks, clearly trying to hold off talking about everything.

"Dix, Mia, and Griff obviously, us, Nick, Nikita, then other than that Olivia, Charli, Heidi, Alex, Kouvr, and then also Nessa." Quinton says, knowing Josh is here.

"Kouvr, Mia, Dixie, and especially Charli and Nessa aren't doing so well. That's why we had to call Heidi." Tony adds.

"Okay, no offense, but I really don't give a fuck." Bryce says putting his arms out. We hear the boys chuckling awkwardly.

"Basically nothing happened changed here. Bryce calmed down for an hour to help Rory fall asleep, and then this morning he basically wants to kill the guy again." Tayler speaks up.

"I don't want to kill the guy, just show him he can't mess with my girlfriend." Bryce adds, firmly.

"See, that is what I meant! This bitch needs some consequences!" Tony yells, making Bryce's sadistic sort of grin grow back into his face.

"Bryce, I need to know and I know everyone there does too, is this just an excuse to get in a fight..." Quinton asks, speaking all of our minds.

"No Quin, believe it or not, I care about my girlfriend, and I'd rather not have the guy that assaulted her not have to feel what she feels." Bryce's eyes are darker, and he's almost yelling.

"Woah woah woah, calm down Bryce." I say. He doesn't need to amp up right now.

"Don't tell me what to do Blake. You don't know what you're talking about." He steps back in my face, glaring.

"Bryce, yo seriously Bryce, listen to me." Noah calls through the phone. Bryce looks at me for a second before turning to the phone.

"What Noah."

"I know his friends taught him a lesson, I don't think you need to push it, to be honest," Even through the phone he sounds nervous. We all know it, Bryce isn't stable, and he's most definitely not open to arguments.

"I don't give a fuck Noah, I really don't. She is traumatized, and she probably won't ever be the same. That is enough for me to do something." Bryce looks borderline furious. And I know it's at Lucas, but it's not not at us. We're in his way.

Bryce suddenly turns to me, "And Blake? You're supposed to care about her. Why the fuck don't you care what he did to her?!"

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Tayler POV

Blake walks up and stands nearly in Bryce's face.

"Don't you ever say I don't care about her! I just don't want you to go at terrify her more than you make her feel safe! That's your job, and you're going to blow it if you're this mad! Look at yourself! You can hardly control yourself!" This isn't going to go well. Josh and I look at each other, both of us nervous.

"She's already terrified! You know why?! Because that guy assaulted her. So she should have no issue with me getting payback." That's dumb. Rory hates him fighting, she told me that.

"That's bullshit! Rory hates when you fight, and you know that! You wouldn't break that promise to her." See? I knew it.

Blake is pushing him, but I can tell Bryce has already pushed him a little too far.