Choose Me

Chapter 27

After a disaster of a triple date, which I wish I could forget about, Elsie suggested we go up to a cabin to reconnect and become good friends again. Really she means Dex and I. Everyone else is fine with Dex, but me, I hate his guts after he ruined my dress the night all six of us went out. He was mad I brought Ken. He obviously didn't voice it, but I knew the moment he saw Ken and I walk up to the restaurant that he was pissed. But what did he expect? It was a triple date so of course, I was going to bring Ken with me. Insert major eye roll.

At first, things were going well, but the moment Ken started being affectionate toward me, Dex lost it and spilled my drink all over my white dress. Everyone reassured me it was an accident but I knew better. I know he did it on purpose to get Ken to stop touching me. He's such an immature jerk and I'm still not over the fact that he ruined my favorite white dress just because he couldn't handle seeing me happy with Ken. The worst part is I had to throw away my poor dress after the disaster of a triple date. He offered to buy me a new one but I quickly turned down his offer and told him to fuck off like he deserved after the stunt he pulled.

Elsie noticed the tension between us and had the brilliant idea that we all go away together, just the six of us. Dex and I immediately shot down the idea when she sat us down to talk, but we couldn't say no to her for long, and now here we are on our way to a private cabin Elsie booked just for all of us a month after the disaster of a triple date, which I'm still not over.

Dex really fucked up that night and I'm not ready to forgive him. I know it's just a dress and could easily be replaced but the fact that he ruined it because he couldn't tolerate me and Ken being affectionate toward one another makes me furious. I have to see him and Bianca do just that, so why can't he just deal with it and do the same? He seriously frustrates me sometimes and I'm not looking forward to spending a weekend away in the same space as him. The idea of being stuck in the same place with him for three whole days just sounds like torture right now.

I'm not excited about this trip in the least bit, but I'm making an effort for Elsie. I can tell this trip means a lot to her so I obviously couldn't let her down and came and dragged Ken into this whole mess with me. He could have easily bailed but thankfully he didn't and is here with me.

I reach across the seat and squeeze his hand, and see him smile. I smile back, feeling relieved that I have him here with me to keep me grounded.

I face forward and see Elsie smiling at Marcus from the front passenger seat. Marcus volunteered to drive the SUV we rented to our destination so of course Elsie claimed shotgun and has been looking at him with heart eyes pretty much the whole drive. Not that I'm surprised. Those two are head over heels for each other.

I see Marcus turn and smile at her and wish I had a reason to do the same, but I have no reason to smile, not when Dex and Bianca are together in the back row, making out like horny teenagers. I feel like I'm in a freaking porn flick with how loud and disgusting they're being. They need to calm down before I jump out of my seat and strangle them both.

They're driving me up a wall, and I have no doubt Dex is doing it on purpose. He wants to set me off and is really pushing it. I am at the end of my rope and am so close to forgetting that he's Elsie's brother, and am ready to end him and his stupid girlfriend, who looks at him like he's a goddamn hero. I bet she wouldn't look at him like that if she knew what he did to me right under her nose.

Fuck my life.

I'm jealous and so pathetic.

"We're here!" Elsie says excitedly after suffering through that too long, disgusting drive and I could just cry in relief.

"Thank, God," I mutter and jump out of the car as soon as Marcus puts the SUV in park. I turn and see Dex getting out of the back of the SUV and see a stupid smirk on his face and want nothing more than to wipe it off his stupidly annoying face. He's such a pain in the ass sometimes, I swear.