Call her ZADDY

Chapter - 8 Gabrielle versus a master manipulator ... who will win?

Gabrielle drove her truck up the long dirt road leading to her best friend, Johanna's beach house feeling elated. She's just returned from a sexy weekend at her boyfriends mountain yurt and it couldn't have been more romantic. But, hearing the gravel crunch under her car, she realized too late that she had forgotten to hose down the mud on her truck tires before leaving. The splattered mud would clearly give her wild weekend away. Muddy tires from Sean's land was always her tell.

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    Once Johanna went to sleep, Gabrielle and Johanna's hot roommate Ryan, were left alone on the couch watching T.V.

    "Cut it out," said Gabrielle as he tried playing footsie.

    The rejection ignited Ryan like a firework. With our warming he out of no where  threw himself on top of her without her consent .

    "Get off of me!" she yelled.

    Ryan drew back, looking full of anger. "I don't get you Gabrielle," he hissed. "You fuck Sean, but you won't even make out with me? Sean doesn't even really care about you. And I should know... I'm his best friend."

    Gabrielle swallowed, "Ryan why do you even care? You have a girlfriend remember?"

    Gabrielle thought back on Ryan's girlfriend with disdain. Although she was trying her best to support women, deep down she still had her bias'. His current girlfriend was a bimbofied twenty-two year with bottle blonde hair, and giant fake boobs.

    "I think you should know something...," Ryan hissed before pausing to unload his amo. "Your boyfriend Sean just fucked some girl last week in the parking lot of your work."

    Gabrielle's felt a cold rush of cortisol hammer through her whole body as his words slowly registered. There were too many layers of shock to know exactly which one to go with.. She felt humiliated- betrayed - but mostly she felt used.

    "I'm really sorry," Ryan apologized, looking guilty as he stared down at his phone. If you want we can call Sean together right now, and I'll confess everything."

"No, that's O.K," Gabrielle said quietly, holding back a tear. She felt sick. "For the record. I won't tell him that you told me. Don't worry. I'm never speaking another word to that guy again."

From the couch Ryans eyes darted and it appeared as if he were making to speak. But Gabrielle beat him to it.

"You know Ryan... "I can't believe how disappointed in you I am."

By the look of Ryan's clammy, thin skin , he clearly hadn't planned on this reaction. She watched in contempt as his sunburnt red face slowly went white. It was as if his brain was finally catching up with what sort of trap he'd just walked himself into.

But nevertheless, Gabrielle  towered over him and refused to back down as his cold steel blue eye seared into her with fear. There was no way she was going to break first

It was no officially a stand off. With one small slip of the tongue, Ryan had accidentally broken the one and only rule that their flawed little surf society lived by. The one code of ethics that kept men from becoming beasts. He'd broke BRO CODE. If word ever got out that he had cock blocked his own best friend, he'd never be able to live it down to other dudes.

At that thought Gabrielle smiled as she made to leave. Looking down on him with pity, she slammed the door behind her, leaving him metaphorically on read. While she walked down the wooden steps of the house, she wiped her tears in frustration. She couldn't help but almost laugh at the irony of it all. Already Sean, the cheater, was coming off as the victim in this situation. And Around this town that was saying a lot. The betrayal of a bro in the surf world was considered much worse a crime than the betrayal of a lover.

What a pile of complete garbage, she thought before grinding her mud covered car back out of the driveway. She thought about texting her now ex boyfriend Sean one last time to let him know it was over but on second thought simply blocked him, slamming the door shut for good on a second man that night.

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