You Bring Me Home

Chapter 3

Chapter 3:

I check the time as I'm pulling into the driveway. 6:08, as I'm checking my phone for the time I see I have a text from an unknown number.

"Hey Maia, it's Harry."

Harry must've trusted me big time to give me his number. What if I had been a crazy stalker fan? I mean I'm not, but what if you know.

I save Harry as a contact, but put his name as "H" so Brian doesn't figure out who he is anytime soon. I get out of my car and walk to the door.

On my way home, I had come up with nothing to tell Brian who I was out with. I was just mainly hoping he wouldn't ask too many questions. But as I walked through the door, I got my answer.

"Hey, babe!"

"Hey." That was all that I got from him. Usually he'll be all lovey and call me pet names, but all I got was a hey.

"How was work today?"

"Who were you out with today?" I knew he would ask.

"Babe, I already told you. I went out with an old friend."

"What's their name?" Is he actually doing this right now? Does he not trust me? I've known him for what seems like a good enough time for him to trust me.

"I don't know if they are comfortable with me telling you." Which I am 100% telling the truth. I'm not planning on lying to him, I just have no idea if Harry wants me too tell him that I know him.

"Who is he?" His voice is getting louder. Is he actually mad that I won't tell him? I know with how secretive I've been it seems like I am cheating but that is definitely not the case.

"How do you know it's a he?" I shoot right back at him.

"Just tell me. Tell me straight to my face."

"Tell you what exactly?" At this point I'm getting so upset. I have never done anything to get him to think that I would ever cheat on him. I would never do that to someone.

"Tell me that you're cheating on me."

"What?!" I laugh because I don't know how else to react.

"Yeah, I know that's what you were doing. You were sleeping with someone, fucking some guy."

"Brian, what the actual fuck!? I would never cheat on you! And I can't tell you who I was with because it's not my place to tell!"

"Oh, shut the fuck up with your bullshit."

"Excuse me? You know what I am done with this conversation," I say as I grab my keys, "And I just want you to know that I would never, ever cheat on you. So fuck you for even thinking that I'm like that because I am very much so not." I slam the door as I leave.

I am so pissed right now. A few months ago I was suspicious of Brian cheating on me, but when I brought it up he dismissed it and I felt it with that because I trusted him.

Before I know it I'm calling someone as I'm getting into my car. I just let my suponsious choose whoever I call. I would've thought it would be Daisy, but no it chose Harry.

It started to ring before I could hang up, and before I knew it there was a hello.

"Hi."

"Hey, what's up? Why did you call? I don't mean it in a bad way I was just wondering."

"Me and my boyfriend had a fight. I really don't know why I called you to be honest."

There was a short, but long pause. I think I just made the biggest mistake by calling him. I really don't know why I chose to call him. It just felt safe.

"I'm really sorry to hear that. Do you need someone to talk to? Besides talking to me what are you doing right now?"

"Well, I'm driving. I don't know where, but I just needed to be away from Brian."

"Well. If you have no place to go, you could come to my house, you can talk to me. I'm a really good listener!"

I laugh at his almost joke. "Yeah, that would be nice actually. You wouldn't mind, would you?"

"Not at all, love! Here I'll send you my address and you come here. I'll have some tea made for you for when you get here."

"Thank you so much, Harry. This really means a lot to me."

We get off the phone and he sends me his address and the whole way there, I'm thinking about what I'm going to tell him. I don't want him to think that It's his fault because it's not. I just really wish that Brian would trust me.

I pull up to Harry's house and I calm my nerves before I get out of my car. I've decided that I'm going to tell him everything, and tell him that it wasn't his fault. I really don't want to make him feel like he's the reason why Brian doesn't trust me.

I finally pull myself out of the car and start walking towards Harry's front door. I don't know why I'm deciding on knocking or ringing the doorbell, although I'm leaning more towards ringing the doorbell because his house is pretty big. I ring the doorbell and wait a little while for him to open the door.

"Hi, Maia!" Harry says as he's opening the door.

"Hey, Harry." I don't want to be rude, but the past 30 minutes has been crazy and I'm still in my head trying to process everything.

"Come on in," Harry opens the door wider for me to come in. "The tea just got done, I hope you like green."

"It's not my favorite but I'll drink it." I laugh.

Harry gets me a cup of tea and leads us to his couch. I decided to make some small talk before ripping the band-aid completely off.

"So, tell me what happened."

I told Harry everything that happened and told him that it wasn't his fault. From the looks of it, it seemed like he still felt like it was his fault.

"I'm really sorry, Maia."

"It's okay, I'm sure he'll get over it."

We keep talking for a while, but while he talks all I can think about is how I left things with Brian. I feel so bad. Harry also gave me permission to tell him that I was with him today.

After a few more minutes of us talking, I decided that It was time for me to go back home and tell Brian everything. I say my goodbyes to Harry and I'm on my way back home.

As I was walking into the house, something felt very off. The house was quiet, but Brian's car was in the garage. I don't think anything of it, maybe he just went for a walk or something. But why at 9:50 at night? As I make my way up to our room, I see clothes all over the floor. Women's clothes that don't belong to me. My stomach is twisting and turning at this sight.

I finally get to the bedroom door. I hesitate to open it at first, but with all the courage I had, I swing the door open.

There I saw a sight that I will never forget for the rest of my life.

Brian was in bed.

With another woman.

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Hi! Short, but crazy chapter. How are we feeling about Brian right now? I don't know when I'm going to post the next chapter, I'm aiming for tomorrow though. Hope you are all having a nice day!