Bittersweet

Ch. 3: Cheaters and Cheaties

Brittany's POV

"So when are we gonna meet up," Em asks again for the millionth time about our band, Above Water.

"Damn Em! Why do you have to be so irritating, okay. We'll meet up tomorrow at my place, after school," I quickly added in the last part knowing she would use it as an excuse to get out of school.

"Fine, see you tomorrow, Oliver is driving me home," she smiles and walks out as we are dismissed from 8th period.

Shit.

She gave me the ride here.

She's already gone and the only other person here is..

Dalton.

He gets ready to leave, and I really don't want to walk home.

"Hey, can I have a ride home," I ask as he looks at me in shock.

"My friend left and she gave me the ride here," I say trying not to sound to eager.

"Yeah, sure," he says back.

YES, A RIDE HOME! NO WALKING! I follow him to his car and he unlocks the doors. I open my door and climb inside.

He turns on the engine and Pulls out of the parking lot. We end up in traffic, and he cusses under his breath.

Alex calls and I immediately press ignore. I will never forgive Alex after what he did, and the fact that I found out over Oli, makes me mad.

Walton phone rings and he picks up (obviously).

"Hey babe."

"Driving home."

"I'm in traffic though."

"I'll see you in about an hour."

"Bye."

He hangs up the call and mutters 'shit' under his breath.

"Hey," he says.

"Me," I question while pointing at myself.

"Well I don't see anyone else here," he chuckles out. Fuck that's attractive. I only bite my lip in response.

"Look, if you don't want to talk then we don't have to," he says politely.

"No I was getting bored anyways," I say half paying attention considering I was on my phone.

Emily’s pov

When I heard Alex had cheated on Brittany my first instinct was to walk up to him and punch a hole through his throat, unfortunately I’m not that strong. One time was at least a little forgivable, but twice? I mean come on, who would do that to Brittany?

  The bell for fifth period rang, startling me. I picked up my stuff and headed to my lockers to get ready for chemistry. I was at my locker and I put up my things. I was about to grab my stuff for chemistry but out of the corner of my eye I saw a familiar face, Alex.  Anger boiled up inside of me as I started walking towards him. I wanted to stop but I couldn’t I was so angry about something that wasn’t even towards me directly, he didn’t cheat on me but he did cheat on my best friend and that’s not acceptable. I curled my fist up in a tight ball as his gaze landed on me.

  When I reached him I took no time to push him, hard against the lockers with my forearm. Considering I’m a girl he didn’t fight back.

“Who the fuck do you think you are, huh?” I asked not caring for my language, or if teachers heard.

“Woah, chill.” He said holding up his hands. It was no secret that I was at this school because I got kicked out of my old one for causing multiple fights.

“I will not fucking chill, okay?” I stated, my arm pressed harder into his neck, but I wasn’t strong enough to choke him I still wanted to intimidate him.

“What are you talking about?” He asked. That comment made me so mad it took everything in me not to wipe that smug look off of his pathetic face.

“Are you serious?!”  My anger, by no means, was not dialing down. “Don’t play dumb with me Alexander, Willams, Gaskarth.” People were starting to gather around us but it just fouled my anger. When he didn’t say anything I decided to speak again.

“Two fucking times Alex, wouldn’t it just have been easier to break up with her, or did you want to put her through this shit?”

He stayed silent. For a couple moments before looking me directly in the eyes,” I couldn’t stand to see her get hurt again, okay?!”

Is he serious, he thought this would make it better?

“Are you joking?!” I pulled back my fist, right when I was about to hurl it forward someone grabbed my hand, Jack. I tried to yank my hand out of his grasp but it wouldn’t work.

“Let me go!” I yelled.

Jack pulled me off of Alex and embraced me tightly, “I won’t let you get kicked out of another school and more importantly I won’t let you do something you going to regret.” He said still holding me and letting me calm down.

“Trust me, I won’t regret it.” I spat out still angry. The hallways cleared and it was just me and Jack. After everyone had gone to their classrooms, he let me go.

“Maybe you wouldn’t, but I would, Emily this is getting out of control, you really need to do something about your anger problems.” He scolded. I cringed at the word ‘problem’  sure, I was angry but everyone gets angry.

“I’m fine, I don’t have an anger problem.” I said before I slid down the lockers.

“Not everyone gets kicked out of schools for beating people up.” He said crossing his arms.
“That only happen twice.”

“Yeah, but that’s twice more than it should.”

“Shouldn’t you be in class?” I asked brushing off the subject

“Shouldn’t you?”

I rolled my eyes, I didn’t want to go in there, I don’t think I would be able to control myself around Alex without lashing out.

“I’m not going in there.”

“Why not?”

“Alex is in my fifth period.” I said and he nodded in understanding.

“The day is almost over though.”

“Yeah, I know.” I stood up and started to walk out the front door.

“Where are you going?” He called after me

“Bathroom.”  I didn’t have to use it I just wanted to wait till dismissal period to calm down, I was still angry. I texted Oliver earlier and he said he’d pick me up to take me home, Brittany can find another ride home for today.