Mine (Book-1)

~Chapter 76~

[Song for the chapter:
Lost a friend - Finneas]

Tori's P.O.V

"And that's everything." I sigh.

Everyone around the room looks at one another with probably nothing to say.

Nat wraps her arms around me from behind and rests her chin on my shoulder, "Do all the men in your life have to be fucked up?"

"Apparently." I shrug.

"Hey!" Fred, Alex, Hayden and Tyler protest in unison.

"Except you guys of course." I roll my eyes and find myself smiling a bit.

"Shouldn't Nathan and Francy be here?" Harp asks.

"So we can add more fuel to the fire? I think not," I visually cringe, "The last thing I need is her finding out I helped her boyfriend cheat on her."

"Bro wasn't everything fine a couple months ago? What happened?" Fred's face looked desvastated.

"Ian happened." Alex raises his eyebrows, stating the obvious, "I saw this coming. He's never up to any good."

"Why-"

As if on cue, the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Harp gets up.

I take a deep breath. This is it.

A few seconds pass and Ian walks into the room after Harper.

"I didn't realize everyone was gonna be here?" He laughs awkwardly, I'm sure he could feel the tension in the room.

I slowly walk up to him, "We need to talk."

"Something wrong, Cupcake?" He puts an arm on my shoulder only to find me flinching away and finally making me look at his face.

After Zayn and Nathan, and everything that happened I was finally happy. He just had to take it away from me didn't he? Everything was perfect. I was happy. We were happy.

"So the thing is, I heard a rumour that someone plotted with Betty against Zayn so they could be my knight in shining armour and have me all to themselves."

As soon as the words come out I can see every bit of colour getting drained from his face.

"I-"

"You made me believe he cheated on me. You made him think I was a whore for cheating on him. And I came to you. I broke apart right in front if you and cried. You watched my heart get broken." I didn't notice when the first few tears slipped down my face.

"And all along you knew. You could've stopped it- didn't you have the least bit of guilt or regret?!" At this point I was shouting at him.

"It wasn't-"

"Was this all a game to you? Do you even care about me? How stupid could I be to possibly think the Ian Russell suddenly had feelings for me!" I furiously wipe my tears away with the back of my hand.

"I do, I love you! That wasn't a lie. You've got to believe me."

"I did. And look how that turned out."

"Look, I know how you must feel but you have to let me explain."

"There's nothing left to fucking explain!" I dig my nails into my palm.

"You know Zayn was the wrong guy for you, come on!"

"That wasn't for you to decide, he loved me and I loved him. And you ruined everything."