Oh, I Don't Love You; I'm In Love With Your Car. Or Is It The Other Way Round?

Oh, I don't love you... -19-

Chapter 19

My best friend and my boyfriend?

They were kissing, really getting at it, and Alec had pushed Fiona up against the wall. Alec was in his shirt and trousers, his jacket and tie strewn on the floor, along with Fiona's shoes and hair clasp. Tears threatened to fall from my eyes, but I was too shocked to do anything.

I thought Alec liked me…and I thought Fiona liked Shawn! How did this happen? Why did I agree to dance with Cody? I brought this onto myself. After a few minutes (they still hadn’t noticed our presence), I began breathing again; slow, short, shaky breaths. I gripped onto Cody’s arm for fear of collapsing.

“Do you…want to go on?” whispered Alec huskily as they pulled away. I couldn’t tear my eyes away.

Fiona hesitated, but Cody took that moment to clear his throat. Their heads snapped over in our direction, and both looked extremely guilty. I swallowed back tears (which was pretty hard) and shook my head. I had to do what I came here to do.

I looked at Cody, and he understood immediately. We stepped out of the room and closed the door behind us, hearing low murmuring. I concentrated on my breathing; in, out, in, out…

We opened the door to Room Five, and we were lucky, because Alex and Joe were in the same position as…well, the other two people I saw in the other room were. Except they weren’t kissing, just really close.

They heard us come in, and immediately Alex snapped out of it. She shoved Joe away and walked over to us, bringing her hand up to her mouth, her eyes filling with tears.

“Oh my gosh…” she whispered. “Was I really about to give myself to Joe Parker?”

Cody rubbed her arm soothingly and sat her down on the bed, pulling her to him comfortingly. She sobbed into his shoulder, and Joe got up. I motioned for him to come outside, which he did. We closed the door and I faced him.

“I can't believe you did this.”

“Taylor, I can ex-…”

“I don’t want your explanations. Just…promise me you’ll never do that again. At least, not with my friends. You knew she didn’t really want to do that, you just got her with your fine words and charm. You also knew that she was my friend. I would be one of the girls who would comfort her when she was heartbroken.” I took a shallow breath.

“Taylor, I’m really so-…”

“Can I tell you why I’m like this right now?” he nodded his head. “I just saw my boyfriend and my best friend in a heated making out session in that room over there. Her shoes and hair clasp and his jacket and tie were thrown on the floor. His hair was a mess, and so was hers. He…” I swallowed back the tears again and glared at the floor, fiddling with my dress. “He asked if s-she…if she w-wanted t-to g-g-go on-n…” I fought back a sob, but I was it was pretty clear I was about to cry.

Arms wrapped around me and Joe hugged me tightly. I threw my arms around him, grateful to have someone’s shoulder to lean on. We hugged for a few minutes, and I controlled myself by taking deep breaths, holding him like my life depended on it (well, my sanity did, anyway).

“Why did he do it, Joe?” I whispered. “We’ve only been going out for less than two days, and he already broke my heart. I like him so much, Joe, but I’m not good enough for him, apparently.”

Joe yanked his head away and stared at me, still in his arms. He opened his mouth, maybe to protest, but just then, both doors opened, and Fiona, Alec, Cody and Alex joined us. Alex was sobbing, not so much now, and in Cody’s arms. Fiona and Alec were red-faced and looked apologetic.