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Chapter 22: Are You Crazy?

Barry's POV
I reached for the gun under the couch, put it against the guys forehead and as soon as I took the safety off...BOOM. I pulled the trigger. Blood splattered on the ceiling, on the people behind him, the floor, my face. The guy had fallen backwards and I, who's still on the floor looking at my hand holding the gun, still shocked, like the rest of them, of what I had just done, I looked up at the crowd and see Caitlin staring at me. Her expression scared me. Her look said You Monster. Then she said something I couldn't quite hear.

"What? I can't hear you!" She tried saying it again, but I still couldn't hear her. I felt dizzy trying to get up and stumbled towards Caitlin. "What are you saying?"

She looks at me, disappointed and says, "WAKE UP!"

"What?" I asked confused.

"WAKE UP!" She says, but this time she starts shaking me uncontrollably. That's when I opened my eyes to see Scott.

"School starts in 20 minutes," he says. It was all a dream. Thank god, I thought.

"I'm gonna stay in today. My hangover plus school will kill me," I say getting out of bed.

"Yeah, probably for the best. Especially, after what happened last night," he says about to head out of my room. As he said that I was putting on sweatpants and my head snapped towards him.

"Wait. What happened last night?"

"You don't remember? Like anything?"

"If I did I wouldn't be asking you," I spat back. Shit what did I do last night.

"We'll.." he began to say, but was interrupted by him, Dylan.

He came in the room and finishes Scott's sentence, "You almost blew someone's brains, that's what happened."

"What are you doing here? GET- Wait, what did you just say?"

"You. Almost. Blew. Someone's. Brains. Got it?"

"So I didn't?"

"No, of course not, you'd be in jail by now. And it's all thanks to Cait," he says.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean she was the one who stopped you before it could get more out of control," he started saying. "You see, after your guys encounter yesterday, she left with me so she could relax a bit. We drove away for a few hours until late at night, when we stopped at my apartment for just a few minutes, that's when we heard about your party."

*Dylan's Flashback/POV*
"I don't know if we should keep going," Caitlin says.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, us. I don't think this relationship..."

I stopped her from finishing her sentence, "No! You can't say anything. You can't end this when we just started. If you're thinking this because of Barry, then stop, he'll be fine," I say. "Unless..."

"Unless, what?" She looks at me with her big sad eyes.

"Unless, you-you have feelings for him?" I stated it as a question rather than a statement.

"I-I don't think I have feelings for him," she says.

"You don't think?" I was getting really frustrated at this point. She was sitting on my bed and I was standing in front of her. She was looking down while answering me so I said, "Look at me," she slowly started to lift her head. "What are your feelings for me?"

"I-I I like you. I like you, a lot" I sighed and started to smile. "But..."

"But, what?"

"But I-I feel like you're hiding things from me. I haven't known Barry for long, but he has been nothing but honest with me about everything. So are you keeping things from me that I should know before getting into a serious relationship with you?"

I was taken aback by this question. What have they been talking about? Does she know about Barry?  About what we are? I could tell her, or keep her in the dark, but that could jeopardize my relationship with her.

"The truth is..." I was about to answer when her phone ranged. She didn't want to answer it, but it just kept ringing.

"Hello.... Felicity this isn't.... Wait, what?....Okay, I'll be there as soon as possible," she hung up and got up. "We need to go. NOW." We head out to my car and she had told me to go to Barry's house, so I did, no questions asked until we got there.

"What's wrong?"  I asked as we both got out of the car and started walking up to the porch.

"Barry's drunk, but I have this feeling that something is going to happen," she says. We open the house, but we hadn't noticed that it was silent, there was no music. A crowd was hanging around Barry, who was on the floor, and this guy, who was standing in front of him. We observed them and saw that Barry started to reach for something under the couch. I think Cait caught of glimpse of the gun because she ran towards him and got on top of him, stopping him from grabbing the weapon.

He let go of it and looked at Caitlin. "You, you came," he says smiling.

"Are you crazy? What's wrong with you?" She whispered to him, but we could all hear her. "Dylan," she looked at me and gestured me to help her get him up. We both grabbed him and took him upstairs. The party continued after that like nothing ever happened.

We had set him down on his bed and he quickly fell asleep, but not before saying, "Cait, please don't leave me. Please don't leave alone," he whispered, then passed out completely.

"He seems to like you. The question now is, who has your heart? Me or him?" She looked at me then back at Barry. She didn't answer and I didn't get to answer her question either. Both questions left unanswered were killing our relationship. I have no idea what to expect next.

*Dylan's Flashback/POV ends*

"That's what happened," Dylan says.

"And Cait. Is she here?" I asked looking behind him in case she was gonna pop out behind him, but she didn't.

"No. She doesn't want to see you for awhile... or... me," he says looking down. "I came here to ask you one question."

"What is it?"

"What are your feelings for her?"

TO BE CONTINUED...

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