Get A Room!

~:*:~ Eighty-Three ~:*:~

I carefully got to my feet when I was sure that she wasn't going to throw a second book my way. Still, I kept a wary eye on my heavy textbook that was unfortunately just to her left.

"He wouldn't guarantee it, Leona!" I mutter pathetically as if she should know what I was referring to.

"Guarantee what?!"

"I asked him to give me a real reason to trust him; to tell me why he'd never actively take a girl away from me in the future. But he couldn't say it! How am I supposed to live like this?! Chace will always end up betraying me!"

She ran both of her hands over her face in exasperation as she mumbled to herself, "Fucking hell, these two morons..."

I went on to challenge her previous assurances, still waiting for a guarantee of some kind, "So if Chace and you aren't willing to tell me why it's impossible for him to betray me like this in the future, then I have no choice but to cut him out of my life! I don't want to keep getting attached to a guy that doesn't value our friendship. You don't know what it's been like for me over the past few weeks, Leona! It fucking hurts my heart, and I'm tired of these feelings of anger and jealousy! I just want-... I just..." I could feel myself on the verge of crying because despite my declaration to banish Chace, I knew how that sentence was really supposed to end:

I just wanted Chace to myself, but I'm too scared to say it out loud.

"OH MY GOD, THIS IS INSANE!" Leona hollered loudly as she began to pace the room. She was so irritated that I would have laughed at her bull-like demeanour had she not been aiming her fury at me. "HOW ARE YOU NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR FEELINGS OF ANGER AND JEALOUSY ACTUALLY MEAN?! THIS WHOLE FIGHT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GIRLS; IT NEVER DID! YOU SAY YOUR HEART FUCKING HURTS? WELL GUESS WHAT?! THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S BROKEN! AND YOU BEST BELIEVE THAT CHACE'S HEART IS BROKEN TOO! GOD, YOU TWO ARE KILLING ME! YOU KEEP OPENING YOUR MOUTHS BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY SAYING ANYTHING AT ALL! WHY CAN'T YOU FILL IN THE BLANKS AND FIGURE OUT THE TRUTH ON YOUR OWN?! WHY DO I HAVE TO GET INVOLVED WITH YOU STUBBORN IDIOTS?! SERIOUSLY, HOW DID YOU TWO GET INTO UNIVERSITY IN THE FIRST PLACE???"

"I never asked for your help-"

She stepped towards me with a threatening finger pointed my way as she said, "BUT YOU NEED MY HELP, OR ELSE YOU'LL BOTH REGRET THIS DECISION FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES!" She went back to pacing as she pressed her fingers against her temples to stop an oncoming headache. "JUST CALL CHACE OR GO FIND HIM BEFORE HE FINDS A NEW ROOM, OKAY?! FIX THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. LET HIM MOVE BACK IN, AND THEN MAYBE YOU'LL FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON."

"He should come to me first and apologize."

"IAN! WATCH MY LIPS AS THEY MOVE..." she pointed a condescending finger at her mouth as she began to speak very slowly, as if talking to a misbehaving child, "CHACE... WILL... NEVER... BETRAY... YOU... FOR... A... GIRL!"

"WHY?! WHY WON'T HE BETRAY ME?! FOR FUCKS SAKE, AM I REALLY ASKING TOO MUCH HERE?! WHY CAN'T ANYONE TELL ME THE REASON I CAN ABSOLUTELY TRUST HIM?!"

In her agitated and disgruntled state, Leona finally let slip the truth.

"BECAUSE HE'S GAY!!!"

The room went silent. I was shocked and frozen in place, and Leona was mortified and disgusted with herself for unintentionally outing her best friend. I didn't even waste a second thinking that this was just a joke or a ploy to sway me into forgiveness. No, this had to be the truth. It all made sense now; why he never initiated anything with the fans that threw themselves at him, why he didn't date Leona despite their visual chemistry and friendship, why he seemed so frightened when both Lexi and Angel initiated sexual contact, why he turned Miriam away despite her beauty and earnest love confession...

And why he was so determined to solidify his loyalty to me.

Chace was gay.

He didn't like girls. He liked men.

My best friend was sexually attracted to dudes...

Fuuuuuccckkkk, I really AM a moron!

HOW DID I NOT FIGURE THIS OUT?!

Leona snapped back to reality before I did. She crunched down to the floor to bury her head in her knees as she yanked at her hair in frustration. "FUCK! I wasn't supposed to say anything to you, but you just kept poking and poking at me like some irritating woodpecker until I spilled the truth! Why couldn't you just trust us when we said that he was loyal to you?! Why couldn't you just wait until he was ready to out himself?! Fuck, he's going to kill me!" She then got back to her feet and brandished her finger at me again like a sword. "Don't you dare tell him that you know! Just apologize for this stupid fight so he can move back in to this room. You guys can figure out the rest later..."

"What else is there to figure out?"

She rolled her eyes. "Please don't revert back to your former stupidity now that you know this major, life altering detail!"

I furrowed my brow and narrowed my eyes in confusion. "I don't understand what you're implying..."

She gave me a long, hard look before hinting at something that was supposed to be obvious. "You just found out that your best friend is gay... so what does that mean for the two of you? What kind of relationship do you want with him, Ian?"

Weren't we just supposed to go back to being friends? What was Leona suggesting? Did Chace want something else?

And what did I want?! Did my jealousy and anger go beyond the normal feelings one would have for a friend?

Shit, I had no clue what to think! I had to talk to Chace first before I jumped to any conclusions. This was all just too much for me to wrap my head around.

Hello lovelies!!!

I LOVE THIS CHAPTER 😜
This is one of Leona's best explosions, BUT it also pulls her down from her perfect pedestal that we all have her on😔 Even Leona makes mistakes sometimes, and this time it happened to be outing her bestie as gay. Sure, we all wanted to knock Ian's head around and tell him ourselves, so we're totally letting out a huge sigh of relief now that Leona has spilled the beans... but at the same time, we gotta chastise her a little for outing Chace before he was ready to do it himself!

But we'll forgive her and I'm sure Chace will too 😉🥰 haha!

So what do you think Ian will do now that he can trust Chace? Will he fix their friendship? How so?

Will Chace even want to fix their friendship at this point? He's taken a lot of abuse from Ian thus far...

Will Ian treat Chace differently now that he knows he's gay?

Will Ian figure out his own feelings and take this chance to confess?!

The suspense is killing me!!! 😳😵

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