“Cut the shit, Kie,” Red demanded, trying not to cause too much of a scene in front of everyone else. “Just tell me the truth.” Instead of responding, Kie stayed silent, barely acknowledging her. “Now you're shy? That’s funny because you didn’t seem too shy when you were trying to kiss my boyfriend.”
Red looked over at JJ, the rest of the pogues, then back at Kie. Her vision was blurred by the tears she fought to stay in her eyes. The pogues looked shocked, except Pope and John B, who likely saw it coming. They just felt bad for the girl. Red let out a shaky breath, feeling herself start to break down. “Well, Kie, I hope you enjoyed the 3:00 showing of the reason I don’t trust people.”
With that, Red stormed away from the group and into the Chateau. John B stood up, about to go in after her, but JJ sat him back down, knowing it was something that he had to do.
Only seconds after Red slammed the door to the guest bedroom, holding so many memories of Red and JJ, she paced back and forth, waiting for the wooden door to swing open and reveal JJ.
JJ closed the door, taking a breath before talking. “Red, you can’t just go around yelling at people, y’know.”
“Y’know what? I am so sick of people telling me what to do and how to feel.” Red spat, looking up from the floor and meeting JJ’s eyes.
“Red, the person you want to yell at is me.”
“Kie?” Red spoke, allowing tears to start streaming down her face. “Kie? Really? It’s so obvious. I would have given you more credit than that-”
“Red, I promise I had no idea any of this was going to happen.”
“Great, more excuses.”
JJ placed his hands on his hips, allowing a few moments of silence before speaking again. “Go ahead and say it. You’ve been wanting to all month.”
“No! Because I don’t actually want to talk to you!”
“You have to talk to me.”
“You did this! You ruined our relationship. Everything that we fought for, everything that I risked. For what? So you can go ditch me for my best friend?”
“I had no idea any of this was gonna happen.”
“Stop, JJ! Just stop trying to spare what’s left of our relationship, because it is not worth it.” Red looked down at her shaky hands, her eyes landing on the metallic ring of JJ’s she kept on her thumb. Tearfully, she pulled the ring off of her finger and placed it in the palm of JJ’s hand. “So don’t call me, don’t talk to me, don’t come by my house. We’re done.”
Before JJ could even comment, Red stormed out of the room, passing by the living room where John B tried to get her to stay back, but she just pulled away from him and continued walking out to her car, slamming the car door behind her.
Red cupped her hands over her eyes, sobbing quietly. A few seconds later, Red whipped her hands under her eyes, whipping the tears off of her eyes and driving off.
She wasn’t going anywhere. She was just driving, trying to somehow get her mind off of everything that had happened. She wanted to be alone, and she didn’t want to see either JJ or Kie. She really didn’t want to see anyone.
The buzz of her phone brought her eyes over to her phone screen, ‘Incoming call, JJMAYBANK’ Red pressed the off button on her phone, declining his call.
“Hi! This is Red, I must have missed you. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Her voicemail spoke. JJ banged on the wall of the Chateau, sliding down the wall. The one person who would have been there to comfort him was gone. What had he done? Why had he done it?
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sorry for the short chapter, but I had to make it short because next chapter is in Red's POV
wish me luck writing in first person...lets hope I don't change Perspectives mid sentence.
this chapter BROKE me to write. I hate that they had their downfall, but its ok :((
if your an author that had to break go two characters that spent SO MUCH time developing their relationship, you can probably imagine how I'm feeling.
lowkey miss them already, but that's why flashbacks exist.
I'm also falling in love with Red and Zack's love story rn!! can't wait for you to read it!
don't worry, you'll meet my darling zack next chapter ;)
he's an icon in every way and probably my fav character out of the series. sorry bennie, it was a close race.
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