It All Started with a Lie

Chapter 24

But it doesn't work, because they claim they can look past it if he really is as good in bed as people say. And for the second time tonight the topic of conversation is his massive dick and if it doesn't stop, I will end up making a scene and I can kiss a spot in the sorority goodbye. "I caught him wearing eyeliner once." The secret, like all the others, spills from my lips before I have time to stop it and immediately I wish I could take it, take them all back, shove them deep inside where no one will ever hear them but I have already said it and now they know. And he would be mortified if he knew I told them.

The girls don't understand how good he looked in it, or how incredibly selfless he is when it comes to his family that he would put aside his pride to make his brother smile. That he would model a fashion show, dance, sing, anything to make his family happy. They do not understand, instead they laugh and say they didn't know he swung for the other team and call him a cross dresser and it makes me sick. How dare they say that about him? And what would they say if they met Sonny?

I can bite my tongue no longer, not even if it means losing any only chance at acceptance within the team. "What the hell is your problem?"

"Excuse me?" The president scowls.

I chew them out for their bigotry views, defending Sonny, and Klaus, and all the other people they've ridiculed, until I can see their shame and they grow quiet. And when I am done, they laugh and tell me they didn't mean to upset my 'big feelings' and that they were just joking,  that there is no need to 'get my panties in a twist'. I cannot make them listen, and nothing I say will matter to them because I do not matter to them.

I sit back down, planning to pay and leave and never speak to them again, but then Regina says, "The spot is yours," and nothing else matters but that.

The anger simmers out of me and I take a deep breath, answering softly, "Thank you."

They make up some excuse about how it is late, and that they don't have time to drive me back to the studio to get my car and if I am okay walking and I say yes because then they tell me that they'll have an initiation ceremony for me tomorrow and the war finally feels over. I won.

As soon as they leave, I FaceTime Richard from the diner. "Dick's hotdogs, if you like hotdogs, you'll like Dick's."

I snort out a laugh. I never understood why Dick was a nickname for Richard but man did it make for some good lines. "Richard! You won't believe what happened?"

She props up the camera on her coffee table so that I can see her better while she finds a good spot for story time. Now that she has panned the camera out, her brother appears in the frame sitting beside her. He waves to me and I say hi like we weren't together just a few hours ago. It is not the first time she has FaceTimed me with him in the room but it is the first time she has shown me him. Before she would tell me he was there and hide him from view. I can't help but laugh at how different things would have turned out had she showed me him. I would have never gone near him, never touched him, never got the chance to really get to know him; I'm almost thankful she hid him from me. I would have never gotten to fall in love with him had she not. "What happened?"

I start my story off by telling her how the sorority isolated me during team time. We have to take a brief intermission so Richard can catch Klaus up on the situation because as far as she is concerned he does not know a thing. "So basically all the dancers are in this sorority and Claudia tried to rush for it but some a-hole sabotaged her."

He hides his amusement well at being called an asshole by his sister. I however have to take a drink from my water to play it off.

"And they dumped pigs blood on her and they've been complete jerks to her ever since."

As she finishes her retelling I can't help but bask in the moment. I can't imagine a world without her. My platonic soulmate. Sometimes I think the gods made us for each other. Her and her perfect family. She turns back to me with a smile. "Okay, continue."

And I do. I tell her what I can of the story, what doesn't involve her brother, which is only half but she doesn't notice. Her attention is solely trained on me and she looks at me the way she looks at her books, like nothing could ever tear her attention away from the story. Klaus watches her with a smile, his glance flickering between the two of us as he listens, nods his head to what I am saying. I begin to wonder if everyday could be like this, the three of us. Why can't I have both of them? Why do I have to choose?

But I do have to choose, because if I don't I will lose them both. I don't think I will live without Richard.

A/N
Hi lovies!

In honor of Benson Boone's new release 'Beautiful Things' I have tagged it above for this chapters song. Let me know what you think of it. I've seen it everywhere on tik tok lately.

As always, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.

I am currently working on starting Everly new book, and as soon as it is at ten chapters I will release it on Wattpad.

I am however stuck on a name for it, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know. I am hoping to release a blurb (is that the word? The description for a book before you read it) in the coming day.

QOTD: if every shoe was incredibly comfortable no matter the style, what would be your go to everyday pair?

Mine would be red bottom heels or sparkly country boots.

Lots of love,
Rachelle <3