Daylight

Chapter 12

I can't believe Taylor. I can't believe John. I can't believe myself.

That could've been me, but my ex best friend just had to intervene. Who knows what he's told her about me.

"Are you okay? Your eye is twitching. What are you looking at?" Brooklyn asks, seriously concerned and looking around the cafeteria.

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine," I say absentmindedly. I was staring at Taylor the whole time and I''m pretty sure she noticed. Fuck.

At home (Michaels POV)

"So," Kimberly says as she barges into my room, "oh god, why do you look emo? Did you and Brooklyn finally break up? Please tell me you did."

"I'm just listening to music, Kim. (MCR or old panic! At the disco type shit) And no, we didn't break up. Brooklyn and I are in a happy relationship," I lie.

"Ugh, whatever. Anyways, did you hear that rumor about Taylor and john hooking up?" She says super casually.

"How did you hear about that?" I ask.

"Through the grapevine, duh." She replies like a smartass.

I gave her a dirty look.

"Okay fine, I heard from my friend Stephanie who heard from her cousin Jessie who heard from some girl named Julia who heard from her friend Riley's older sister who heard from Johns best friend who told like, everyone," she explains.

I'm getting really tired of that. That's not even Jake's business to go and tell everyone about it.

"Looks like someone's jealous," she says while giggling.

"No i'm not. You know I don't like Taylor anymore and we're both in relationships. Get out of my room," I lie again.

"Oh, fine. God, you're no fun," she says as she slams my door.

I don't think Kimberly will ever forgive me when she finds out that Brooklyn and I's relationship was never legit. I know my little brat of a sister cannot keep her mouth shut and she would tell Taylor that I'm in love with her, so I had to do something to cover it up. Especially because she and Taylor are really close now.

I was originally going to confess my feelings to Taylor, but it just so happened to be around the same time she got with John. Coincidentally enough, Brooklyn got cheated on at that time and wanted to make her ex jealous. When we saw each other at the party, we struck a deal to pretend to be in a relationship. It would help me keep my secret from my big mouth sister, and help her get back at her ex.

I seriously don't know what I was thinking.

Taylor's POV

"I don't understand why so many people were looking at me today. Especially your brother. He was staring into my soul at lunch," I say to Kimberly on a facetime call.

"That reminds me, I heard that like, everyone at school thinks you're a whore because there's a rumor going around that you slept with John." She rambles.

I stare at her through the phone with a horrified expression. I can tell she starts to panic.

"Oh, don't worry though, I'm sure everyone knows you guys didn't actually hook up," she assures me with a nervous giggle.

"But we did," I slowly say.

"Oh. Well uhhh, I know you're not a whore so..." Kim replies with a surprisingly casual look on her face.

"Kim.. Do you perchance know who spread that information?" I ask.

"Well, I heard from my friend Stephanie who heard from her cousin Jessie who heard from some rando named Julia who heard from her friend Riley's older sister who heard from Johns best friend Jake who told, like, everyone after John told him," she quickly recaps.