Dance in the Rain |Shelax|

Chapter 22

Ross

I fell asleep, but awoke to voices.

Was it Max? Shelby?

"-We were the perfect couple. Everything going smoothly for the first year. Until, it was now spring in senior year. Tyler had been acting normal, I could've never seen it coming."

"What happened?"

She looked up at me.

"It was the first time he cheated on me."

"The first time?!" Max said very loudly.

"Ross is sleeping!" 

I tried to look as asleep as I could. Maybe they were gonna look at me.

"He was dating my sister. While I was dating him. My brother and sister are in college. And I hate both of them."

She heard her take a breath.

"Tyler dumped her and told me that he didn't mean to date her. He told me that he regretted it. We didn't break up. It was now graduation time, but he was losing it. He was getting more aggressive."

"Please don't tell me he-"

"His parents were getting divorced, so he took it out on me. All of it."

Why didn't she tell me this? Heck, if I had known, I would've smacked him upside the head!

Her voice cracked.

"We stayed together. I don't know if it was because I still loved him, or of it was because I was too scared to break up with him. Graduation was 6 months over and his youtube channel grew faster and faster. He forgot about me. I was happy, at least for a little while. I made my own channel. I loved it Until, Tyler had no one to collab with one day. He told me to collab with him on a video. Everyone loved us. He made me record more of us playing games. That brings us to the second time he cheated on me. This time, it was my best friend. Her name was Misty. We looked almost identical, but we were complete opposites. I liked gaming, she liked make-up. We were complete opposites. Tyler staring making me wear make-up to cover the bruises."

She paused.

"We did his 'usual' for a while. Him doing this to me. Until he apologized. He said he would never do it again. And he didn't do it."

She mumbled something. I couldn't hear it. 

She took in short breath.

"For a while at least. It brings us to 2 months ago. He was a year and more clean from hurting me. But he started again."

She paused again.

"He cheated on me, again. I think these are the only times he's cheated on me. But, these are the only time I caught him. Anyway, he-"

She took a deep breath.

"He got more aggressive as he went along. At first, he never aimed at my face. It was always stomach area. But the last time he did it, he aimed everywhere."

"And that why you have a cast on your arm and leg, isn't it?"

There was another hesitation.

"I had to leave. I left my home with Ross, and we ended up here with you guys. Conveniently, Adam said I could have a job at the offices as well. And that's about it."

"Let's get on the road so we can sleep."

And we were off. 

And I was pissed off.