Jade

Chapter 15

"I'll fucking kill you!" She screamed at Kayla.

Kayla only continued to smirk. "Calm your claws, hyena. You're just mad because you know I'm right. Jade let you off easy so trust me when I say I won't extend that same courtesy."

"I hate you! The both of you!" Monica continued to scream in rage. "You think you're so much better than everyone else. You think everything is about you-,"

"No!" Kayla raised her voice as well, and it was loud even with the music playing. "It's you who thinks we're better than everyone, honey. You're obviously insecure and can't stand the fact that my cousin has more self-esteem and confidence in herself. You're the bad guy in all of this because it's you who betrayed your friend and slept with him." Kayla pointed to Mark who had stayed silent up until that point, quietly observing from a few feet away.

Their screaming match had attracted an audience and when she pointed to Mark, everyone else turned to look at him as well. He stayed put and didn't look offended or mad. His expression remained blank and unchanged, as if he didn't care. It seemed he wasn't going to intervene at all, until Monica decided to open her mouth again and all hell broke loose.

"I'm so sick of everyone making it seem like Mark and I are the only ones who did something wrong. How about you ask his best friend what exactly he's been doing behind his back, huh?" Monica looked past Kayla where she noticed Cory and Byron standing. She kept her eyes on Byron and by the expression on his face, she knew she had hit the jackpot.

She sneered at him and she probably should have stopped but she was far too gone and couldn't control herself anymore. "Come on Byron, tell us how bad you've always wanted Jade for yourself. How you felt Mark wasn't good enough for her and how you've always fantasize about fucking her-,"

"Monica-," Jasmine tried to intervene but her friend refused to listen.

"Enough with the Monica." She brushed her friend off. "It's true, and he knows it. If you don't believe me then ask him why he had his tongue down her throat just ten minutes ago."

"What?"

Monica was completely aware of the cold look Mark had set on Byron. Everyone was. When Mark stepped up and walked toward Byron, it seemed as of everyone were holding their breath for what would happen next. It seemed as if it happened in slow motion. Byron didn't move from his spot when Mark stopped in front of him.

Kayla noticed something change in Byron's expression, as if he knew exactly what would happen because everything Monica had said was true. He seemed calm, almost prepared and Kayla got the feeling that this confrontation was a long time coming.

"Did you fuck her?" Mark's voice was low and cold but it carried out across the room. Everyone waited for Byron's answer and Kayla wondered in the back of her mind again where the hell her cousin had run off to. If Monica was right and Jade and Byron had indeed kissed on the dance floor, maybe her cousin had freaked out and ran outside, which would definitely be unlike her. Then what-

"And if I did?" Byron said back to Mark. Then all of a sudden Kayla heard someone let out a stream of curse and the next thing, it was chaos. Byron was on the ground and Mark was sending punches into his face left and right and everyone around was screaming hysterically. Ty, Cory and the other guys from their team tried to intervene but it seemed futile. The two best friends continued to roll on the ground, hitting each other over and over again.

Kayla could only stare for a moment until she looked up and glared at Monica, her own anger augmenting. "You stupid little bitch-,"

"Kayla, lay off." Jasmine glared back at her. The only thing that did however was fuel Kayla's rage.