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After the Party

Her

"Jake?" I mumbled softly. I just  saw his pictures, body shots with Laura and more. He went home that evening without even telling me? Without dropping by? Without greeting me? How could he forget?

Did he really cheated on me---wait, he already cheated on me. With Lauren.

And this time, again?

Of all the days, why on my birthday?!

My tears drop as soon as I saw the pictures. I ran as fast as I could upstairs so no one would notice me crying. I ran to my bedroom and bumped into Clarkson who just finished fixing the mess on my room.

"Georgina! Is there anything wrong?" he asked. I tried not to face him and jumped right into my bed and hide beneath the sheets. 

"Nothing!" I said in between the sobs.

"Really?"

"Yeah, nothing." No Clarkson, everything went wrong.

I clicked on the video the twins had in the vlog and seen everything. It was too painful for me to watch but I need to see it to know the truth.

After wiping all the tears  and stopping all the sobs, I called Jake.

"H-hello? Lauren?"

"Do you think I'm Lauren?"

"Oh! Georgina!" he exclaimed. "You called, baby. Why?"

"You're home already?"

"Yeah, I arrived home too late, I did not have a chance to call you. I am really tired last night."

"Ah, I see." I lied. I knew you were really home last night, earlier.

"I really want to go to sleep, babe. Can you give me few hours to sleep? I had a headache."

"Sure." Die in your sleep, asshole.

Him

"You called him, do you?" I asked Georgina as she got up from her bed. I was leaning on the doorpost after she bumped on me earlier. 

"Yeah."

"You knew?"

"I-I know what?" she was trying to lie. I knew she cried.

"The pictures. The video."

"W-What pictures? What video?" she mumbled in a very soft tone, but she was like, breaking.

I went to her closer. "Why are you trying to lie like you haven't seen the pictures? Like you haven't seen the video? I heard you cry and called him."

"Then what?!" she was trying to get mad.  But tears started to pool from her eyes. Her face turned red in anger. "He cheated on me, again." 

My arms had the brain of its own, locked Georgina in my arms. She leans her head on my chest. "I--I," she sobbed. "Am I not enough?"

"You are enough!" I told her. "You are." for me.

"Then why?" her tears kept falling on my shirt, but I don't mind. I let her cry and cry. I kissed her forehead.

"You are enough. He just doesn't see your worth."

"Why?"

"Do not ask why." I told her. "Do not ask why."

"But I kept asking why, Clarkson." she released herself from my embrace. "I keep on asking why he cheated on me! Can't he tell me that it's over? That he wants Lauren McKenley instead of me?"

"And I keep asking why, Georgina!" I took a deep breath. "I keep asking why you still choose him, instead of me?"

She stopped talking. The only thing I could hear is her sobs as she buried her face in her hands.

"I like you."

"He likes me too."

"But he doesn't like you as much as I like you."

"But Jake said he likes me! What's the difference?!"

"The difference is I love you!" I panted. "That's why I like so much more because I love you!"

"I don't understand."

"Me too, I don't understand this either.  I-I was here, loving my friend's girl. He was on another girl's party and had fun, while I am here, for her birthday, so she would see how much I love her. How much risk I would take for her."

"Clarkson..."

"He said she was creepy, but she's not. She's not Lauren McKenley or any hot girls in school, but she's worth keeping. He said you're important but he's acting the other way. And I am here, watching her cry because of some asshole cheating on her!"

"I knew it!" a voice from outside the room said. We turned around to see Reginald folding his arms, with Giselle on his back. "I knew that Jake is cheating on you!"

"M-mom, D-dad, how long have you been there?" she ask her parents.

"Enough to hear that Jake cheated on you."