Xander's POV
"You have to do this. Do this for you. Do this for Brie.." I said while I stared at the huge building standing in front of me. I gave a big sigh. After a few days of planning and with the boys telling me that my plan is crazy, I finally convinced them not to tell anyone about this. Especially Brie. She can't find out about this.
Matt told me that Brie's parents are still in LA and has been doing damage control. News broke out about our relationship and that she chosen me over her company and family. Ever since this news went out public, paparazzi's wanted to catch a glimpse of me and Brie together to get all the information they needed. Tyler also recently spoke of the situation and well it didn't help a thing at all. All he did was trash me and that Brie's only in this relationship because I manipulated her and only time will tell that she's going to realize that dating me was a wrong decision to do.
With Matt's sources from his parents, I was able to get a full one on one time with Brie's dad and surprisingly he agreed. I know that I'm doing is really like I have a death wish because I'm definitely playing with fire, but I know that I have to fight for what I know what is right and fight for the sake of my relationship with Brie. I had to fight for her. I need to.
Giving a final sigh, I enter the premises and everyone in the lobby recognized who I was. I made my way towards the front desk and said "I'm here to speak with Daniel McMahon. Kindly tell him Xander Evans is here." She nodded and said "Mr. McMahon would speak to you now."
Brie's POV
"Hey have you seen Xander?" I asked Matt and Hanna who were lounging on the couch.
It's been a pretty stressful week, news finally broke out about everything. Thanks to my parents and Tyler. I just can't believe that they were able to do this to me. Like I understand that Tyler would be doing something like this but my parents. Telling people that I left them to be with Xander, forgetting about what my parents did for me and didn't even respect the legacy that have created. Tyler on the other hand blabbered that Xander has manipulated my mind that I would be back in his arms in no time.
"He left pretty early today." Hanna said. "I asked him where he's going but he was in a hurry and well looked very serious."
"Oh, did he mention something to you Matt?" I asked Matt who looked scared and surprised at the same time.
"Yeah I mean you spent the whole day with Xander yesterday. Did he mention something to you?" Hanna asked him.
"Nothing. He didn't say anything to me." He said instantly.
I looked over at my best friend who to sensed that something is definitely up, we approached him in a manner that we are stalking our prey. Matt looked scared because he knew that we caught his 'I don't know anything' act and well pushed himself deeper on the couch.
"Matt. Where is Xander." Hanna asked him.
"I seriously don't know." He answered.
"Are you sure. Because it seems like you know something." I said
"I swear Brie, I know nothing." Matt answered.
"Do you believe this?" I asked Hanna.
"Not one bit, do you think the other guys know?" She asked me.
"Something is up, but I doubt that they'll tell." I told her.
"We can force them." She told me. "I can hear you guys!" Matt stated.
"That's the plan!" Hanna said.
**
After an hour we managed to get Blake, Zach and Kyle all together, all of them looked shit as scared because they realized that we figured that something is definitely up.
"What are we doing here Brie?" Kyle asked me.
"I know you guys know where and what Xander is doing right now. Where is he?" I asked instantly
"Brie. Promise we don't know." Blake said.
"Seems to me you guys know something." Hanna said looking at the boys.
"Guys, I seriously know that something is up. What and where exactly is Xander?" I asked them. The guys looked back and forth between each other and back at me.
"Guys?" Hanna asked them.
They all sighed and Matt was the one who stood up saying "Brie. I know Xander is probably going to kill us for telling you this."
Xander's POV
I entered the room and there stood Brie's Dad with his wife with him. This is the second time in my entire life that I had to meet Brie's Dad without her knowledge and it scared the shit out of me.
"Xander what do you want. I am a very busy person. I have to run my entire company now because of what you did to my daughter." He said not even giving me a glance
"I'm just here to fix everything." I said politely.
"Fix everything. How? You're going to finally leave my daughter?" He said
"I won't do that. I made a promise to her that I'll never leave her or hurt her." I stated
"Well I'm sorry Mr. Evans but you're just wasting your time here. Because leaving my daughter alone would fix this mess." He stood up looking at me and continued "I've said this once and I'll say it again. You are not fit for my daughter and I'll never accept an Evans as my daughter's future husband. The is only one person who is fit for my her and that is Tyler."
"You're wrong." A voice came from behind us. I turned around and saw that Brie was here with our friends behind her. Shoot she probably made the guys talk. Damn
"Brie what are you doing here?" I asked her she but she ignored me and looked at her father.
"Brianna." Her father said.
"What? I know what my heart wants. And it's certainly not Tyler. Why can't you just accept that?" she said
"Because a McMahon should never associate themselves with an Evans!" Her father screamed.
"Well you just have to live with it." Brie said leaving the room.
"Brianna!" Her father screamed for her. I followed Brie right away and saw that she was sitting on one of the couches at their lobby.
"Have you lost your mind?" She asked without looking at me. "Why did you come here?"
I sat down beside her and grabbed her hand which she gave a little squeeze. "I need to fight for us." I told her honestly.
"I know that but what you did was pretty stupid. You know?" She said laughing a bit.
"So I've been told." I laughed remembering what Matt and the guys told me before.
"So the office rumors are true. That we barged in here Evans. Pretty brave of you." We heard a voice behind us.
"What do you want Tyler?" Brie asked him.
"I'm just casually walking around the office when I heard that Evans was in the premises. So I just wanna see how's it going for him." He said arrogantly. "I mean you clearly are in my territory Evans."
"Your territory?" Brie asked laughing. "As far as I know Tyler, I fired you. This is not your company or your territory."
"Oh Brie, your Dad reinstated my position." He said smugly.
"Of course he would do that. Enjoy while it last Tyler. When I return, I promise you won't be allowed to set foot inside here." Brie said angrily.
"If you can return back as President." Tyler said.
"What do you mean? I am still the President of this company!" Brie said.
"Didn't you hear Brie, ever since you chose Xander, you are no longer the heir to this company. Don't you realize what you did? You chose him over your family. Their legacy. The blame is all on you Brie for losing your position as President as well as Xander's company crumbling down." Tyler stated.
"The blame is not on her but on you Tyler. Your so selfish that you can't even see that what you are doing is hurting Brie. If you were really her friend or love her, you would never do this to hurt her. But I guess you don't really care about Brie's happiness but only your own. So don't you dare blame Brie about everything! Because this is all your fault! It has always been!" exclaimed.
"Xander. Let's just go." Brie whispered.
"We're not yet through." Tyler said.
"Will you just shut up Tyler!" Brie screamed.
Brie's POV
How dare him! How dare Tyler blame everything on me! All I did was just fall in love and he is making me guilty about Xander's company losing investors and me losing my position as President!
"Will you just shut up!" I screamed. I can't take this anymore. "Tyler how dare you blame everything on me. You and I both know who is the real person to blame. It's you! It's always been you! You lie over and over again, telling me things that I should've never listened to in the first place! I forgave you easily five years ago thinking that you changed! But you never did. Tell me honestly did you really love me or even considered me as a friend back then?! Or was I just a shiny accessory to you?"
He remained silent and looked at both Xander and I. "I thought so. You know what, I don't know why you are doing this. Just because you and my parents hate Xander doesn't mean that you can do this to me! Xander never did anything to any of you. He tried to be civil and respectful but what did you do? You threatened him to leave me and hurt me. Is that what people do for their loved ones?" I said then I saw my parents coming out of their office. "Because if that's the way you show love. I don't want any part of it." I finished and grabbed Xander's hand making our way outside of the building.
"Brie. You okay?" Xander asked me when the coast was clear.
"Can we just go home?" I asked him.
"Yeah. I'll call Matt." Xander said grabbing his phone while keeping me close to him. I laid my head on his shoulders looking at the building behind us. "It's all going to be all right. I promise. We'll get through this." He whispered.
"Yeah we will." I said hugging him.
**
When we reached home, everyone immediately gave me some space to let me think about what happened today.
"You okay?" Xander came inside my room.
"Never been better." I said moving a bit to make some space for him in my bed.
"You were great back there." He said while twirling a strand of my hair.
"Did you ever blamed me?" I asked him.
"Blamed you on what?" He asked looking at me.
"With your company losing all of it's investors back then? Did you blame..." He instantly cut me off "Didn't we talked about this already? I would never blame you on anything. Okay? Stop thinking about it. I've already fixed everything and the company has been running smoothly now. Don't think about it okay?" I nodded my head and instantly felt safe.
Then suddenly there was a knock on the door. "It's open" I said and the door opened revealing Hanna.
"Sorry to interrupt your little love fest. But you have someone waiting outside." Hanna said.
"Who?" I asked standing up.
"Why don't you see for yourselves." She said. Xander and I followed Hanna outside. We saw all our friends circling someone and I saw Zoey, Chelsea and Ashlynn glaring at the person while the guys had their arms crossed.
When Xander and I approached them the visitor stood up and it was none other than Tyler himself.
"What do you want Tyler?" I asked angrily.
"Can we talk? All of us?" He said.
***
Chapter 30 done!!!
Whew. What do you guys think what's going to happen? What does Tyler need? Better find out soon!
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Shanieza ❤