Baylor's P.O.V.
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
I'm fucking this up.
All because of Conner.
If he would've just let us be, I wouldn't be lying to Aden.
I really do like Aden. I do.
But Conner has to be a fucktwat and be jealous and then threaten me.
I can't tell Aden.
I can't hurt him like that.
You're hurting him by not telling him.
I groaned and ran my hands through my hair.
Tell him what Conner's doing.
No! I can't!
I started pacing my room.
What do I do?
• • •
Aden's P.O.V.
Baylor actually went home.
Now I'm alone and bored outta my mind.
I actually miss him, even though he left like ten minutes ago.
I heard my phone buzz and hurried to grab it off the floor.
Wait. Why was my phone on the floor?
NO TIME TO QUESTION THAT. CONNER'S CALLING ME. WHAT THE HELL THIS BITCH WANT NOW.
"Hello?"
"Aden. I have something to tell you about your so called 'boyfriend'. Wanna hear it?" He asked. I could hear him smirking. Uh oh.
I opened my mouth to answer, but he cut me off.
"Of course you do. So, your precious boyfriend has been lying to you. He doesn't love you. He loves me. He wants to break your heart. Just ask him about it. He just called me, asking me to tell you this. I'm sorry he hurt you, but, I warned you. You should've listened. Tsk tsk. Poor Aden. First the school knows your secret, then you get beat up, now, you find out your boyfriend is lying to you. Tough week, huh?"
Holding back tears, I made my voice strong, "Why did you call me? What do you want from me? Huh? Seriously, what do you want from me? I have noting to give you. Nothing!"
"That's where you're wrong Aden. You are able to give me something. You. That's what I want. Sure, I may have been lying about the whole 'Baylor calling me' thing. But I wasn't lying about him not loving you. He's playing you. All because I told him to. If you don't find a way for him to break up with you, well, let's just say you don't want to find out. Toodles." He said and hung up on me.
What.
The.
Fuck.
I called Baylor and asked him if he could come over. I had to speak to him.
He said he'd be right over, so I got up and unlocked the door, taking a seat back on the couch.
I accidentally missed the couch and fell on my ass on the hard, unforgiving ground.
"Ow," I muttered.
Baylor knocked before entering, locking the door behind him.
"What did you need to- why are you on the ground?" He asked, taking a seat on the couch and staring at me.
I slightly laughed. "Well, you see, I sorta missed the couch and fell and just haven't moved yet. Anyways, I need to talk to you about Conner." I told him.
I saw his face fall. That's never a good sign.
"Okay... What about him?" He warily asked.
"Have you been talking to him behind my back? Don't lie to me."
He casted his eyes downward and I sighed.
"What have you two been talking about? Seriously, tell me the truth." I demanded, getting up from the ground and moving to the chair across from him.
He sighed and glanced at me before speaking. "He wants me to break your heart. He wants me to destroy you, so he can swoop in and save you. I'm sorry I never told you before. I should've, but I didn't want to freak you out or scare you, so I kept quiet. I've been thinking about how to do it so I don't actually break your heart, it just seems like I did. I never want to. I agreed to do it, I don't know why, but ever since we started dating, I changed my mind. I just have to find a way to get Conner off my back about it. Please don't hate me Aden. I hate myself for it." He pleaded.
He was going to hurt you. But he didn't. But he was going to. You can't forgive him for that. So what if he was going to? He didn't, and that's what matters.
"I could never hate you, Bay. Yes, I'm not happy that you were thinking about it, but you didn't do it and that's what matters." I told him, going over to sit next to him.
"Really?" He asked.
I nodded. "Thank you for telling me." I smiled, causing one back from him.
"Now, I have an idea about this whole 'Conner' thing." I said, smirking.
"Oh really now? Do tell."
• • •
I was walking down the hallway to my locker when I was shoved into the wall next to me.
"Great. Here this comes again," I muttered and pushed off the wall, turning to face whoever it was.
"Oh look, it's you." I crossed my arms over my chest as the groups of guys smirked. If you can't beat them, why not confuse them?
"He's alone again. No one to save you. Let's take this outside where no one can hear you scream."
"Can I at least have a name for your group? Like seriously, I've never seen you before and you just attack me without a name? Rude bro. Also, you don't need to manhandle me. I have two legs, I can walk." I said and started walking to the doors that led outside.
I didn't hear their footsteps behind me, making me look over my shoulder at the group of dumbfounded guys.
"You coming?" I asked.
"Uh, why are you allowing us to beat you up? Why are you encouraging it?" One stood out from the others.
"Because I have no way to stop it, so why not just get it over with? By the way, what's your name?"
"Why should we tell you, you'll just go tattle on us."
I laughed, "That's where you're wrong. I have no reason to tattle on you. What good is that gonna do me?"
I could see them thinking about it before the one in the very front, the leader I'm guessing, spoke up. "I'm Liam Crewshall."
"Well, hi Liam. Now, why are you beating me up?"
He looked very uncomfortable as he casted his eyes downward, "Well, I-I don't really know. We were told to. We were told you were saying shit about us."
Told to? "By who?" I questioned.
"Conner Derger." THAT BITCH ASS HOE.
"Well, Liam, group, I was not saying shit about you. Like I said before, I've never seen you. So, how about you do something for me." I motioned them closer, a smirk coming to my face.
They shuffled closer to me, surrounding me. "How about you surround him, give him a few seconds of your worst beating, and tell him I sent you. Tell him, if he doesn't back off of my relationship, he'll get it much worse than what he just got."
They looked at each other, laughing silently to themselves before turning back to me.
"Alright, will do." Liam said and walked off, his group following.
Conner, watch yourself. You're in for it.
• • •
I peered around the corner to see Conner getting surrounded by Liam and his group.
I could hear murmurs of their voices before Liam's arm shot out and caught Conner's face.
I winced and walked away, but not before catching Conner's eyes.
I could see the plead in them. "Guess what, Conner boy, you're not getting any help from me. You didn't help me, I ain't helping you." I muttered and walked back into lunch.
"Where did you go?" Sam asked as I sat back down at the table.
"Bathroom." I replied. Baylor looked at me and I gave him a glance, basically saying, 'I'll tell you later'.
"So, who's ready for this chemistry test?" Lucie asked.
I groaned and banged my head on the table.
"Aden, honey, don't do that. That's how you lose brain cells." Marise said and put her hand under my head.
"Yea yea," I mumbled. "I don't wanna take a test," I whined, picking my head back up.
"Neither do I," Sam whined with me.
"Oh, stop your whining you two. It's not that bad," Baylor chimed in.
I gasped. "Not that bad? WHERE DID BAYLOR GO?" I started shaking him by his shoulders.
"Get off me. Stop that," he growled out.
I stopped and looked at him. Was he okay?
It must be the whole thing with Conner... I did tell him what I was planning to do today. That's it. He's just nervous it'll make everything worse.
The bell rang, startling me and I hopped up, grabbing Sam's arm and dragging him to chemistry with me.
"Bye Baylor! Bye L and M!" I called out as we left through the double doors.
Once we got to the class, I released his arm and we took our seats. "So how are things in the relationship department?" Sam asked, waggling his eyebrows.
I just looked at him. "One, that's scary. Never do that again. Two, it's going okay, I guess."
"You guess? What's going on?" Sam leaned closer and whispered, "Is he not liking the sex?"
My mouth dropped and I repeatedly slapped his arm. "SAM!" I exclaimed. "No! That's not it at all! We've barely kissed, what makes you think we'd... Do the do?"
Sam burst out laughing at that. "Do... The... Do... That's great, oh my god." He got out between fits of laughter.
My face heated and I hit the back of his head. He stopped laughing and rubbed the spot where I hit him, mouthing 'ow'. "You deserved that. Stop that. You know what I meant. Anyways, Baylor isn't quite sure how this whole relationship thing works. So cut it out."
"Sorry."
"Gerdaw! Warnor! Stop talking! Tests are out!" Mr. Weirg scolded.
"Sorry," we mumbled at the same time and started answering questions.
• • •
"Gerdaw! Warnor! Stop talking! Tests are out!" Sam mocked, making me stifle a chuckle as we walked out to my car. He scrunched up his face.
"What are you doing? Nevermind, I don't want to know. Hey, since it's Friday, do you guys want to come over?" I asked.
Lucie and Marise glanced at each other before nodding at me. I directed my attention to Sam who shrugged, "Sure. Why not?"