First of all, I just wanna say that I love that photo of Dylan up there 👆. He looks so unique and totally flawless. I mean look at that face!! 😂
Okay I think I made my point, back to the story...
BAD CUPID
Created By; Snow Marisvega•
Chapter 62.
Dylan
I laid on my bed that night, I tried not to think of Henry but how could I not. I had skipped dinner and mom has come in to check on me twice already but I just pretended to be asleep.
My major problem was Eric, how do I get him back to Eastwood? I couldn't let my parents see that. Most families never remain the same once the parents find out their child is gay or a lesbian.
A knock came on my door and I quickly shut my eyes pretending to be asleep, I heard my door open a little.
"Dylan?" Jax called softly but I didn't reply. "I know you're not asleep." He sighed.
I gave up. I sat up and looked at him. "And I thought I'd make it in acting school."
He smiled. "Oh, you most definitely will, trust me."
I smiled.
"Can I come in?"
I nodded. He walked in and sat on my bed, looking at me. "What's wrong, Dylan? Everyone's worried downstairs and don't tell me it's a stupid romantic movie you watched earlier."
"It actually is."
He stared at me blankly. "You were happy that guy from me before you died."
"Everyone was."
"No," he replied quickly, shaking his head. "Not everyone. Just...you."
"I..okay fine. I think romantic movies aren't cool, I mean after the whole rose and jack thing. I give up."
He laughed.
I just smiled.
"Dylan."
"Hmm?"
"Tell me what's going on with you? What happened at Henry's house? You were excited earlier, like really excited and now you're...sad. Dylan, I haven't seen you cried that way before, which means something happened so please tell me."
I shook my head, smiling. "Jax, you're worrying yourself."
"You're crying, right now."
At that moment I feel the tears running down my cheek and quickly wiped them but then I felt choked up and shook my head at him as I couldn't speak, I just wanted to cry.
Jax pulled me into a hug, shushing me. "It's okay, Dylan."
"I h-hate him s-so much." I cried.
He patted my back. "Who?"
I fought to speak. "Henry,"
He pulled away gently. "Dylan, what happened?" He asked, his voice filled with worry.
And then, I told him. Everything. From the locker room to him playing pretense at his house and to the phonecall from that hell guard.
"Henry is such a fucking asshole." Jax eyes were filled with rage. "You see why I hate him? How dare he use that word at you? Doesn't he know how offensive that is?"
"I just don't understand why it hurt so much." I said as I subconsciously played with my fingers.
"You don't? I think its really clear."
I looked at him. "What do you mean?"
"You're attached to him. That's why it hurts."
I rolled my eyes. Not this again.
"Can we...go back to the situation, please? Eric. Yeah. That one."
He rolled his.
"I don't know what to do." I sighed.
"Dylan, maybe its not bad if he does tell the world."
I frowned at him.
"What you have to do is tell your parents first, they'll understand."
I huffed. "No, they won't."
"Dylan! Your parents. Love you. They love you and carry you like an egg. They accepted me and fought Vaughn for me, they don't care about sexuality."
"Just because you were accepted by them means I will be. You're not their kid and so they'll support you but I...I'm their only son. Mom probably expects a lot from me. Their first kid, is gay. What do you think they'll feel? They'd be ashamed of me, Jaxton. Everything will change, they might try to not show how disappointed they are but they will be and I....I can't handle that right now. She thought Raven and I were dating and kept asking me to steal her away from the boyfriend I made up so mom would get off my back but it didn't stop there." I ranted. "I need to think of a way to get him back." I said and ran a hand trough my hair.
"Dylan, think. Eric is a fucking asshole, you won't even have any power against him."
"I don't have any power against him, Jaxton. He's the one pulling the strings now. I'm now a puppet of my own show. How he got into the locker room, I don't know." I sighed.
"But seriously, every time you and Henry are alone you're both locking lips and being all sexual."
"Yeah, and I wonder who's fault that is."
"Don't blame yourself for anything, Dylan. Fuck Henry and his arrogance."
"Yeah, fuck him and his perfect face and features and his stupid biceps and-"
"Dylan,"
I looked up at him.
"What are you doing?"
"What?"
"You're supposed to be mad at him."
"I am." I nodded.
"No," he shook his head. "You're complementing him."
I blinked. Was i really?. No. "I want him to choke on a cactus."
"That's much better." He smiled.
Eric was gonna ruin my life, all I needed to do was get him back to Eastwood to write the exams on Monday and get all the copies of the photo from him and make sure he deletes them all.
My head hurt badly.
Henry had called me a fag. I didn't think it'd hurt this bad, I have been called that before but it coming from him felt like a gunshot. Of course something bad was gonna come out from a gay guy constantly making out with a straight guy. It had to happen. Way was I thinking? That if he was gay I had a chance? I was just a fucking experiment to him, people do it all the time and I fell for it. I didn't like him and this was bound to happen. Something inside me wanted it to go on for a little while, I hate myself for it. I really do. My chest keeps hurting and I don't like it. He was the one always grabbing and teasing and kissing me and I'm the one spreading the 'disease'? I'm the one with the disease. I'm gay and he called me a disease. I couldn't forget his words no matter how hard I tried. What did I expect? Its Henry Ashcroft. The most popular bad boy in school. He doesn't care. He wouldn't care. It was because of him that I was in this situation, if he hadn't pulled me and made out with me, Eric would have no photo and yet it's my fault, as he says.
"Dylan, you're-"
"Could you...leave, please?" I asked, looking away from him. This was me being weak and I didn't want anyone to see me this way, to see me cry like a child whose toy got taken away from him.
Jax patted my knee and stood up. "If you need me, just call out to me." He said softly and I heard footsteps, they stopped and he spoke. "You're stronger than this, Dylan. I know you are." He said before leaving and closing the door behind him.
I just laid on my bed and held my pillow real tight.
Fuck you, Ashcroft. Fuck you.
**
I got all dressed for school, my work starts today.
• Getting Eric back to Eastwood.
I sighed as I stared at myself at the mirror, a big shirt and blank pants.
Smile, Dylan. Smile.
I put on a smile on my face, it looked real weird. I sighed the second time and tried again.
Much better.
I picked up my bag and made my way down the stairs with that same smile. All eye turned to me once I landed.
Of course my house was a fucking TV series.
"Good morning," I smiled and made my way to the dinning.
"Hey, kiddo." Grandpa Felix smiled.
"Good morning Grandpa," I kissed him on the cheek and did the same to Grandma Athena, she beamed and patted my cheek gently.
"Good morning, peter pan."
I grinned at the name.
"Peter pan?" Jax's brows rose.
I scowled at him.
"Dylan used to be a big fan of peter pan," Grandma Athena said with a smile, as I took a seat beside Jax, placing my backpack on the floor.
"You okay?" He asked in a whisper.
I nodded. "Mmhmm, I'm fine."
"He read all the books, watched the movies, cartoons and was even peter pan during the school play." She continued with a grin.
"Well, no one knows what I had to do to get that role." I said as mom placed pancakes on my plate.
"Oh we do," mom said as she looked at me. "I mean, a kid desperately wanted the role and the peter pan who was chosen gets a broken hand the next day. Pretty obvious."
Jax gasped.
Oh so they did know.
"I didn't push him!" I denied. "I mean I barely did, I just touched him and kicked him by mistake." I shrugged.
Jax gasped again. "You're evil."
Everyone laughed.
"He had it coming, can you imagine that that seven year old was a total asshole? He said mean things and peter pan never said mean things." I said as I ate.
"You broke someone's arm when you were seven?"
I looked at Jax. "Didn't you hear the reason why? He was mean to me and he was like a seven year old Eric and seven year old Dylan didn't like mean people too."
"You broke his arm!"
"Self defense." I stated. "He's fine now, anyways."
"You're crazy." He laughed and so did everyone.
"You should have seen him in his peter pan outfit." Grandpa Felix said with a smile as he ate. "Such a lovely boy."
I grinned.
"He always wanted to be peter pan." Mom said and rubbed my shoulder, I gave her a smile.
"He was peter pan for three years in a row during Halloween." Dad said.
"Okay, okay. That's enough people. Enough embarrassing stories of me being peter pan." I said, placing my hands like a conductor doing the finishing touch in an orchestra.
They laughed.
"I wonder if your girlfriend knows these stories." Grandpa Felix said with a smile.
I stiffened at my seat and quickly stopped chewing.
"Well, he doesn't have one yet. Or if he does, he hasn't brought her home." Dad chuckled.
I looked at Jaxton and he looked back at me, he blinked trying to tell me to calm down.
My fears were catching up to me. I faked a smile and stood up, picking up my backpack. "I have t-to go now. Um, I don't wanna be late today."
They all looked at me.
"You haven't touched your food." Mom said.
I smiled at her. "Yeah, I uh....um...could give it to Grandpa, he loves your pancakes." I fake grinned.
Grandpa Felix chuckled. "I love you, kiddo."
Grandma Athena nudged him. "Let him eat."
"Don't worry, grandma." I smiled and walked over to her, pecking her cheek again and grandpa's. "Bye parents." I said as I started making my way towards the door.
"Wait for me." Jax said and stood up too. "I um,...bye." He said quickly.
I was already out the door, breathing hard. This was gonna kill me. Jaxton came out and looked at me with a worried expression.
"You okay?"
I shook my head. "No." I said as I began to walk real fast. "I need to solve this one and for all and that means keeping Eric's mouth shut."
"You need to be careful, Dylan. This is what he wants, to let this all get to you and stop you from living your normal life."
I chuckled. "My life has never been normal. You wanna know why I loved being peter pan?" I turned to Jax. "People I also wanted to disappear and be free, I wanted to vanish and I was living in a fantasy world so I thought if I was peter pan then maybe I'd go far away, to a happy island where there are other kids like me who wanted to also escape. I have white hair. Not everyone thought it was cute when I was a child, I was a weird kid with this kind of hair whose life was already upside down at such age and when realization hit me that peter pan was just a hot guy in a fantasy book written by mortal, it wasn't long before my little brother died. Two fucking years after I finally got to live with my parents in one house! My childhood was really amazing, wasn't it? And all I want to do is escape but then I can't and I have to deal with this cause I'm no Peter pan and he's just a stupid Disney something to make money." I said and continued walking.
***
I walked into those doors with Jaxton like every other day, I didn't feel good at all. I sighed as I tried to act normal with Jaxton beside me giving me words of inspirations.
Jaxton got to his locker while I leaned on the one next to his. "I can't wait for school to be over." I sighed.
"Me too, I'm kinda tired of all this. I just need to sleep for twenty four hours a day."
"I need a six months vacation," I said and looked at him. "Twice a year."
He laughed. "You get bored easily and yet you like to stay alone."
"Well thank to you and Raven, I'm starting to feel the effects of boredom."
"Aw, you're welcome."
I chuckled and looked ahead, I stopped laughing.
"What's wrong?"
I shook my head and looked away from Henry who was at his locker with Zach and some other guy. "Nothing, let's just forget it."
Jaxton followed my gaze and looked at him then back at me. "Don't let him ruin your day."
"Bummer. He already did." I gave him a smile.
He sighed. "Do you want me to do something?"
I arched my brow. "What could you possibly do that could make it all better, Jaxton? Wait, you could just offer me velvet cake and that would do it's job." I smiled.
He smiled back. "I have something better," he said and closed his locker. "You always do things for me, you've helped me fight my battles countless of times and I wanna help you in any way that I can, so...I'm gonna do what Dylan would do for me if you were me right now."
I frowned in confusion. "What would I do?"
He smiled and handed me the books in his hand. "Easy," he said and made his way towards Henry.
What was he gonna do?
He said something and Henry looked at him, they were talking but I could barely hear and while trying to read their lips, Jaxton's hand rose and kissed Henry's cheek really hard, I flinched were I was. Henry's head quickly moved to the left and students cooed, some also did the flinch jump like I did.
My jaw dropped as I watched Jaxton, he said something else and made his way towards me.
"Jaxton! What did you do?" I asked, a smile forming on my face.
"I did what you would do. I must say, slapping him did kinda burn my hand and I'm not sure if that was your kind of bitch slap but I tried." He shrugged and took back his books while rubbing his palm on his pants.
I chuckled. "That was definitely a bitch slap. I felt it."
He grinned. "I'm learning from the best."
"Oh my God, I did not expect that. W-What did you say to him?"
He shrugged. "I asked him to grow some balls."
"I love you." I smiled.
"Aw, me too." He threw his hand over my shoulder. "Come on, we have class." He said before we began to walk. I glanced at Henry who was looking our way, I didn't give him an expression. I just stared blankly at him as Jax and I walked past him and his friends.
"You know you're becoming a total badass." I said as we walked.
He grinned. "I think I've always wanted to slap him and what he said and did to you just made me mad. He deserved that. That's called 'WWDD', what would Dylan do?" He smiled.
I chuckled. "W. W. D. D." I repeated. "Thank you, Jaxton."
"What are best friends for?" He smiled.
"Oh God." Raven folded her arms in front of us, halting us. "Someone would think you both were in a relationship."
Jax and I quickly moved away from each other, making disgusting sounds.
Raven smirked. "I thought that would do the trick." She said and walked over to us, standing at our middle and locking arms with both of us. "I wanted to be at the middle."
"You are one crazy psycho bitch you know." Jax scoffed.
Raven's jaw dropped, she looked away from him and at me and smacked my head.
"Ow! Raven. What did I do?"
"You're spoiling sweet little Jaxton! Few months back, he would never say those words and now look what you did to him! That sounds so much like the words of Dylan." She complained.
I rolled my eyes. "I'm not doing this." I said and walked ahead.
"Dylan, get your ass back here!" She said out to my hearing but I only increased my speed.
"Dexwell!" I looked behind me and saw her walking really fast towards me while dragging Jaxton and so I did the one thing that came to my head.
I ran.
But so did she.
That was why I loved them, they made me forget everything bad. They didn't even need to try.
***
I walked into the class of the man I dreaded after the whole Shawn mendes thing.
Mr. Rowen.
Third period.
I was sitting far away from Henry and Zach said right in front of me, Mr. Rowen walked in and greeted the class and then his mouth started moving. I felt a hand tap my left leg, I frowned and looked to see Zach handing me a paper, I took it from him and opened it.
Meet me at the field during lunch.
Why?
It had to be important.
I folded the paper and placed it back into my pocket, I looked back at Mr. Sexy Rowen as he spoke.
"Alright, I want you all to sit beside your partners, if you haven't submitted your project then do that now. Today's the last day. I want y'all to move your desk and place them beside your project partner."
He's kidding.
"Move your chair closer to them, since we aren't using a lab for history then let's make it much better." He smiled.
The sound of chairs began to filled the class but I didn't move and neither did he cause once it died down, he wasn't sitting next to me and I was thankful for that.
Mr. Rowen arched his brow at me and then Henry. "Really? After two weeks, you're still....holding a grudge against each other?"
"I'd rather sit alone, Mr. Rowen. Apparently, I have a disease according to Henry and I'm infecting him with it and so I don't want to do something as mean as that." I said with folded arms, still staring at him.
He frowned. "What disease is it?"
"Gee, I wish I knew." I shrug. "Why don't you ask him what I was infecting him with?" I smiled wickedly. Henry wouldn't dare say, he had a bad boy awesome reputation to keep and so if people found out he was kissing a boy at every chance he got, then they'd sacrifice him to Hades like he said.
He looked at Henry. "What is he infecting you w-"
"I'd rather not say. Something's are better left unsaid."
I didn't reply.
"I want you both sitting together in five seconds." He stated.
That wasn't happening. I wasn't moving.
"Or you'll fail this class."
I didn't care.
"Three." He counted. "Two."
A chair moved to my side and I was mad that he couldn't just stay there.
"Very well." He smiled. "This project was also to bring two people together, I paired you up with someone you'd never imagine yourself with. Two different people and there was a reason for that but I guess one of the groups didn't like that." He said with a tone of humor and the class chuckled but I couldn't tell what was funny.
"If you haven't given me your project, do submit it now."
"A-"
I quickly stood up before Henry could finish and packed my bag, I walked over to Mr. Rowen, I took out the project work from my backpack and handed it to him. "That's ours. I'm just glad it's over." I smiled. "I need to please go see Principal Evans, excuse me." I said and walked out the class, ignoring Mr. Rowen's calls. I might be punished but I didn't care right now, I just didn't want to be around him. I didn't want to be close to him cause I was fighting myself.
**
I was standing outside the principal's office, I needed to talk to him about Eric. I didn't have a speech yet and had no reason to give concerning why Eric had to return, but what was I gonna do?
I finally decided to just walk in and go with whatever my head makes up and that was what I did.
He had a secretary now unlike before and I told her I wanted to see principal Evans and since he had no one in his office, I went in.
"Ah, Mr. Dexwell. Wondered when I'd see you in here again." He smiled. "Its been a while."
"Yes it has." I said and took a seat.
"How's your mother?"
"Great." I nodded.
"Last I spoke to her, she said she'd chop off my head with a-"
"-graduation cap." I finished up. "Yeah, she watched that episode of the vampire dairies."
His brows knitted. "The what?"
I shook my head. "I uh..I came here cause it's....urgent."
"Oh, well tell me." He said looking interested. "Whenever you're here, it's like a new case."
I fake smiled. "Um, it's about....Eric."
"What about him? Is he still causing you trouble?"
Yes. A lot.
"No." I shook my head. "He's been...really nice to me and also apologized to me about w-what he did and I forgive him. I just wanted to know if you'd let him write the exams next week."
His brow furrowed. "You're kidding."
I shook my head. "No. We're friends now and I just want the best for him."
"He pushed you down the stairs. Intentionally. And you broke your arm." He stated as if I had had some kinda amnesia and forgotten.
"I know." I nodded.
"Somewhere in those law books its called 'attempted murder'. You could have died. Thankfully you didn't but you could have died or had more injuries. You could have been crippled, never to walk again. You could have lost an arm or something worse and you want me to bring him back?"
I swallowed. "Yes."
"No." He shook his head. "He's being suspended. He's lucky that he's not even in jail and I know that's because of his parents who are rich. I mean look at this school, filled with spoilt brats who have rich parents and so they do whatever they feel like, like pushing a kid down the stairs cause they know they can overcome anything. He needs to think about what he's done, he's not coming back here. He's not supposed to even be around you and so he's going to do summer school."
"Please. Y-You h-have to get him back! He cant miss the exams. Please!!" I begged.
He looked at me as if I had gone mad. "I can't grant you that one wish, Mr. Dexwell. I'm sorry." He shook his head. "He's not coming back to write the exams, he'll just have to attend summer classes."
"Shit." I cursed.
His brows rose and I quickly apologized.
"Tell me, is he...is he threatening you?" He asked with knitted brows.
I swallowed again and really wanted to scream. I wanted to tell him yes and that I didn't know what to do, I wanted to cry it out to him but I couldn't.
"No. He's not. He's my friend like I told you."
He didn't look like he believed me but nodded. "Okay."
"So does that mean you'll-"
"No." He cut me off. "Go have lunch, Dylan."
I nodded. "Yeah," I said softly. "Excuse me." I said and stood up, walking out of the office.
I stood outside the door, taking in deep breaths and at that moment my phone vibrated, I took it out and checked the message. It was a text from Zach asking where I was.
"Shit." I cursed and began making my way to the field, I spotted Henry and he saw me but I looked away and continued my walk.
**
"Sorry." I said one I got to the field where Zach was. "I had to deal with something."
"Had me waiting for a while, I have matters to attend to.."
"Well I also have something to do and I'm pretty sure it's way important than yours."
"Whatever. Look, I think you're right about Johnathan having a master plan coming up."
My brows knitted. "Why? What'd you know?"
He looked around and back at me. "I heard him talking to someone on the phone outside the school this morning, he said the words 'they're not gonna see it coming'. I don't think he's alone in this, there was a name he called that I didn't quite hear."
I blinked, I most certainly didn't think Johnathan would ask others for help, he was never like that but then he had no limits. "Why would Johnathan ask someone else for help? What evil plan does he have now?"
"I don't know but we need to figure this out fast and, we need to watch Raven and keep her away from that rapist."
I nodded. "Yeah and," I gulped. "You should also watch Henry."
His brows knitted. "Why?"
"Two strikes. Remember when I talked about the strikes from the texts?"
Zach nodded, looking suddenly interested as he folded his arms. "Yeah,"
"The first strike is Raven and we all know he's after her and her family's wealth. The second," I paused. "It's Henry. Henry's the second person he's gonna go after."
Zach chuckled. "You're kidding."
I wasn't smiling and his face suddenly went serious.
"Oh my God."
I nodded. "You need to watch over him," I couldn't believe I was telling Zach this. I should just let Johnathan do whatever he wants with Henry and ruin his life for what he said to me, but here I was doing the opposite and I didn't know why I cared so much.
Zach nodded. "I will, thanks."
I nodded.
"One question,"
I looked at him.
"Jax slapped Henry this morning, w-what was that about?"
My heart stopped, I blinked severally and swallowed. "Let's just say your best friend had it coming, I don't wanna talk about it." I said, totally avoiding the topic. "J-Just...watch him and-"
"Shit," Zach cursed silently.
I frowned. "What?"
He was looking behind me.
"He's watching." He muttered.
My jaw dropped. No, Johnathan couldn't. He's gonna figure it all out and know that Zach knows and hurt Raven the more.
"Oh God, how long has Johnathan been standing there?"
He frowned. "Not Johnathan," I frowned. "Henry." He mentioned and my eyes widen.
"Shit, he shouldn't know."
"You're telling me? He's just staring and not even hiding. He probably thinks I haven't seen him."
I sighed. "We are enemies, he shouldn't see us communicating this way. We've never gone this far in a conversation without exchanging words and I'm sure everyone knows how much I hate you cause you're a despicable asshole."
He glared at me. "You're the drama king here, dear dark angel."
I rolled my eyes. "That name died a long time ago."
He scoffed. "So you think."
"I'm just gonna go cause he's gonna get suspicious."
"He's gonna get suspicious if you just walk away like we had a normal conversation."
"That's because we did."
"You know what I mean!"
I rolled my eyes. "Okay fine, I have a plan."
His brows furrowed. "Great, well you better put that plan to work cause he's walking over here." He said softly as he stylishly looked behind me.
I nodded and slapped him across the face.
He held his cheek as he winced in pain like a child. "Are you fucking kidding me? That fucking hurt!" He barked.
I smiled. "Well then that should clear all suspicions in his head," I shrugged. "I've always wanted to do that." I grinned and walked away.
***
I was sitting with my best friends during lunch, Raven was going on about something that I wasn't paying attention to since I was super busy thinking of how to get Eric back to Eastwood.
Just then, he walked into the cafeteria. Johnathan with a smirk on his face with someone I knew beside him.
"What the fuck?" I muttered loud enough for them to hear. Raven followed my gaze and huffed once she saw Johnathan then her brows knitted in shock and anger once she saw the other boy.
"Wait, isn't that your boy, Jon?" She asked, staring at the boy walking beside Johnathan with a smile. "Well, well, well. I knew we shouldn't have been friends with that guy, he was always a bad kid."
I stood up and made my way towards them with an angry expression, they stopped walking once I told before them.
I looked at Jon. "What the fuck do you think you're doing? I told you not to hang out with him, he's a bad guy and you're supposed to be my friend and not be the friend of my enemy."
Johnathan smirked.
Jon shrugged. "Hanging out with you has gained me a little popularity and thank you for that, but if I'm gonna get that popularity that I had and return to the football team, I'm gonna have to hang out with the one guy that can make it come to pass. He promised me he would give me what I once lost in order for my loyalty and my friendship, and that is exactly what I'm giving to him if it means having everyone worship me again. He's a better friend, he hasn't made fun of me since today like you would in forty seconds, you'd call me dumb and many other names and I had to tolerate that to climb the ladder. Johnathan is a better person, he actually does care about my feelings."
Yeah, right.
I glared.
"You. Are. Such. A low life, you know that?" Jax said as he walked from behind me and stood by my side. "When nobody accepted you, Dylan did. And then I did and even Raven let you sit with us even when she know what a snake you would turn out to be but we didn't believe our best friend and decided to call you our friend. "
He chuckled. "I didn't ask for that, did I? I mean I'm grateful for that, saving my ass from such humiliation but what'd you want from me? You want me to wash your feet? Kiss your ring?" He chuckled. "That time has passed."
I glared daggers at him. "I shared things with you, I thought I could trust you. I thought I could call you a friend but you're just that same jerk who deserves to be burnt alive. I guess this is your world, you just love being everybody's bitch, don't you? First, Eric and now Johnathan." I chuckled wickedly.
He clenched his fists.
"I guess that's your field of interest, you love being a slave. You just love having someone boss you around and have you do their dirty work, don't you? Well congratulations, you found yourself an absolute dick to take care of your needs." I said pointing at Johnathan.
Jon stood a step forwards but Johnathan held his hand and stopped him from doing what he wanted to. Was he gonna hit me?
"You don't need to, Jon. Don't let your anger make you do stupid things, you shouldn't put a mark on his pretty face."
I scoffed.
"He deserves what's coming for him," he smirked. "Everything. We don't need to make him pay for his words by hitting him, that's so last season." He said as he patted Jon's shoulder.
"Then what are you gonna do?" Jax asked. "Any new trick up your sleeve?" He folded his arms. "Wait, let me guess, a car accident or are you gonna drown us? You're a psycho so I can't think of better things."
He smiled at Jax. "Sweet little Jax, I heard you didn't have a tongue as sharp as you do now, months ago. I see Dylan here is building you up."
Jax gave him the finger.
He chuckled. "Anyways to answer your question, the storm is coming very soon and this time. In full force." He creepily smiled. "Come, Jon. We've spent half of lunch time doing irrelevant things, let's go eat." He said and walked past us, Jon smirked and followed.
"You're really following him." I said to him.
He signed and turned. "Don't you get it, Dylan? I'm not on your side anymore." He said and continued walking.
I folded my arms as I watched them leave before looking at Jax, he looked at me and sighed dramatically.
"Well, that was something." He said and folded his own arms.
"I knew he couldn't be trusted." Raven said as she made her way towards us. "I'm always right. Always. You give people a chance and they hit you with a truck at any opportunity they get. Believe me now?" Her brows rose as she folded her own arms.
I rolled my eyes at her and walked back to our table.
***
Zach, Jax and I sat at the same coffee shop we always did meet up. We've been here for over twenty minutes and no one has said anything. Jax looked really bored, Zach kept sighing every now and then while I just drank from my glass with a straw while making annoying sounds since I was bored and stressed.
"Could you quit it." Zach angrily said.
I glared at him. "Would you stop sighing every two seconds."
"It's better than your stupid noises." He shot back.
"You sound really aggressive, what happened to your face?" Jax asked, his chin resting on his palm.
"This asshole slapped me earlier."
Jax gasped. "Drama that I don't know of? Why did you slap him?"
I rolled my eyes at Zach's childish act for being angry. "I had to. I didn't want his best friend to get suspicious after seeing us talking and Zach wasn't coming up with any plans and so I did the one thing that could save us the trouble," I grinned. "I slapped him."
"Two best friends got slapped today," Zach tsked. "Isn't that like fate or something."
"Hmm, now that you mentioned it. It does sound like that." I agreed.
Zach glared. "Keep talking and another set of best friends will be slapped."
Jax surrendered.
"Stop acting like a child, Zach. It's just a slap."
"My fucking face still hurts!" He snarled.
"It does hurt like acid burning your skin, doesn't it?" Jax said in a 'I feel you' tone. "I mean, I don't know how acid being poured on someone feels like but I bet it's like that."
Zach rubbed his cheek. "It does hurt." He said and glared at me. "I hate you."
I nodded. "Forever mutual." I said and continued my annoying sipping, Zach looked at me with frustration while Jax groaned.
I smiled, right before I felt a presence beside me.
"Sorry I'm late." A voice said.
We all looked up at the smiling boy and glared at him.
I arched my brow. "Really? Twenty minutes?"
His smile fell. "Do not make me feel guilty."
"Where the fuck have you been?" Jax yelled.
"You wasted twenty fucking minutes of my time." Zach scowled.
"Dude, what the fuck?" I sighed.
Okay, too much swearing.
"I'm sorry," Jon said and took a sit beside Jax and I. "I couldn't leave just yet, don't forget you guys made me do what I didn't want to." He said and looked at me with a frown.
I finally smiled at him. "Well, you did a good job, Jon." I patted his shoulder.
Flashback.
Jon sighed. "How about the Raven plan?"
I nodded. "About that," I smiled at him. "It's your turn to take a step."
"What do I have to do?"
"It's actually quite simple." I said with a smile. Jon's left brow slowly rose as he stared at me, waiting for me to spill the plan that he didn't think was as simple as I said.
"I don't like that smile on your face," Jon said with a sigh.
"Listen, all you have to do is be friends with Johnathan."
His eyes widen. "What?"
"Are you kidding?" Zach's left brow rose.
"He's got to be kidding." Jax said. All eyes on me.
I sighed. "Listen to me first, okay? Look, you can't kill a lion if you stand on the street, you'd have to go into the jungle or.....wherever they are, to have their head." I said once i realised Jaxton was gonna say Lions don't live in the jungle.
"Horrible proverb." Zach said blankly.
"Let. Me. Finish." I glared at him and looked back at Jon. "We need to attack from the inside, instead of trying to break the door of a gigantic castle, why not have someone inside to just open the door without us raising an alarm?"
"Still a horrible pr-"
"I will slap your head off." I chimed in. "We need you to do this Jon! The only way to get Johnathan to talk is to be close to him, he's not a bragger but his mouth can't stay shut forever. The enemy of his enemy is his friend and from today, we're enemies." I smiled at him.
"He does have a point," Jax nodded. "I mean its better to start the fire inside."
I snapped my fingers. "Exactly!"
Jon didn't seem sure. "You said he's like the smartest in the world. What if he finds out that I'm just with him to get information? What if he sniffs out the lie immediately?"
"Praise him and compliment him and you're already on his good side," I shrugged. "He never got that kind of attention at home and so he seeks attention everywhere."
Jon sighed.
"All you have to do is make him believe you want to be around him, make him think you hate me so much and you've only tolerated me. He's smart, yes but together we're smarter," I said and looked at Zach. "That includes you too, you should be thankful that you got that credit in the department you don't fit in."
He glared. "I will stab your eye with a fork."
I smiled at him and looked back at Jon. "Come on, we can do it. You can do it. We need you now. Zach already played his part by having the school ignore him, now we need a man on the inside. You. He wouldn't believe it if it was Jax, you on the other hand was once popular. Use that."
Jon seemed to be thinking about it, he scratched his head. "I'm only doing this because of Raven."
I smiled. "Yes. It's just for her."
"Fine."
"Yes!" I grinned.
Zach cracked a smile. "You need to be careful though, if he's that bad of a person and a cunning bastard as the devil beside me described him," I rolled my eyes at him. He continued. "Then you need to be active, cautious."
Jon nodded. "I got it."
"If he starts to suspect you, even if it means you have to punch me to gain it back then do it."
Jon frowned. "You're serious?"
I nodded. "I'll get you back later but you understand."
He frowned the more. "No, no one's hitting anyone."
"So I guess that's settled then. It's your turn, Jon." Jax said.
Jon nodded.
I looked at him. "And Jon," he looked away from Jax and at me. "Don't screw this up, please."
He nodded. "I promise I won't."
I grinned. "Great," I turned to Zach. "Now, Zachariah."
"Don't call me that."
"You're gonna order Chinese food for everyone of us now." I said with a smile.
His brows knotted. "Why would I do that?"
"Cause you have a credit card with enough cash in it and we're poor, unlike you." I said with a still smile.
Zach gave me a look of how tired he was of just being around me. He sighed and picked up his car key from the table as he stood up. "Since we're done here, I'll leave first." He said and began walking away.
"But. The Chinese food!"
"Go fuck yourself, Dylan!" He said as he exited the coffee shop..
"I really hate him."
They laughed.
Flashback Ends •
"Your words did sting a little. The bitch part." He whined.
"Sorry, had to make it a little realistic." I shrugged.
"I do think we all deserve an Oscar for that performance." He smiled.
Jax grinned. "I know right, we totally had him fooled." He giggled.
I smiled. "He definitely bought that, I mean every word sounded hurtful and I felt like I was in a movie, there is no way he couldn't have believed every single word."
"Yeah and-"
Zach cleared his throat. "I'm sorry that I have to cut you all unnecessary celebration like you three are some bunch of eight year olds, but I think we need to get back to the main point of being here. We already spent twenty minutes listening to Dylan sing."
I gasped. "You asshat, I sound amazing when I sing."
"Of course you do," he said with every amount of sarcasm.
"Okay, that does it." I rose my hand high. "Can the waiter please get me a chainsaw?" I said out loud and got looks from everyone in the coffee shop but I didn't care.
Jon pulled my hand down and I instantly looked at Zach and gave him the finger.
He shook his head at me and looked away.
"Anyways, Johnathan didn't....suspect you in the beginning, did he?" Jax asked and our gaze went back to Jon.
"He kinda did, he wasn't convinced and I had to just tell him a few things. With what you told me, praise him and make him feel important and you're already on his good side and that worked." He smiled.
"Good job, Jon."
"So what's next?" Jax asked.
"We all know Jonathan's up to something but we don't think he's alone."
Four brows knitted.
"You think he has a partner?" Jon asked
Zach nodded.
"I mean he did say the Titans are coming or something like that." Jax shrugged.
"Yeah and we need to f-" my phone began to ring. "Sorry," I took it out of my pocket.
Unknown caller?
I answered.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Dylan? Have a nice day at school?"
My best skipped a beat.
I looked at the boys and stood up quickly, I moved further away from them. "What'd you want again, Eric?"
"How's our plan coming? "
"I'm trying."
"It's Friday, Dylan. Exams are on Monday, I was expecting some good news."
"You know its not that easy, I tried. I really did. I even had to tell principal Evans that you've changed and we were friends now and he didn't-"
"I don't give a shit what you said. Get me back or your parents get the picture and finally know that their son is a fag."
"Watch what you say, Eric? That game of fire you're playing might just burn you."
He laughed. "Ooh, he's a fighter. I pull the stings here, Dylan. Not you. You don't tell me what to say and do."
I shut my eyes.
"Your time's running out, Dylan. How long till sweet mom know that her son sucks dicks and likes to make out with guys? Find out on Sunday, by eight pm, new episode of Eric destroys Dylan. " He said and laughed maniacally.
I couldn't say a word, I was scared and my heartbeat increased
"I didn't know you could stay quiet for this long."
"P-Please," I begged, voice cracked.
"The clock's ticking, Dylan." He said and hung up.
I was too choked up to speak, I wiped off my stupid tears real quick. I couldn't even fake a smile right now, I walked back to our table and picked up my bag. "I gotta go, I'll see you boys tomorrow."
"But we aren't done." Zach said with a frown..
"Continue without me." I said before walking away real quick.
He killed the mood...
I had to do something...
I needed to think..
I needed to get him back..
I can't let him succeed...
I know what's at stake...
I know what's gonna happen...
The school finding out was the least of my problems...
I didn't want my parents to know...
And I didn't want Henry's image tarnished because of this...
I needed to act fast...
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