Falling In Love - Chapter 94
Ford.
Where am I even going?
I don’t know what I intend to do when I get to the party. Do I just confront her? Tell her to delete the picture or else?
Lisa has gone too far.
She has always been clingy. I didn’t have any reasons to bother with her but now her behaviour is affecting my relationship. Anyone that becomes a threat to Lance is a threat to me. I didn’t even let him tell me the whole story. I know how it went.
I can just imagine her demands.
She probably asked him to stay away from me—maybe break up with me or something, knowing full well that it would affect me in a not so good way. Iw ould spiral if Lance ever left me. I cannot handle a life where he is not in it. at this point I will take losing my family if I could have him. we have to escape. That is the only way my dad won’t do anything to us.
He will never accept this.
He will find a way to make me disappear.
That is the only reason why I have chosen keeping this a secret. I don’t like the fact that I cannot embrace him in public. I don’t like calling him my stepbrother. I have endured all that because being with him is better than not being with him at all. I will not let her take him away from me.
No matter what it takes.
I drive back to Nate’s house. The party is still bubbling. I doubt they will shut this down till the morning. This is how these parties usually go. I grab my phone from the console and dial her number immediately. I don’t plan on looking for her at all. I just want to set things straight.
”Hey, I thought you left,” she answers my call immediately, her voice so chirpy. Almost like she has forgotten that she just tried to blackmail my boyfriend.
”Can you come outside right now,” my voice is firm. I don’t plan on speaking to her nicely. I need to let her know that I won’t tolerate all this. Lisa is supposed to be my friend. we have been friends since we were kids. Now she is acting like I am nothing to her.
I get down from the car and wait for her at the front entrance of the house. There are people in the compound. Everyone is drunk and in the party mood. I don’t feel like celebrating, I didn’t even feel like coming for this party but I knew Lance wanted to come. Maybe if I didn’t pester him to come for my game, all this wouldn’t be happening.
Fuck, I shouldn’t be thinking like that. I don’t plan on blaming him for all that has happened. We were bound to be found out eventually. Secrets tend to come out, no matter how good you cover your tracks.
I see her immediately she walks out the door and a smile spreads on her face. the genuineness of her happiness to see me. this is what has me confused. She is happy to see me, she wants to spend time with me. She likes me. So why the fuck is she trying to ruin my relationship.
”You came back,” she wraps her arms around me without my consent. I grab her waist to push her off me. I am too pissed to even embrace her. She doesn’t seem to even care that she has done something wrong today. it is almost like she doesn’t believe I could find out about it.
”Stop the bullshit, Lisa.”
I succeed in pushing her off me and she has a confused expression on her face ”what is wrong?” she asks me innocently.
She is acting too innocent and it is just pissing me off more.
”Where is the video?” I go straight to the point. A flash of recognition springs up to her face suddenly. It is swift and it disappears immediately but I notice it. she knows what I am talking about, but I guess she is going to act like she doesn’t.
”What video?” she asks.
I roll my eyes, getting even more pissed ”You know what the fuck I am talking about. The video of me and my boyfriend.”
She opens her eyes wide from the revelation. I just admitted to her that Lance is my boyfriend. I will not deny him any longer, especially to someone like Lisa. ”I don’t have any video,” she denies it instantly.
”I know you are lying. Give me your phone right now. Why the fuck will you record such a thing?”
I grab her bag from around her arm and she tries to get a hold of it but I am too quick for her. I have a mission. My mission is to get her to delete the video. There is no talking any sense to her.
I don’t know how it will even stick in the first place. She is fucking crazy.
I bring out her phone from her bag and sure enough, it is locked. I don’t know what I was expecting. It couldn’t have been that easy.
”You can’t do this Brad. I haven’t done anything, and you are treating me like a fucking criminal,” she cries and it is almost believable but the only person I trust and believe is Lance.
I will believe him even if all the evidence showed otherwise.
”Why are you lying?”
She runs her hands through her hair pushing it back ”I am not lying. I don’t know what he told you, but it is not the truth.”
She decides to continue her lies. I cannot leave her without getting to the bottom of this.
”We are not together. There will never be anything between me and you Lisa. I don’t care that my father has made you think you are somehow relevant, but you are not. Why won’t you just leave me be?”
I am being mean.
I want to push her away. Let her see that I am no prize. There is nothing special about me, so I can’t understand why she won’t just let me go. I look at her, for something. I want her to be angry, I want her to show her true colours. tell me the truth for once in her life.
”You are very mean Brad,” she cries. I see the tears in her eyes as they well up. There is no sincerity in her eyes. This is all an act. I have known her too long to believe this sob fest.
”Cut the crap,” I tell her.
A smile creeps up to her face. the true expression she should’ve carried, instead of the manipulation, she was going for. I know my words won’t get to her. Lisa is a manipulator.
”You know, you guys are the most stupid people I have ever seen. How could you do that at school, knowing that you wanted to be a secret?”
She is right.
We made a mistake.
That shouldn’t have happened but what’s done is done. I don’t regret it because that only brought us closer.
”So, you admit it now?”
She nods and then crosses her arms over her chest. Her eyes roam around my face. she is trying to get a reaction from me. she wants this to hurt.
”I don’t care about it. if you choose to show that to my father,” I am lying right now. I don’t want her to show it to him but if she chooses to do this, then I will take the consequences.
”You know what he will do?”
The fact that she knows the man I call my father and the things that he can do but still wants to use this against me just shows that she actually never loved me.
This is just a power trip for her.
”I don’t care Lisa. I love Lance. I will fight for him no matter what,” I tell her because that is the only thing I can do. Bad things are about to happen. .the moment that tape gets to him, I am finished.
I will need to leave before he ever gets a hold of the video. I have to go somewhere far away, where he can’t find me.
”Who are you lying to, I have been your best friend for ten years. There is no way you will let him see the tape.”
”It is not up to me. The ball is in your court. I don’t know what you told Lance but I won’t agree to your demands.”
She laughs ”Even if you end up losing him either way?”
I don’t plan on losing him but I don’t tell her that. ”Delete the video, Lisa. We have too much history and you want to throw it all away for your own selfishness?”
”I only want you. I will not let him have you if I can’t have you.”
As usual, she is selfish.
Lisa is the most selfish person I have ever met.
”You will never have me. I will never be yours.” I take a step away from her and toss her phone to the ground. Hoping it smashes. I see her run to pick it up before I walk away from her.
There is nothing more to say to her.