Chapter 29

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"So he is your ex?" Jane asked surprised, still shocked from our 'truth talk'.

"Yeah..." I signed weakly. I hated talking about Mike.

"Is he the reason why you barely eat?" She asked curiously.

"What? Of course not!" I tried to convince her, not realising how terrified I sounded.

She couldn't know. No one could know about it.

"You don't have to lie to me dear." She told me kindly.

"I don't want to talk about it." I argued.

I made a mistake telling her about Mike.

Such a stupid mistake.

"You ha..." she tried to say before I interrupted.

"I said I don't want to talk about it." My tone was way too harsh, but she pushed it. She touched my most sensitive spot. I could tell Jane everything, but nothing about my eating... problems.

Jane left right after that making me feel guilty but mostly sad. She didn't deserve it.

God, I was starting to act just like Jones.

"How is your fever?" A familiar voice broke my chain of thoughts.

Talking about the devil...

A second later and Kevin sat next to me on the sofa, raising his bruised hand and checking my temperature.

"How is your hand?"

He smiled widely. Sometimes I got this weird, uncomfortable feeling that he only does it because he knows that I could only fall for his smiles.

It hides his asshole side pretty good.

"It's fine. Your temperature is slowly going back to normal." He said proudly.

"Thank you for letting me know." I said sarcastically, but apparently his smile was contagious and so I joined him, showing a fat smile.

"You're welcome babe." He winked, making my heart beat a little faster.

I knew that feeling far too good that I began to hate it. I have been there before. I didn't want to go back and that was for sure.

"I have to go for a little bit. I will be back pretty late so I trust you to make the right decisions."

"What right decisions?" I asked completely confused.

"Going to sleep early and using the wet towel." He winked again.

What the hell is wrong with him?

He got up from the sofa, showing me his tall figure, but before he had the chance to leave I called him.

"Hey Kevin!" He turned around to face me.

"Are you feeing ok? Like does your work involves drugs? I mean, I won't judge if you are on something." I mumbled.

"I am not on drugs Mariah." He rolled his eyes at me.

"Why are you nice then?" I stared at his blue eyes.

"Why wouldn't I be?" He sounded offended but mostly mad.

"I don't know. Cause you are an asshole? Were an asshole? God, I don't even know anymore." The fire in his eyes deepened.

"Well I am not anymore right?" And that was when I knew that it was going to end badly.

"Yeah?" I could hear my voice shake, not from fear but from anger.

"So why push it Mariana?" He angrily answered.

He did not.

"Excuse me!" I screamed.

"I have to leave." He signed, regret showing in his eyes.

"You are such an ass!" I screamed once more.

"Sleep it off." He replied calmly, the regret in his eyes disappearing in seconds.

"How the fuck is that even....Oh my god I...." I felt like I was getting closer to the edge and it was making it so hard to speak from anger. I took a deep breath and tried to continue.

"Just go already." I whispered.

Unwanted tears threatened to come out but I stopped them.

Mariana.

A voice inside me repeated that name over and over again making me feel even more sick. 

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After that jerk left, I apologised to Jane and went to my bedroom. After much thinking, I decided that it was the best to take a break from him. I couldn't stand him anymore. His anger issues were too much to handle and I am sure that for him, I wasn't that much of an angel. But we were always fighting and it annoyed the shit out of me. He knew that he hurts me, he told me exactly that the night before. I guess he just didn't care enough to stop it.

We kissed once and we fought... more than once.

I had those moments when I really wanted to kiss him, but he always managed to ruin them with his stupid attitude.

I had a friend who lived three hours away from the house. A warm shower helped me understand that maybe visiting her will make the situation between Kevin and I more stable. At least with less fighting.

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