I walked over and gave Knox a kiss on the cheek and a hug. When he finally released me after a minute, I nodded my head towards Stella’s room. Knox sighed looking at the ground, but nodded his head acknowledging he knows he has to go talk to her now. They maybe years apart, but you would never guess by how close they are.
Now that Knox is not a suspect, who in the hell would do this to me? I couldn’t think of anyone that can be that pissed off at me besides Chanel and Jude. Chanel wouldn’t know about the picture unless Knox told her. Jude on the other hand had my fucking bag this morning with my phone in it. How can I be this stupid! That’s what he meant when he said red looks good. That asshole may have think he is a step closer to breaking me, but he has another thing coming.
Chapter Nineteen
Jude
While out on my run, I kept the music loud and kept myself pushing harder and harder until I couldn’t breathe. I thought getting back at Madison would feel good, but it back fired on me instead. Hearing all the guys around campus talking about Madison made me want to grab her and claim her in front of everyone. I didn’t understand myself. How can I hate her, but want her so damn much.
I finished my run after an hour and headed towards home. When I got back all the guys’ cars were here. Knox, Ezra, and Rem became the family I never had. They were my brothers and I hope they always will be once Knox finds out it was me. I opened the door to all them sitting at the table with a beer in their hands. Knox was chugging his down and I had a feeling it had to do with Madison.
“What’s going on, someone die?” I walked over to the fridge and grabbed myself a beer too. I was going to need a few of these to get through the rest of the night.
“Yeah mine and Madison’s relationship!” Knox buried his head in his arms. I never seen him so bent out of shape over a girl.
“Guessing she wasn’t happy about almost being fucked on by tits one and two from last night?”
“It didn’t help, but no her picture that went all over the campus was the cherry on the top! I was the only one who she sent that too, so her and Stella came to the conclusion it was me.” Fuck, I didn’t mean to get him involved.
“Wait, back up. Stella knows?” Ezra asked innocently, but Knox was looking at him like he asked to fuck her.
“Why all the questions about my sister?”
“Chill out man it was just a question!” Knox leaned over and got in Ezra’s face accusing him of wanting to screw Stella. Ezra was starting to get heated and I felt a fight coming.
“Guys calm the fuck down already, he asked a simple question. We all knew it was a secret from Stella. So we’re guessing Stella found out today?” Rem said trying to diffuse the fight.
Knox sat back down and you can tell he was exhausted from today. “Sorry, I’m having a bad day.” He clapped Ezra’s back and Ezra nodded his head in return, accepting his half ass apology.
“Now tell us the whole story.” Rem said seriously. You can tell the photo getting out pissed him off too. It surprised me how he already cared this much about Madison since he never really got close to others so quick.
“Alright, Madison sent me that picture of her last year for Christmas. I printed it out and deleted it from my phone.” I never wanted to punch Knox in the face before as much as I do now. God I’m a jealous fuck. “Man that picture got me through some lonely nights.” Scratch that. I wanted to punch him more than anything now. I kept my face schooled and I felt the bottle ready to break with how hard I was squeezing it.
“Stop masturthinking and continue.” What in the hell is masturthinking? We all just paused to look at Ezra questionably.
“What?” Ezra had the nerve to look at us like we were the dumb ones.
“Masturthinking?” I couldn’t help but ask.
“It’s like masturbating, but you’re thinking of masturbating instead of doing it.” Ezra said proud of the word he came up with. We all told him he was an idiot and motioned Knox to continue.
“Anyways, the picture got around as you all know and she figured it was me since I’m the only one who had it. I thought it was her playing games because of last night. I go over to her house to confront her about it and her and Stella immediately start bitching at me like I did it. Madison told me she wanted to go back to being just friends and then I had to go face Stella. Let me tell you that Stella is not this little innocent angel, but the devil back there. I had every heavy ass romance novel she had flying at my head. Do you know how bad those things hurt? She’s getting a Kindle for Christmas and I’m taking all her books off her!” Ezra was smiling big and I kicked him under the table to snap him out of it. A blind man can see he had feelings for Stella, but big brother Knox wasn’t going to have it.
“So you guys never figured out who sent it?” Rem asked.
“Nope but Madison isn’t an innocent girl. I bet she sent it to
