“Thanks.” I took a huge gulp of my wine. I was more than ready to down the bottle and crash tonight, but right now I didn’t want to be alone with my thoughts.
“Want to talk about it?” Stella usually pushed for details, but I knew she could sense things really went wrong after the party.
“He took me over to the university to teach me how to swim. It was like we went back in time when we used to be friends. Everything was going great and then things got heated.” I left out the part about what I saw on his back. I knew how I was with my secrets and I knew his were most likely as dark as mine.
“How heated?”
I put a pillow over my face and said quickly, “I slept with Jude in the coach’s office at school.” Stella ended up spitting her wine out everywhere.
“Holy shit! Was it good at least?”
“Honestly, best sex I ever had. No offense to your brother.”
“Ah! Don’t you ever repeat those words again.” I couldn’t help, but laugh while she held her hands over her ears.
“Oh shit.”
“What?” I have a feeling I’m not going to like what comes out of her mouth next.
“What is Knox going to think about you hooking up with his best friend? You know he wants you back, right?” I felt a bigger headache coming on now with the stress of Knox finding out.
“This is more of a mess now. I don’t think Jude is going to say anything to anyone. He seemed pissed it even happened to begin with.”
“Ok?well I won’t say anything either. I’m not for lying to Knox, but I think it’s unnecessary to hurt him when you two aren’t dating anyways.” Stella was one who always kept a promise and I trusted she would. I just hated that I now put her in the middle of it.
“Enough about me. What’s going on with you and Brad?”
“You mean douche bag?” She gave me a pointed look and I forgot about my rude stunt from before.
“I’m sorry about that, I was out of line.”
“It’s ok and he figured you were just drunk. It’s all new and I know he may have come off a little bit of a douche bag, but he’s sweet to me. I want to see where this could go.”
“Then you should, but what about Ezra?”
“What about him?” She is completely blind. Anyone in the room with those two can see they have feelings for each other, especially Ezra.
“You know he likes you, right?”
“Ezra! No! We’re just friends and like I said before he would never date me because of Knox.” Anytime Stella’s voice goes up another octave, you can tell she’s hiding something.
“I’m exhausted from tonight. You can keep your secrets, but eventually I’ll find out.” I got up to head towards my room when a pillow went soaring past my head.
I tossed and turned most of the night. I couldn’t stop the images of tonight replaying in my head. From almost drowning to sleeping with Jude, I had one hell of a night. Even the guilt of sleeping with Jude behind Knox’s back weighed on me deeply. Part of me knew I should tell Knox the truth because he deserves to hear it from me before anyone else, but the other part that was winning told me not to break his heart even more because he mostly likely won’t ever find out. It’s not like we’re together where I cheated, but the guilt was all the same.
I slept most of Sunday away and now dreadful Monday was here. I wasn’t looking forward to English with Jude and Chanel, but at least I had Stella there with me. Well I thought I would have Stella.
“What’s wrong?” Stella had the blanket wrapped around her from head to toe and a nose redder than Rudolph’s.
“I’m sick.” Her voice was hoarse and you can tell she had no energy left.
“I’ll stay home with you. What can I get you?”
“Actually can you go to English today? We’re suppose to go more in debt with the Renaissance period and I can really use the notes from today’s lecture.” Out of all classes that was the one I didn’t want to go to, but I understood why she asked. Stella’s one weak subject was English, which is why we took it together.
“Of course. I don’t have anything going on in my morning classes. How about we throw some movies on until I have to leave?”
“Sounds good, thank you.” I went to the kitchen and made Stella another cup of tea. We watched a few romance movies that are her favorites. It didn’t help me at all to forget about Jude. I definitely have to sneak a horror movie in for tonight.
Soon it was time for class and I headed out to my car after making sure Stella had everything she needed. I might have even snuck her phone and texted Ezra to come over. She’ll most likely will kill me when she’s better, but I had a feeling one day she will thank me.
I pulled up to the English hall and my anxiety was at an all time high. When I got to the class room, I was one of the last in. Luck was on my side though because there was a seat closest to the door where I didn’t have to walk past Jude sitting by Chanel. After what she did to me, it was a slap in the face he would even talk to her.
Scratch that, luck was not on my side. As soon as I went to sit down, my bag knocked into the seat next to me knocking this guy’s book and papers all over the ground. Why can I
