KIMBERLYBrandon and I didn't talk the entire ride back to LA, why? Because I joined Nao and Nate's ride."Are you sure you're okay, Kim?" Nate asks.It's just the two of us since Nao went upstairs to change. My head is bowed as I play with my fingertips."No," I shake my head. "It's just so hard Nate, I've been nothing but composed and understanding and I think people take that as me not having feelings at all, I'm human too, of course It would get too much and I would eventually lash out at some point, which is exactly what happened.""I get that, and I hope that Brandon sees your side of things, you guys are strong, I believe in you and i know that the love you have for each other will conquer all obstacles.""Honestly, I'm just so tired of all the fighting. It's getting worse with each time, I don't want to reach my breaking point."He stares into the distance and I know he understands me very well, that happened to Nao years ago and she almost got herself killed by not taking goo
KIMBERLYI'm extremely annoyed, no, annoyed is an understatement, I'm utterly pissed and livid, I'm angry, I'm a lot of things right now. I glare at Michael who is seated opposite me with his elbows resting on his knees and a bottle of beer dangling between his fingers. The moron looks unbothered by my glare, in fact, when i glare harder and my eyes turn to slits, he grins at me."Michael!" I say with more annoyance and frustration but his grin widens some more."What?" He arches a brow.I sigh,"Are you just going to sit there and follow orders from Brandon instead of having fun?"He takes a sip and keeps staring at me as if I didn't even say a single word. My attempt at poking him fails miserably but I don't give up.Scooting closer to the edge of the sofa, I try to bargain with him."Look," he turns his head away from me, pretending to be avoiding me but I continue. "If you just let me do whatever the hell I want, I might get you a date with April."His eyes snap to mine.Yes!"I
KIMBERLY"Oh. You so you've seen him in your dreams?" Because you're obsessed with him not because it's fate. I say but don't tell her that."Yes.""What dreams are they?""You won't judge me, right?""Of course not."Her cheeks tint a bright shade of pink."He ..he does things to me that no man has ever done."Oh shit. She really is obsessed. And, she's a...virgin?Silence.More silence."Please don't think I'm a psychopath, I swear I'm not.""April, no. I don't think like that at all."I lean back in my seat and take in all her features. Michael doesn't like innocence, he likes them all ruffled up, he likes rebels and strays.April is too innocent, but there's no denying the fact that she's extremely beautiful, if I'm being honest, she's slightly more prettier than Sam and trust me, Sam is pretty. The one who wants to make us run for the hills with her beauty is Nao. April grabbing Michael's attention?Well, it's a long shot but worth trying."Can we take a pic together, you know,
BRANDON"I asked you to keep an eye on her, why the hell did you let her leave?" I whisper to Michael."Now I'm the one to blame for what happened to her? Dude, I didn't expect that to happen either."I let out a deep sigh and run my hand over my face. When I saw how she looked last night, my heart almost leaped out of my chest. She was all bruised and swollen I almost didn't recognize her."And that comes to my question, where the hell were you?"My eyes snap to Michael's and my heart swells in my chest when I think about where I was. This fucking guilt I will carry for the rest of my life. I left her, I wasn't there to save her and that fact eats me the fuck up. Whoever saved her protected her, I don't even want to imagine what would have happened to her if that person didn't appear on the scene on time. I can't even thank him because she doesn't know who he is, she didn't see his face."I had to take care of something.""Was it that important that you had to leave her behind witho
KIMBERLY The past two weeks have been hard. My bruises are gone but I'm still self conscious, so I apply too much makeup on my eye. I still have no idea who the hell saved me that night. As for Brandon, he's gone back to the routine of disappearing and coming back with bruised knuckles or a split lip.Brandon is not one to hurt innocent people, that's why I'm worried where he goes to every time only to come back like he's from war.Ever since I got beat up, I've had this awful fear of taxi's or ubers, so i always walk my way home.I enter the girl's apartment and find them cuddled on the sofa watching a romance movie on Netflix."Hey!" Nao say, she straightens from her position where she was resting her head on Sam's shoulder then pats the space between them. "You took too long we couldn't wait.""That's fine," I say and sit in the middle. "What's the storyline?"Sam gives a brief description and then there's comfortable silence as we watch the movie. * *A tap on my shoulder startl
KIMBERLY Operation, "Find Out What The Guys Are Up To." is in full progress.I lie on my back on the bed, wondering what the hell is going on when the door opens and Nao walks in with a bowl of ice cream.It's just the two of us today since Sam went out with this new guy she met a few weeks ago, I'm happy to say that things are really looking good for them, i want Sam to be happy and the fact that she's finally giving herself a chance to be loved and to love makes me so proud.I sit up and give Nao a warm smile."Hey," "Hey," she replies. "There's someone downstairs for you.""Who is it?""He said his name is Harry, from school.""Oh." I get up and walk downstairs.Harry is seated on the sofa with a glass of water in his hand. Ever since he heard about my attack two weeks ago, he kept checking up on me over the phone, this is the first i've seen him in person after our school project together."Harry?"He turns around and smiles at me over his shoulder."Kim," he places the glass o
KIMBERLY The entire ride, all I can think about is how Brandon let those stupid whores embarrass me. Michael and Jonathan too. I wipe at the tears angrily and park the car in the driveway. I thought about not coming back to the girl's apartment incase Brandon decides to follow me, but then I thought about the words he slapped me with last time, "I always run away at a small sign of misunderstanding". I lean my hands on the kitchen island and close my eyes. The door opens but I don't move, his cologne hits me even before his voice does. "It's not what you think." I turn around and slap him hard across the face. I glare at him through a blurry vision and I hate that stupid tears keep forming behind my eyelids. I need to show him that I'm strong, not just some weak girl who runs away every time and cries anytime we aren't in good books. His jaw clenches and his eyes harden. That annoys me more because he has no right to be mad that I slapped him, so I do it again. "Kim," he says
BRANDON The death glares Naomi has been giving me since yesterday are enough to put someone in a damn comma. When Kimberly asked me if I fucked Shiloh, I was dumbfounded. Lying and cheating are two different things, the fact that she thinks I would actually dip my dick in someone else who isn't her pisses the shit out of me. I'm anything but a fucking cheater. I hate that she was crying, I hate it when she does. The angry sex though? It was everything, I liked the pain she inflicted on me, I wouldn't mind if she repeated it over and over again, it just made my dick hard. Backing up has never been my thing, I'm just giving her a few hours to calm the fuck down and I'll be bursting through that damn door so that we can talk. What she found in that frat was a pre party chill, the actual party is tonight and I wouldn't put it past Kim to think I'll be fucking Shiloh. I need to erase that doubt from her mind, my dick won't be fucking anyone in this lifetime apart from Kimberly. I flo
KIMBERLY I take his hand and get to my feet. We dance around for what feels like forever and everything feels better, so much better. The Weeknd's song I Feel It Coming starts playing and something in the air changes as the lyrics go on and on. Matt's hands are on my body, touching,tracing,everywhere. He turns me around, my back to his front. A tingle zips through my vagina and my legs clench but his hands slowly move to my inner thighs and he parts them open. His fingers press down on my clit over my panties and the feeling intensifies. Why am I so horny? I ask myself the words that don't leave my mouth. His lips come to my neck and he nibbles at the skin there. This isn't right, it isn't and I don't want to do this, but why does my body say otherwise? Why can't I say no? He plays with my belly button and then his fingers are pushing down my panties, cool air blows on my skin then his finger is inside me, my back arches and he slowly moves his finger in and out until all I
KIMBERLY There's a knock on the door, I straighten from the couch and head over to open only to find Harry standing in front of me. "Harry?" I gasp then wrap my hands around his neck. "Thank god you're okay, I've been trying to call you for weeks now." "Yeah," he clears his throat. "I was away." I lead him to the living room and sit, pulling him down to the empty space next to me until we are facing each other. "What happened to you? The last time I saw you, you were in a hurry and didn't look good." "Oh, that. I got your messages that's why I came here. I was going through something and needed to go away for a while in order to clear my head." I nod. "Well, you're not the only one going through a lot." "Why? What happened? Are you and Brandon having problems again?" "Long story short, Marisa followed him in Andy's diner toilets and forced a kiss on him then revealed it using the classic game truth or dare and made it seem like something else." Harry sighs. "I'm fed up of
KIMBERLY You know when you cut yourself so deep they have to stitch you up and then you mistakenly end up getting the stitches open? Yeah, that how I feel right now. I was healing, but then I feel like I'm moving backwards from the progress I was making. My vision becomes blurry with all the tears forming. I look to my left and see Matt and his friends chatting, I jog to them, when he sees me, he pushes off the car with a smile on his face. "Please take me away from here." His smile drops. "Hey, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" "Just take me away from this place." I wrap my hands around my middle. "Okay, okay, come on." "Catch you later man." His friends walk away. I get in his car and turn my head to the side, rolling down the window because i really nee the air, i feel so suffocated right now. These stupid tears won't just stop flowing, I wipe at them angrily and Matt starts the car and drives off. This isn't the way to the girls condo but I can't seem to care about tha
BRANDON "Truth." I glare at her. She grins and I find everything wrong with this whole situation, it makes me uneasy and I don't know why. What the fuck is she playing at? "If you were told have sex or like kiss with Brandon." My head snaps to Lily but she keeps staring at Marisa. "In any diner's toilets, would you do it?" "Oh for fucks sake!" Jonathan says with annoyance lacing his tone. I look at Marisa, ready to pull her up and drag her out by the hair if I have to but she keeps smiling and then takes a sip of whisky. "Well, I wouldn't say no, I mean we actually-" "Marisa." I say through gritted teeth. She ignores my warning and keeps going, her eyes briefly moving to stare at something over my head. "We actually did it recently and I must say I enjoyed it quite a lot, so doing it again wouldn't be a bad idea." "Marisa!" I call out angrily and get to my feet. "What? She asked, I'm just playing the game." She shrugs her shoulders. "It's the truth anyway." She mumbles.
BRANDON Kim has been down for a few days now, she must have caught something when we went boat cruising five days ago. I step out of the pharmacy from getting her her meds since the ones she was taking got done last night. I stop at the gas station to fill my tank, then Andy's to get her favourite food. I leave the order and enter the bathrooms, exiting the stall, I feel hands wrap around my waist. I flinch away and turn only to be met with Marisa's eyes. "Whoa, there's no need to act like that, it's just me." "Yeah, it's just you and that's the problem. It's not supposed to be." "Oh come on, Brandon." She throws her hands up. "You're overreacting." "Get out of my way, Marisa." As if my words entered from one ear and left through the other, Marisa gets on her tiptoes and quickly crashes her lips to mine, sucking on my bottom one. The act makes me freeze but I push her away with my hands tightly gripping her shoulders. "What the fuck is you problem?" "Brandon," she fo
BRANDON "Did you tell Sam about your outing with Shiloh?" I ask when Kim stays silent for long. "No, why?" "Just asking, since you girls tell each other almost everything." "I didn't." She sighs. "I don't know how she'll react to that." I pause flipping through the papers and look at her over my shoulder. "I think it's great that you and Shiloh hang out, she's Xander's girlfriend and everyone agrees that they've moved on, it's only fair that she's made to feel welcomed." "Yeah, and I do want to hang out with her for Xander's sake and the fact that she's nice, but the last thing I want is to make things awkward if I decide to bring her along at the barbeque and Sam is there. You know, the 'the ex I hate's girlfriend thing'." "Maybe you don't have to bring only Shiloh, Sam's boyfriend can come too." "That's okay with everyone?" "If you mean Xander, then the answer is yes. He wouldn't mind." "Cool," is all she says. After a few beats of silence, I hear her stand. "Do you wa
KIMBERLY I grab my books and head out of the café when someone steps into my path, blocking me from moving. I sigh, starting to get tired of the repeated shit. "What do you want, Lily?" "You know exactly what I want Kimberly, my only problem is why you haven't yet done it." I roll my eyes. "If you're here to talk about Brandon, then forget it because I'm not leaving him." Her eyes harden and if it were possible, I would be seeing smoke coming out of her ears just by how mad she is right now. "It wasn't enough that you almost got Marisa killed? All that empathy for her I saw I'm your eyes was just a façade, wasn't it?" "Look, I was really sorry for what happened to Marisa, but it wasn't my favourite, so stop trying to pin it on me." I try to move around her but she grips my arm and pushes me back. I grit my teeth, finally annoyed. "You know, Lily, there's one thing that surprises me more in this whole little dynamic of yours. You seem to hate me more than even Mar
KIMBERLY I jump to my feet and throw my hands around Brandon's neck. He wraps his around my waist, after long minutes, I pull back and meet his eyes. "I-i didn't know this would happen, you need to be at the hospital and not here." His worried eyes look over my shoulder at the girls. "What the fuck did Lily say to her?" Nao repeats what Lily's exact words were and I wrap my hands around my middle and repeat what I just said to him when he entered the room. "You need to go to the hospital, Brandon." His eyes move back to mine and soften, then he places his hand on my cheek. "Where I need to be is here, with you." "No," I shake my head. "I know you say you don't but you do care, Brandon. I won't be that selfish to stop you from checking up on someone who attempted suicide because you shut them out." "Baby, what Lily said is bullsh-" "Please," I cut him off. "Please." Contemplation dances in his eyes. "For me." His eyes search mine. "Fine, but you're coming w
KIMBERLYI hug my books to my chest, leaning against the wall and smiling at Harry."Sooo, you will make it, right?"I sigh."I don't know, Harry. But I promise I'll try my best to make time."His face falls and I instantly feel bad for turning him down."Hey babe," Brandon says from beside Harry and he goes tense.Bran's eyes find Harry, but instead of scaring him off, he smiles at him and says,"Hi." I'm taken aback for a second there and so is Harry."Uh, hello. Kim, I better get going.""Sure, see you around."He walks off and I'm left with Brandon. I turn to him and smile with amusement."Well look who's being nice."He corners me until there's no space behind me and the wall. He places his hands on the wall behind me, caging my head between them, then he leans down so close such that I have to cross my eyes to get a better look at him."For you, I'd be nice even to the devil."He smiles down at me and I'm reminded once again that this man is the only one for me.I smile back an