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CHAPTER THIRTY
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BLAKE’S POVOh, never will I ever do a keg stand again!I woke up feeling like a truck had knocked me off the road and unto a train track and I was run over by said train one hundred times! My head hurt, the lights hurt my eyes and my tongue felt like sandpaper.I reached for the mini fridge I had beside my bed to get a bottle of water but my hand met with air. Slowly opening my eyes, I saw that where my mini fridge once was now sat an oddly shaped drawer. I looked around the room I was in and realized that it wasn’t mine.Just then, Anthony walked in, a huge bright smile on his face.“Good morning,” he said chirpily.“What the hell am I doing here and where’s my shirt?” His smile faltered a bit.“What’d you mean? You…you don’t remember?”“Uh, no. Did I come in through your window again?” I looked at his window. It was locked.“No.” There was a hint of disappointment and sadness in his tone. He moved to the side of his bed and picked up my shirt before flinging it at me.“You really c
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ANTHONY’S POVI tried my best to not think about how sad and heartbroken I was by the fact that Blake didn’t remember being an active participant in the best night of my life. As I stared up at the dark ceiling in the living room, feeling very uncomfortable being wedged between the arm rest of the ridiculously short couch, I tried in vain to not also think of how Crystal has been calling me ‘Anthony’ and not ‘Tony’ since she saw Blake on top of me yesterday. I think she was mad at me and I couldn’t blame her. I did make out with her boyfriend in my bedroom when she had given me the task of keeping an eye on him.The hickey on my neck was a sure sign of the incident that happened between Blake and I, yet he couldn’t recall it. I had thought that seeing it would jog his memory, but that didn’t happen. Even if it did though, what was I expecting? For him to break up with my sister and date me instead? As if Blake Lindell will ever be gay!I had decided to tag the incident as a drunken mi
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BLAKE’S POV“Doesn’t it seem weird to you how unnaturally happy Anthony is?”I did not anticipate the slamming of my locker that followed after my statement and the long, frustrated sigh that accompanied it.“Why? What’s wrong?” I asked, already dreading the kind of trouble I was in. Lately, it felt like just my mere existence was pissing Crystal off. She sighed and rolled her eyes and yelled at the slightest things that I did.“You! Your constant obsession with my brother and his love life. That’s what’s wrong.”“I’m not obsessed!” I said, whiningly. “I haven’t spoken that much about his love life either.” She gave me a deadpan look and faced her brother.“‘Babe, have you noticed that Anthony smiles more now than he did before? Babe, have you seen how late he’s getting home lately? The world is a dangerous place, he shouldn’t be out that late. Babe, Anthony doesn’t drive to school anymore, have you noticed that?’ That’s all you ever say to me!”I stared at her, unsure what to say. It
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BLAKE’S POVI was waiting by his locker, a huge grin on my face. I was excited to show him the playlist I developed for him. While I was on my bed thinking about how uncomfortable he must be on his couch, I thought of this song that I sang to him when we were kids. He liked it, and I believe it was mostly because he liked my voice, so I decided to make him a playlist of the songs that he liked in my voice! I just hope it would make him a little happy and less uncomfortable since he declined my offer to use my bed.I sighted him just as he came up to my locker. My hand moved up in a wave and a huge smile was plastered on my face, but he wasn’t smiling. In fact, he looked furious as hell. He reached his locker and before I could get any words out of my mouth, he punched me. I felt my lip tear and the taste of metal was vivid on my tongue.He raised his fist to punch me again, but this time around I was quick to respond. Pinning his hands against his locker, I looked at him and said gent
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ANTHONY’S POVI couldn’t sleep.My mind was occupied by thoughts I didn’t want to think of, and I was as uncomfortable as if they were squeezing me into a clown’s car lying on that couch.I was still very much mad at Blake and I still very much hated him, but I wouldn’t lie, I wish I hadn’t gone off on him like that, maybe then I would have been able to take on his offer of sleeping on his bed.He had the audacity to be mad me when he betrayed me twice. He waited for me to fall for his charm again, to let my guard down and think that he was on my side, just for him to out me. Again!Thinking about his actions in the ninth grade and his actions now succeeded in driving away what little sleep I had left in me. I tossed and turned on that couch, boiling to a thousand degrees, mad at myself for letting Blake use me again to satisfy his sick sense of humour.Damn Blake Lindell!My phone buzzed on the coffee table in front of me and I groaned in annoyance. It was way passed two in the morni
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ANTHONY’S POV“Where the hell are we going to sleep tonight?” I asked Blake. We were in his mother’s car now, chased back in from how cold outside was. We didn’t carry coats or anything that could keep us remotely warm. I had never been this cold in my entire life.Blake turned to look at the back seat. “Looks pretty comfortable to me.”“Blake...” I started in a warning tone. I liked the car, but there was no way I was going to sleep in it. He smiled, a goofy grin and ruffled my hair.“I’m kidding. My grandparent’s cabin is a couple minutes away from here. Luckily for us, I am their favourite grandchild and so they told me the password to it.”He put the car in gear and a couple seconds later we were leaving the beach and on our merry way to his grandparents’ cabin.It was rare for me to feel as happy as I did then and I was scared to let myself feel that happy because I kept having this feeling that it would all be taken away from me. The last time I felt like this – this happy and f
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BLAKE’S POV I kept driving, not knowing exactly where I was headed, but knowing I was going to take Tony away from everything and everyone that could possibly hurt him. He was sitting so still and so quiet and his face was turned towards the window so he was staring out at the blackness surrounding us through the tinted glass. I wanted to reach out to him, to hold him and assure him that I was on his side and that I didn’t hate him or think any less of him, but I couldn’t. Once again, I was consumed by fear, fear of how he would receive me; whether he would feel pleased enough to take my hand in his without beating himself up so much for whatever happened and what Crystal said to him. Fear of what it would mean for me to take his hand in this situation. We drove on in silence for a long time. About forty minutes later, I pulled up to the snow-covered beach and parked my car there. I really felt the silence then and it burned my heart. “Tony,” I called softly. He stiffened but didn’
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ANTHONY’S POVI don't know whose car I used but I found myself pulling up my drive way as if I had teleported there. I couldn’t remember how I got in the car and drove all the home but I did.My mind was completely blank, but at the same time it was filled with spiralling thoughts.My letter was found.Everyone knew I was in love with Blake, my little sister’s boyfriend.Blake knew I loved him even before we became friends again.Who the hell found my letter and taped it back together?Did that person know any more secrets of mine?“Tony!” The sharp, reproachful tone of my mother brought me back to reality that I so badly wanted no part of. I had somehow managed to get out of the car and walk up the little path that led to the front door.“Oh my God, Tony, what happened to you?” Her tone switched from reproachful to caring and worried in the blink of an eye. I had no idea how I looked, but I was sure it was not good since she was looking at me like a precious dragon egg that had crack
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BLAKE’S POV“Hey.”Words could not express how happy I was to see him.The garage door closed softly behind him and I was hugging him in record time, enjoying the warmth his cold body brought me.Right after I hospitalized Gary, the school called my parents. My father had to return back to the country while my mother, contrary to how I thought she would react to my behaviour, ended up fussing over me. Gary’s father was highly infuriated by my actions and he wanted to send me to jail, but then my mother called my grandfather, who was by all right more powerful and influential than the mayor, so I was suspended from school, banned from the dance and was under house arrest by my father who came to that agreement with Kieran Mitchel, Gary’s father.That was three days ago. Three days without talking to anyone or seeing anyone because my phone, laptop, tablet and game system were confiscated. Three days without being able to peep through my window to look at Anthony because my bedroom was
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ANTHONY’S POVI knew following him was a big mistake the moment I stepped into the EL. It had an eeriness and coldness about it that had nothing to do with the desertion of the place and the weather.Gary’s eyes were unsmiling and his entire demeanour was unwelcoming, but when he asked to speak with me, I never imagined it would involve anything more than speaking.“I can’t believe you, Tony. I really didn’t think you were like the rest of them,” Gary said to me. His words confused me. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and I told him so.“One minute you’re giving googly eyes and the next you’re ignoring me and talking to someone else. You know, I didn’t want to believe it when I heard Blake say one time that you were a serial crusher, but I started to observe you and I noticed how you fell for every guy who so much as looked in your direction.”I blushed really hard in embarrassment. It was true that I crushed on almost everyone, but to be fair, it wasn’t like I wante
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BLAKE’S POV “We are so not dressing up as waitresses to the dance just because a freshman said so.” Claire and I were in the abandoned pool house skipping class. She was previously at the library, but she said she got kicked out for unruly behaviour so she came to find me during History. Mr. Cornell was so worried when she told him that my mom had fallen in the bathroom and was in the ER that he let me go without even thinking twice. “I didn’t expect you guys to,” I said lowly. “Honestly, I don't even feel like going to the dance anymore.” Since my mother came back and dropped that bomb about divorcing my father, I haven’t been the same. I keep thinking back to how I was so much like my mother, leading someone on when I had absolutely no interest in them. At least my mom was brave enough to tell my dad she didn’t want to do that anymore, whereas I was picking out dress colours and matching corsages and even renting out limos for a school dance with the person I didn’t want to go wi
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ANTHONY’S POV“She did what?” Claire screamed. I looked around the library where we were in, praying that we wouldn’t get nasty glares from people around us.“Not so loud, Claire. Jeez.”Claire and I had come to a sort of understanding, that understanding being that I didn’t hate her as much as I did before now that I knew she had zero interest in Blake and she wanted to make me her little project by every means necessary. She was obsessed with Blake and I getting together, and while it was nice having someone on my side for once, it didn’t quite sit right with me especially since Claire was loud and outgoing and blurted out whatever was on her mind, like what she did just now.“Your sister is a real bitch, do you know that?”I grinned, liking how mad she was on my behalf even though I knew Crystal had every right to behave the way she did. She was, after all, Blake’s girlfriend while I was the one trying to come between them. If I were her, I would have told my mother I was dating hi
