Chapter 3: Confrontations Part 2 (Cye's POV)
Sage's broken heart reflected in his face and eyes. My heart ached. How can Ryo do such a thing? It was ghastly! He practically ripped Sage's heart out and crushed it. And Rowen, I have never seen him so angry. It was frightening.
I had suggested the drive for I knew that it would do them both good. Sage was in no shape to confront Ryo and Rowen…Rowen would have turned Ryo into a pin cushion! I shuddered at the thought. But I could see why. Sage had undergone a bad relationship before and now with this: he was practically broken. I had my own bone to pick with Ryo. I had Kento take the bags into the kitchen when I found Ryo in the living room, sprawled on the couch carelessly and flipping through the channels.
"Ryo," I said as I approached him. "We need to talk."
"Oh hey Cye," Ryo greeted me with a smile. "Pull up a seat." I nodded and sat down on the coffee table across from him. He looked at me and straightened up. He knew that I meant business.
"Ryo, Sage, the others and I want to know what's going on with you. Well, Sage found out the hard way but I want to hear it from you."
"What does Sage know?"
"He answered your phone and someone thought he was you, spoke dirty to him…" I watched as his face blanched to bone white. It was worse than I feared.
"I meant to tell him," Ryo said. "It's true though. I had met someone else. His name is Alex and we met two weeks ago at Andrew's party."
"Knowing full well you had Sage you….How could you?"
"I wasn't thinking," Ryo said. I looked at him and had to bite my tongue to control my anger. I thanked God that it was me that was here and not Rowen.
"Ryo, Sage loved you. How could you do this to him and say with a straight face that you loved him too? That you wanted to be with him?"
"I do want to be with him but…"
"But nothing!" I said. "You can't play with people like this! You knew that Sage came out of a really bad relationship. How can you stoop so low? Is this all fun and games to you?" Ryo had the decency to bow his head.
"I love him too but I just…my urges are too overwhelming…"
"Excuses…and from our own leader…" I said. "This is unbelievable. How can you live with yourself?"
"Day by day and I do what I have to do."
"Well then Ryo," I said to him with a sigh. "Rowen is dealing with him now. He's as pissed as we all are, maybe more so. Sage has been through so much and yet…something new always happens to him. Ryo, Sage is heartbroken. He gave you the world and his heart…and this is how he's repaid? You don't deserve him." I stood up and walked into the kitchen. I felt numb and didn't even tell Kento to back away from the snacks that we had purchased. This was too much for us. Due to his folly, Ryo had broken us all up and Sage, only he knew when he would bounce back again. I was about to make us dinner when Ryo came into the kitchen.
"You're right Cye," He said as he looked at me. In his hand was his armor orb. I looked at him in question as he set it down in front of me. "I don't deserve him. And…I don't deserve the right to be your leader and your friend. Tell Rowen, he's the leader now." As he tried to leave I clasped him on the arm.
"You should tell them that yourself Ryo." I said as I nodded to Kento, silently telling him to get my phone from my jacket. Ryo nodded and went to pack his things.
"So, he's leaving us huh?" Kento asked me. I sighed and dialed the number to Rowen's cell. I didn't have to wait long.
"Yeah?" Ro's thick New Yorker accent said. "Cye what's up?"
"Ryo's ready to talk." I said. "Are you ready to handle him?"
"Hold on a sec." Rowen said. I nodded and waited, hearing their whispering. After five minutes, Rowen got back on the phone.
"Cye, yea, we're ok. We'll be there in a few. Don't let Ryo leave." I gave my ok and hung up. I told Kento to watch over Ryo while I waited for Rowen and Sage to come back. They pulled up into the driveway in less than twenty minutes.
"Cye, we're here!" Rowen called. I walked to them and looked at them. Sage looked even more terrible. His eyes were red and he had tear streaks. He looked at me and smiled sadly. I swallowed back my own tears and smiled back.
"Seiji," I said as I held him close. Sage just rested against my shoulder a bit but looked up when he saw Kento and Ryo coming down the stairs. Sage showed Ryo his phone and Ryo's face blanched.
"Sage I…"
"I don't want to hear it Ryo." He said in a flat voice. "I want to know why? I think you owe me that much."
"I wasn't thinking Sage and for this I'm sorry."
"How can you say that you love me and do something like this?" He asked. "Didn't what we had meant anything to you?"
"Sage it did but I…."
"Of course, I understand. You want someone who would take advantage of you. To treat you low and once they were done with you, to leave you."
"That's not true…" Ryo pleaded. "Sage please, I l…"
"Don't say that to me, for we both know you don't mean it." He said. "When you love someone, you don't leave them just to leave. When you love someone, you do your damndest to make sure you can work through anything and everything….I thought we had something special…you took that away from me and didn't even care." Ryo looked at him and wanted to reach out to him but Rowen stepped in.
"Ye done enough Ryo." He said curtly. "I think it's best if ye kept away from Sage as well as me for a while. We can't believe that you were capable of this. He trusted you and loved you and now look at what you've done to him! Ryo look at him!" I watched as Ryo did look at Sage and I saw deep down that there was some remorse. He did love Sage but, not enough to tell him what was really going on.
"Sage," Ryo said. "For what's its worth, you are a wonderful person and I don't regret my chance in dating you. I do love you, very much and I hope that one day, you could forgive me. For now, I'm wishing you all goodbye. Maybe we'll see each other one day." With a last look to us, Ryo picked up his bags and left, telling White Blaze to stay for Rowen and the others would need him. He got into his car and drove away, not once looking back.
I shook my head as I watched Ryo drive out of our lives. I held his kanji orb then turned to Rowen, giving it over to him.
"Rowen," I said. "Ryo said it's up to you to lead."
"And what about Sage?" Kento asked. Rowen and I looked at the upset blond and held him. It was not going to be easy, but I know that somehow, in someway, Sage would learn to love again.
Author's Note: What do you think? Don't be shy. Anyway thanks for reading!
