Chapter 3 I Miss you I Don't Know How Else to Say it.

Naomi took a deep breath as she entered the park.

She spotted Liam sitting alone on a bench. Naomi chickened out.

What if she wasn't strong enough , and she easily let him off the hook?

No, be the triple Ss, Naomi told herself.

Be strong, straight to the point, and sexy.

She walked confidently toward him.

He stood up and said:" Naomi."

He put his hands in the pocket of his jeans and avoided Naomi's gaze.

They stood awkwardly for a minute, and then he said:" Sit down."

Naomi sat down and he sat beside her.

His leg brushed her, and Naomi felt a jolt of energy go through her. It was like he made her alive.

She wanted to touch his sandy blond hair, and kiss those beautiful lips of his.

She scolded herself for thinking about that, and said meanly:" Aren't you going to tell me why got me all the way here? I won't wait forever."

Liam said:" Listen Naomi …"

He sighed, and he searched her eyes.

He continued:" I know I messed up, and I am ….."

Naomi said:" What? You can't even say it? You slept with Annie in my bed, and you can't even say this word?"

He seemed lost in thought like he needed to make up his mind about something.

He said:" I slept with Annie, and I am sorry."

Naomi felt like she has been slapped in the face. She knew he slept with Annie but hearing it from him made it even harder.

Naomi looked away, because she didn't want him to see the tears filling her eyes.

Naomi said:" So what if you are sorry? You didn't even try to contact me for the past month. You just let me go."

Liam said:" I couldn't… You weren't at your house anymore."

Naomi said:" You could've called."

They both sat in silence.

Liam said:" This past moth….. Naomi, remember what I told you about my stepdad?"

Naomi looked at him surprised at where the conversation was going.

She nodded. He continued:" Well, he took me to military school. I ran away. "

Naomi said sincerely:" I am sorry. That is awful."

Liam said:" I have been doing a lot of things this past month to make it up for him. There were conditions…"

Naomi said:" Are you done with them?"

Liam said;" Not yet. ( Sigh) Naomi I wanted to see you before, but I couldn't. I didn't see anyone in the past month."

Naomi said:" You have been seeing Annie."

Liam said:" She was helping me. Annie is my friend. When I ran away I hid at her room for awhile."

Naomi said:" That must have been fun. You could've have come to my room. I could've been your friend. I have to go."

Naomi stood up because she couldn't take it anymore.

Liam said: "Why? Naomi, stay."

Naomi said:" I know that you had your circumstances, but it doesn't change the fact that while I spent the past month trying to handle your betrayal, you were spending it with Annie. "

Naomi urged herself to walk away, but Liam held her hand, and he said: " I miss you. I don't know how else to say it."

Naomi said:" Liam what do you want from me? I am not going to be your booty call. That was what I have always been to you. I have to stop convincing myself that I wasn't."

Liam didn't say anything. He didn't even contradict her , but he tightened his hold of her hand.

Naomi said:" So you are saying I was your booty call? Why are you taking things so simply. You think "sorry" and " I miss you" fix things? You want to hear it? You broke my heart , Liam. There is no going back."

Something flickered in Liam's eyes when she said he broke her heart.

He kissed her hand , and he said:" Think it over."

Naomi nodded her head.

****

"He seems so sincere." Naomi said to her sister.

She said:" Naomi , so what? Are you really going to forgive him? He cheated on you!"

Naomi said:" I don't know sis."

Her sister added:" It is not only about the cheating. He wasn't serious about you back then what makes you think he will be now?"

Naomi said:" He punched Ozzie claiming he is my boyfriend. He wants the real deal this time."

She said:" Did he say that?"

Naomi said:" No , but I could feel it."

Her sister said to her angrily:" Naomi! Are you stupid? Let him go already. The Naomi I know would have already revenged and moved on a month ago. You are totally out of your game."

Naomi nodded not wanting to acknowledge that she was right.

*****

Surprisingly , Naomi called Ozzie.

She was intending to call Adrianna , but she felt like talking to Ozzie.

Naomi told him what happened with Liam.

Ozzie said :" Naomi , if you are done be done with it. Send him a text message or something to ditch him , but if you are not done. Go over to his house or call him , and see if out two can figure it out, Just make up your mind."

Naomi knew he was right , and she appreciated how supportive he was being.

Naomi was lost , and she didn't know what to do about Liam , but she knew one thing. She was not done.

Naomi decided to go over at Liam's. She wanted to demand answers and grant explanations.

She arrived, and she took a deep breath.

She adjusted her hair and make up .

She could not believe that her heart was beating at a faster rate at the thought of seeing Liam.

She knocked the door, and a fair woman opened it.

She was tall and blond. She must be Liam's mom.

The woman said:" Good evening, what can I do for you?"

Naomi said:" Can I please see Liam?"

The woman said:" I don't know if he is here, why you don't go to his room and check? His room is upstairs on the far end."

Naomi nodded surprised. She knew that Liam's relationship with his mom was strained, but it couldn't possibly be that bad?

Naomi was surprised at how fancy the house was. It was beautifully furnished and showed good taste.

Naomi went up to his room.

Should she knock? Naomi knocked the door and opened it. She expected to see Liam, but instead she saw that little whore.

There on Liam's bed was Annie. She looked startled to see Naomi.

Liam was not in the room.

Annie said:" Naomi, this is not what you think!"

Naomi felt that by now she would be used to Liam's betrayal, but it still hurt the same.

Even though she did not trust Liam, she always thought that he meant what he said.

He told her he doesn't do the boyfriend thing, and he didn't.

She thought that he meant what he said today. She actually believed it. She tried to hold back her tears.

She couldn't believe she was that gullible.

Naomi asked angrily:" What? Annie, what is it?"

Annie stood up from the bed and said;" Listen Naomi nothing happened between us. Not today and not ever."

Naomi couldn't believe Annie kept lying to her face.

She said:" I don't know what makes you more pathetic. That you slept with Liam when we were dating or you lying about it to my face."

Annie said frustrated:" Nothing happened! Nothing happened! Damn it."

Naomi said:" Are you that desperate? You cannot find yourself a man, so you keep going after mine?"

Annie said her voice higher:" It is not my fault that they are more than willing."

Naomi said:" No they are not. Liam said today that he missed me not you. He said that he was sorry and that he wants me, not you. He talked about me, us. Not you. Not you Annie. You are done here. You were just an entertainment till I come back to him."

Annie said:" Is that why I spent the day in his room today? I did, not you. I was there for the past month, not you. When we are together you are nothing but a fading memory to him. To me. To us."

Naomi said:" Is that why he punched Ozzie and called me his girlfriend?"

Annie said:" Why don't you go to Ozzie and leave us alone?"

Naomi said:" So you are finally admitting something is going between you two?"

Annie was shouting now:"He is my friend. Nothing is going on. Nothing. Naomi... Nothing. NOTHING .When is you going to understand that?"

Naomi shouted back:" Stop lying to me. Stop lying to me. Liam told me about you two. He told me that he slept with you."

Annie looked like she had been slapped. Tears swam in her eyes as she said:" Is that what he said to you? He betrayed me and made me look as the bitch…. just to cover what he really did"

Naomi saw how hurt and deadly serious Annie was and she couldn't but take her seriously.

Naomi whispered locking eyes with Annie:" What? Cover what?"

Annie whispered:" This past moth I was his friend nothing more. I wanted you to stay away from each other to protect you two. To protect you from the truth."

Naomi took a step closer towards Annie, and asked:" What truth?"

Annie shook her head and tears streamed down her eyes, and she said:" I can't. He trusts me."

Naomi held Annie by the shoulders, and she told her:" If our friendship ever meant anything to you. Tell me."

Annie said softly:" He didn't sleep with me. He slept with your sister."