CHAPTER III
AN: This is one of the weirder chapters, I might rewrite it later on but for now I'm just going to upload it and see what people say...
I know the chapters are kinda short but hopefully there'll be lot of them :D
Also in the last chapter I spelt "Brady" wrong once, thats how I started spelling it until I realised it was wrong, so sorry for the mistake!
Lena xo
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This was so screwed up. One moment everything had been fine, and now it was all stuffed up. It wasn't fair.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Seth walking towards me. I quickly put on a smile.
"Hi Seth."
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"Hi Seth."
"What's wrong?" I asked immediately. Something was wrong. Her eyes weren't focussed on me, they were looking at my right hand. The smile on her face wasn't real like it was most of the time, and there was a small line between her brows, as if she was trying not to frown.
"If I say nothing will you believe me?"
"Nope," I said, popping the 'p'. "I know you too well."
She smiled properly now, but it was still a small smile. "I know."
She sighed, reaching back to her ponytail and threading her fingers through it.
"It's Kamal," she finally admitted. I noticed her mobile in her free hand now.
I froze. "What. Did. He. Do?" I seethed, taking each word slowly. I was so scared that I would phase in front of her.
We were in the kitchen of Sam and Emily's now. It was almost dark, and most of them were already at the bonfire setting up.
The forest was only a few metres away, I thought. I should be able to get out in time… if anything happened. Just in case I shifted around the room so I was standing closer to the door.
"Tell."
Kaylie shrugged. "It's nothing, really. Just rumours. It might not even be true…" Her phone began vibrating. "I better get that."
She turned and walked off into the next room to answer the call. She thought I couldn't hear her… I loved having the extra senses. Since I'd begun phasing not only had my body temperature rocketed, but my human senses had increased almost to the point of vampire. She thought she was whispering but the truth is she could've been right next to me and the sound would've been just as clear.
"Hi Kamal."
"Hey Kaylie. Listen, I don't know what you've heard, but…"
"Oh. I've heard a lot."
"I know. I'm sorry for dodging your calls, but there's something I need to tell you…"
"So it's true?"
I heard sobbing. I suddenly had the instinct to plough through the wall next to me and run to her, but I realised that the sound was electronic.
It was Kamal who was crying.
"I never wanted to hurt you."
"How long?"
"I dunno. A few months."
"Is she the head cheerleader? The blonde one?"
"Yeah. I'm so sorry, Lee. I wanted to tell you but it wasn't as if you were ever horrible to me. You never… never gave me a reason to do it."
"Dump me, you mean? So you let me find out this way?"
She was so calm, so composed. It surprised me.
"I'm sorry, I never wanted to hurt you…"
A sigh. "Don't give me that. I can look after myself, you know. I'm just a little upset that you never told me."
There was a change in Kamal's voice. "Yeah, don't give me that. You're at his place now, aren't you?"
"Sam's?"
"No. That supposed 'just best friend' of yours, Seth." He spat out my name. I felt myself beginning to shake. How dare he insult her…
"Yeah. What of it?"
"You slept over again?"
"Yeah…" she wasn't sure where this was leading. A sudden cold shock hit me as I realised where this was going.
"In the same bed as him, right?"
"What the FUCK are you on about, Kamal!" she yelled down the phone, not seeming to remember that I was only a wall away.
"You're always going on about how you're best friends and how he'd never be a threat to me. But I've seen the way he looks at you, Lee. It's the way I look at you. God, you're so thick."
The growl came from my throat before I could stop it. I was back to the seething anger. I wanted to hit something so bad. I wasn't shaking, but only the want to hear her reaction to this made me keep listening… I could guess it anyway. Not like she'd ever want me.
"It's not like that," she finally whispered. "He doesn't want me like that."
I froze.
"So you FINALLY admit it, Kaylie? He sure as fuck DOES want you."
"Fuck off, Kamal. You've got your new girlfriend now."
There was silence.
"I really am sorry, you know. And everything I said… it's the truth you know. I just didn't mean to say it like that. You know, bad timing." He sounded ashamed. "You're a nice person, Kaylie. After this is all over, I hope we can still be friends."
"Huh. You don't seem to know what the word friends means. Me and Seth? We're friends, and always will be. You and me as friends? Not gonna happen." I heard the small tone of her pressing the hang up button.
I wasn't shaking anymore.
I sunk to the tiles of the kitchen floor.
Her words kept repeating in my head.
"Me and Seth? We're friends, and always will be."
It was like a doomed fate. But at the same time, I thought, it was a promise. She would always be my friend, and I would always be hers, because that was what she wanted.
I stood up. Kamal I would deal with later.
I smiled as she entered the room. "Is everything ok?" She grinned back.
"Yeah, everything's fixed."
I took her hand. "Well let's go then, we've kept the rest of the pack waiting long enough, don't you think?"
