A/N: I know, I've left you waiting for too long, I'm sorry and I wont bother you with my excuses, but I'm back, sort of. I personally don't like this chapter, I hope the next one's better, but! At least we are getting rid of Evan, and within the next two chapters we'll get what most of us has been waiting for... Try to enjoy, ans R&R as always :)
"Yes" she sighed when she felt his arms wrapping around her like they had the previous night. "You know, there's a rumor that you're still in love with me" she whispered some time later.
"Don't believer everything you hear."
"And this one?"
There was a pause and Cappie felt his heart beating faster and faster, wondering if he should tell her the truth, before closing his eyes and going for it.
"That one you can believe."
Casey smiled before closing her eyes and sighing contently before falling asleep.
(CH6)
Frannie was finally back from her sister's wedding and Casey couldn't wait to get to talk to her. It had been two weeks since she woke up from her coma and she had spent every night with Cappie after coming back from the hospital and they didn't even talk about it anymore. She'd show up and he might have something to eat or drink or they would just get to bed and sleep. Other than that they didn't really spend time together. She had mostly spent her time with her sisters and Evan. She had even kissed Evan and it hadn't been half bad, but she wouldn't sleep with him, not even without having sex.
She had reached the point where she was completely and utterly fed up with herself. She hated everyone who told her something about her that she didn't recognize as her. She hated Evan, or not even Evan but the kind of person she was, who she was expected to be around him. She hated Ash who obviously knew something but didn't tell her. She hated Rusty for coming to CRU a year too late so that he didn't know anything about her life before that year. And she hated Cappie, she didn't know why, seeing how he was being extremely sweet… No, that was the reason. He was being all sweet and she had dumped him and he hadn't even worked hard enough to find out why. What kind of love was that? The kind where he wanted her to happy more than he wanted himself to be happy.
She hated everyone and everything, but most of all she hated herself, the being that she was that she really didn't want to be. Still there was something holding her back. It would've been easy to just leave Evan and go back to Cappie, it was clear to her that she loved Cappie more than she could ever love Evan. She loved Cappie, she loved the way she loved him, she loved being in love with him and she loved herself when she was with him. And still, and this was bugging her the most, still there was something that restrained her. Something that made it impossible for her to leave the person who she had become and didn't especially like and go back to be the person she remembered and liked to be. Casey sighed for the millionth time since she had woke up, almost wishing that she hadn't
"Oh God… I'm a crybaby… Not only am I an annoying snob, I'm also a crybaby" she muttered while closing the ZBZ house's door behind her before heading to find Frannie whose voice was coming from the sitting room.
"And after the ceremony they released dozens of white doves and it was so beautiful… Casey!" Frannie stopped her storytelling and came to greet her right hand with a friendly hug.
"Hey Frannie. Sounds like the wedding was a success" Casey said hugging her back and smiling to her when they separated.
"Oh yes, I'll tell you all about it, but first we have to talk" Frannie said and pulled Casey to sit with her on the couch shooing everyone else out of the room. "Now, I've been hearing some worrisome rumors" she said and looked into Casey's eyes with a worry in hers.
"About what?" Casey asked and frowned. She had no idea what Frannie could be talking about.
"First I have to ask, do you remember anything yet?"
"No, why?"
"Well at least you'll have an excuse" Frannie said nodding.
"Frannie, I don't know what you're talking about. An excuse for what?"
"I have heard, that you've been hanging out at the Kappa Tau house. Surely you must see what a mistake it is to hang around the most vulgar boys at the whole CRU?"
"I don't know what to say Frannie. Cept that I haven't been hanging around with the Kappa Taus, and even if I had, I don't really think that it would be the worst thing ever happened, do you?" Casey really didn't get the point. The Kappa Taus were liked by almost everyone at the campus. They threw the wildest parties and got away with everything they wanted to get away with. They were the master pranksters and everyone was always waiting to see what they would come up with next. They were nice guys who didn't turn their backs to anyone and didn't think much of it when somebody did it to them. She had no recollection of ZBZs being this strongly against the Kappa Taus before.
"Oh Casey. If you'd only remember the talk we had when you needed to break up with Cappie. We told you what a mistake it would be for your future to stay with him and turn your back to the sorority. I mean what ZBZs alone can do for you and when you add one Evan Chambers to it you have one glorious future in head of you" Frannie said sighing and smiled a wide smile to Casey who took her hands from Frannie's and frowned at her.
"Wait a second. What do you mean when I "needed" to break up with Cappie. What exactly happened?"
"Casey, honey. I always saw the potential in you, and while you were a freshman it was okay to be experimenting things, but when it came obvious that you weren't finding the right path on your own, we as your caring sisters simply had to step in" Frannie explained like she was talking to a young child who simply didn't understand that the sky was blue, as obvious as it was.
"You mean… The wrong path was… Cappie?" Casey was shocked if Frannie was actually saying what Casey thought she was saying.
"Yes of course. We told you to dump him or leave the sorority, and you made the right choice, just like I knew you would" Frannie said, smiling again and proudly padding Casey's knee which made the blonde to stand up and get away from the couch.
"No I didn't! Are you seriously telling me, that I left Cappie, all those excitement, all that happiness, all that love… I left everything, just because a bunch of girls told me to?" Casey was outraged. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, surely she couldn't have been that superficial, could she?
"Oh Casey. That's what you needed to do so you can become the president of ZBZ after me. And it wasn't love. I know that you're confused now, but when you get your memory back you'll remember that this is what you want. A bright future as Mrs. Evan Chambers, being the first lady! Not living in a trailer somewhere as Mrs. Cappie and doing God knows what just to survive" Frannie had got up and was holding Casey's hands in hers again with a smile on her face. "That's why you forgave Evan when he slept with Rebecca. That's real love."
"When Evan did what?" Casey pulled her hands back and took few steps backwards to get away from her house president. This was why she had felt strange with Rebecca. This was why it felt so wrong to be with Evan and not with Cappie, she wasn't supposed to be with him. "I should be with Cappie" she whispered so that Frannie could barely hear her. When the brunette tried to say something Casey simply pushed past her and walked out of the house. Who the hell did they think they were? Telling her who do date and who not. Who did she think she was, choosing sorority over love? Had she thought she'd be happy like that? And what was it with Evan? Why hadn't anybody told her before that Evan had cheated on her? She would never forgive something like that. Damn Frannie, and Evan and Rebecca. Damn Ashleigh and Rusty for not telling her. Damn Cappie!
Casey made her way to the Omega Chi house and walked in without even a thought of a knock on it. The bys were having a meeting at their sitting room, with Evan sitting at the other end of the table, lifting his head when he noticed her.
"Casey?"
"You cheated on me?!"
Everybody in the room looked first at Casey and then at Evan who stood up and went to Casey.
"Could we talk about this some other time, please?" Evan asked with a quiet voice and started leading Casey out of the room.
"No we couldn't. I want to talk about it now. How could you go on without telling me? So that everybody knew except for me?"
"We'll continue this later, meeting's over" Evan said to the other boys and took Casey by her elbow while leading her to his room. "Casey honey, I didn't tell you cause it doesn't matter, you forgave me. You even made it even with me" Evan said before he noticed what he had slipped out of his mouth.
"Even? How?" There was venom in Casey's voice and she had her hands on her hips, her look more fierce than anything Evan had ever seen before.
"You slept with Cappie. But it's okay, and we love each other" he hurried to explain but it was too late, Casey was already on her way out. "Casey! Wait!"
"Goodbye Evan" was all she said to the boy before getting out of the house and slammed the door behind her. She was done with that blond cheater, but there was someone she wasn't done with. Cappie. The boy had it coming, not telling her that Evan had cheated on her, not telling her that they had been together after it, that they had actually slept together. Well, he'd hear what she thought about that, he and probably the whole Kappa Tau house at that.
