Chapter 20

"So where do we go from here?" Cody asked Squib.
Squib hesitated before saying: "It will all work out fine, I promise. I will protect you."
He knew it sounded like a standard line, but he just didn't knew what else to say. He caressed her beautiful red hair with his hand, moved his face closer to hers and they kissed again.
Adena just sat there, all alone. On her left side Cody and Squib were kissing. On her right side, Sébastien and Megan had just ended their tender kiss and were holding hands and staring intensively in each other's eyes. It looked so sweet and cute, that it almost made Adena vomit. She felt so uncomfortable in Cody's room, surrounded by lovebirds. She felt like a fifth wheel, a feeling she had never felt before. It has always been her who got the guy! She was the one with the seductive hairtoss! Did she lose the power of getting every boy she wanted? She noticed Sébastien's head moving closer to Megan's and she knew they were going to kiss again. Adena couldn't stand to be in that room for a second more, so she got up and muttered: "Well, I guess this is my cue to leave."
No one seemed to have heard her and she was able to sneak out the house quietly.
But the privacy of the four lovebirds didn't last that long. Only one minute after Adena had left, Cody's father came home.
"Cody, I've got you those rolls of film you needed!" he yelled before he entered the room.
Squib immediately released his lips from Cody's and jumped off her bed. Megan practically pushed Sébastien away from her.
Cody's dad stepped into the room and saw the shocked faces of the four kids.
"Was there something going on I may not know anything about?" he asked curiously.
"Uh, no, dad," Cody started, "we were just talking about… uhm… the staff! Yeah, we were talking about the staff, you know, which ones rock and which ones suck."
"O, in that case I'd better leave, I don't want to know anything about the thoughts the students have of my colleagues."
Only a couple of seconds after dr. Myers had left, Sébastien said he'd better go too. He looked at Megan and raised his eyebrows, giving her a sign. Megan understood and said: "Yeah, I think… me too."
Sébastien and Megan left the house and they walked silently into the direction of their dorms. They were walking next to each other, but there was still a space between them.
I have to tell her, Sébastien thought, after all, Squib knows it too now. I can't hide it from her anymore, especially not now we're a couple. But are we actually a couple? We've never said we were, we just kissed. Aargh, why does love has to be so complicated?
"Is something bothering you?" Megan broke the silence.
"No, it's nothing," Sébastien reacted and he grabbed her hand and hold it tightly.
Megan looked at Sébastien, but he seemed to be occupied with other things hence he was looking straight in front of him as long as they were walking side by side. Maybe he regretted ever kissing her, maybe he thought she was a terrible kisser. After all, she didn't have that much experience in kissing. She did had a boyfriend when she was ten years old, but that was more a friend who was a boy. She had kissed Squib, or actually Squib had kissed her, but that was a "truth or dare" assignment. She had kissed Justin Powers, but that was just a big mistake. And then, she had kissed Sébastien. In many of her dreams, she was kissing him, but the actual kisses were so much different than the ones from her dreams. They were better, way better. Did they just mean nothing to Sébastien?
She kept staring at Sébastien's face until he looked back at her. A warm smile appeared on his face and Megan felt like she was melting away. Sébastien let go of her hand, wrapped his arm around Megan's waist and hugged her gently. He had to tell her, he had to tell her he wasn't the person he said he was. He needed to tell her some place private.
"Uhm, do you wanna come to the back court with me?" Sébastien asked.
"Uh, okay," Megan answered, "I'll grab my racket."
"Uhm, I don't think we're really gonna need the rackets…"
"Uh, okay," Megan said and she could notice she was starting to blush so she looked away from Sébastien. Oh, my face must be totally red by now! This is so embarrassing!
When they arrived at the back court, they went to the benches and sat there next to eachother, without saying a thing. Sébastien was staring in front of him again and was thinking whether he should tell it immediately or whether he should wait a short while. Megan was staring at Sébastien, but quickly turned her head when Sébastien looked back. Sébastien gave Megan a kiss on the cheek on Megan looked back at him again.
After the longest kiss they had shared until then, Sébastien decided to tell Megan his secret, he knew this was the only opportunity to tell her. If he would keep it from her longer, she would never forgive him.
"Megan," he started, "I have to tell you something."
Oh dear, after that sentence it's very rare to hear good news. Bad case scenario: he dumps me. Good case scenario: he's got mono.
"I'm not… I'm not like your kind of people."
"What do you wanna say with that?" Megan bursted out laughing, "Are you like an alien, or something? Haha!"
"Well, maybe I am in your eyes… I'm not rich."
"Huh?" Megan was wondering if she heard him correctly.
"My family isn't even middle class, we're actually very poor."
"WHAT!" Megan's reaction was furious and she escaped from Sébastien's grip.
Sébastien had expected Megan to be surprised, but he had never thought that she would react so extreme.
Megan had never known that much about Sébastien, but there was one thing about him that she never doubted. He was rich. But apparently that has all been a lie. She felt like she didn't know him at all. Maybe this wasn't the only "fact" of his life where he was lying about. Maybe he wasn't even from France! Maybe his name wasn't even Sébastien Dubé! Maybe he didn't even love her!
Megan began to have trouble breathing, her eyes were filled with tears. She had to get away. She had to get away from him. Away from that liar.