Chapter 9: Wrongly Accused

Through the Eyes of Peter

"Hey bro, you wanna tell me what you're doing with your arms around my girl?" Jamie said to me as I let go of Mina. This whole thing must've looked real bad to Jaime, and his face was proving the fact. Not only did his facial expression threaten me, but his face was as red as a tomato and it looked like it was ready to explode.

"Jaime, it's not what it looks like!" Mina said as she stood up. I stood up as well and thought of something to say. I didn't want to tell him what I had just told Mina because of the fact that he was a guy and I know how he thinks. The first thing he'd think is 'whoa, I didn't know you were a queer' or something along those lines. Jamie stomped towards me, clenching his fists as he did so. I became afraid and I felt grateful when Mina stood in front of me and yelled at him.

"I said that it wasn't what you think it was! He just came here to talk to me! He wasn't trying anything and neither was I!" she yelled. I looked into Jaime's blue eyes and tensed up. I never felt so afraid of him in all my life.

"Mina get out of the way." He said calmly.

"No, I'm not going to let you hurt him!" she yelled back.

Suddenly, Jaime pushed Mina onto the bed and walked towards me. He went for a punch to my face, but I blocked and dodged to the floor, spinning around and landing my right fist into his gut. If he were a normal person, he probably would've stopped, but he was a Nephilim and that meant that he could take pain. Now the question was: could I?

Jaime barely flinched when I punched him and that terrified me. I'd never seen him this angry before and that made me wonder what was going on. Jaime reached down and picked me up by the throat, putting me up against the wall. Mina jumped off the bed and pulled at her boyfriend's waist.

"Jaime no! Let him go, he didn't DO anything!" I heard her yell.

I began to choke slightly, but not as hard as I thought I'd be. Obviously, he didn't really want to hurt me, but his actions told me otherwise.

"So I leave for one minute and already you're all over my girl. I KNEW you were jealous of us, but how could you stoop so low!" he into my face. I closed my eyes and tried to speak, but it wasn't doing me any good at all. Suddenly, a plan came to mind. His legs were wide open and my feet were dangling. Quickly, I thrust my right foot into his crotch and fell to the ground as soon as he let me go.

"Sorry Jaime, but you were SERIOUSLY overreacting." I said as I grabbed my throat and stood up. Mina ran over to my side and helped me to stand.

"Are you okay!" She asked me as I stumbled back a bit. I smiled at her and nodded slowly, catching my breath once more.

"Jaime! What's your problem! Peter needs our help and here you are trying to choke him out!" Mina yelled as Jamie stood up and looked at me.

"Oh yeah? Help with what?" He said. Mina went silent and looked at me, almost as if she was asking permission to tell her boyfriend what I told her. But still I didn't trust him with that kind of information, not because he would tell anybody, but because he would think differently of me.

"I'm breaking up with Julia." I said, making Mina sigh quietly with relief. I swallowed slowly, afraid he would know that I was covering. To my surprise, Jaime's facial expression changed completely into one of sorrow.

"Aw man, I'm SO sorry. That chick downstairs told me she saw you tow hugging before you went into the room together." He said.

"What chick?" I asked, wondering who would say such a thing. Mina asked as well, trying to find out who it was.

"Umm…I think her name was…Sylvia? Yeah that's it, her name was Sylvia Kwon." Jaime replied.

"That bit-" I started to say, but I quickly ended my sentence when I realized that Mina was in the room. I couldn't curse in front of a lady.

"Who's she?" Mina asked as she let Jaime help me out. After he checked my throat out, I began to tell them who she was.

"She was this girl that I had a crush on. She does pretty much everything in her power to make my life miserable, and this just goes to show it." I said angrily.

"I can't BELIEVE a girl would do that to you!" Mina exclaimed, making my anger fuel as I realized she was agreeing with me.

"Man I'm sorry. I should've known you wouldn't have done anything like that." Jaime apologized.

"It's okay, you didn't know and I guess it didn't look right either." I replied.

"You know how those women do, Pete." He said to me.

Suddenly, Mina stomped on the floor and gave Jaime a death glare.

"What do you mean 'those women'?" she asked in anger.

"Oh, I mean everyone except YOU of course." He replied, trying to calm her down.

"Okay. I'll be sure to tell that to Christie and Julia later on." She said as she walked past him. Jaime looked at me with an apologetic expression and began to speak to me.

"Man, I should've known I couldn't trust her. She just seemed so nice, I didn't believe she was lying."

"Never trust a pretty face unless it belongs to Christie." I said in a joking manner. I felt a little better now that we'd settled things. Jaime went over and grabbed Mina, embracing her in a kiss.

"I'm sorry about that, it won't happen again." He said. As they kissed, I rolled my eyes and looked the other way, jealousy beginning to set in deep.

"It better not!" she said before looking to me.

"C'mon Pete, let's go to the movies. We can talk about you and Julia while we're there okay?" she said to me. I smiled and nodded, walking after the two of them and embracing them in a mini group hug. Thank goodness Jaime didn't find out. Maybe one day I could tell him, but I had a feeling that Mina was right. This was probably just an attachment phase.