CHAPTER FOUR: LET'S TRADE OUR MISTAKES

Adam's POV

"I'm just saying. If I was ever attacked by an alligator, I would poke its eye out. But I hope I never have to really think about it."

I ignored Alli's words while I leaned against the wall of lockers and watched Bianca flirt with some tanned soccer player. I wasn't sure why I wanted to charge the soccer player and stuff him inside of a locker.

I'd been sure that I had no feelings whatsoever for Bianca, but it was kind of hard to ignore the girl that was guaranteed to run this high school exactly how she wanted to. She didn't even have to flirt. Guys threw themselves at her naturally.

"What do you think of Bianca?" I interrupted Alli suddenly.

She cocked an eyebrow and followed my gaze. Bianca's eyes were fixated on me, but I was certain she wouldn't come within two feet of Alli. But it wasn't like that kept her from looking.

"Bianca Desousa?" she asked in disbelief. "She's the whore slut bitch that talked Drew into cheating on me. She ripped my life into too many pieces to count."

"Yeah, you have a point. But the other night she…"

Alli's eyes grew wide with fright. "What did she do? Did she touch you? Did she try to get you to touch her?"

I couldn't help but laugh at Alli's natural overreacting to Bianca and me being within two feet of each other with no one else around.

I looked Bianca up and down with squinting eyes and said, "No, but she acted…different. I don't know why but she seemed almost…innocent."

She rolled her eyes and grabbed a textbook from her locker. "Well I'm sure it was all an act. Bianca is a bitch, and she will always be a bitch. There's no point in thinking she's changed."

"Do I even want to know what we're talking about here?"

Both Alli and me looked up to see Clare standing before the both of us. Alli cocked her head towards me and said, "Why don't you ask him? He seems to be such the expert on Bianca now."

I rolled my eyes as Alli slammed her locker shut.

"I'll see you guys at lunch," she muttered over her shoulder before strutting off to Chemistry class. Clearly the subject of Bianca had slightly fazed her mood.

Clare waited until she was gone to turn back to me. I tried my best not to meet her eyes, but she made it so hard.

"Please don't tell me this is what it sounds like, Adam," she whined with her heart-shaped face showing worry.

"It's not," I assured her quickly. "But Bianca's been acting different towards me lately. Plus her mission to seduce me hasn't been faltered. It just makes me wonder."

"Have you forgotten what she did to Drew? Plus you're not supposed to be wondering why Bianca is having mood swings all of a sudden. You're dating Fiona, not Bianca. Remember that."

I pursed my lips and let my eyes meet my feet for a small moment. "And what if Fiona isn't dating me, Clare?"

Her eyebrows met and she stepped closer to me beside the lockers. "What are you talking about?" she asked softly.

I watched her for a couple small seconds before admitting, "I heard a guy's voice while we were talking the other day at The Dot. My confidence in her is beginning to decrease almost every day."

"Adam," Clare told me with a sweet smile, "Fiona loves you more than air. She would never cheat on you."

"Yeah, that's what I said too. But it's hard. This whole long distance thing, I mean. She won't be back until Christmas," I almost whispered.

Clare watched me in silence with a sympathetic look in her baby blue eyes. She rested her hand on my shoulder and opened her mouth to say something, but someone else interrupted her.

"Can I walk Miss Edwards to her next class?" Eli asked with his arm held out beside him.

Clare instantly smiled and leaned forward to press a soft kiss on Eli's cheek. He smiled in response as Clare intertwined her arm with his.

She turned back to me with her smile still on her lips. "I'll see you at lunch, Adam."

I flashed my best plastic smile and said, "Yeah, I'll see you two later then."

Eli grinned over Clare's shoulder at me before they set out on their adventure to Clare's next class. I sighed as I remembered walking Fiona to her classes and getting kisses on my cheek from her.

Now she was probably giving those kisses to some lacrosse player and letting him walk her to class! Damn my negative mind.

"You look dead," some commented off to the side of me.

I turned to see Bianca standing straight across from me while also leaning her back against the lockers. I wanted to be angry at her and flash a look of anger, but it took too much energy to be mad with her all the time.

"That feels great coming from the girl who spends every day with different guys like flavors of the week," I countered in a smart tone.

But this only made Bianca's glossy lips form into an even bigger grin. I bet she loved making me angry. I bet it was her biggest pleasure to bring me pain.

"Would you care to share why you were talking about me with Alli Bhandari?" she asked in a sing-song voice.

A devilish thought came to my mind. "Yes, I would actually," I answered. "We were talking about how much of a bitch you had to be to get Drew to cheat on Alli with you and then cheat on him with some townie."

I expected Bianca to laugh, but instead she became serious and wore a straight line across her lips.

She swallowed hard and said, "I never meant to do that to Drew. It just happened on accident."

"Accident cheating? That's kind of hard to believe," I replied.

"Is that what you'll say when Fiona makes up some story after you find her cheating on you with some preppy rich boy?" she snapped back with an evil glare.

My mouth became very dry in the small instant when she chose those words. I swallowed every ounce of hatred I had, or at least I tried to.

"Fiona's not cheating one me," I told Bianca with more confidence in my words than in my head.

"No you're just saying that so you don't second guess yourself," my curly-haired enemy responded.

She took a step closer so that she stood in the middle of the hallway now. "You're just in denial that she's cheating because you want to stay with her. Because you love her and you're happy with her. And you'll lie to yourself over and over so that you don't have to lose that happiness."

I gulped at the realization of Bianca's words. She was exactly right. She was right about every single subject she was exploring about my feelings.

Bianca looked me up and down and said, "I really expected more from a Torres brother."

I bit my own tongue while she sent me one more look and sauntered away down the hall. My eyes followed her while containing sadness like no other.

So maybe Fiona was cheating on me. But it was thanks to Bianca for making me realize the truth. I couldn't deny these things anymore.

But I could still stand there and repeat the words that Fiona wasn't cheating just to reassure myself.

If you were a million miles away from your significant other and got the chance to play around with a sexy piece of meat, what would you do? Would you stay true to them and stay away from the person who was tempting you?

Or would you give into your deepest desires and swear to keep the inside story behind the game you were playing away from their ears?

I didn't really know if I could answer the question.

Every time Bianca had tried to make a move on me, I'd pushed her away and told her to leave me alone. But would Fiona give in to someone tempting her like Bianca was doing to me?

Great, another question I don't have the answer to.