Revelations

I didn't understand anything. He took a deep breath and went on.

"Dave, I know about you two for a while now. Kim showed me your pictures with Anne in the bar, I was so pissed off!"

I interrupted him.

"Wait a minute... how did Kim have the pictures?"

He hesitated.

"Well... there's something you don't know. You never wodered why the label wanted you and Kim together so much?"

"Of course! I never understood this obsession!"

"One of the top producers is her uncle. That's why they made you stay with her, that's why she has access to everything."

That wasn't possible... everything made sense now. Matt continued his story.

"And after I saw the pictures, there was my birthday, Kim came looking for me and showed me both of you under the stairs..."

I immediately remembered the noise Anne and I had heard and we thought it was nothing...

"I was even more pissed off, I felt betrayed because both of you hid this from me, come on, we were friends! I couldn't understand why you hadn't told me! I was such a child, I didn't want you together because I thought I was gonna lose both of you, I'd be left out, I wanted everything the way it was! And then, I screwed everything up..."

I wasn't sure I wanted to hear.

"Kim started to instigate me to help her on her plan to make you break up. She made up my mind, told me I'd be left out, that you betrayed me and so on. And I believed her, Dave! We started to set up situations that would make you think maybe it wasn't a good idea to be together..."

I couldn't believe my ears...

"What the hell did you do?"

"A lot of things... I didn't give your message to Anne when you called, and when you asked I told you she had her cell with her, but she had actually lost it... I took it from her and hid it… that's why you weren't able to talk to her… when you asked her out on the phone, I was listening on the other line, and I told Anne I had seen you with Kim, that's why she didn't meet you… I told her you had bought a present to Kim, that I knew she really wanted, and at first, she thought it was for her… I told you Kyle had called her, it was a lie… and a lot of other things that made you think it was better if you two broke up…"

I hid my face in my hands. I was not hearing that... I could expect anything from Kim, but not from Matt... I felt like punching his face, but I restrained myself… and he went on.

"And then you broke up… and I saw how sad both of you were, and then I realized you might really like each other, maybe it was not just for fun, and I realized what I'd done… I saw that Kim was really a bitch…"

I still couldn't believe that... it was surreal...

"But what does this have to do with the prison, Matt?"

"I decided to try to fix everything, make you get rid of Kim and go back to Anne, and then I came up with a plan…"

"I'm afraid to hear..."

"When you told me about the Fox party, and that Kim was going too, I thought about what I was gonna do... I was gonna make her pay, Dave! I hired some guys to put the drug in her purse, they were gonna report her, he was gonna get caught and arrested!"

I was confused.

"But then why did WE end up being arrested?"

"Don't you get it, Dave? You were not supposed to have found the drug! You and Kim were the only people that could NOT find it!I mean, youa ctually could, but then you should have made an scandal in the middle of the party! But no, you didn't say anything, and came looking for me! When I saw you with the drug I was desperate, I saw everything was gonna go wrong…. I called the guys to abort the plan, and said I was not gonna pay anymore, because they didn't do the service… but they didn't care, they wanted the money, and I repeated that I was not gonna pay… and they started threatening me, that's why I wanted to get us out of there… But when we got to the parking lot, you know the rest…"

Please, let this be a nightmare.

"Matthew, I cannot believe how stupid you are! How could you fuck up so much?"

"I'm sorry, Dave! I made a lot of mistakes, but you have no Idea how sorry I am! I'm sorry David!"

The irony was so ridiculous, I was even laughing...

"The worst part of everything is that we got screwed and nothing happened to Kim."

"Don't even tell me about it."

"At least I got rid of her. And my contract too."

"I screwed everything up, Dave…. You lost your contract because of me…"

"It's not exactly because of you, actually it's all Kim's fault... but I'm pissed off with you too!"

"I deserve it... I wanted to make things right and ended up hurting the people I love the most... you and my sister. I screwed up, I can't ask you to forgive me... but I want to ask you something, try to understand my sister, she doesn't know anything about this, I guess she really likes you, I could see that these days you were apart…"

I wanted to push Matt against the wall and show him he had acted like a baby, he was a selfish child, but I guess being there was enough punishment for him. He knew exactly what he did wrong and the consequences of that.

"I don't wanna hear you anymore, Matt."

I got up trying to hold the tears, my heart was Racing, I slammed the door behing me. If it was up to me, he could stay there for a while.