Chapter 11.
Chad was more than pissed, he was livid. This little bitch got the better of him, how could she? How dare she?! No one treated him and talked to him like that! His plan had backfired, which now made him want revenge for the humiliation she had put him through. His initial idea to mess with her just to get to Jay now turned into something else. He wanted to hurt her. And if the thief suffered along the way, then all the better.
But now he had practice. As he neared the field, Chad saw that some of the team were already warming up, Jay included. When he spotted the prince, the brunet scowled and Chad mirrored his expression. Then something else formed in the blond's mind, making him smirk. Maybe he'd be able to kill two birds with one stone.
Chad waited until practice was over and most of the team had headed back to their dorms or classes, before he approached Jay, who was sitting on the bleachers, tying up his boots. When someone's legs entered his line of vision, Jay looked up to find Chad standing there with an unreadable look on his face, and his lips turned into a frown.
„What do you want?" Jay grunted, not really wanting to deal with this jerk. He still hadn't forgoten their last encounter. Not waiting for an answer, Jay got up swiftly and walked around him to leave.
„I just thought you'd be interested to know what me and Evie did last night." Chad's smug voice sounded behind him and at the sound of Evie's name Jay froze in his spot and his ears immediately perked up but he kept his back to the blond. Nevertheless, by how rigid his back had gone, Chad saw that his words had had the desired effect and his insides swelled with delight.
„Yeah, perhaps she failed to mention it to you but we had some wicked fun alright." He continued in a nonchalant tone as Jay very slowly turned around to glare at the prince, his hands clenching into fists, as he tried to keep his composure. He had a bad feeling about this. He wanted to yell at Chad, demand an explanation from him and if it turned out that the sleazy bastard had hurt her in any way, so help him, he was ready to pulverize him right on the spot. However, Jay didn't quite trust his voice at the moment, so he remained quiet, shooting daggers at the other boy. His hands were itching to punch something, preferably Chad's face.
„Don't worry, she enjoyed it just as much as I did." Chad taunted and Jay felt himself begin to shake with rage, his breathing rapidly increasing as his knuckles turned white from clenching his fists too hard. Then he halted abruptly, his eyes widening slightly as the filthy insinuation underlaying Chad's statement registered in his mind, and Jay lunged forward at him, a furious growl ripping out of his throat. He knocked him over and pinned him underneath him, ready to beat the shit out of him.
„I had her pressed up against the wall with my leg between her thighs while she moaned my name." Chad spat nastily, his smug smile unwavering as he opened his mouth to continue but the words died on his tongue when Jay's iron fist came crashing down on his face.
„Shut up!" He yelled enraged, not believing his ears. There was no way Evie would do this! This guy was lying his ass off or, in the worst case scenario, he did something to Evie against her will. The notion of Chad's dirty hands anywhere near Evie's body made Jay want to break them off.
„She begged me not to stop. She wanted me to touch her," Chad went on, very pleased by the outcome of the situation. He'd handle a little pain if it meant getting him what he wanted. „To kiss her, to please her—" His sentence was cut off by Jay's fist coming in contact with his nose this time and the prince felt the warm blood trickle down his mouth. God, he only hoped it wasn't broken.
„Shut up! That's not true!" Jay roared, convinced that all of this was false. It couldn't be true… It just couldn't. Evie would never… And she hated Chad!
„Why are you so surprised?" The blond yelled at him, shoving Jay off of him with some difficulty and scrambling to put at least a foot of distance between them. „She always wanted a prince!" He shouted, putting a hand to his bleeding nose, which was now dripping on his shirt. „What, did you think she would go for the likes of you? A thief!" He sneered, glaring at the brunet, whose fuming expression faltered slightly.
Jay didn't know if Chad was aware of it or not but he had just hit his weakest spot. Jay knew Evie would never go for him. She deserved so much better, she deserved a prince. She was beautiful and intelligent, kind, loving, well-mannered, the list just went on forever, and he… he was just that, a thief. He would never be worthy of a creature as stunning as her.
The abrupt realisation hit him like a fire truck and knocked all the wind out of his chest. He wanted to be worthy of her. He wanted her to be his, he wanted to love her and protect her, to be hers and to make her happy. He wanted to be the one who put the smile on her face, who made her laugh, who took care of her. And most of all, he wanted her to want him back. Not as a friend but as something much more.
As soon as all of this dawned on him, things got a whole lot more personal. Perhaps Chad saw it in his eyes or in his posture, or perhaps he didn't, but he turned around and quickly deserted, leaving the other boy alone at the tourney field.
Jay's blinding fury had deflated somewhat, but he was still pissed off as hell. His throbbing and bloody knuckles didn't bother him even half as much as all the thoughts racing through his head at the moment. Evie, his Evie, would never do something like this, especially with Chad of all people, he had complete faith in her. But when the green monster of jealousy takes hold, doubt begins to creep within the soul even of the most self-assured. Jay didn't believe Evie would do this, he didn't want it to be true and deep down in his heart he knew it wasn't, but he was jealous and angry and wanted to hear what had happened from her (if anything had happened at all, he still doubted that Chad hadn't invented the whole thing just to rile him up).
He needed to find Evie and talk to her immediately.