Page 16 of Return To You

After Rose left reluctantly with her dad, Cameron ran over, screeching, yes fucking screeching, that LA Soldiers Records want to sign us.

My family cheered and celebrated, and Barnett nearly fucking fainted.

We plan to meet at the bus station at midnight to leave. I just need to go and convince my girl to pack first because I won’t leave without her, and now that she’s graduated, she can come, too.

Well, I hope she will; otherwise, we’ll lose the offer.

Chuckling, I pick up the purple monkey she bought me on my fifteenth birthday and place it in my bag just as my door opens.

I turn but frown when I see my sister with tears in her eyes. I step forward but stop when she opens her mouth.

“R-Rose, she-she’s cheating on you,” she cries, and I snort at her last-ditch attempt.

Seriously, this is what she’s coming down to now. She knows I’m leaving, so why not make shit up about my girl as a last ditch to break us up, and why? Because she’s best friends with Piper, and most likely hoping I’d spend money I earn on her instead?

It doesn’t fucking make sense.

“I don’t believe you,” I snap, making her flinch, looking hurt toward me. I scoff, “Don’t give me that look, Gina. You and Piper have been trying to split us up for years, and now I’ve got a record label interested you’re what? Trying harder?”

She sniffles as Piper steps into my room, making me narrow my eyes. She flinches at my coldness before showing me her phone, and everything in me sinks.

I don’t want to believe it, I don’t want to, but a picture says a thousand words, right….

My girl, wearing the dark red wrap dress she was wearing today underneath her gown, is hugging some guy who looks at least ten years older than her.

His hands are wrapped around her waist tightly, her lips on his cheek, and I see red.

Pain, so much fucking pain shoots through me that I don’t even notice Piper sliding underneath my arm.

It can’t be true, it just….

Fuck, it can’t be.

I squeeze my eyes tight, the image burning my eyes proving it is.

With sharp pains squeezing my chest, I grab my bag, knocking Piper onto my bed, causing her to gasp, and storm past my sister. My mother and Nick are waiting for me in the livingarea, and both stand when I storm in looking concerned for me, but I ignore them.

I kiss Mom’s cheek and hug Nick before promising to let them know when we arrive safely.

Without another word, I rush out of the trailer without looking back. I get in my beat-up car, and spin out of the drive, heading to the bus stop.

When I get there, I message the boys we’re leaving earlier than discussed before hovering over Rose’s name in my contacts.

I know I should go and confront her, but facing the reality that the woman I let into my heart could cheat on me, could fucking hurt me this way…. Fuck, I feel like I’m drowning.

Anger and pain hit me hard, and I press on her contact before blocking her.

She used me, she fucking broke me, and why?

Why the fuck did she do this to me, to us?

Chucking my phone on the seat next to me, I grab a cigarette, place it between my lips, and light it up, inhaling instantly.

I don’t know why she’s done what she’s done, and I don’t fucking care because now, she’s dead to me.

I gave her my fucking heart, and she played me.

Fuck her, fuck everyone….

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