Sweet Secret by Karina Castillo (Bekacastle) (classic reads .TXT) 📖

Chapter 21

She didn't have enough strength to speak in front of him. I felt pangs in my chest and stomach and fucking uncontrollable shortness of breath.

What he had done to Denzel was unforgivable, and worst of all, he didn't know how to begin to explain all of this to him. It was true, it was stupid and I should have told him from the beginning.

"You're a piece of shit," Denzel muttered as he walked over to his cousin. He took a step forward, balling his hands into fists as Joe grabbed the sack tightly, pushing him back.

This is what you provoke, Rebecca.

"Don't tell me you're jealous, Denzel," his cousin teased with a big smile on his face. Reed held me tightly around the waist, preventing me from slipping away. “Me and Rebecca were just playing about which of us kissed better.”

"Shut the fuck up before I smash your face in." My boyfriend's eyes were red. “What the hell did you do to him?! What did you say to make him listen to you?!”

"I didn't force her to do anything," he lied. 

Denzel's face when he heard it turned red with fury.

“I don't believe you. I don't believe any of this shit.” Denzel growled and squirmed out of Joe's grasp.
"Believe it or not," he turned to Denzel, "Rebecca is already mine." That was enough for Denzel to punch him in the face with full force.

Reed fell to the ground, and as he got up he began to laugh.

"How pathetic." He began to stand up. "No wonder your girlfriend slept with me."

“That's a lie!” I objected. I was swallowing all the anger I felt towards this guy. “I never…”
"I don't want to hear any more."

"All he wants is to destroy us." My eyes watered, Denzel finally met my gaze and took a deep breath. This felt like shit. “You can't believe him, Denzel…

"All I think is that you lied to me, Rebecca," he objected. “I knew there was something, you were hiding something from me. Was this what you were hiding from me? The fact that you had messed with my cousin too?”

"You can't say that about me." I went to him and pushed him angrily. “You know that's not true, Denzel.”

"First fucking Jayden Foster." My old flame walked into the surrounding crowd and looked at us strangely. Calm down friend, nobody wants you in the game.

"Then Joe, then me," he began to speak with too much anger. I can't bear to see him like this.

I can't bear to see him like that...

"And now you get into bed with him." I raised my hand and my palm slammed into his cheek hard. My eyes were burning as tears were drowning me.

“Don't ever talk about me like that again, Denzel.”

The people around were watching what happened, and when Principal Smith came over to ask him to leave, it was too late, because he started to leave.

“Denzel!” I yelled. Damn world falling, you have destroyed something that I worked for a long time to achieve.

"Don't try to do anything." Reed grabbed my forearm; his teeth snapped in my ear, but I managed to push him away.

“He is my boyfriend!” I ran after Denzel, but he was nowhere to be found. Come on, Denzel, a person can't just vanish out of nowhere like that.

"She's gone, Rebecca," Joe whispered behind me. 

Anne ran to me and hugged me tightly as I sobbed into her shoulder.

I have lost it.

"She'll have to listen to you, Bec." I broke away from my friend and walked over to Joe.

What if Denzel didn't believe me? What if Reed told him something else? What if he really thought I had feelings for his cousin?

"Joe, could you take me home?" I don't feel good…” I wiped away my tears, even though the makeup was already all over my face and I must have looked horrible.

"Let's go" he took me by the hand and was my support to get me in his car.

The only thing she could think about as she walked was him and everything that had happened.

(…)
 

Echosmith's Shut up and Kiss me came on the radio while Joe was driving.

After a while, it had started to rain.

"This dance was shit." My voice cracked.

 I couldn't help but feel a terrible feeling in my chest for what he had done to my boyfriend. Reed was the worst human being in the world and Denzel didn't deserve to be hurt like that.

“At least there will be points.” Joe commented.

"Joe, don't be reckless," scolded his sister, who was in the back seat.

"Sorry, Beck. Joe parked the car in front of my house. “Do you want some company?”

“Nope. I'll try to call him.” I opened the car door. “Thanks for everything.”

I went all the way down and after several attempts, I was able to open the door of the house. I felt so weak and tired that I couldn't even move. All the weight fell on me.

"Rebecca," I heard a female voice I knew. 

I looked up to see my older sister coming towards me with an excited smile. With so much stress, he had completely forgotten his existence.

I hugged her, not very sane with myself, and we stayed like that for a few minutes until my mother appeared at the table with a large lemon cake. It looked very appetizing, but my hunger fell short. I couldn't think of anything else other than what happened at the dance.

"I missed you, Becky," my sister whispered as she caressed my face. “What happened to you?” He screwed up his face.

“Me…”

"Okay, she just had a mishap with her boyfriend." Blood rushed to my feet as Reed Derricks came out of the kitchen. 

How the fuck did this guy get here?

"I want you to get out of this house," I cleared my throat loudly. My sister looked at me strangely, Reed still had the bruise that Denzel left on his eye, and my mother remained intact at his side. “I want him to go away!” I threw my small bag at him and then my sister hugged me tightly preventing me from moving. “Get it out of here!”

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