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

I placed the journal on the table and crossed my arms.

"Who were you telling that he smelled like garlic, then?"

"He's over the fucking garlic thing, will you, Rebecca?" He turned around.

“You still had no right to say what happened between us. You are a cheeky and cynical without feelings.

Denzel was quiet for a while, but then he turned to me and saw how frustrated I was about this whole situation. I had only been in this institute for three days and I had already passed everything.

“You have not understood my strategy. If they see you alone, they're going to keep hurting you, Rebecca.
"Like you do?" Denzel placed his hand on my shoulder tightly preventing me from moving away and pushed me against his chest. I felt my heart race when he looked at me.

There was no us.

What were you thinking Rebecca?

I looked around me, we were between ink and paper, and everything seemed to fall like feathers on me.

“If you think you'll have something better than me, you're wrong.” He murmured, I walked away and said:

“Joe is much better than you in every way."

After I left the classroom I did my best to hide from the jeering stares and laughter and looked everywhere for Joe, but when I finally found him he was talking to Jayden and his other friends.

If only I had my diary with me...

Any one of these people had it and there was every chance that tomorrow there would be another piece of my private life on display at the university.

"Rebecca, here you are." The girls from the other day approached, the Asian had a peculiar makeup and the American seemed amused. “How's Denzel kissing? Did you feel butterflies when you kissed him?”

"I didn't kiss him, it was a misunderstanding," I explained, but I could tell from their looks that they didn't believe me at all.

"Then I can keep it," He said. “You won't care about that or will you? Denzel Derricks is the hottest guy in college, and to be said about someone like you is demeaning. Even if he only kissed you to prove that you really are an outcast.”

"Don't bother Bec," Joe appeared at my side. “Please, girls, just go to class.”

Those horrible girls walked away and left me alone with him. This was the most embarrassing thing in the world. Joe knew all these horrible secrets about me and I had nothing to defend myself with. He was bloody weak again!

"Are you okay Rebecca?" Joe asked me.

I nodded.

“Noticeable. He held out his phone to me, where there was a picture of Denzel holding my chin. “So much so that you went with Denzel to have an intimate moment.

“Who gave you that?” I searched his eyes.

“It doesn't matter who gave it to me, Rebecca. It matters that you continue to engage with this subject. First he takes you away from me and steals kisses without your consent, and then he comes to rub it in my face. And now you let him touch you?”

I saw Denzel walk down one of the hallways and his gaze lingered on us.

Those strange girls as well as Denzel, Joe, Jayden and their friends were suspected of stealing my diary and thus exposing me by taking pictures of me. Someone was stalking me, and I had to find out who it was before anything else happened at the university.

Was it the popular kids who were trying to play a bloody dirty game with the weird girl? Or was it Joe distracting me to find out everything embarrassing and dark about me?

Maybe it was Denzel, who with his stupid acts towards me was cheating on me like the rest.

But what exactly were they looking for from me? My body? My secret life exposed? What were they doing to make him fall into their clutches?

I went from Denzel to Joe and summed up all the possible suspicions around me.

"No, Joe."