“You can’t stop me,” I screamed, as I rushed out of the room.
Screw my clothes. I was getting the hell out of here.
I bounded down the stairs and reached the front door, when he pulled me back, hard.
“You’re not taking my kid away from me. You’re not taking you away from me. Don’t even think about it. It’s not happening.”
“Well, I’m going,” I growled, opening the door. “And considering our baby is still growing inside of me, I most definitely am, taking him with me.”
He pulled me harder. “Lee, I’m warning you…”
“Don’t you dare threaten me, Kyle Carter. You have no right. Go find your crazy bitch of a girlfriend. I’m going.”
I pulled from his grasp and ran.
He shouted at me as he chased me down the street. “Lee, Get your ass back here.”
“Let me go,” I screamed, when he caught up with me.
Kyle wrapped his arms around my back and held me. “No, I love you too much, to let you go. You need to calm down. I’m fucking innocent. The only thing I’m guilty of, is showing compassion to a sick woman, phoning an ambulance for her and waiting for it arrive. That’s it.”
“She killed Bruno…Your wallet…Uh, I don’t want to go through this anymore,” I screamed. “I don’t want this life with you.”
I heard him gasp, and he released me.
“Take it,” I heard him cry and I turned around.
Kyle was on his knees in front of me, tears flooding down his face as he dropped his shirt at my feet.
“Take everything I have,” he cried, as he emptied his pockets. “That’s what will happen to me if you leave me, you’ll take away everything.”
“Kyle,” I choked. “Please, stop.”
“Take it, Lee,” he shouted, before a fit of crying enveloped him. “I don’t want it without you,” he cried, his chest heaving. “You are all I have.”
He covered his face with his hands as he cried. His body was shaking, every piece of him trembled. “I haven’t done anything. I didn’t touch her.”
I lost all resolve and dropped to my knees in front of him as the truth of his words blew through me with the force of a hurricane. I was wrong.
I’d been so terribly wrong…
“I believe you,” I sobbed, scrambling on my knees towards him. “Kyle, please, I’m sorry,” I whispered, as I cradled his head to my chest.
“I can’t do this anymore, Lee,” he whispered. “I won’t.”
Lifting his head, his rested his forehead against mine. “This is it.”
He shuddered, as tears poured down his cheeks. “You need to trust that I will never hurt you again. You need to have faith in us. I can’t keep going through this with you.”
“I do,” I cried. “I will. I’m sorry.”
*****
Kyle
“I don’t think this is a good idea,” I muttered to my two idiotic fucking friends and my hot idiotic girlfriend.
They were all sitting in my kitchen, trying to plot a road trip.
I had no fucking clue how Derek was sitting so calmly.
Cam was fucking Mike-had been for months. Lee had told me, the other night, when we had both calmed down enough to speak.
Thank god, she’d believed me. I knew Lee had trust issues, and god knows, I’d put them there, but I’d been all but fucking crushed, when she said she was leaving me.
Seriously, I’d never felt so afraid and helpless in my life.
Thankfully, we were back on track and moving on from Rachel.
Yep, there would be no more drama.
Drama could kiss my ass.
But the whole Cam, Mike, Derek love triangle? Well, I was disgusted to say the least.
But I was more pissed with Mike, than Cam.
He was a sly fucker, always had been, and I’d thought better of Cam than to fall in with the likes of him.
But Lee said that Cam told her, that she was in love with him…
But hey, fuck it, as long as he wasn’t sniffing around Lee, I was happy.
Lee had been upset with Cam over the lying, but they’d made up, like they always did.
However, Lee wasn’t speaking to Mike, over her loyalty to Derek, which made me fucking delighted.
Rachel was tucked away in some facility, getting treatment, and Mike was out of the picture.
I could finally breathe again…
“Come on, Kyle,” Lee urged pulling herself out of her chair and waddling over to me.
Yeah, she waddled now, and it was so fucking sexy.
“Derek said that you guys had planned to take a road trip after graduation. That you’ve had it planned since freshman year.”
That was true, Cam, Derek, and I had always said we’d get the fuck out of this place and hit the road for a few days, but given the circumstances, I thought it was a stupid as hell idea.