Ally and I curled up on the couch when I got home. Caleb had gone to bed early after a long day of being spoiled by his Auntie Ally. We both managed to polish off our pizzas and a whole container of Ben and Jerrys, Chocolate Therapy in which I was clearly in desperate need of some.
Lifetime seemed to be having a marathon on about cheating men and I officially took that as I sign. After our third in a row Ally clicked off the TV and stood up yawning. I was surprised she had stuck around this long, most of the time on the weekends especially after watching Caleb for me she would be heading over to Skys to spend the night with him but she hadn’t mentioned him all day.
“Well I’m gonna head to bed. You need a good rest too, maybe you and Chase can get a chance to talk to each other tomorrow.”
“Um excuse me?” I ask in shock. Clearly I had heard that wrong.
“Weren’t you the one wanting to castrate him earlier and now you think I should actually give him the time of day?” I couldn’t believe how quickly her tune had changed from just a few hours ago. Normally Ally was the feistier one between the two of us.
“Wellllll,” she dragged out as she looked guiltily down at her shuffling feet. “I kinda talked to Chase while you were gone.”
“Kinda or you did. Which is it there’s really no in between there,” I snapped out.
“I did talk to him,” she admits. “He kept pounding on the door begging to talk to you again and I finally opened to tell him you weren’t here and where to shove his apology. He asked if you had told me what happened and he told me his side of things. Apparently he went over to talk to Teddy and he cleared up a few things for him. I think you should listen to him Leah. He really sounded convinced that he wasn’t in the wrong.”
I snort out a laugh before standing up and angrily tossing the throw pillow back onto the couch. “Yeah well he can pretty much persuade anyone. You should have just punched him in that stupid sexy smirk I’m sure he was giving you and slammed the door in his face. I’m not surprised you believed him, you’re like the most na?ve person around. Thanks for being such a great friend!” I shout out before practically running to my room and slamming the door behind me.
I glance over at Caleb who’s curled up with his arms wrapped around that damn stuffed bear Chase got him. Stupid bear. Luckily my mad fit hadn’t caused him to move an inch.
I instantly regret my words and wish I could erase them and the hurt look that covered Allys face. I head to bed though and figure I’ll deal with her in the morning. That would be one relationship that I couldn’t live without, she really is like a sister to me and I couldn’t imagine not having her in my life.
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A few weeks went by and I managed to pick up my ‘Avoid Chase’ game pretty easily. Maybe I had picked the wrong career path in nursing I could totally be one of those secret spies. I still got plenty of phone calls and text messages almost on a daily message from him but I deleted those before reading them. Caleb asked a few times when he could see Chase but after awhile he must’ve given him because he gave up that topic pretty quickly.
Ally had been understanding with my outburst at her and she had kept mum on the whole situation after that. I kept myself busy with work and school once again and used up most of my free time at the campus rec center and Caleb loved to go swimming in the pool with the water slide. I knew I could most definitely avoid Chase there since he always used the convenient gym at the complex.
But I was basically going through the motions, even with the betrayal it was still hard just to completely shut off all thoughts and feelings I had for Chase. That asshole had wormed his way right into my heart and I didn’t know how to get him out.
Remy had tried to chime in after the whole situation too. She had showed up that night after the band was already done performing and she admitted she didn’t see Chase which only added fuel to the evidence I had. He was probably buried under Missys massive chest by that time. I hope she smothers him to death with those things. Remy said that she heard through Mark that was Chase was pretty miserable without me though and he had never seen him that bummed out before. Good I hope he was miserable, it’s not like I did anything wrong.