500 Days (42 page)

“
I never asked you to save
me.”

“
Somebody body needs
to.”

“
Why do you even
care?”

“
I don’t!” she argued
back.

“
That was a pretty
outrageous stunt you pulled in there for someone who doesn’t
care.”

I stepped away from the wall, taking a risk
and moving closer to Alex. “You’re my friend Casper. I was just
looking out for your best interest.”

“
And how would you know
what’s in my best interest? Maybe that girl in there was perfect
for me. Maybe she was even
‘the
one’
.” I emphasized the last two words,
trying to drive my point across. We both knew she was far from
being nothing more than a one night stand.

“
That’s a load of crap and
you know it.”

“
The only one who is full
of shit is you. You spout all this crap about being a friend, but
you and I both know that has nothing to do with it.”

“
Why else would I try to
stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life?”

I flashed a cocky smile, backing her up
against the opposite wall and barricading her with each palm
pressed flat on the cool stone brick. “Because you’re jealous?”

She laughed humorlessly.

“
You have no right to
interfere Alex. You can’t act like the jealous girlfriend and then
spout some bullshit about being a friend. When are you going to get
it that we’re not friends. We never were.” I clamped my mouth shut.
It came out all wrong. I didn’t mean to say that but it was too
late.

She snapped, pounding her arms and fist
against my chest. “You stupid son of a bitch!”

I wrestled with her wrists until I was
finally able to pin them to the wall. “Jesus Alex!” Both of us were
panting heavily. I looked down into her deep green eyes and before
I could stop myself, my lips were crushing hers. The tension in her
arms relaxed. I let go of her wrists so I could slip my hand behind
her neck and deepen the kiss. I pressed closer to her as she
tangled her hands into my hair and kissed me back. The kiss only
lasted a few seconds before Alex tensed up again. She pulled back
and shoved me away.

“
What the hell is wrong
with you?” she scowled. “You can’t do that. I have a boyfriend,
Casper.”

“
You sure as fuck don’t
act like it.”

“
What the hell is that
supposed to mean?”

“
Don’t stand there and
pretend you didn’t kiss me back.”

“
I didn’t. You attacked
me.” She scooted past me. “You know what Cas, I’m done.”

She started to walk away again. I panicked
and spit out the first thing that came to mind. “He’s cheating on
you!”

She stopped and turned around. “What did you
just say?”

“
Reece, he’s cheating on
you.”

She charged straight for me and slapped me
hard across the face. “That’s low. Even for you.”

“
It’s the truth. I saw him
the other night.” She crossed her arms over her chest. “I saw him
leave with another woman.”

“
And then
what?”

“
I don’t know. I… I got
distracted.”

“
Ha! Typical. Do me a
favor and leave me alone. Stay away from me and butt out of my
life.” Having nothing left I let her walk away from me. And this
time I knew, she was walking away for good. I was the biggest dick
in the world. I punched the wall. If I wasn’t so drunk it would
have hurt a hell of a lot more than it already did.

“
Whoa man, you alright?”
Johnny asked, approaching cautiously.

I shook my hand out. “Yeah…women,” I
laughed.

“
No pussy is worth that
destruction,” he gestured to my bleeding knuckles. “I heard one of
the girls inside talking about being pre-med. Let’s get you cleaned
up properly,” he winked. I followed him back into the room where he
led me to the so-called girl who was claiming to be pre-med. Turns
out she only took a first aid course back in high school because
she was a lifeguard during the summer or some bullshit. I could
have cared less. She was cute and legal. I let her clean off the
cuts and tape up my fingers. I then followed Johnny to their next
destination.

When I woke up in the morning I noticed
little miss first aid nursed more than just my knuckles. I sat up
and looked around the room which was covered in a god-awful bubble
gum pink color. One corner had a gaudy gold chest that was loaded
up with stuffed animals and shelves covered with unicorn statues. A
pink laptop was on a white desk. Beads hung from curtains with
feathers on the end. Everything in the room was a different shade
of pink. It looked like someone threw up Pepto Bismol everywhere.
Where the fuck was I?

I had a bad feeling in my stomach. The last
thing I wanted to do was wake this chick, but I needed to get the
hell out of there before something bad went down. I searched the
floor for my clothes. They weren’t hard to spot amongst the cotton
candy colored carpet. I hopped into my jeans and threw on my shirt.
I felt the bed shift when I sat down to lace up my boots and then I
felt a warm hand dance across my back. Shit, she was awake.
“Leaving already?” she cooed, slipping her other arm around my
chest.

“
Sorry, I’m not the stick
around type of guy.”

“
Relax. I know the drill,”
she said, getting up and throwing on a t-shirt. “I just thought
maybe I could get a goodbye kiss?” She walked around and stood in
front of me.

“
I don’t do goodbyes
either.”

I went to stand but she shoved me back down,
rolling her eyes. “I’m not some clingy girl so no need to run off
in a panic.” She climbed on my lap and pushed me back on the bed.
“And you’re not leaving until I get another taste.” Off came her
shirt and then she started to unbutton my pants.

“
Just out of curiosity.
Where are we?”

“
My parent’s house. Don’t
worry, they’re not home.”

I sat up wrapping my arm around her waist
and spun her onto the bed. “In that case we’re going to do this
right.” I spread her legs wide and slipped my tongue in between her
wet lips. She moaned instantly and if it wasn’t for her telling me
her parents weren’t home, I would have stuffed a sock in her mouth.
Only a few flicks of the tongue and she was quick to come. She
tugged me up by my hair and threw me down on the bed, tearing my
pants down to my ankles. Her mouth automatically found my dick. I
put my hands behind my head and let her do her thing. Not five
minutes later, there was a commotion downstairs. Her head popped up
and her eyes shot to the door.

“
What’s wrong?” I
asked.

“
Fuck, I think my parents
are home. You have to go.”

“
What? You’re just going
to leave me hanging?”

She grabbed a shirt off the floor throwing
it on hastily and then made her way over to the window. “Hurry up,”
she gestured.

“
Are you fucking kidding
me? You leave me with a hard on and then want me to jump out the
window?”

“
Give me a break. I’m sure
you deserve it. And if you don’t get out of here before my father
finds you
,
your
blue balls will be the least of your worries.”

“
Your father an angry
man?”

“
Daddy likes to hunt. I’ll
leave it at that.” I cautiously zipped up my pants and made my way
over to the window. Thankfully we were on the first floor. “Go,”
she said, rushing me. I had one leg out the window when the door to
her room clicked. She shoved me out the rest of the way and closed
the window. I fell flat on my back with a hard thwack. I rolled to
my side and picked up my broken and bruised body. I needed to start
screening these chicks I go home with. This was getting ridiculous.
I brushed the dirt off my jeans and walked to the first street sign
I found. Where the fuck was I? I took out my cell phone and called
Colton.

“
Hey man, I need a
ride.”

“
Where are
you?”

“
I don’t even fucking
know.” I looked around for something familiar, for something that
would give a hint as to where I was. “Hold on a sec.” I walked down
another block and found a gas station. I was at least twenty
minutes from home. “I’m on 78.”

Colton groaned into the
phone. “You fucking owe me. I’ll be there in thirty.” I hung up the
phone and decided to help myself to breakfast at the connecting
diner. The best thing about mine and Colton’s relationship was that
no matter what happened between us
,
the shit was always squashed quickly. We always
had each other’s backs no matter what was going on.

I found an empty booth inside the diner and
ordered an omelet and coffee. Black. My head was pounding and my
dick was painfully screaming at me. An hour later Colton finally
showed up. I slid into the car and let my head rest back on the
seat. “Thirty minutes my ass,” I mumbled.

“
You’re just lucky I
didn’t leave your ass here. What the fuck happened to you last
night?”

“
I hung out with
Johnny.”

“
Why the fuck are you
hanging around with that douchebag?”

“
Maybe because my best
friend is too busy getting his pussy filled by his girlfriend’s
dick.” He gave me one hard punch in the side. “Ass.”

“
You deserve a lot worse.
And thanks to your stupid mouth Declan is currently not talking to
me at the moment.”

“
What are you talking
about?”

“
Because you told Alex
that Reece was cheating on her.”

“
Somebody had
to.”

“
I know, but you shouldn’t
have blurted it out and not without concrete proof.”

“
Wait, you believe
me?”

Colton rested his elbow on the door. “I knew
something was off with that guy the second I met him. I wouldn’t
put it past him to be a cheating bastard, but we need proof and I’m
going to help you get it.”

“
Why would you help me?”
It’s not unlike Colton to help a brother out, but for some reason I
knew something wasn’t right. I knew there had to be a reason behind
it.

He stepped on the gas as
the light turned green. “Declan won’t talk to me.” I turned to look
at him to make sure he was serious. “We had a fight, because
of
you
. I took
your side and now she’s pissed. So you’re going to make it right.
I’m going to help you prove just how big of a dick Reece is. Then
you’re going to tell Alex you like her and if she doesn’t feel the
same
,
then that’s
it.”

“
What do you mean that’s
it?”

“
The end. For real this
time. You move on Casper. Your feelings for this girl are volatile.
Every time things go bad you bring everyone down with you and it’s
got to stop. That’s the only way I’ll agree to help you out. If you
give me your word that if Alex doesn’t love you
back
,
you’ll
leave her alone and move on.”

I sighed, scrubbing a hand
down my face.
Easier said than
done
. I never felt like this before. This
girl made me do crazy things, but Colton was right. If she didn’t
love me back than I had to let her go. I sat up straighter.
“Alright, you have a deal.”

Colton followed through
with his promise to help me prove just how big of a dick Reece was.
We knew this wouldn’t be an easy feat so we initiated Greyson into
our little spy trap. Having nothing better to do he was all for it.
We spent the first week just trying to come up with a plan to catch
him in action. Greyson’s idea was to invite him out and then
surround him by girls in hopes that he would take one home. I
reminded him, with a hit to the back of the head
,
that Reece was too smart for that.
We would have to do better.

Colton informed us he didn’t care how we
caught him just as long as we did. His relationship with Declan was
on the line. They hadn’t talked since their argument. Colton texted
her everyday but she never responded which made Colton angrier with
me, not helping my case. He wanted to hurry this along as fast as
possible.

Greyson actually became useful after all.
One of the girls in the admissions office had a crush on him. He
was able to somehow weasel Reece’s schedule out of her, giving her
some bullshit excuse that we were planning a surprise party for
him. It wasn’t that far from the truth. We would surprise him with
the truth and then throw a party for his departure. We decided to
make sure one of us was always around Reece, but we all had
different classes making it hard to ‘accidentally’ run into
him.

At lunch I tried making
peace with Alex, but she just told me to
‘fuck off’
. Colton didn’t have any
better luck with Declan either, but at least I wasn’t pathetic
enough to chase her out of the cafeteria begging and pleading. When
Colton finally returned, moping
,
I held out my hand that was filled with two
meatballs. “I think you left these behind.” Colton didn’t say
anything. He just went back to his lunch.

After the debacle in the lunchroom, we
noticed the girls begun to dine elsewhere, which meant Reece did as
well. The next best thing was to catch him outside of school. Our
first stop was the bar I originally caught him at. We had no idea
if he would be out this weekend or not, but we decided to make the
most of it. Well Greyson and I did. “Could you guys be fucking
serious for once?” Colton whined. The lack of pussy was really
making him a whiny bitch.