It's Complicated

30 ~ Don't Feed me that Bullshit

Chapter 30 ~ Don't Feed me that Bullshit

I glance up and down at the door in front of me debating whether or not this is really a good decision. I raise my hand to knock but the second my hand touches the door it swings open, making me audibly gasp. Drew stands in front of me, beats around his neck, and nothing but joggers and a pair of trainers on.

"What are you doing here shorty?" He smiles on the other side of the door. "Is Pae here I really need to talk to her."

"No sorry, she's out with Jillian but you are free to wait until she comes back." He says, opening the door a little wider for me to come in but I shake may head in response.

"It's okay, I'll just talk to her tomorrow." I spin on my heal to start walking back to my car We he grabs my wrist and keeps me from leaving.

"Do you have some trainers with you?" My eyebrows scrunch up and I blink at him, "Um, yeah why?"

"Go get them, we are going on a run." I grin at him, "Just like old times," he returns it, "Just like old times Shorty."

I run to my car and open the trunk to grab my trainers that I keep in there, what you never know if you have to ever run away from a killer okay?! I slide them on and when I pop back up from tying them I see Drew in front of me, still shirtless.

"Can you put a shirt on please, no one, especially me, wants to see that Drew."

"I get hot when I run shorty, you know this. Also it makes me more easy on the eyes," he smirks and I send him a disgusted look, "Drew! You're like my big brother, I don't need to know about that!" His mouth drops agape and I shove him backwards, playfully.

"I'm going to pretend that you didn't just say I was telling my little sister figure about my sex life and start running, okay?" I roll my eyes at him, "Okay, whatever. Let's go before this turns weird."

"What do you mean, it's already weird because you're here," I gasp and him and shove him into the grass, "Meanie."

"Oh so mature of you to call me that shorty,"

"Well more mature than you calling me shorty!" I shoot back, grinning at him like a child, I missed this. I missed our runs. I missed our talks. I missed him, the real him. Not the him he was because of her.

He hadn't been the same since Melanie and him broke up. They had been together since freshman year of high school, high school sweethearts some would say. They were everything, well at least until that night. The night that Drew was going to propose to her, but instead he found her in a bed with another man. That was over six months ago though, and I think he has finally moved on, let his past go and I'm thankful for it.

"Are you coming shorty?"

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"Tell me what is up, something is bothering you and I can see it," I glance at him for a second before drawing my eyes away and tipping my water bottle into my mouth.

"Nothing is wrong, don't worry about it Drew." I step toward the path that we were just running on while he is sitting in the grass opposite of me, I hate lying to him.

"Don't feed me that bullshit, I know you are lying, I can see right through you. I've known you long enough to tell. You been distracted this whole run and you are never distracted."

He was right I had been distracted, like really distracted. I promised myself I wouldn't get involved with anybody this year, since I would be leaving anyways but then I met him. I met him and he fucked everything up and I don't know what to do. I hurt him, but he hurt me too by pushing me away. God why is this so damn complicated.

"I fucked up drew, I messed up everything," I give in as I collapse next to him, my body screaming in pain for not training in a week.

"I'm sure it's not that bad shorty, you always find away to fix things, I'm sure you'll figure this out." I shake my head at him, "I don't think I can fix this." Drew pats the grass next to him, motioning me to scoot closer to him and I oblige.

"So there is this guy I met a few months ago, and he's been through a lot. At first I knew I should have stayed away from him but there was just something about him, something that made me drawn to him. So he and I became friends. We hung out a lot more and I told him things that I never tell anyone other than you and Pae, and stuff I haven't even told you. He knows about my mom Drew, I told him before I told Pae." I take a deep breath, knowing the next part is going to be really hard to admit, to him and to myself.

"He's has a pretty shitty past, his fathers a dick, and his sister got into with the Grey wolves. He helped her out but I know he still involved with them even though he won't admit it to me. But god, I've never felt like this. I was happy with him, he made me smile, even when I had the worst day. He would make me forget all of it. It was just me and him."

"But then something happened, I went to dinner at his house to meet his older brother and his fiancée, but then his dad showed up. The minute he saw him it was like all that happened in between us just stopped. He shut me out and I didn't know what to do so I let him. Dinner started but then him and his dad, the- they got into it, and it scared the shit out of me."

"He said some things I know he didn't mean and then I was brought into the fight and I just, I couldn't do it. So I left. I was mad at him for days Drew, days. But then last night, I almost died." I hear Drew almost choke on his water the minute the words left my mouth.

"You almost WHAT?" I slap my hand over his mouth to silence him and continue, "Let me explain, please." I shoot him a stern look and his slowly nods.

"I was mad at him so to get my mind off of it Pae took me to a party. It was his. I saw him there with another girl and it made me so mad. So mad that Pae took me to that party, knowing it was his. So mad that I trusted him. And so fucking mad that I even fell for him. And he let me fall straight to the ground." I let out a sigh as the words moved out of my lips. I had finally admitted it. I had admitted out loud, and to myself, that I had feelings for Asher Black. I looked back at Drew whose gaze begged me to go on, wanting to know the real end to all of this.

"I decided it was a great idea to have a few drinks and the next thing I know I was standing in the middle of the road, a truck barreling towards me. He pulled me out of the way. He saved me but then everything that happened came tumbling back and I started to yell at him. For shutting me out, for bringing me into his fight with his dad. Then he basically said I of all people should know how it is with his dad and that I should just wait until he's ready to let me know what happened to him last year. I-I just don't know what to do Drew."

"You really like him don't you shorty," Drew smirks at me and I lightly shove him. "Shut up."

"Shorty, just let him cool off, sort out his emotions and such. He'll come around, they always do if they really care about you." He smiles at me as he pushes up from the ground and brushes himself off.

"Now get your ass up we have a run to finish."

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Hello, I really hope you enjoyed this chapter, I honestly think it one of the more emotional ones. I wasn't expecting it to be as long as it turned out but that's okay. And FINALLY Halston admitted that she has feelings for Asher, took long enough am I right! Anyways, I hope you had a good weekend and Goodbye! ♡