Her House, My Rules

Chapter 24

Drama.

I hate drama.

Everyone has secrets. Everybody has a chapter they don't read out loud.

What's your secret?

Secrets can be poison. Secrets can follow your life until your last day. Secrets can open a dark gate to cause pain and sorrow in your pure heart. Secrets can turn you into someone else. Secrets can hurt the people you love silently. Secrets can fill your soul with regrets and old dangerous memories. Secrets can create emptiness inside your brain and make you act differently. When you hold dark secrets inside you for so long, they can manifest in you and perish good souvenirs under the devil's ground.

Secrets can also bring happiness but be careful, happiness is temporary.

When I was seven years old, I remember asking my dad. 'Dad, why do people die every  day?' He told me 'Death is permanent. Life is temporary'. I was young and my intelligence was useless and brainless. I never knew what life was exactly. I never understood what he meant but I figured it out on my own. I've learned over the years that your body is the key. Without a body, you are nobody.

"May I?" Hazel entered my bedroom with a patient vibe. "We need to talk." Her words were like shadows of death. They killed me within seconds.

"Go ahead." I took off my white T-shirt and threw it on the bed, vaguely. Shirtless was my new signature. "It's your house anyway."

"We need to talk about us." She started with a serious tone. "You're my boyfriend and I respect that but you can't just interfere in my private conversation with my own family. My parents were right in front of us, you were so inconsiderate that you didn't care about the consequences. You were about to tell them about our relationship, Hawk. What's wrong with you?" Her words navigated in my head like a lost boat. "Are you out of your mind?"

"I don't know, Hazel." My brows arched, impatiently. "Am I?"

"Don't play the victim here, please." She made some steps towards me, urgently. "Why can't you admit your mistake? Why Hawk? Why?"

"Here we go again." I squeezed my teeth against each other. "Arguments after arguments. Are you proud of yourself right now? Can I have my peace?"

"Peace? You're talking about peace?" She chuckled with her petty tone. "Why did you lie to me in the first place? Why didn't you tell me that your ex-girlfriend, Jessica was still alive? She's downstairs right now, stealing everyone's attention. I can't even trust you anymore. Where were you last night?"

"I was with you obviously." I tried to remind her of our beautiful night to bury the argument.

 "You left me by myself in your bedroom. Why? Did you make love to her too?" Her questions aggravated me.

"Really?" I shook my head, negatively. "Are you really that insecure? You really think I would cheat on you. Did I give you reasons to think like that?"

"Yes, Indeed." She sacrificed my words with her negative thoughts. "You lied to me last night. You told me you were not going to fight anyone but instead, you betrayed my trust and made love to Jessica."

"She's the past, Hazel," I admitted. "I don't have feelings for her. I only want you. You're the girl that I want and it kills me that you're not even trying to understand me and work things out." I paused. "You're my girl. Do you hear me? Mine. I'll never cheat on you. Mark my words."

"In that case," She rolled her eyes. "I want you to tell me the truth. Why was she in this bedroom a few minutes ago?"

"She was just..." I sighed, trying to create a lie to prevent drama. "She was just saying hi to me."