Mickey’s POV:

For once, I didn’t actually have to sneak out of my house to go out. I could just freely go wherever I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, that definitely wasn’t my parents’ plan, but it was how it went. I obviously couldn’t drive with a cast on my arm, so my dad drove me to school. The problem was getting back home. Neither of my parents was available at the time and my promise of finding a ride back home was broken.

I didn’t stay at school the entire time, just like any normal day. Only, this time I couldn’t just get in my car and leave. But I had already made a few plans with Devon that easily let me sneak out and hop onto his motorcycle. Fair enough, it wasn’t safe going on the back of a motorcycle with a broken wrist either since I couldn’t hold him properly, but it was the last thing on my mind. I preferred to get high over school any day.

So, that’s basically what we did the entire day. We sat around in Devon’s and Johnny’s shared apartment getting high as a kite. There were some other people around, including Johnny himself and some other people that had also been at the bonfire I had brought Jack and Alex to.

Anybody who stepped into the room would have gotten second-hand high if they even stayed for one second. The air wasn’t clear anymore, clouded by the smoke that came from various joints. The coffee table was a mess; there was power still scattered all over it and it had gotten pretty scratched. Beer had been spilled all over the floor, creating some sticky patches. It was a complete and utter mess.

But that was just our day-activity. As soon as the sun set, the entire group pushed through the entrance door of the apartment building. Some left, going off to do whatever mischief they could get into with other people, others just made the smart choice of actually leaving early for once. I, on the other hand, stayed with Devon, of course.

His arm was wrapped around my shoulders as we walked through town. Johnny would occasionally try to slip me out of his grip, but Devon would constantly push him away with a loud laugh and pull me closer. It was just a normal night in my life, except for that bloody thing on my arm. I had gotten in many fights before, yet I managed to break my arm trying to escape my house. Well, wasn’t that a great battle story.

“Ok, guys,” Johnny ran up to the front and started walking backward, his eyes still bloodshot and his speech still calm and slow, “I suggest we go to the park down the road and hit another one of these.” He proceeded to open one side of his jacket at tug at a joint he had in his pocket.

“Dude, I’m just starting to get down from the shit we did before.” A girl with black hair spoke up, shaking her head at him. “And it seems like you could use a little break as well.”

“Kate, Katelyn, Katie,” Johnny stopped in his tracks until we caught up with him and sloppily threw an arm around her, putting practically all his weight on her as well, “I live my life in a constant high. Gotta keep fueling this fire!”

He thrust the air a little and pulled a blond girl towards him to have hanging off his other side. This new girl rolled her eyes yet didn’t move away from him. Johnny could be the greatest douchebag alive and act like a total jerk, but he still managed to sleep with any girl he wanted. Well, that didn’t include me. He made his advances, alright, but Devon made sure he kept his distance.

“I’m just sayin’,” Kate shrugged, taking hold of Johnny’s hand that was hanging over her right shoulder, “we could either go smoke some more, or have some actual fun.”

“But the clubs are miles away! I ain’t walking that far. No way.” Johnny removed himself from both girls and started walking backward again. Every single movement of his had this sway to it, and it wasn’t necessarily a slick sway, but more a drunken dizziness.

“I wasn’t necessarily implying that, but that does sound like something I need right now.”

“But, as Johnny said, everything’s so fucking far away!” I repeated. There wasn’t even an underground club nearby and the two bars that were just at walking distance sucked ass. Whenever we actually wanted to go out, we either had to hang out at somebody else’s place, or we all needed to pile into a car.

“Guess we’ll just have to find a mode of transport.” Devon smirked, untangling himself from me and leading us to the right where there was a small parking lot.

Maybe it was the fact that most of the streetlights were broken and the few that worked kept flickering, or maybe his expression told me that shit was about to go down, but it did not feel right. I wasn’t somebody to easily turn down anything, especially in this group. I was around nearly every time they did something, give or take a few nights that I either spent with Rian or Devon--one way more sexual than the other.

Devon jogged up to a black car and hit the hood a few times with a satisfied grin on his face. “This one will do.”

“Fuck yeah, man!” Johnny punched the air triumphantly and rushed over to Devon to help him out. “Bitches be going crazy when they see us cruising in this thing.”

When Devon went over to the driver’s side and started trying to find his way in--he looked like he knew exactly what he was doing and had done it many times before--I stared in amazement. No, it wasn’t admiration, it was amazement at the fact they were stupid enough to do this.

“Are you crazy?” I seethed at Devon, trying to get him away from the car.

“Crazy for you.” He winked and didn’t step away, still prying at the door.

“No, are you fucking insane!” I said a little louder, now catching the attention of Johnny and the other two girls, who were watching in amusement as the guys tried to break into a car.

“Pretty much, yeah.” He nodded and pulled a knife out of his pocket, wedging it between the door and the body of the car.

“You can’t do that. I was able to let all the other stuff past, but you can’t steal a car. You have no idea whose car it is. It could be from someone who has spent ages trying to save up for a car and can barely afford to take care of their family. What if their job is ages away?”

“Or it could be some self-absorbed asshole. I’m willing to take the risk.”

I ran my right hand through my hair and couldn’t bear to watch anymore as he pulled the antenna off the car and tried to fit it through the gap he was creating with his knife. “You know what? I’m done.”

“Done with what?” He took a second to look at me instead of his hard work.

“Done with you, obviously.”

“Okay.”

I waited a while to see if he would give me a proper reaction. Of course, I knew that whatever we had never really involved any feelings, and I knew that he was only ‘dating’ me for sex, but I was expecting a little more than an ‘okay’. Even him saying that he was cool with it was better. I couldn’t do anything with this.

“Are waiting for me to have a change of heart?” He laughed, taking his hands off the tools and focusing all his attention on me. “I’m sorry, sweetheart, that’s not who I am. If you really thought I would get feelings for you, that’s you could change me, you were very wrong. I didn’t change at all. Matter of fact, I actually slept with many other girls while seeing you. I only used you for sex, sweetheart.”

I nearly started laughing as well. He really thought what he was telling me right now was hurting me. It was like he thought I didn’t even know he was totally sleeping around behind my back. I honestly didn’t want anything but sex from him either. What he was telling me actually sounded like music to my ears. But still, the fact that he consciously was trying to hurt me with his words didn’t sit right with me. I had some tricks up my sleeve as well. I knew what got guys like him going.

“You know, I slept with other people too.” I tried to make it sound nonchalant, but it sounded more like I was trying to hurl something hurtful back in his direction. This wasn’t what was supposed to get him, though.

“Great. Guess we’re even.” Devon didn’t even seem fazed by it, turning around to go back to his work.

“I slept with Alex… on multiple occasions,” I added with a smirk.

“Should I care about whoever this Alex-guy is?”

“He isn’t really anybody important,” I shrugged, trying to build up to my big finish, “just the guy who hung around me the entire time at the bonfire.” I tried to keep my grin at bay as Devon’s smile fell. “Actually, I did happen to sleep with him there as well… I must say, he knows what he’s doing. It’s so surprising that a high school kid has better skills than you do! He really managed to get me to scream.” His jaw tightened, but I still had to go a little further. “You could really learn a thing or two from him. You constantly do the same thing over and over again. You never even managed to get me close to an orgasm. So, I think I might actually go find him right now and actually show me what a good time in bed is.”

Most of it wasn’t true. I didn’t think that Alex was better than Devon--although he no longer was at rank twenty-five and had managed to climb my list a little--I didn’t think that Devon kept doing the same thing over and over again, and he had actually managed to make me orgasm before, but most of all I wasn’t going to go to Alex to have sex with him right at that moment. The only reason I said it was to show that nobody got to have the last word over me.

So, with those thoughts left to bite away at his self-esteem, I left the scene. A little while later, I could hear glass breaking and the car alarm going off. It wouldn’t have surprised me if Devon had found something to smash the windows with--it wasn’t just one single shatter, but multiple--not because he couldn’t break in without harming the glass, but because of his rage.

No man like him liked to hear that a high school student was better than them.

The only problem was that I was going to have to walk eleven miles home and it was already pretty late. With no phone in my possession, I couldn’t even call anybody. It seemed like it was going to be a very long night.

Notes

Since the last chapter was super long, I hope you're ok with this one being a bit shorter than normal.
Tell me what you guys think about Mickey breaking up with Devon and how she did it.

I'm so surprised how often I've been updating recently. It's only been two days! Maybe it's cause school's about to start and I'm procrastinating...