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Secrets Don't Make Friends

Nobody's Gonna Believe

Jack

"Jack, say something." Zack told me.

". . . How do I um know that he actually told you that?" I asked.

"What?? Why would I lie?" He asked quickly taking offense.

"Well because you just confessed that you have a crush on me a few weeks ago and now you're here telling me that my boyfriend cheated. It just seems a little suspicious." I said while looking at my thumbs. It was very suspicious that Zack had just come over to tell me that Alex told him he had sex with Hayley from school last night. Alex wasn't a cheater. Zack was definitely making this up to get me to break up with Alex so he could swoop in and take me.

"I know it seems like suspicious but I'm not lying. He just told Rian and me like a twenty minutes ago."

"Prove it." I said and he sighed.

"How?"

"I don't know. Call him and ask him about it so I can hear."

"He's going to be able to tell something is up if I ask about it over the phone."

"If you can't prove it to me then it didn't happen." I shrugged and he frowned.

He picked up his phone and unlocked it. Then he went to Alex's contact and pressed call. He put his phone on speaker so that I could hear their conversation.

"Hey Zack what's up?" Alex asked when he answered. I smiled when I heard his voice, there was no way he did anything Zack said he did.

"Nothing much. I just wanted to check on you. I know I left pretty fast after you told us about you cheating on Jack. I just didn't want to seem unconcerned like a bad friend or anything." He said and I held my breath waiting on Alex's response.

"You're no where near a bad friend. And yeah I think I'll be okay. I’m just debating if I should tell him or not." Alex said and I frowned. He didn't deny it. He cheated on me and he wasn't going to tell me about it. I felt my heart drop into my stomach but then rage filled me.

"You sorry son of a bitch!! You cheated on me!?!?!" I yelled at the phone.

"Zack? Can you hear me?" Alex asked unfazed by what I just said. I looked down at Zack's phone and saw that he had pressed the mute button. Alex didn't hear me yelling at him.

"Shhhh." Zack told me and he unmuted it. "I think I have bad service. I'll call you back later." He told Alex and hung up.

"Why didn't you let me yell at him??" I asked with angry tears falling down my face.

"Because yelling at him will do nothing. He's just going to try to convince you to take him back. You need to make him feel just as bad as you do now." He said.

"How am I supposed to do that?" I asked and wiped my eyes with my sleeves.

Zack went to close my door and then stepped closer to me until he was standing right in front of me. He slowly leaned down and attached our lips together. I pulled away not comfortable with what he was doing.

"No stop." I sniffled.

"Why? Don't you want Alex to feel as hurt as you do right now?" He asked and I nodded. "Then come on." He said, staring into my eyes and waiting on me to agree.

I only nodded, not able to use my words. He leaned back down and I let him kiss me and slowly lay me back in my bed.

***

Dirty didn't even begin to explain the way I felt after sleeping with Zack. I made the decision to completely off of impulse and I've never regretted anything more. I laid on my side as Zack got out of my bed. I watched as he began to put his clothes back on. I didn't know what to say to him. I felt like I forgot how to speak.

"Now when you break up with that asshole you can use this to crush him." Zack told me but I just stared straight ahead. "Hey look at me." He said and I glanced up at him. "You did the right thing. I'll treat you better than Alex ever could. And I'll never cheat on you. Okay?" He asked.

I didn't say anything. I just didn't know what to say to that. I didn't do the right thing, and this definitely didn't mean Zack and I were together now. How was I supposed to tell Alex about this? This was going to crush him like Zack said. I was no better than Alex. Actually I was worse because I did this on purpose. At least he was drunk and not thinking straight when he cheated on me.

"I'll call you tonight to see how it goes." He said and left my room.

Once the door was closed behind him I broke down into tears. I cuddled into my pillow as I cried my eyes out. Why was I such an idiot? Why did I let Zack convince me to do any of that? Now my whole relationship with Alex was ruined. He would never take me back after finding out that I had sex with one of his friends.

Maybe I didn't have to tell Alex. After all he said he wasn't going to tell me that he cheated so was it so bad that I did the same.

I got out of my bed and went to take a burning hot shower to clean Zack's scent off of me. I scrubbed my body so that I would I feel clean again. I was in the shower for almost an hour when my mom came to check on me.

"Jack?" She called out as she walked into my bathroom.

"Yeah?" I answered nervously. I didn't want her to know about anything that just happened. She was going to lecture me on how wrong I was to do that.

"You've been in the shower since Zack left. Are you alright?" She asked.

"Yeah I was just um… the water feels too good to get out." I partially lied.

"Yeah I'll remember that when I get the water bill." She joked and I lightly chuckled. "What did Zack want?" She asked.

I didn't know if I should tell her about Alex cheating. It was going to make her hate him and treat him badly which would make it obvious that we knew what he did. "Oh um he just wanted to apologize about that whole having a crush on me situation." I said and turned the water off.

"Oh that's good! So no more awkwardness. See I told you the secrets and high school drama would fade away in time."

"Yeah. You were right." I said quietly. In reality everything was much worse than it was before. My mom left to go watch TV and I put my pajamas on and got back in bed. I changed my bed sheets to clean sheets so I wouldn't be reminded of what happened. It was no use though, I couldn't get the memory out of my head. I turned my TV on but I couldn't focus on it. All I could think about was Zack thrusting into me. I grimaced at the thought and tears began to fall from my eyes.

My phone began to ring on my nightstand. I looked over and saw a picture of me and Alex kissing come up. It was Alex calling and I couldn't bring myself to answer it. I switched my phone to silent and rolled over. Then I cried myself to sleep.

*****

I was woken up three hours later when Cass came into my room. She sat on the floor by my bed and unlocked her phone. I didn't know if she knew anything about what Alex did.

"Hey, do you feel any better?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm not as sick anymore." I answered and she smiled.

"Good! Alex asked me to come check on you while he and Rian finished up band practice. He said you weren't answering his phone calls. I called too and you weren't answering mine either, but now I see you were just sleep." She chuckled.

"Yeah I've been sleep all day, plus my phone is on silent." I said and picked up my phone. I had five missed called from Alex, four from Rian which was probably really Alex calling, and two from Cass.

"It's okay. I wanted to come over anyways and show you some pictures and videos from last night." She said.

"Oh. How was the party?"

"It was fun! From what I can remember from it. I was so drunk last night. Everyone was, it was crazy. I hate that you missed it." She pouted.

"Me too." Maybe if I would have gone then Alex wouldn't have cheated and none of this would have happened.

Cass handed me her phone and I scrolled through the photos and watched the videos. She was right, they were all pretty drunk. Most of the videos I watched were shaky because she was so drunk. I saw a video of Hayley, from school taking a shot with everyone, but she was standing by Alex. I quickly stopped the video and gave Cass back her phone.

"Wait you didn't see the rest." She told me.

"Uh it's okay. I'll see them later." I shrugged.

"Sorry, it's probably annoying looking at pictures from a party you didn't go to." She apologized.

"No it's okay. I just. . . I'm just tried." I sighed.

"You looked tired and stressed out. Are you sure you're better?"

"I thought I was."

"Okay. I can leave if you want to get more sleep?" She offered.

"No it's okay, honestly. I don't want to be alone." I mumbled.

"What's wrong, Jack?" She asked sensing that I was upset. I don't know why hearing the phrase 'what's wrong' made me cry, but I couldn't hold my tears back. I quickly wiped at my eyes, but Cass had already saw it. She climbed into bed with me and laid my head on her chest.

"Shh you're okay." She tried comforting me, but that wasn't true. I wasn't okay. "Tell what's wrong? Should I go get your mom?" She asked and I shook my head.

"No." I whispered.

"Okay. Do you want to talk about it?"

I could trust Cass. She wouldn't go back and tell Alex anything I told her. She also wouldn't tell Rian if I asked her not to. I decided not to tell her though. I didn't want anyone to know about what happened with Zack. It was embarrassing that I had sex with my boyfriend's friend.

"My teacher posted our test grades and I didn't do so well on my Bio exam." I lied and she froze. I’ve never been one to cry about grades before so this probably caught her off guard.

"Oh... Jack it's okay there'll be more chances to increase your grade. You'll still pass I'm sure. You made an A on the first test." She assured me.

"Yeah. I'm just being a little dramatic." I told her.

"It's okay, you're just worried about school which is understandable. But I'm always here to talk about it or anything else if you need to."

"Thanks Cass." I said and she hugged me. We pulled apart when we heard a knock on my door. I looked up to see Alex standing there with a bouquet of roses. I felt like crying harder when I laid eyes on him.

"Sorry to interrupt." He said.

"You're not interrupting anything." Cass said. "Here I'll leave so you two can talk alone." It took all of my willpower to not beg her to stay so Alex and I wouldn't have to talk alone.

"I'll see you on Monday." Alex told her as she walked by him.

I sat up and made sure my eyes were completely dry. I patted on my bed and Alex came to sit next to me.

"What's with the roses?" I asked, trying to sound normal.

"Well you haven't been answering your phone so I thought I did something wrong." He said. I could tell he was trying to get me to say if I knew about him cheating. It was a little weird that I hadn't answered any of his calls and that he walked in to me crying on Cass's shoulder.

"No, I was just napping and my phone was on silent." I told him.

"Oh, well why were you crying with Cass?"

"I was telling her that I didn't do so well on my Bio test." I lied again.

"...oh. I'm sorry, baby."

"It's not your fault." I said while looking down.

Alex sat the roses on my nightstand and kissed me on the cheek. "I love you so much, Jack. Don't ever doubt that, okay?" He placed his fingers under my chin and tilted it up so I would look at him.

"I won't. And I love you too. Please don't ever forget that." I pleaded.

"I can't." He said and kissed me.

He pulled me to lay down in my bed with him. It killed me for us to have to lay in my bed together after I had sex with Zack in it today. Alex pulled the cover over us and I turned to face him. He kissed me again and pulled me to cuddle with him. I wished we could just tell each other the truth and go back to normal, but I was afraid Alex wouldn't forgive what I did. I would forgive him in a heartbeat. I just closed my eyes for now tried to fall asleep again.

My phone began ringing while we laid in bed. I picked it up and saw it was Zack calling. I placed my phone back on silent and put my phone under my pillow. Then I cuddled back into my boyfriend.

Notes

I don't know who I think was more wrong. Alex did cheat first, but Jack only did it for retaliation. What do you guys think?

Title credit: Take Cover by ATL

Comments

@dirtylaundry
You’re welcome <3 and thank you so much for reading it!!

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/16/17

@T-what
I’m so happy you enjoyed it! And thanks again for reading it and all your feedback! I hate reading stories that take forever to update and that don’t finish too, that’s why I try to make stories that I can upload at least once a week lol but thanks again <3

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/16/17

I loved this story! Thank you for taking us on this lovely journey and for a wonderful ending!

dirtylaundry dirtylaundry
10/15/17

Awwww, no thank you, it was a lovely journey and I enjoyed this fic so much. Probs to you for never abandoning this and pulling through to the end. I hate reading stories that are put on hold randomly and never get finished.

T-what T-what
10/15/17

@Apathy4Sympathy
Lolol Alex has finally come to his senses. And a PTV and ATL hybrid would be weird in real life now that I think about it lol I don’t know what I’ll do without this fic either, Well I might become bored and write another one haha

Jalex95 Jalex95
10/11/17