Chapter 8

After a lovely weekend I get back to school, the first thing on my mind was Liam, I needed to ask him what was so important that he forgot to reply to his best friends texts, that's when I spot Liam, Viola and Aaron all standing together in the assembly area, that was the strangest thing because those three were never together, Liam didn't like Aaron and Viola never really acknowledged Aaron, but here the three of them were together having what looked like the most intense conversation. By the time I can walk to them they have all dispersed, they must have seen me heading in their direction and whatever they were talking about was not something that I needed to hear. The only person that was left standing was Aaron and he had this look on his face, a look that I haven't seen on his face for the duration of the time that I have known him, so I gave an equally confusing look back at him, and then his confusing look turned into a smile and he said nothing was going on, and the three of them were having a friendly conversation, as if he just read my mind and he knew exactly what I was going to ask him. He did however say that he and I needed to have a very important conversation during our lunch break, so I agreed to meet at our usual spot, under the biology block staircase at 12:30.

At lunch Aaron had just let his feelings out, without holding back he explained how much he hated the idea of Liam and I being so close and that I had to choose between him or Liam, and he wouldn't continue this relationship without me making up my mind. At that moment I just gave him the most exasperated look, in my head I was trying to gather up my thoughts, what was I going to say to this man, who was I kidding, I knew exactly what I was going to say to him and I just said it. I told him that nobody would ever come between me and my best friend and if he had a problem with mines and Liams friendship then he could go fly a kite or even drink soup with a fork because that was never in a million years going to happen, I was never going to end my friendship with Liam over silly jealously, I mean he and I were in a relationship and what Liam and I had was just a really unbreakable friendship. Why did he expect me to just forget Liam, that was so unlike him, he never behaved in a jealous way before but it was just something about Liam that he didn't like, he was adamant on the fact that Liam liked me more than a friend, and I was tired of explaining our relationship to him. So just like that I made my choice and I left, I left and I broke up with him because what he was asking me to do was not possible. If he couldn't trust me then he didn't deserve to be in a relationship with me, it was that simple.

After the first period at school I caught a glimpse of Liam, and he didn't even look in my direction, I found that odd because he never passes up an opportunity to say something derogatory when he passed me, but he totally ignored me. I was determined to find out what was going on, even Viola had her sour face in a pout when she saw me, what did I do?. I finally got the chance to speak to Liam and I had asked him what was the matter, why didn't he reply to my Facebook text on Saturday night and why was he ignoring me all morning and most of all why was he and Viola hanging out with Aaron in the morning. His response was brief, he had told me that Viola had seen our texts on Facebook and she found that it was totally inappropriate and she made him create a group chat and include Aaron in it to show him the messages between us and they both started speaking about how they were going to get us to stop being friends. I was appalled, no I was angry, who gave Viola and Aaron the right to decide who we stay friends with. Then he tells me something that really breaks my heart, he says that Aaron wanted no part in this and Aaron didn't want us to stop being friends but Viola had begged Aaron to tell me to stay away from Liam. That lousy, jealous bitch. How could she do something like that, something so manipulative. She was as devious and I thought she would be, her little good girl act was exactly that, just an act. So then I ask Liam to show me the messages between them, and he refuses, so instead I go Aaron and I apologize and I tell him that I knew he never wanted to hurt me and dictate my life by telling me who to and not to be friends with, so I politely ask him to see the messages and he shows me. The letters that appear in that screen are foreign, and my brain just does not want to register anything that I'm reading from that phone, I see Liam telling Aaron to find a way to get me to leave him alone. He tells Aaron that he just can't seem to get me to leave him alone and I'm the one that keeps on coming back, he somehow made it seem like I was desperate for his attention and my sole purpose was to make his life with Viola miserable. My heart just sunk 10 feet into the ground, and I'm not the one to cry or put my emotions on a pedestal for everyone to see but I couldn't help the tears forming underneath my eyes, this hurt so much, it hurt more that I broke things off with Aaron because I thought that he was the mastermind behind this betrayal, but instead it was my best friend, well I thought he was my best friend. Nothing would ever be the same again.