Chapter 14.

**Narrator’s POV.**

The incident that had occurred in the hallway almost two weeks ago had taken an indefinite toll on Tessa, never in her life had she been referred to as a slut or whore- she was not exactly modest but she was proper. Gabriel on the other hand thought otherwise about her, he called her a whore- something even her overbearing mother never even mustered up the courage to call her.

But, she wondered why she let what he said get to her, why was she so concerned by his words? Not just him calling her a whore but he telling her that Alex would cheat on her the moment he got the chance to. She knew she should not believe him, after all, he was a very bitter and vain person but what bothered her the most was that Alex did not deny it. He did not give her any assurance that he was with her one hundred percent of the way.

“Tess, are you okay?”, she was snapped out of her thoughts by Alex, she was in his room, lying on his bed as she waited for him to finish up in the bathroom- he was done and she had not even noticed,

“Yes”, she sat up and plastered a fake smile on her face, “I’m okay”, but she was anything but okay. She was far from ‘okay’, she was sad and desperate for some closure, she had been like this for almost two weeks as she waited for him to deny or even talk about what his wicked step-brother had said. Whenever she tried to bring it up, he would avoid it like a plague, like talking about it would lead him straight into the pit of hell. If she had learnt something about him through those weeks, it was that he was skillful at dodging topics and it pissed her off.

She would want to talk about it but he would switch the topic to how beautiful she was or how lucky he was to have her in his life or how he would love to paint a half naked portrait of her someday.

“Scoot over”, he smiled and she did what she was told, she had also decided that she would try to bring up the untouched topic today, maybe it would be different this time,

She let him get comfortable before speaking, “Alex, about…”, he let out a dramatic sigh before pressing his lips to hers, trying to silence her. He was out of original ideas and sweet words that could make him escape from the said pit of hell.

She tried to struggle out of the kiss, knowing exactly what he was trying to do- it had worked on her until now, this time, she was actually determined to get an answer from him. She finally managed to get out of his tight hold and she stood up from his bed, moving towards the door, “What the fuck is your problem?”, he yelled out at her,

“What the fuck is my problem?”, her eyebrows furrowed together, “You’re the one that’s lip raping me”,

“Its not lip raping if you’re mine”, he stood up from his bed and moved closer to her.

“Do not come near me”, she screamed, “I have been trying to talk to you for weeks…”,

“And if it is not obvious by now, I clearly don’t want to talk about this”, he argued,

“Why?”,

“Because there is nothing to talk about other than the fact that my step-brother is a snake and an asshole”, he crossed his muscular arms over his chest and for once, Tessa did not waste time swooning over his perfect body,

“How about the fact that you didn’t deny anything he said?”,

“I cannot believe that you’re choosing to believe him over me”, he accused,

“How do I believe you when you haven’t said anything to me yet?”, she walked towards the sofa she had placed her sweater on when she came in that morning and grabbed it off angrily.

“You know what? I’m not in the mood for this shit”, he walked towards the door and opened it, “Close my fucking door when you’re leaving”, he said before walking out and slamming the door behind him.

Tessa was beyond shocked, she had never seen Alex like that, he was a totally different person; a dick and a complete asshole. Was he trying to dodge the topic that much? All the more, why was he dodging the topic in the first place? It was not even as serious as he made it seem, why couldn’t he just reassure her that he wont indeed cheat on her?

She left his room shortly after as she felt as if the naked girls on his walls where silently mocking her for even thinking for a second that Alex would be a completely loyal boyfriend to her- not that he had done anything for her to doubt him but to her, words sometimes spoke louder than actions, this was one of those times.

**Alex’s POV.**

I had successfully fucked things up with Tessa, she saw the side of me that I hoped she would never have to see. Yes, I was an asshole- a major one but she was way too persistent, it was getting on my nerves. Why was she so ill-bent on making me tell her that I wont cheat on her? Afterall, she is my girlfriend, wasn’t that enough for her? Other girls would kill to be in her position and not even ask me anything, they would just go with whatever I wanted them to go along with- no questions asked.

I stomped to the garage and grabbed my car keys from the rack, I walked towards my car and pulled the door open, taking out my anger on it, why were relationships so difficult? This is why I never got involved with them in the first place. Turning on the engine, I revved it for a while before I sped out of the garage.

Two hours and nearly six bottles of Manhattan later, I was extremely and frightfully drunk. I had come to the lounge were Tessa and I had had our first date, it somehow reminded me of her, thus leading to the six bottles of poison I had digested.

I wanted to stand up after the third bottle but I was far gone by then, I was drunk to stupor and could not even stand up from the fucking lounge chair.

“Alex?”, the annoyingly familiar voice called out and I rolled my eyes, letting out a groan, could my day get any worse? “It is you”, her fiery red hair came into my blurred vision as she sat extremely close to me and placed a hand on my lap, dangerously close to my dick. I looked at the hand but did not bother to remove it- that was my first mistake.

“What do you want Sasha?”, that was her name right? I should know, after all, she was the only girl that I had slept with more than once,

She frowned, “My name is Simone”, I snickered at her name,

“Sasha sounds better than Simone”, I was obviously shit drunk because I knew never to indulge in a conversation with a past hookup,

“It could be Sasha for you”, she winked and began to rub my thighs sensually, giving no fucks that we were in public, Tessa would never demean herself in such a way. Just thinking about her made my dick rise and I wished it where her right now rubbing like the way this slut was. I let out a groan when her hand rubbed on my dick, fuck, Tessa.

I grabbed the girl’s hand and pulled her head closer, placing my lips roughly on hers, I pulled out of the kiss and whispered in her ear, “Bathroom, two minutes”, I threw her hand off my leg and mustered up the strength to stand up, knowing I was about to do something I would end up regretting later but I was too horny and too drunk to think with my head or heart, so I thought with my dick instead which was pointing me towards Tessa or a replacement of Tessa.