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I didn't know what time it was, but the sun had just started rising when I parted my lashes that morning.
My room was still flooded with darkness, and I was in the same position that I was in when Sebastian tucked me in last night.
I winced and rolled onto my back, letting out a long yawn.
I didn't understand why he showed every sign of wanting to smother me in my sleep, and then he did stuff like this... taking... care of me.
"Seriously..." I whispered, "what is with him?"
"I'm right here," he said from next to me.
I let out a gasp and spun over, eyes widening when I saw him lying beside me on my bed.
Though he was still wearing jeans and a T-shirt he had at the restaurant... he was lying beside me with his hand under his head.
"Have you been here the whole night?" I questioned him.
He shrugged. "Had nothing better to do."
I stared for a moment. "Have you been awake all night?"
His eyes flickered up to mine. "Is that... a problem?"
"It means you've been staring at me all night," I replied, pushing my sleeve back over my shoulder, "which some girls would 'whoo' over but... it's just creepy."
He smirked then. "You don't actually think that, do you?"
I parted my lips. "You don't know me."
"I know you better than you think," he answered coolly. "Not only that, but... who snuggled with me every night willingly?"
I glared. "That means nothing. I thought I was dreaming."
"You have a crush on me," he corrected, eyes glowing in the darkness.
My cheeks flooded with red. "You're insane."
"And you're blushing," he replied, chuckling, "and it's proving my point."
"Why do you like teasing me?" I questioned him then, shaking my head. "Why is it so amusing to you, huh?"
He only smiled, shuffling further onto his side and making full eye contact with me. "Why do you make it fun?"
I glared at him then. "You are a player. I know guys like you."
"Guys like me?" he wondered.
"Jock boys," I hissed. "Players. All of them. They make some cheesy quip to get you to date them, and then two months later, they're over you, fawning over another girl."
"Sounds like an asshole," he told me.
"Yeah..." I said, shaking my head, "you."
"Who was the guy?" Sebastian said then.
I glanced down at him. "What?"
"The guy who did that to you," Sebastian answered, shuffling further onto his side, "who was he?"
I stammered for a moment, trying to recuperate my emotions. "Well... well he doesn't exist. I was explaining you."
He arched his brows. "Skye."
"What?" I hissed.
"You haven't seen me date a girl before," he told me, eyes full of amusement, "and there are no rumors of me doing that or I'd know. And—not only that—but you gave a very detailed description of what a guy did. So I'm guessing it already happened, didn't it? To you?"
I held my breath for a moment, and then released it. "No."
"Ah," he said, smirking, "liar."
"I'm not lying." I shot him a look.
"You are lying," he replied smugly.
"No, I'm not!"
He only glanced down at my hands. "Then why are you twiddling your thumbs?"
I gazed down quickly and dropped them, sighing.
Well... he knew tells? Great.
"Fine..." I said, "yes. It's happened before."
"You wanna talk about it?" he prompted with a small smile.
I glanced over at him. "Why do you want to know so badly?"
"I'm bored," he said, shrugging, "amuse me."
I rolled my eyes. "Fine. Whatever." I then shuffled to a better position. "Uhm. His name was Jed. He was some football jock that I dated when I was in tenth grade. We started out as friends? And then we got closer, and I grew very unhealthily giddy around him."
Sebastian stared at me, clearly listening.
"After sitting next to him on the bus for a while—one day—he suddenly asked me out in this real cheesy manor, and because I was so unhealthily giddy... I accepted.
"It got worse from there. Really bad. He introduced me to his friend group which consisted of a girl and three other guys. One of the guys was nice, and the whole relationship, he kept warning me about Jed and his history with other girls... the other guy was high all the time, so I honestly didn't think he ever knew what was going on...
"And the last guy was Jed's best friend... very close to him, and the girl was sweet and nice to me... but I didn't know they were all manipulators.
"Jed was nice to me the whole time, saying cliche things that would make a girl fall on her knees for him, the nice friend kept warning me about Jed, though the girl, the smoker, and Jed's best friend kept urging me in Jed's direction.
"After about two months of nonsense fluff, Jed started becoming more distant from me and just... cruel. He'd ditch me with his friends, and then constantly avoid me; it wasn't until one day... the nice friend finally told me that Jed was interested in someone else, and it... broke me.
"I was supposed to take the bus that day," I explained, staring at the bed sadly, "but I was so upset and unsure that I sat outside around the corner and thought things over. I missed the bus, though I secretly hoped that one of the people from my friend group would try to come find me and cheer me up... because they all knew I was upset, but no one did. I ended up walking home.
"That night, I told my mom everything that happened, and she told me 'I'm not happy that you dated a guy like him, but as for those friends, just remember this; if you have to test them to see if they care, then you already know the answer.' It was then I realized that I was falling down a deep hole, and I needed to get out before they corrupted me and turned me into one of them; a manipulative narcissistic sociopath."
I shrugged then, and gazed back down at Sebastian's eyes that turned soft for some reason.
"Sounds like an asshole," he commented. "I'm sorry that happened to you."
I shrugged. "I had to learn not to trust some time in my life." I smiled then. "I used to trust so easily."
His brows arched. "That's surprising. Usually it takes a thousand hammers to break your shield and let you trust us."
I smiled. "Now you know why."
"His best friend..." Sebastian asked then, "he never said anything?"
I shook my head. "No, in fact, when Jed moved on, his best friend tried to hook onto me like I was sloppy seconds. And he did that with every girl after me."
"Gross," Sebastian commented, grimacing before he blinked and gazed up. "Wait... 'every girl'?"
I nodded, chuckling. "Yeah, it's a never-ending cycle. He dates a girl for two months, gets bored, moves on, then his friend tries to hook on while he's dating the other girl, then repeat, then repeat, and so on."
Sebastian scoffed. "Jesus. Sometimes I want to burn down houses."
"The matches are in the kitchen," I joked.
He chuckled, glancing back over at me. "Thanks, babe."
I smiled down at him.
He just gazed up at me. "Why don't you go shower and get ready? Your alarm goes off in two minutes anyway."
"Okay," I said, standing.
I then glanced over at him, brows drawing together.
"What?" he said.
I parted my lips. "I was pissed with you, and now...."
"Now?" he echoed, smirking.
My eyes flickered to his. "Never mind."
And I scrambled off to the bathroom.
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