Her Possessive Heartbreaker

Chapter 3

Riley

The yelling. The shouting. The bouncing of curse words from her mouth to his is just overwhelming. The day I caught my father cheating was the day I lost all respect for him. He has always been my hero. When I used to look at him, I saw Superman. I saw someone who just gave and gave and provided for his family. Now when I look at him, all I see is a disgrace. My mother was blinded by absolute love and it just wound up biting her in the ass. He constantly puts work before anything. Before her and before me.

I open my window not giving a damn if they notice I am here or not. I might not be a baby but this sh!t has affected me ten fold. To think you were growing up in a loving household with two people that you thought would love each other forever and ever to only wind up listening to non stop fighting is toll taking. I need my friend. The only one that could put my pieces back together. The only one that stays true to his word and is there for me no matter what.

I walk to his house and trail up the tree to find him listening to music and working on something on his computer. I tap on his window but he doesn't hear me. I then proceed to knock hoping to god the tree doesn't decide to break and I fall on my ass. Thankfully, he hears my knock and jolts to his window clearly nervous that I might fall.

"What the hell Ri. Haven't I told you to just ring the doorbell. My parents know you always come over. For sh!t sakes you are going to be the death of me. Get in here." He grabs my arm and pulls me inside. He pulls me too hard and I manage to lose my balance and wind up falling right on top of him. Our breathing hitches at the same moment and I watch as his eyes darken but immediately go back to being normal. I jump off of him and manage to compose myself. Well wasn't that just lovely.

I bide my time to not look at him feeling nervous. What more can I do to embarrass myself? I surveil the room and notice a duffel bag on his bed. I walk over to it and assess it.

"Going on vacation?" His face falls and I immediately know somethings up.

"I was going to tell you tomorrow but since you are already here, may as well tell you now." I sit down on his bed waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"My dad is sending me to football camp. He wants me to join the team. I used to play in JHS but decided I needed to take a break. My dad gave me the opportunity to take a moment for myself but he sees that football might be my ticket to a college scholarship. Long story short, he enrolled me into football camp. I already tried out for the team here and made it so I am officially part of the jock squad now." I sit there not knowing what to say. I never pegged him for a football player. Should've known from day one when he saved me from the damn ball in the hallway.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He walks towards me and sits next to me.

"I wanted to but you have been dealing with far too much lately. I didn't want to burden you with my stuff. Are you mad?" He eyes filled with sincerity.

"Of course not. I care about you Tommy. You shouldn't have felt like you needed to hide that from me. No matter what I was going through. Your problems and grief is my problems and grief. Like you always tell me, I am here for you, no matter what. When do you leave?" His face falls with my words.

"Day after school ends." I grimace. There goes my safety net. I am falling into a never ending abyss right now and I am struggling so hard to keep myself from drowning.

"Damn. Well, I'm happy for you despite the fact that you are leaving but I know it is for a good cause. Your future is important to me." I put my hand on his but he rips it away.

"For f!ck sakes Riley! Why can't you, for just once in your life, be selfish?" I am taken aback. What the hell just happened?

"What?" I squeak out. Is he serious right now? I am giving him all of my support and he wants me to be selfish? He storms over to me. He grabs my hands and drops to the floor in front of me.

"This is why I have been drawn to you. You think nobody notices you but they do. They can see just how amazing you are. The aura you give is breathtaking. The way you smile, your laugh, and for sh!t sakes your f!cking attitude is adoring. You might think yourself antisocial but you definitely are not. You make people happy. You sure as hell make me happy. Tell me to stay and I won't go. I would much rather be with you then go to any f!cking football camp. This is my fathers dream not mine. Tell me to stay Ri. Tell me." He remains on his knees with his hands in mine and his eyes are filled with pleasing hope. He stares at me with so much hope but I can't put my feelings first and keep him from his future. Who am I to keep him from having a future in the first place? If he hates me afterwards, so be it. I am literally at a loss for words here. He has literally slammed me with all of this and I have to make a decision right here and right now.

The hope slowly dims from his eyes and before I know it, he slams his lips onto mine. The force takes my breath away. His lips are so soft and I can taste the mint on him. He glides his tongue across the bottom of my lip and softly bites it. I slightly moan having him take the opportunity to invade my mouth with his tongue and he leans me back onto his bed and hovers over me.

He pins my arms over my head and I can feel heat travel to places in my body that have me going crazy on the inside. This is what I have been hoping for since I can remember. He wants me just as much as I want him yet it feels rushed. He is only doing this so that I can tell him to stay and he doesn't have to live his father's dream. He breaks away from me, leaving me breathless and stares down at me. I miss the contact of our lips.

"Tell me to stay. Tell me you want me just as much as I want you. I need you Ri. I've needed you for a long time. Tell me to stay Ri." He lets go of my hands and I bring my hand to my lips still caught off guard.

"I can't Tommy. If I do, then you will hate me for it in time. You will resent me and I can't live with that. You need to go. This is a ticket to a better future for yourself." He immediately jumps off of me and tugs at his hair.

"So you can immediately say yes to Dylan when he asks you out but no to me when I ask you to tell me to stay? That is some pure bullsh!t. Then you need to go because if you stay here then I will say something that I will regret. So do us both a favor and go Riley. Now." The hurt in my heart is unbearable. He can't be serious right now. Just because I denied him, he is tossing me out? I needed him right now and he is kicking me out like I am nothing to him.

"You don't mean that Tommy. You know I care about you. Don't push me away." I move towards him and try to hold him but he pushes me away. He moves further away from me, leaving me feeling alone.

"You are willing to throw away our friendship just because I won't put my feelings for you first? I want to see you succeed in life Tommy, whether it be with football or something else but I am not the one to upend your life like that. That should mean something you giant asshole!" I charge at him, pushing him with all my might.

"I'm telling you that you can upend my life Ri! I am begging you because being there and not with you is something that I cannot do! Be selfish! Be with me! For f!ck sakes it is not that hard Ri!" My heart says yes but my brain is saying don't you dare. He isn't in his right mind right now. He has to take a minute and think this over. I am still going to be here when he comes back.

"Now I get it." He just glares at me.

"Get what?"

"Be with me and you'll be just like your father - just settling until something better comes along." I smack him across his face so hard and the tears come rolling down.

"F!ck you Tommy." I bolt out of his room and fly down the stairs running for my life. The words that came out of his mouth were full of venom. He knew just how to hurt me. The bast!rd. I hate him. I hate him with everything I have.

"F!ck! Riley!" I hear Tommy's voice calling out for me but I don't turn around. I keep running. I keep running until I get to my house. I charge through the door seeing my parents going at it again. They look to me with widened eyes.

"What's wrong Riley?!" They both come to me. My feelings are on overdrive right now and I am an absolute mess.

"This. You two are what's wrong with me!" I storm past them and run up to my room. I slam the door with everything I have, jump into my bed, and scream into my pillow. I imagine the pillow being Tommy's face and I pulverize it. I keep punching it until it is completely flat and then I just chuck it across the room.

He was supposed to be my friend. He was supposed to have my back. He was supposed to never leave me. The last part I can't hold against him because he is leaving to better his life and for that I will not hold him back.

I hold him to his other promise of always having my back. He broke it, and for that, I will never forgive him.

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"You off to football camp too?" I ask Dylan while we walk around the athletic field after school let out for the summer. The damn school year went bu way too fast.

"Unfortunately. But, I'll be back. When I come back, we can hang out." I give him a smile.

"I'd like that." He wraps an arm around my shoulder and pulls me closer to him. We come to a stop and he stands in front of me.

"I haven't seen you hanging out with Tommy lately. You guys have a fight or something?" I close my eyes not wanting to rehash the past.

"Or something." Dylan nods understandably.

"For what it's worth, he made a huge mistake letting you go." I shrug.

"Sure, I guess."

"No, Riley. He is wrong. No matter what happened between you two, he pushed away an amazing friend. I just hope that you and I can remain friends, even though his sorry ass is one of my teammates now." I giggle.

"You and I are good Dylan." He smiles and we walk side by side out of the field.

"Just wondering, want to hang out some more? If you don't, I understand." He asks hopefully.

"Sure. What do you wanna do?" Before he can answer, I can see Tommy stalking towards us. I gulp back the nerves rising in my throat.

"Riley, we need to talk. Please." Dylan stands in front of us, keeping Tommy from looking at me.

"I don't think she wants to talk to you now Mathers. Besides, we were just on our way to anywhere but here." Tommy glares daggers at Dylan and for a minute I think that a fight will break out. Tommy keeps his cool though.

"I don't give two sh!ts about what you think Dylan. Who the f!ck made you her knight in shining armor? She was my friend first f!cker so back the f!ck away." Dylan brings himself face to face with Tommy.

"The moment you bowed out from her life that's when sh!thead. I know for a fact that you hurt her so if I were you, I'd back away." Tommy's hand forms into a tight fist and I insert myself between them.

"Stop. The both of you. Dylan, can you give me a second?" He looks at me like I have a ten heads but I just give him the "don't f!ck with me right now" look. He nods and walks a little ways away, waiting for me. I then turn to Tommy who is filled with anger.

"The f!ck Riley!? You back to wanting to be with that moron?" I narrow my eyes at him, pointing a finger at him.

"You don't get to tell me who I can and cannot like or be around for that matter. You made that very f!cking clear when you threw me out of your house that night. You told me to choose you over your future and you threw me out when I couldn't! You did this to us, not me. You tore our friendship apart."

"I'm sorry Ri. I really am. I don't want us fighting. I don't want to lose you. Please, forgive me."

"It's not that simple Tommy. You said hurtful sh!t. Sh!t that you knew would tear me away from you. That sh!t you spewed is unforgivable."

"Don't do this Ri."

"I need time Tommy. I'm sorry. I'm broken enough. Have a good summer."

"Ri." He says with such sadness in his voice.

"Goodbye Tommy." I turn around and walk away. Instead of walking away by myself, I walk to the one person that Tommy despises. Dylan.