TAMING THE UNFAITHFUL BILLIONAIRE

21. TRUE FRIEND!!!

CHERYL’S POV

All the healing that I had accomplished so far was crushed. I was broken. Jason broke me and I don’t think I will ever be unbroken. How am I supposed to concentrate about everything yet I know for sure that my s*x tape is out there and if Jason posts it online, this will be viral and my mother will probably die after watching that clip?

My sister Rose will also know that I am a w***e. All the accusations that she had against me would be true. I don’t know if I would heal from this.

I sat on my bed and started thinking about what I would do next. I couldn’t cry, all this tears are not going to save my problems. I am in deep s**t and I just need to think straight and get myself out of this mess.

I regretted everything, I regretted ever wanting to have fun. Penelope is a bad company and if I would not have gone with him last night to a party, then none of this would have happened.

After thinking hard, I chose to call Ivy. She is a good friend and she will help me out. If there is something that I have learnt, hanging with Penelope will only bring me so much trouble.

I took my phone and dialed Ivy. Please pick up, I hoped that she had not left for school yet.

“Ivy, Ivy, I need your help,” I told her after she picked up the call.

“What do you need?” She implored.

“I need us to talk,” I told her.

“Talk about what,” She said in a tone a bit enraged.

“Bad things have been happening to me lately and…” She stopped me before I could finish telling her what I wanted to say to her.

“Cheryl, you are not my friend. You hang out with Penelope, you threw away all the advice against bad friends that you used to tell me since we began our friendship. I hate to say this but you deserve what is happening to you,” She said this before hanging up and my heart was crushed.

I didn’t have anyone to talk to. I felt betrayed, hurt and lonely.

I couldn’t go to school like this. I also couldn’t stay here on my own. I can’t face myself. I need a distraction.

Without thinking about it, I text her.

Penelope

I am so hurt

I don’t think I can make it to school

Would you please come over to my house with that drug?

I need to feel better

I don’t want to be a person who feels like this

I didn’t think twice before pressing on the send button. Penelope was the only friend I had and I knew that she would be there for me. When my phone dinged with a message, I knew that was her. She was going to bring me the drugs.

Cheryl,

I am on my way

I have carried the drugs

Besides, I wanted to skip school

Don’t think that you have forced me too

You know I don’t care about school, right?

All I care about is parties, boys and drugs

I am coming with a new drug, it will elevate you and heal you

I will be there in 5

Penelope is a true friend. She is always here when I need her. I know the dangers of drug and how addition can kill but I couldn’t help it. I needed to forget about my s*x tape, I needed to also forget about Jason. I don’t want to be like this. I want to forget everything and give life a new shot.

I want this to be my past. I want to start again.

I remained seated in bed, staring in space. I didn’t think about anything. I was patiently waiting for her to come. Penelope did not disappoint me, in five minutes, she rang our doorbell.

I got the door for her and we walked to my room.

“What is stressing you?” She asked me once she threw herself on my bed.

“The guy, the guy I slept with last night recorded the whole thing and he might post it online,” I told her what worried me.

“Calm down, he won’t post it, I am sure of that,” He said this with so much certainty and I was taken aback.

“What are you talking about?” I questioned her.

“All I am saying is that the guy will not post the video,” She repeated. How can she be so sure about this? Does she know Danny?

“Do you know the guy?” I had to ask.

“No, it is just that I have ever been in a s*x tape but the guy didn’t post. If he has not told you yet that he is posting it, trust me when I say that he is not going to post it. Maybe he wants to keep it for his own good. Maybe to show his friends or for some kind of bet. Men bet for s*x this days,” Penelope told me the harsh truth.

“That is bad, the last thing I want is for people to see me having s*x. That is supposed to be intimate, not something to be recorded” I told her.

“Stop worrying, come on, cheer up,” She told me as she reached for her bag.

She pulled out some whisky and some white powder in a sheet of paper. She also had another paper with some other drug. She was really sorted.

I thought she was giving me a tablet but that was not it.

“All those?” I was shocked therefore I had to ask her.

“This are not a lot. You told me that you want to forget what is happening to you and I am here for you. I am not going to take any chances,” She said this before she sniffed on the white fine powder.

“You should try it,” She urged passing it to me.

“No, I will just have the whisky instead,” I turned it down.

“Don’t be such a p***y, I used my pocket money to buy coke for you, you have to take it,” She said this in a sharp tone. That was more of a command, not a request.

“Take, it will be totally worth it, the pain will go away and you will feel so good” I took the paper with the coke from her. I never knew I would ever take coke in my life but hey, with bad company, you can do anything you thought you will never do in your entire life.

She watched me as I took the powder and sniffed it.

“See, you didn’t die,” She said after I was done sniffing it and sneezing severally because of the irritation it caused.

“You will soon get used to it,” She told me and I nodded.

She had a small speaker, therefore she connected it with her phone. She played some hip hop playlist blasting the small speaker she had.

We drank the whisky as we sang along to the lines of the song. The next thing we did after we were halfway done with the whiskey was to smoke the other powder which was none other than weed.

This is really not the fun I wanted. I had gotten myself into deep s**t.

We kept on smoking and Rose caught me red-handed smoking. The disappointment in her eyes could not be explained.

I am just a piece of s**t, I know it. Blame it Jason, not me.

I just don’t want to feel the pain.