A TASTE OF BAD( MXM)

4. Mate

CHAPTER FOUR

Rage coursed through my veins as I basically raced back to the house, this time not knowing if someone was going to end up in the hospital or worse, dead. Anton’s words replayed in my mind like a record on repeat.

“My feelings…they were all fake. I wasn’t in love with you from the beginning. Running into you in that football field had been pre-planned. Don’t get me wrong Beck. You are a great guy and very good-looking but I’m not looking for something deep or permanent. For the past three months, I enjoyed everything but after tonight, seeing you getting broken over you ex-boyfriend snapped something in me. You don’t deserve to keep on being to and I do hope that one day you’ll forgive me for this,”

Forgive? Was he really insane to think I’d want to forgive him? He led me on, made me believe I finally had someone great in my life then it turned out to be just another big lie with chief perpetrator being no one else other than my best friend. Never in my life had I thought my best friend could betray me like that. As I approached the house I lived in, my brain was burning with the urge to fight someone. I rapped on the locked door impatiently and barely a few seconds later, Tiara opened the door.

“Where the f**k is that asshole?” I screamed, looking around for Niran.

“Calm down. Look, we understand that all this is new to you but-“I cut Tiara off with a glare.

“I said, where the f**k is that asshole?” I snapped. I was burning with rage, pacing around and soon enough he showed up shirtless while getting rid of his boxing gloves. Yeah, he always locked himself in the basement, hitting the punching bag until he was exhausted out of his mind. So he got relax while I was at the edge of my sanity?

“What the hell is-“ I didn’t let him finish before I punched him rather hard across his jaw. Okay, that hurt a bit but he deserved it.

“What the hell was that for?” He muttered, his jaw clenched.

“What the hell was that for?” I repeated his statement, shaking my head in disbelief,” Are you f*****g serious right now? You planted Anton in my life and watched me fall for him even when you knew it was all fake. Why? Do you like seeing me in pain? Does it make you happy when you best friend is up all night, begging for the pain to stop, huh?” I snapped. I was angry-no, I was hurt so bad and the last person I expected would do something like that to me, was the one who ended up hurting me in the worst way possible.

“It was for your own protection,” He pointed in a soft voice. He was f*****g unbelievable.

“For my protection? Are you kidding me right now? Do you even see what you’ve done to me? I wasn’t even properly healed from Ken and now I have to deal with a second heartbreak,” I paused, turning to look at the girls sitting quietly,” And I’m guessing you all knew about this,”

“We are sorry, sweetie,” Angelica muttered softly.

“Well, f**k all of you,” I said, shaking my head as I stomped out of the house, this time with no specific direction in mind. All I knew was that I couldn’t stand seeing anyone’s face in that house a second longer.

As I walked down the familiar roads on the university, drunk students staggered past me, clearly in their element. Well, at least their Friday evening was going quite well, unlike mine. I tried to understand how the people who were suppose to be my closest friends would watch me fall for something fake like that and not try to shield me from it despite knowing my f****d past love life. I had never felt so betrayed like I did now. The rage slowly turned to pain, my body finally absorbing the reality that I had been roped into something that was not real. All the hot, passionate kisses, the make-out session and the sweet nothings he’d whisper in my ear were nothing but a mere ruse. Nothing was ever real and once again I had been played a fool. I had no idea which was the worst thing to deal with tonight. Was it the fact that my ex who lied, cheated on me and created rumors about me turning my life into a mess suddenly popped up in my life out of nowhere awakening the pain I thought I moved on from? Or was it finding the guy I had been going out with for three straight months and I was already falling for him was nothing but a fake put into your life by my best friend since we were kids and everyone else knew except me? This one night I felt like my heart was nothing but a haven for pain. Was I just this unlucky in love?

I stopped outside a pub in the outskirts of campus. I was not much of a drinker but just this one night, I did not want to feel any pain. I didn’t care if I passed out here but who cared, right?

NIRAN’S POV

What had I been thinking? That he would not get hurt in this? It had been a dangerous game from the start and I really thought after Ken, he would remain detached. I never thought he would develop actual feelings for Anton and now my best friend was mad at me.

“Pick up the f*****g phone,” I grunted under my breath but then to my utter dismay it went off. f**k! He was definitely very pissed at me. He was not one to let his temper blow up and seeing him like that, made me wonder if he would ever talk to me.

Shit! I couldn’t lose him like that. Even though he didn’t know it yet, he meant the world to me and it would be the death of me if something were ever to happen to him. Watching him love someone else had hurt enough and yet I was afraid of letting him know the truth of the part he played in my life. Why did the Moon goddess have to play around with me? Because even Beck saw me only as a friend, to me he was more than that.

He was my mate; the one boy who would probably never see me as anything other than his childhood best friend, was my fated mate.