ZOE’S POV
Attending a boring class with a storming brain was the worst thing to happen to a student because it was purely a waste of time. And me, all I fucking cared about was what might have happened in dean’s room. Suddenly, Caroline burst into the class and excused me from the teacher who was teaching. Her this sudden move left me bewildered as when I went to her, all I could feel was her scorching eyes giving me a deadly stare. Dear lord, what the heck was she going to blast upon now??
“How dare you? How dare you stab me on my back by making him sneak out of the house at night to spend time with you?? What did you even think when you did that??” she burst out like a grenade and I sighed. Oh great, I was anyways expecting this eruption one day!!!!
“Let me correct you. It was never me nor it was Mike’s doing. It was all you lovely boyfriends doing. He came running back to us because he felt we could give him the peace and joy he could never find with you” I calmly answered her and waited to see her bombard me with her allegations just like the past.
“Oh, so now you’re playing the innocent card huh? I can clearly see that you’re the one who manipulated him into all these” she gritted her teeth in rage.
“If that’s what you believe in then let your beliefs save you” I had no plans to entertain her so I decided to get back to the class.
“Not so easily bitch” Caroline turned into a devil when she pulled me towards her by my hand.
“What the fuck dude” my reflex somehow worked pretty well and I pushed her back from me.
However, it turned out to become a terrorizing accident when my push was forceful than hers, leading her to fall down on the ground.
“Holy shit, you alright?” I skipped a heartbeat when she fell like that. All my head rounded around was thinking if the baby was fine or if anything had happened to it.
“Leave me bitch. Don't act so caring” unlike how I expected her to behave, she acted absolutely normal.
“Are you sure? Is the baby alright?” my humanity didn’t fucking care what she thought about me but I deadly wanted to know about the baby.
“Yes, it’s fine. Now don’t try to turn the topic” she behaved were strangely and suspiciously, I found it hard to believe her.
“Dude, if you want to know it, then ask your man. If you don’t trust me, at least trust him. And if you can’t do that too then please, fuck off. I’m done entertaining you shit ass” I hissed at her and that hurt her ego.
“As if he is not bewitched by you. Why do you come into my life every time only to steal my men, Zoe. Why can’t you let me be happy with what I have?” she again snarled at me and this time, I was not going to stand and hear her bullshits like I used to.
“For one last time I’m reminding you Caroline. I never did anything to make you away from the men you loved. You did that yourself. And if at all you were sincere in loving them whole heartedly, nor would have Jake left us nor would have Zack treated you like a responsibility. All I'm happy for you is that you have an honest man and I have an honest friend. Don’t try to stain that relation with your dirty mind” I growled at her in a tone of intimidation and she backed off from me.
My words had a huge impact on her that she didn’t dare to snarl at me anymore. However, this was not ending so easily because none of us knew that the secret Caroline had been hiding from all of us for so long would come out so early.
“I’ll definitely make you pay for betraying my trust, Zoe. I should have given you a chance with my man. I’ll make sure you’ll pay for it” all she could do now was to threaten me but what caught my attention more was how she still didn’t care about the fall she had because of me.
Caroline then stormed away from me; I watched her disappear form my sights. But, when my eyes fell on the back of her pants, a sight shook the earth from beneath my legs. Was that blood stains on her dress??
“Caroline wait” I yelled at her in an attempt to stop her but she didn’t hear me. So, I rushed to see if she was actually okay and found her make her way to the washroom.
She had gotten inside the washroom second before me and when I hastily opened the door, it startled Caroline, who was having something in her hands. What more than her skeptical actions could make me suspect her?? Seeing me come into the washroom following her did scare the hell out of Caroline and the tampon in her hands freaked me too.
“Why the fuck do you have a tampon in your hands?? You are pregnant right and pregnant ladies don’t get periods. Tell me Caroline, what going on here?” Without drama, I interrogated her and she froze in shock. Hell, yeah lady, I know you were not at all expecting to get caught red handed!!!
“Fine, now that you know my secret, let me make it clear. I'm not fucking pregnant and neither is my Zack a baby daddy. But if you dare to reveal this to him, mind you Zoe, I'll make your life a living hell” without a shame, she dared to threaten me!!!!
“Are you for real Caroline. Did you just reveal to me that you were never pregnant with his baby and had been fooling all of us for all these while??” I asked her in aghast.
“So what?? What else could have I done to keep my Zack away from your black magic. I had no other way than this to get him back to me” she justified herself.
In a matter of seconds, a powerful flash of my tedious past flashed in my head. Jake, his story, his end, Zack, his story, the same coincidence, the same girl.... gosh, this girl was for really repeating the history and that too without any shame!!!!
“So..... does that mean that you can play with anyone's emotions and manipulate them into being with you??? Did you stoop that low again Caroline?? Don't you have any humanity left???
“Oh, come on bitch, don’t tell me what to do and what not to. If it wasn’t for this baby drama, then I would have to live to see a day when he and you united” she paid no heed to be guilty of what she did and that was what triggered me.
“You fucking bitch” I lost it and with all my strength, I slammed her onto the walls and fumed at her.
“Years ago, a mistake you did was what killed my best buddy and yet again you dare to do it right in front of my eyes?? I can’t believe that you don’t feel any shame to fall and stoop so low” my eyes turned blood red and don’t know how, but whatever I said had hit her heart.
“What the hell??? How dare you accuse me for with such an allegation??” she struggled to free herself from my clutches but it failed.
“Yes. Anyone would have fallen bloody weak with a dead soul if the girl they loved like crazy was the one to destroy their whole life only because of a reason that she was envious of his relation with her once best friend” the pains of the past crept inside me and made me fire at her.
“Huh?? What rubbish does that mean?” a strike of nervousness hit Caroline and I decided to utilize it to the best!!!
“Should I remind you that it was you who betrayed Jake and trapped him in the PED scam?? Should I remind you that your one wrong move to take your revenge from him was what made him decide to take that step?” losing my control made me spill out the truth of his death in front of her.
“WHATTT??? What step??” she slowly began to understand the hinting in my words and had turned pale white in fear and anxiety.
“You killed him, Caroline. You killed our Jake with your hatred. If at all you had simply trapped him in the PED case to get him disqualified from the championship, it had ended his career. He had lost his pride and after knowing that everything was done by the girl he truly loved the most, he couldn’t take it anymore. Do you want to know the truth of him??? Do you want to know the scar I have been living with for the past 2 years?? Do you??” I viciously spit my words of fury at her and left her in utter shock!!!
I had no idea what I was doing but all I knew was that she needed to know the truth now. If not, then that would have been the biggest mistake of my life!!!
“Zoe, what is it???” in a horrified tone, she asked me and I smirked like a crazy bitch.
“I’m not at all sorry to make you face the reality Caroline but you deserve to know the truth. Jake never died in the diving accident but he had killed himself by taking that dive. It was all his plan to end his life and show it like an accident and above all that, he chooses me to be a witness to it as he wanted someone to tell you the truth one day” I growled at her in the most devilish tone I could use and she lost her soul to it.
“And to tell you the truth, it was not that he had killed himself but it was that he did love you more than you loved him. But he wanted you to be the good girl you always were than this fucking psychotic bitch you were. Anyhow, who could have imagined that your craziness would make him choose death over life???” tears rolled down my eyes when I finished giving her a reality check.
My heart was shattered and it felt immense rise of the pain of the past which had once subdued. But now, the way it rushed to my nerves was so deadly that I also wished to have been dead anyhow.
Looking back at Caroline, all I saw was a lifeless body that was hit with an unimaginable strike of shock and reality check. She had taken the truth so hard that left her numb like a dead being. I couldn’t hold on to my screams and let it out all at once and screamed my heart out.
Finally, everything was revealed and no truth was left to be revealed to her. Blasting the truth bomb at her life that had given me a chance to relieve myself from the great pressure of living with that truth however, also knowing the truth that the baby we all had dreams about was never alive from day 1. having all those cute little dreams shatter so mercilessly was more than something anyone could handle. So, I let it all run down me rather than killing myself with it.
But who knew that amidst all these drama, a hidden enemy was capturing it in his camera from the windows of the washroom??? Who could imagine that the efforts I took to stop Caroline from taking another wrong step was being done by someone else at the same time??? Who could have imagined that all these dramas were going to be revealed to the whole world, endangering the life of all three of us????