Chapter Thirteen- "He ruined it all."

Reunion

Chapter Thirteen – “He ruined it all.”

Eden

I went towards the classroom and heard some voices coming from them.

I went close and hear the voices, and I recognized these voices properly.

It belongedto Justin, Stella, Ryan, Chaz.

Wow.

“She still doesn’t know, Justin.” A feminine voice said which seemed to be Stella’s of course. “Justin, you have to tell her sooner or later,” A voice said, which belonged to Ryan.

I was still listening to their conversation. It was obvious they were talking about me.

It all adds up now. I feel more betrayed and hurt. Tears were already forming in my eyes.

“But how guys?” Justin asked.

This was the moment.

I pushed the door open and entered inside. They had shock written over their faces.

“Don’t worry Justin. Your problem is solved.” I say him while tears falling on my face.

“Eden –“ Stella says and I cut off her by saying, “Wow Stella! I never thought you would lie to me. I thought best friends say each other the truth. Oh well now we are ex-best friends, right?”

“Eden please just lis-“ 

“What should I listen, huh? That all of you lied to me? That you guys played with me? If that’s what it is, then I have heard it all.”

I was crying by this time.

“Eden, just listen please –“

“Stella I never thought you would lie to me. This all adds up now, huh?. You never met Jay at McDonald’s that day. Jay’s sister’s birthday got over 3 months ago. “

“How do y-you-?” Stella stuttered

“Before you ask me how I know about this, Jay had called me to ask where you were since you didn’t pick up your phone. How would you even pick up your call? You guys were busy planning about how to make Eden miserable, right?” I asked.

“Eden, please d-don’t cry,” Justin said coming closer to me.

“Don’t you dare come near me, Justin. You have done enough damage.” I say while pushing him off.

“Eden, please just listen to us,” Chaz pleaded.

“No I won’t. You all have done enough.” I say.

“Please just listen to me, Eden.” Stella said. “What should I listen? That you lied to me about meeting Jay that day. So who did you meet that day? Oh wait, I know. It’s him, right?” I pointed towards Justin.

Both Stella and Justin remained silent.

“So it’s clear now. That you were the hoodie guy. You were the apparent ‘Ethan’. You were the one who left those red rose bouquet at my doorstep. And lastly you were the one at the movies that day. Right?” I asked while wiping my tears off.

“You know what, you all disgust me.” I said honestly. All 4 of them looked at me in shock.

“Thank you Justin for ruining my life. Thank you Justin for ruining this reunion for me. Thank you, Justin for ruining my school days since the day you chose your girlfriend, Ashley over your best friend. Oh wait! Ex- best friend,” I chuckled in disgust and in disbelief.

“Thanks for ruining it all. Are you happy now?” I asked him while more and more tears were falling on my cheeks.

“You know what my biggest mistake was Justin? To ever be your friend. My life’s biggest mistake and I regret it bad. That’s why I am getting all the punishment by getting hurt by the people who I thought were my friends.” I said while Justin looked up in shock and hurt flashing in his eyes.

“You want to know why I did this?” Justin looked up and asked suddenly.

“To make me feel hurt and play with my feelings. Easy,” I went towards the door and then Justin pulled me by my hands.

“Because, I fucking love you. Okay? I fucking love you, that’s why I had to this.” Justin yelled.

“Well I fucking love you too and this is why it hurts the most.” I said and went and harshly pulled the door.

“Eden- wait.” Justin came behind me and tried to stop me.

He hurt me.

“Please leave me, Justin. You have done enough,” I sobbed.

I quickly left the school and ran away from there.

I wiped my tears and turn around to see, Justin kneeled down at the gate of the school, crying with his hands on his pants

“So, Justin whom would you choose?” Ashley asked while an evil smirked played on her lips.

“Yes Justin, me or her?” I asked him.

I was confident that he would choose me. We were childhood bestfriends.

Justin was looking at me with so many emotions displaying in his eyes.

Of course he was going to choose his best friend over his slut of a girlfriend. Right?

This was the moment of truth. Lately, Justin had started ignoring me. He and Ashley were dating for 3 weeks now.

“Ashley,” He replied quietly.

This one word broke my heart and my heart shattered into a million number of pieces.

“You heard that, right? Now can you stop coming between us? He chose me over you.” Ashley said. Harsh truth.

“Oh,” I replied quietly. I couldn’t even look into Justin’s eyes at that moment of time.

I quickly ran away from them and cried. I cried the whole day. I hated everything from that day. My life was miserable.

I thought he was my best friend.

That day’s memories kept replaying in my mind. It still haunts me. That day was the worst day ever of my life.

Only I know how I had coped up with it. I ignored him every day at school, I didn’t need to ignore him much because he ignored me too and after a week he had left our school.

“I fucking love you,”

His words kept playing in my mind.

This was absolute bullshit.

I mean nothing to him, absolutely nothing.

Thinking about all this, tears still kept falling my eyes and by the time, I had reached my house. It was close to school.

Mom quickly opened the door and hugged me.

“What happened, Eden? Why are you crying, sweetie?” Mom asked in concern.

I continued to sob.

“Eden, just tell me, what happened?” Mom asked. We went and sat on the sofa and she kept rubbing my back in order to make me stop crying.

“He ruined it all mom,” I cried.

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And the most important and most awaited chapter of Reunion is here! Chapter Thirteen guys!

Hope y’all liked it :)

So a lot of things happened, huh? It was quite emotional.

Everything is revealed and everything is a mess in both Eden’s and Justin’s life. But Justin did hurt her bad.

And they both did confess that “they loved each other.” Hmm..

Tbh I had actually acted this chapter with the dialogues of course lol to write this chapter. This chapter had to be perfect. I hope it was!

Thanks for reading :)

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-Masumi