Filed to story: Cheating with My Boyfriend’s Best Friend Novel by Jane E L (Olive & Aaron)>>
He leaned down and tilted my chin up to kiss me again, and this time, I forgot to say “no.”
After putting his arms around my waist in a final embrace, he draped his suit jacket over me once again. I questioned him with a hum, but he shushed me.
“Don’t make a big deal about it,” he said. “And no one’ll notice.”
I slapped his shoulder, but he just smiled. When we arrived at the parking lot, he hugged me again. I struggled half-
heartedly and scolded him. I told him we couldn’t just leave-I still had to pay the auctioneer.
“Don’t worry about that. I took care of it.”
“What!? When?”
“While I was backstage. When they send you the bill for David, I’ll pay it for you.”
I shuffled nervously on my feet. “You don’t need to!”
In the dimly lit parking lot, some people were making their way past us to get to their cars. I noticed one person glancing over at the commotion I was making and quickly buried my face in Aaron’s shoulder, embarrassed.
“Calm down. Let’s just get back to the car before people notice I’m not with my bidder.”
I sighed and gave up on reasoning with him, and the two of us picked up the pace.
Thankfully, it wasn’t very far, and we were back at Aaron’s car in no time, but a voice spoke up from behind us before we could get in.
“Aaron? I’m looking for Olive.” It was David.
G*d, I thought buying him was the worst I could do to humiliate myself. Now he was going to see me in my disheveled state.
And he knows Aaron is the reason why!
I wanted to disappear. Sure, David couldn’t see my face-I was bundled up in Aaron’s jacket and hidden in his arms-but I knew he was smart enough to figure it was me Aaron was holding. He’d heard me in the garden with Aaron earlier.
I stayed huddled in Aaron’s embrace and clutched his shirt tightly.
Aaron didn’t bother turning around to face David. He chuckled before replying flatly, “She has other plans for tonight. She doesn’t want to see you.”
“Is that right…” David hummed. “She said she wanted to see me tonight.”
I did not!
I didn’t understand David at all. Earlier, he said he wanted to help me and even pushed me into Aaron’s arms during the blackout dance. Now he was here looking for me? None of it made sense.
“I know what you’re thinking, and I’m gonna tell you to give it up right now and leave her alone. That’s a warning.” Aaron’s voice had a dangerous edge to it, but David laughed it off.
“Your hands seem a little full there,” David provoked.
“That’s my business.” Aaron growled. “Not yours.”
“Aaron… You really haven’t changed, but neither have I. Just let Olive know I’ll be visiting Columbia later this semester. I look forward to meeting her again.”
“Try it. See what happens.”
As soon as he’d said that, Aaron walked me straight to the car door. I anxiously climbed in and started fixing myself. The atmosphere was heavy, and I didn’t dare to speak. Instead, I reflected on what had just happened.
Everything David said was… odd. He and Aaron were both
talking about me, but I felt like David wasn’t interested in me at all. He seemed much more interested in Aaron.
Was Aaron the one David was in love with?
“You…” I started but changed my mind. This wasn’t a good time to ask about that kind of thing. Besides, I wasn’t even sure if things were alright between us yet. I wanted to ask Aaron to drive me home, but as I thought about that cold room, the word died in my throat. I didn’t want to go back.
“Stay with me tonight,” Aaron said quietly. “I don’t want to be alone.”
I watched him sigh and lean against the car window. His depressed and lonely expression was reflected on the glass.
And I didn’t say “no.”
Once again, Aaron and I were together in his bedroom. Neither of us spoke as we looked out over the city through his French windows. We were too exhausted to be angry anymore. After a moment, he pulled me into a still embrace.
“You and David…” I trailed off. I didn’t know how to phrase this. Aaron obviously didn’t want to talk about it, but it was getting more and more difficult to fight my curiosity. All night, David’s eyes glistened with unbridled excitement when he’d look at Aaron, yet Aaron couldn’t be more repulsed. What happened between them?
“It’s not what you think,” he said quickly. “And you should stay away from him. He’s not the saint you think he is.”
Aaron took a deep breath, then continued, “I’ll tell you later, but just… Let me hold you for a little while. I’m so tired…”
He gently led me to his bed, where we fell into each other’s arms. The two of us held each other wordlessly. We were a pair of wounded animals licking our wounds as time ticked by.
Suddenly, my phone lit up with a text from Vincent.
Vxncnt: You home yet babe?
Vxncnt: Sorry about earlier
My heart seethed with fury. Was the b*stard finished with Emily now? Was he back to pretending he cared about me?
Aaron sighed into my hair, “Looking at your other man…”
“You’re the other man. He’s still my boyfriend, you know.”
I yelped when I felt his teeth sink into my neck. Frustrated, I
slapped Aaron’s hand that was resting on my stomach.
“You’re like a dog!” I huffed.
Still, he remained where he was and continued to kiss my nape. It tickled a bit, but I wasn’t really that annoyed. His breath on my skin was warm and soothing.
“Why do you do that?” He muttered. “Say things like that? Do things like this?” He squeezed his arms around me. “I hate it…”
“The world doesn’t revolve around you.” I moved just out of reach of his kisses.
He didn’t respond, but continued holding me quietly.
“What are you going to do now?” I spoke up. “You told them we were engaged.”
I still didn’t know why Aaron would come up with something like that. What did he think of me? Of us? I thought I knew where we stood, but now I wasn’t so sure. Earlier, when he came on stage and walked down those steps, he was looking at me with such intense affection. He was dazzling.
Was that how he’d look at our wedd-
No.
That was a dangerous thought.
Aaron shrugged behind me, “Nothing. We are engaged.”