Dedicated to theoadam

BAD CUPID

Creates By; Snow Marisvega•

Chapter 45.

Dylan

School was over, thankfully. Raven and I walked out of our last classes together , I wasn't myself. I had been thinking about who sent that text.

Strike two.

What did that even mean? Who was this stupid person?

I shook it off my mind, right now there was something i needed to do and that was to pay Mrs. Olson a visit. I needed to go there but I needed a ride to Jaxton's house and Raven seemed to be my only hope.

"Hey," Raven snapped her fingers right in front of my face, bringing me to reality. "What are you thinking about?" She asked as we walked out of the school doors.

"I need your help with something."

She shrugged. "Sure, anything."

"I need a ride." I said and bit my lower lip.

She furrowed her brows. "A ride? That just it?"

I nodded.

"Okay, sure. Where to?" She asked and I stopped walking, so did she. I looked around to make sure Jax wasn't close.

"Jaxton's house."

"Jaxton's house? Shouldn't we wait for the person whose house we're going to?" She asked pointing at the school.

"Yeah, that's the thing. Jaxton doesn't know."

She frowned. "I'm not understanding."

"We're going to see Jaxton's mom."

"The bitch is in town?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

"Since when?"

"Saturday was when I found out about it but I guess she's been around longer than that since she's been trying to get Jaxton to come back."

"Oh, well you know we have to tell Jax. We can't keep no more secrets, you know what happens when we keep secrets. Its bad."

She had a point, but I didn't want Jax to know about this or that his mother was at fault, he'd blame himself.

"I know, he just...he just can't know."

"Why don't you want Jax to know?" She asked curiously. "There's something you're not telling me, Dylan."

I looked down, looked around again and back at her. "Remember when I told you my mom fainted?".

She nodded.

"The doctor said the reason for that was because she hit her bump somewhere and she could have had a miscarriage. Jaxton's mom was the one who pushed her and made her hit her stomach on the couch."

Raven's jaw dropped. "What?"

"Yeah," I sighed and explained what happened that evening to her. "And Jaxton doesn't know its her fault, if he does then-"

"He's gonna blame himself." She finished up and I nodded. "Shit." She cursed.

"That's why I don't want him to know about it, I just want to have a word with his mother."

"What do you wanna say to her?"

"To back the hell off or she's gonna have to deal with my wrath." I said angrily. "I could have lost another sibling because of her, I just need to speak with her." I shrugged. "Are you gonna drive me?"

She shook her head. "Dylan, let it go."

I frowned. "What?"

"Your mom is fine and so is the baby, this won't solve anything. Jaxton would be hurt. As much as he tries to act hates that bitch, he loves her. She's his mother and how do you think he'll feel when he realizes you went to threaten his mother."

"I'm not threatening her." Lies.

"Yeah and Barney isn't fat." She rolled her eyes.

Huh?

"Just let it be, okay." She rubbed my shoulder. "Don't go to her house, just try to be happy. We just got each other back and I'm not gonna do something that's gonna break us up."

I sighed. "Fine. You're right."

"Now let's wait for him and we can all go back to your place."

I nodded. "Kay."

"Hey!" Jax called out, we turned and saw him waving at us with Jon beside him. "Let's go." I heard him say before they started walking towards us.

"You ready?" I asked once he got to us.

"Yeah," he nodded as we began walking to the parking lot.

"School today wasn't that bad and its Monday, weird." I said and they all laughed.

"That is true, I mean Mondays are the worst." Jon groaned.

"I agree." Jax nodded.

"Anyways, I should get going." Jon sighed once we got to the parking lot. "Gwen's coming over soon."

Raven's brows knitted. "Why? Are you both dating? She didn't tell me you guys were dating. How long?"

We all rose our brows at her. "Chill, she's just my partner for a history project." He chuckled.

"Oh," She tsked. "Okay."

"I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said, looking at Jaxton and I.

I nodded. "Sure, take care."

"Bye." He waved and walked over to his car, he got in and drove off after waving at us again.

"Jon is cute." Jax smiled.

"Yeah, he is. He's a nice guy." I smiled as well.

"I don't understand why you guys are friends with him." Raven said and unlocked her car.

We both looked at her and frowned. "Didn't you listen to anything we said?" I asked as I walked to the front seat and Jaxton went to the back.

"He's a nice guy, he was just being bad to please Eric." Jaxton said and sat in.

"I don't buy it." She said as we all fixed our seatbelts.

"I've been friends with this guy for like a week,"

"Four days." Jax corrected.

"Well it feels like a week so shut up." I scowled at him. He laughed and took out a pack of gummy bears from his backpack.

"Still don't buy it." Raven said and I snorted.

"You should worry about yourself, because low key, like lowkey, you are the one we are still cautious about." I said to her. "So, let's not talk about Jon."

Raven looked away and remained silent.

***

Raven was laying on my couch watching something on TV, Jax and I were at the kitchen eating a bag of chips.

"You forgiven her?" Jaxton asked me. "Like completely."

I looked at him and laughed. "I mean, yeah." I shrugged. "What about you?"

"Not really. I mean, I get we need to be there for her, but a part of me can't forgive her. How do you do it? Just forgive people easily."

I smiled. "It kinda comes with a price."

"What price?" he asked curiously.

I looked at him. "You'll know soon enough."

Raven suddenly squealed, freaking us out. She turned up the volume of what she was watching which turned out o be MTV base, and the song 'treat you better' played through the speakers.

Anyone who knows me know I'm a Shawn Mendes fan, this song took me back to the time Mr. Roman cheated and gave Henry that ticket. Asshole.

Raven began to sing as she made her way towards us, i joined her and so did Jaxton and we were all singing with different voices. We didn't care and we were not as bad as Jon. Raven began to dance and Jax joined while I just sat on the kitchen table, moving my not to the beat of the song.

"Get down!" Raven walked toward me with a big smile and pulled me down by dragging my hand. We all began to sing and dance softly and soon the song 'Video phone' by Beyonce and Lady gaga begun to play and Jaxton screamed this time.

"I love Gaga." He said which made us laugh and we made our own world, we all began to dance crazily and even play-danced, laughing at the same time. I was lost in the music and kept swaying my waist to the song while singing. I decided to do something stupid and called my friends, I climbed on the kitchen counter on all fours and kept dancing, shaking my head to roughen my hair for a while, I laughed as I sang out before looking back at my once gigging friends "...on my video pho-ahhhhhhh." I screamed once I saw him. Henry standing next to Jaxton with a curious look as he just watched me, my eyes widen and I froze at that spot.

This can't....be happening.

"I..um..I..." No words were coming out of my stupid mouth. I was about to get off the table when I slipped and fell on the floor to add to my embarrassment. Thank you so much, nature. MY FUCKING KNEE HURTS!. I let out a grunt, before standing up, I ignored the pain on my knee cause Henry seeing me was more painful. I rubbed my now wet palms on my thighs. I was freaking out! HOW THE FUCK WAS HENRY AT MY HOUSE? Did he see what i did? Of course, he did. He's not blind. Fuck.

Raven just stood still, folding her arms and looking down as she tried to hold back her laugh. Henry looked at me with a cocked brow, he still looked like he was trying to process what was happening when he walked in. Jaxton walked over to the remote and turned down the volume.

"You have a guest." He said, tryin not to laugh.

"No shit." I glared at him. I couldn't look at Henry in the eye. I really didn't want him to see me doing.....that. My world just crumbled.

Oh Fuck! Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. This is so embarrassing.

"Nice uh...nice whatever was that." He said and I felt my cheeks fire up.

I just want the ground to open so It can swallow me, right now.

Raven and Jaxton were trying so hard not to laugh, her face was red as fuck and Jaxton's ears were red as well.

"I um...you didn't t-tell me...you w-were um...coming." I scratched my neck, finally looking at him.

"I did, you weren't answering your phone." He said plainly, his brow still furrowed.

"Oh um..who....who um...who let...who let you in?" I asked, I never heard any knock. Did he even know?.

"I did." Jax rose his hand. "I heard the knock, he just walked in when I told him you were home, by the way."

"And I'm glad I did." He smirked.

I let out a fake chuckle and glared at Jaxton, so bad.

"Okay, so um..I'm gonna go to the library now." Jax said and walked past me, he picked up his phone from the counter, that laugh threatening to burst out.

"And I'm gonna...just leave." Raven said an put on her shoes. "Later boys." She said and picked up her purse, they both left and I could already hear them laugh before they were out the door.

I hate them. I hate them so much. They left me with him.

"So, where should we study, or...do you wanna go back to what you were doing? I don't mind."

"Shut up." I scowled at him and began walking up the stairs, he laughed as he followed.

***

For the past two hours, Henry and I were busy working on our project, we decided to take a twenty minutes break earlier and we ended up sleeping for forty. I was sitting on my bed with my laptop on my laps while he was laying on on his stomach and was also on his laptop. We had found a few things that related to our topics and had written most of them down and even saved the pages.

I closed my laptop and yawned. "I'm so tired." I muttered and put all my stuffs on my dresser.

"Same." He sighed and packed his things.

I stood up and walked to my closet as I began to sing. "The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen. A kingdom of isolation And it looks like I'm the queen."

"The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside, couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried."

I paused, I looked up from the drawer, that wasn't my voice. That person singing the other part WASN'T ME! No!
I slowly turned as if I was in a horror movie and could hear someone breathing close to my ear. I looked at Henry with wide eyes as he sang softly, he looked up from his phone and at me and frowned. "What?"

"You just sang frozen." I announced, still shocked by what I heard.

He then realized what he did, he fucked up. He went pale in seconds. "N-No, I did not."

"Yes, you did!" I laughed and approached the bed. "You just sang frozen! Oh. My. God. You watched that?." I couldn't believe it, the masculine almighty Jock watched frozen.

"Shut up." His ears were beginning to get red.

I laughed and climbed on the bed."Aw, I can't believe this."

"E-Everyone watched frozen." He shrugged, trying to defend himself.

I chuckled. "No, not everyone."

"You do."

"Have you met me? I even know the songs to moana, no one would care that I know the lyrics" I arched my brow. "But you, everyone will be shocked. The bad boy, almighty Henry." I chuckled. "I can't wait to tweet about this." I said and picked up my phone with a big grin.

"W-What are you doing?" His brows knitted.

"What do you think? I'm gonna tell the world what I just witnessed." I snickered.

"No, you can't." he tried to grab my phone but I pulled my hand back and got off my bed.

"Not so fast, young man." I shook my head at him.

"You're gonna ruin me, don't do anything stupid!" He was panicking. Good.

I laughed and opened my twitter app. "Sure, sure."

"Dylan! Don't! Give me your phone!"

"No." I chuckled and began to type.

He climbed my bed and jumped down to where I was, I ducked and went under his arm and climbed back on the bed while laughing.

"Dear world, Henry Ashcroft knows the lyrics to that song in frozen. The famous one our beloveth Elsa sang, can you imagine?." I said out loud as I typed. "That would make a great tweet and some of the kids in our school will retweet that." I dramatically gasped. "Amazing!"

"Dyl!" He climbed on the bed, I laughed at him and was about to jump off when he grabbed my shirt from behind and pulled me back, I screamed and fell on my bed, still laughing. He got on top of me and tried to take my phone which I held tightly. "Give me your phone." He demanded.

"No," I laughed. "What's wrong? You don't want the world to know?" I pouted.

He tried to take my phone again and I held it tighter, and then he did the one thing I didn't expect, he had the audacity to tickle me and boy am i sensitive.

I began to laugh and tried to get him off me but he was bigger, my grip on my phone was still tight. He kept tickling and I begged him to stop.

"Henry....Stop...please. " I cried, in between laughs

"Give me your phone!" He said and continued tickling me.

I screamed cause I felt like I was going out of breath. I was probably red by now by all the laughs. "Okay..take....take it." I gave it to him, trying to get my breath.

He took it and did whatever he did on my phone, he threw the phone aside on the bed and looked back at me. "Now, will you post this when I'm gone?"

I pretended to think about it. "Maybe."

"Well I guess I'll have to teach you a lesson."

"No," before I could say something else, he resumed his tickling and this time it was no mercy. "Promise you wouldn't."

"Henry!!!!!! Stop!!!" I laughed. "Pleeeeaseee"

He laughed. "Not happening, until you promise you won't." He relentlessly tickled me.

"I promise...I promise." I said once I laughed till the point I couldn't breathe and was crying already.

He laughed at my condition while I tried to breathe again.

"You're as red as tomato." He chuckled.

"Its all your fault." I said as I wiped my tears. "Get off me."

He got off me and laid beside me, chuckling.

"I hate you." I said and stretched my hand, picking up my phone. He had cleared everything out. Asshat. There was no way I was gonna let him be, I was gonna get him back someday for this. What I just went through was torture, a bad one that I could have died from. Okay, I'm exaggerating but you get it.

"You're so red." He said and snickered.

"Its your fault, dickhead." He kept laughing and I knew I had to do something to him, this was his fault so I decided to tickle him just as bad.

I rolled and got on him, he wasn't expecting that. His brows shot up and I smirked, he smirked as well as if not bothered. Before he could utter any word I started the torture game and started tickling him but to my greatest surprise he just kept smirking and didn't laugh or scream like a girl about to be thrown off a cliff, which by the way was what I did.

I frowned, not understanding exactly what was going on and kept tickling him but nothing.

"What the fuck? Why aren't you laughing?" I asked in frustration.

"I'm not very ticklish." He shrugged.

Seriously? Are you fucking kidding me?

I let out a grunt. "For fuck sake, you've gotta have one."

"None." He shrugged.

I got off him and tried tickling his abdomen and all parts but nothing and I gave up.

I was pissed that nothing was working out, doesn't he get tickled? Ugh. I laid back on the bed and looked up at my ceiling as he did. There was nothing drawn on my ceiling, nothing at all but just looking at it was somewhat peaceful.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked as he just looked at the ceiling.

"Tell you what?" I asked, confused.

He was quiet for a while and replied. "Friday night."

My heart stopped.

Did he remember? Oh shit! I'm done for. Did he really remember? I thought he said he didn't? Shit. Just play dumb, Dylan.

"Wh-What are you talking about?" I stuttered.

"You know what I'm talking about," he looked at me and let out a small chuckle. "Why didn't you tell me that we made out at Zach's party."

"I..." was freaking out. What do I say? Just keep playing dumb. "What are you.."

"Don't play dumb, Dylan. I remember clearly."

Well, that plan goes straight to the trash.

I felt my heart beat faster.

He remembered.

"You were drunk and I was drunk and you forgot about it, there was no need to remind you about it cause it didn't matter."

"You weren't drunk." He huffed

"How sure are you?" I looked at him and rose my brow.

"Very," he chuckled. "You were sober."

"It...it still doesn't matter."

He nodded. "I just want you to know that I didn't forget about it though." He didn't look at me.

"You didn't remember the first time I asked."

"True, until Zach gave me this." He reached for his bag, he opened it and pulled out my gray jacket.

Shit, I left it at that douchebag's house, now I remember. Fuck you, Dylan.

"Its yours right?"

I didn't respond, I just swallowed hard.

"You wore this when coming to his place but I watched the video of you drenching that new guy before you left and you weren't putting it on, so I'm sure its yours." He smiled and handed it to me.

I took it from him as my cheek started to redden. "I-"

"It's fine," he smirked. "After Zach gave it to me, I had to make myself remember and I do remember everything."

I gulped again. "It wasn't something...serious."

"We were about to do it." He laughed.

"Well thankfully you slept." I said and forced a smile, I still hated the fact that he did that.

"Yeah, thankfully." He let out a chuckle. "Anyways, I gotta go." He sat up and zipped his bag.

"Already?"

He looked up from his bag and at me with an arched brow.

Shit, I messed up.

"I m-mean sure, its getting late. Get out."

He laughed and got down from my bed, he put on his shoes and picked up his bag.

"I'll see you to my door so I can slam it at your face." I said and stood up, following him out.

We both walked down, mom was in the living room with Jax and they were watching an Indian soap opera on that station mom liked.

"Ugh, not again." I muttered as I walked side by side with Henry.

"What?" He asked

"They are obsessed with Indian movies and all that thing."

"Don't be racist." He chuckled.

"I'm not," I shrugged. "I just don't know what's fun about it."

"Well they know, so." He shrugged as well till we got to the living room. "Hi, Mrs. Dexwell." He put on a charming smile.

Mom looked our way and grinned. "Hey, Henry right?"

Was she pretending she didn't know his name?

He nodded, still smiling. "Yeah."

"How's the project coming?" She asked sweetly, smiling at him.

"Good," he answered.

She smiled. "Aren't you staying for dinner?"

"No," he shook his head. "I've gotta get home."

"Okay, well be careful alright?"

"Sure," he smiled and started walking towards the door, I followed him till he was out. "So, I'll see you tomorrow?"

"I'm not gonna skip school." I rolled my eyes.

"We never know what to expect from you." He said and I scowled at him, he was about to laugh when I slammed the door in his face.

IN YOUR FACE!

I smiled for God knows why and as I turned I put on a straight face. I walked to the living room and placed my hands on my lips as I stared at mom.

Mom looked at me and frowned. "What?"

"Hey, Henry right?" I mimicked her, the best way I could. "Really?"

"First of all, I do not talk like that."

"Yes, you do."

"No, I don't." She said and looked at Jax, waiting for a backup.

"Actually, you kinda do." Jax said and stood up.

Her jaw dropped. "I'm gonna disown you."

"You can't, you love me." Jax giggled.

She ignored him and looked at me. "And secondly, I wasn't sure that was his name, it's been long I saw that cute face." She beamed and stood up. "Do we have ice cream? I'm craving ice cream and pickles."

Jax and I both gave her am irritated look. "Ew." We said at the same time.

She walked over to the fridge and took out a bottle of water.

"You shouldn't be stressing yourself out, ma." I said to her. "You're pregnant and you need to be careful."

"Its not my first baby." She said as she opened the bottled water.

"None of us had to go through warning."

"Actually you did, mother nature warned me."

I scowled at her. "Not funny."

"I really need ice cream," she sighed. "Would you both please go buy me some ice cream."

I sighed. "Fine, what flavor?"

"Vanilla,"

"Oka-"

"No, strawberry."

"Alright, I'll-"

"I think I'd prefer banana."

"MOM!" I yelled. "Make your goddamn choice!"

"Vanilla. Vanilla." She said with a slow nod.

"No changing." I stated.

"Okay," she smiled. "With pickles."

"You hate pickles." I frowned at her.

"No, you do."

"Yeah, I got that from you."

"Oh that's true, I do hate pickles but it's not my fault. The baby wants pickles and we're giving her that."

"Him."

"We don't know the gender yet." She glared at me.

"Fine. Vanilla and pickles." I sighed.

"Jaxton, help me with my purse please." She requested. Jax nodded and went over to the couch she was on and came back with her purse before handing it to her.

"Thanks," she smiled at him. She took out some money and handed it to Jax. "Now hurry."

"Woah. One person has to stay, remember what happened the last time."

She let out a sigh of frustration. "I'm not dying, I'm gonna be on that couch till you both come back and I'm not even five months pregnant yet and there's no bump. I'll wait here, your dad will be here in ten minutes, he's coming home early."

"You sure you'll be fine?"

"Yes, now go."

I wasn't so sure about leaving her alone and I didn't want to cause I was scared for her and the baby. The last time was a miracle, that's what Doctor Sheldon called it. That's not his name.

"Dylan, I'll be fine." She assured me with a smile.

I nodded with a smile. "Come on, Jax." I grabbed his hand and turned walking out.

***

"

So, how was your project thing?" Jax asked with a smile as we walked around the grocery store looking for pickles.

"Good, ooh guess what." I grinned .

"What? Did he propose?"

My smile quickly turned into a scowl and I smacked the back of his head.

"Ow!"

"Stupid."

"I was just kidding." He pouted.

"Henry knows the lyrics to 'let it go'"

His jaw dropped. "Bad boy Henry?"

I nodded, laughing already.

"No way."

"Yes way, I was singing to it and he joined me."

He gasped and started laughing. "Oh shit!"

"I know right." I said as I finally found them pickles, I took about three packs and placed them in the basket Jax held. "When did you come home?"

"Thirty minutes before Bonnie did, she went up to check up on you guys but you were both asleep then."

"Oh." I hissed. "Oh, another thing to tell you."

"What?" He asked as we walked to the cashier.

"He remembered the kiss, said he didn't forget."

He smiled as he looked at me. "Well look at you smiling like you made love to him."

I didn't realize I had been smiling, I stopped smiling and cleared my throat.

"You're happy about it, aren't you?"

I snorted. "No."

Lies. Lies. Lies

I was happy, I didn't understand why Henry telling me about that made me so happy and relieved. Why did he tell me though? I don't care.

Jax paid for the pickles, we had gotten the ice cream already from an ice cream shop, we got chocolate cause once we got there, I got a text from mom that said 'chocolate please'. That woman.

"How's Daniel?" I asked once we got out and started walking home.

Jax frowned. "Who's that?"

"That boy, Astrid's son."

Jax sighed. "Dominic?"

I snapped my fingers. "Yes, him."

"He's okay, I spoke to him today."

"Well invite him over." I shrugged,I needed to speak with him. I don't know why I still haven't.

"You're kidding." He chuckled.

I shook my head "no, he's your friend and I've only met him once and I'd like to see him again."

"I don't think-" someone interrupted him by running from behind us and into our middle, pushing both of us. The bag which contained the ice cream fell off Jax's hand as he stumbled.

I looked at the ice cream with my mouth open, i was so mad at the asshole right now. He had a black hoodie on and was walking away, I knew it was a guy cause of his stature. He didn't even say sorry.

"Hey!" I called out. "Jackass!".

He stopped walking and stood still.

" Dylan, let's just go." Jax sighed. "We'll go buy another."

I ignored him. "Asshole! Are you blind or something? Look what you did and you didn't even say sorry." I was mad.

"Dylan, it's fine."

"He walked right at our middle, no..ran. He's crazy." I said wile looking at Jax who kept looking at the person.

"Dylan," Jax called softly as he looked at the male.

"He's an ass and he has to pay for this cause I won't le-" i trailed off once I turned back to the person. He was smirking at us, his hands in his hoodie. This has to be the end of the world, just looking at him I felt so angry. I could feel the anger in my veins, I hated him. I hated him so much. What was he doing here?

"Hi, Dylan." He smirked, that same evil smirk.

"Eric."

Authors Note.

Hi guys. Another cliffhanger!! I will not be online for a while and so I am posting this chapter early. That's why.
Enjoy the suspense and we'd get to see what happens next....time I upload.
I just wrote this chapter today and I am glad that I'm done with it. I did try to make you guys happy with this chapter, I love you all.