Love Triangle with Death

Chapter 2

Reminiscing memories about Aubrie surprisingly was an easy and long task for Celine. Sitting cross-legged on her bed with her eyes closed Celine memories flew through her mind, each little memory being cut off as another came to her mind, the majority of their encounters were in Bio but a few ones in football games and in-between hallways, her boyfriends face rarely coming up surprisingly. Aubrie seemed happy in almost all of them, a few memories where she seemed down due to a fight with her boyfriend or being teased for being half British but other than that she was fine in Celine's eyes. Celine didn't understand why Aubrie would've done it, she had a super nice hot boyfriend who was on the foot ball team and Math club, Aubrie had a colleges already looking at her and that's a big deal considering she's a junior, her parents were together and happy as you could seem to be to others, she had the most loyal friends ever.

Celine didn't understand it she couldn't,maybe its because she and Celine weren't all that close, or maybe because they were, but only in Bio. Celine thought it was funny, how although Aubrie and her were just acquaintances yet if someone saw them in Bio they would seem as if best friends, with their nick names for each other to the inside jokes they had.

Celine remembers the first day she and Aubrie had talked, Celine had wanted to make her boyfriend happy that his girlfriend and his sister were best friends, but in the end he just got mad apparently he hated his sister with a burning passion. Celine was surprised but she didn't cut off her relationship with Aubrie because of it, Aubrie seemed like an absolutely wonderful person and Celine didn't want to lose the wonderful relationship she had with her so instead she talked to her as normal but only in Bio. There were only 3 people who knew Richard in that class it wasn't hard to keep it from him considering the fact that said 3 people don't know him enough to talk to him.

Celines thoughts about Aubrie was cut off when her phone started ringing loudly. Her boyfriends name flashed on her screen, and Celine was pretty curious as to how her befriended reaction would be, he hated his step-sister all his life and would act as if her touch burned him but at the same time he would glare at every guy who looked at her.

Picking up the phone Celine responded with a weak hello, she heard sniffles at the other end of the line before some one murmured something incoherently.

"Hello" She said a bit louder.

"Hey" The voice came out a bit louder now, and Celine was surprised at the feminine voice coming through the phone.

"Mrs.Rivers? Are you alright? Can I help you?" Celine asked, her voice clearly conveying worry.

"I'm not alright my dear but you don't have to worry about that, but you can help me. Please come over, Rich isn't getting out of his room, please please come talk him I've tried as much as I could but I want to grieve for my daughter hun please come help me." Mrs.Rivers voice asked, her voice as rough as a bumpy road on a stormy night.

Celine pitied the woman, losing her first husband was bad enough and she now loses her first daughter, this made Celine worry about her mental health, the women may seem tall, confident and strong but people who have talked to her know she's super emotional. But right now she had to focus on her boyfriend, before she could move on to his mother.

Celine replied to the women quickly : " Of course, I'll be there in a few.". Hanging up before the women could respond, Celine slipped on her uggs and got into her jacket before rushing down to the stairs.

"Hey mum" She called for her mother as she entered the dinning. Jennifer David sat there with her head in her hands as she was talking to her husband,hearing about the Aubrie Rivers death wasn't comforting in any sense she whipped her head to the side surprised at her daughters voice.

"Hey baby" She replied to her daughter.

"I was wondering if I could go over to Rich's house, his mom called me and told me he isn't getting out of his room." Celine told her mother speedily, she couldn't wait to see her boyfriend, she was concerned for him.

Her mother sighed, clearly displeased but allowed and told her to be back home by midnight.

Celine rushed out of the house as soon as she heard a bit of approval from her mother. Climbing into her 2017 Toyota Camry, she rushed to her boyfriends house at a record level speed.

Fifteen minutes after the talk with Ashley Rivers, Celine got to the Rivers house. Right as she parked her car she saw Ezekiel Kelly rush out of the Rivers house, blood dripping down his face as it mixed with his tears. Celine couldn't help but stare at the guy, he was undeniably beautiful, Ivy would always say his face seemed as if it was personally chiseled to perfection by the gods, and Celine couldn't help but stare.

After a few minutes of staring at him Celine felt the guilt flow through her, she quickly diverted her eye from him as she realized she was gazing longingly at her boyfriends dead sisters boyfriend. Squishing her eyelids together she cursed herself before opening her car door.

"You alright?!" She yelled to Ezekiel but he didn't spare her a glance as he got into his truck and sped away. Sighing, Celine realized that the next few days weren't going to be easy, with almost everyone around her grieving.

She walked up to the porch of the door and rang the door bell, she could faintly here Mozart Beethoven playing through the house as she rang the doorbell. All of a sudden the door was opened with so much force that it hit the wall, a fist came flying at her, she squeezed her eyes shut anticipating a punch to meet her face. But, after a few seconds she realized that nothing happened.

Opening her eyes, she soon came to realize it was her boyfriends fist that was almost about to break her face. She sighed throwing her head back in relief before facing her significant other again. As soon as she saw his face she almost melted, it was no doubt that Richard Wells was attractive, his eyes bluer than ink on a white t-shirt and his skin as smooth as milk could make any girl weak at the knees, it certainly made Celine feel as if her legs would give out. But right now as she saw her boyfriends she realized his ocean like eyes were surrounded by red almost as if blood was going to mix into the ocean and his beautiful skin bared bags, tears and blood under his eyes, in fact the blood was all over him.

Gasping at his form Celine said: "Oh my gosh babe are you alright? You are literally the definition of blood, sweat and tears right now." Celine said without thinking twice. She regretted it once she saw Richard wince slightly.

Celine's boyfriend let out a grunt before he trudged into his house with Celine following behind him in like a dog.

"What are you doing here? You can't just barge into my house whenever you want!" Richard exclaimed with a loud voice. His word hurt her but she bared with it.

He's hurt right now, his sister just died.

Celine kept repeating inside her head.

"I didn't come without an invitation, your mom called me and told me to come over, she told me you weren't coming out of your room and she wanted me to help." Celine said once she calmed down.

"Well I'm out now, that b***h got me out when he thought he had the right to barge in here and talk about Aubrie like she meant something to him I mean its clear he's the reason she isn't here right now, anyway, you can leave right now seeing as I'm out" Her boyfriend replied anger showing clearly in his voice.

"That b***h used to be your best friend remember" Celine said.

"Yeah, but that all stopped when he decided he could date my sister, what he did was out of line, and I thought I told you to get the hell out of here"

"Rich look its clear you aren't fine right now but please, let me in, talk to me." Celine hated how cliche she sounded when she said that but she couldn't help it.

"Only my family calls me Rich and I don't need help, Get Out!" He said with more aggression. Celine was a little scared and very hurt right now, she wondered where his parents were.

Sucking in a deep breath she held on to Richards biceps as hard as she could and made him look at her hoping her concern was conveyed through her eyes.

"Please let me stay, we don't have to talk just let me be there for you"

Suddenly Richards eyes flashed with and light bulb, a strangely evil looking smile appeared on his face.

"Fine, we don't have talk" He said before slamming her against the door and forcing his lips on her. Celine started kissing back with the same aggression, until she realized why she was there, she let him go on until a thought came into her mind.

"Your parents" She said in between kisses.

"They're out" He said before lifting her up by her legs and forcing the, around his waist.

***

Celine stared at the ceiling panting, as soon as they were done Richard had gone to his bathroom without even looking at her a second time. No words were spoken after Richard allowed her to stay at his house. Gazing at the ceiling Celine thought back to when she and Richard had first met, it was about 2 years ago, she was in freshman year and Ivy had invited party, later she finds out that its Ivy's junior boyfriends party. Ivy had ditched Celine to hangout with her boyfriend at the time, Tom, and left Celine awkwardly leaning on the kitchen counter a beer in her hand. After a few minutes of waiting a 6 ft tall blonde guy stumbled towards her direction, his eyes shedding tears, after a few minutes of debate she went up to him and asked him what happened. The scene formed clearly in front of her eyes.

"Hey you alright?" The girl with midnight dark hair asked.

After a few minutes of hesitation, the broken looking guy answered.

"Me and the girl I've been crushing on since kindergarten just got together a month ago, I was going to tell her I loved her tonight and make it official but she told me she was moving away before I could say anything."

Celine was slightly taken aback by his answer, most people in high school who were asked about their well being usually say their "fine" or "okay", even Celine did that, hell, she can't even name one person who did. But this guy had just bared his emotions out to her,a stranger, although he hesitated he did answer her AND he seemed completely sober. Celine found his openness attractive.

"Can I help you in anyway?" She had asked.

"I don't want to sleep with you god, I just told you the love of my life and I just broke up and you want to SLEEP with me. Wow! i'm embarrassed by what our lifetime has come down to." He said shaking his head. "Just cause I'm a pretty face and one of the only two people who got into to the JVBB —"

Celine let him go on because she was amused, but stopped him when she heard the unfamiliar term.

"I'm sorry for interrupting your wonderful rant but what is JVBB?" She asked trying her best to hide her amused smile but it soon turned confused when he started slowly but loudly clapping.

"Trying to play inno—" He was once again cut off when Ivy, Celines new found friend had come to them prancing around in her small silk dress and thrown her arm around her shoulders.

"I'm so sorry but Tom had come by and I just totally forgot please forgive me" Ivy said to Celine. She then glanced around and realized Richard Wells was standing there.

"Oh my god! Hey Richard I see you've met my new best friend she just moved here from the big apple" Ivy said wiggling her eyebrows at the mention of New York. Celine laughed at the boy, whose name she had then found out was Richard, his face had complete shock written on it.

After that Ivy had left to see her Tom again leaving Celine and Richard alone, they both talked about everything and did everything from 20 questions to jumping into the the pool. At first, Celine was skeptical about talking to him after he thought she wanted to sleep with him but forgave him when she realized he was really guilty about it.

That night Celine find out that JVBB meant Junior Varsity Basketball, and that Ezekiel was the only other guy than Richard to get into the high school basket ball team while still being in middle school. She never did find out the name of the girl who broke Richards heart that night, she never found out anything about her actually, but that didn't matter anymore because Richard had told her he no longer had feeling for that girl or any other girl right when Celine and him started dating. 6 months after the party she approached Richard and told him about her feeling for him and was surprised when they were reciprocated. 18 months after confessing they have been deeply in love with very little obstacles until now and that scared Celine.

Celines thoughts were cut-off when she heard the door unlocking. She scrambled off the coach grabbed her clothes and sprinted up the stairs to Richards room, stark naked. She flung his door open and closed it just in time to hear the Rivers shut the door, breathing out in relief Celine turned around, she saw her boyfriend, she saw him lying shirtless with the comforter up to his chest, tears glinting on his face. Looking at him with a sad smile on her face she dressed herself with her clothes before climbing into bed. She brushed a few pieces of hair of his forehead and then she kissed it. Letting go of his forehead she laid on his bed and spooned him before letting sleep take over her.