We both gasped instantly and we quickly got off each other. Austin had tears roll down his face but got angry moments later, he punched his dad hard in the face. Suddenly the two started fighting. Objects were thrown and broken, I screamed for them both to stop as fists were thrown. His dad was mainly trying to hold him down trying to get him to calm down, but it wasn't easy. " YOU FREAK, YOU SLEPT WITH MY BOYFRIEND!" he shouted. "CALM DOWN" Duane yelled while keeping him pinned to the floor. I didn't know what to do, my eyes started watering from the situation, being caught, for being a horrible person and from seeing them both get hurt.
"I WILL KILL YOU DAD" Austin shouted. " Just calm down" he yelled back. I ran out of the room, getting dressed in Austin's room into a t-shirt and some underwear. I sat on his bed crying listening to them both shout and scream at each other. I hated this situation, why didn't I just stop when I had the chance and break it off with Duane? Let's face it no matter how much I want him Austin is much better for me. Me and Duane have no future! Why was I so stupid? Austin ran into his bedroom, he was crying but still looked angry. I looked at him, " Austin I'm sorry" I called. He went to his wardrobe, pulling out a bag and started putting clothes in it. "where are you going?" I asked. " I going to live with my mum now," he told me calmly. "Can we talk?" I asked wiping my face. " ok... want to tell me why I found you having s*x with my dad?" He snapped. " I don't know, I really don't, I wanted to end it but he didn't! I promise I felt bad the entire time about what I was doing to you" I explained. " f**k OFF JAKE! You're nothing but a liar how could you?" he shouted. " I don't want him Austin I want you" I yelled. "oh you want me? I bet you really wanted me while you were having s*x with my dad" Austin yelled. "please Austin! It will never happen again I promise" I called. "do me a favor and never talk to me again" he yelled walking out his room and out the front door.
Duane came into his room as he left. " get away from me" I yelled. "why?" He asked. "because you made me lose my boyfriend" I yelled. " oh so it's my fault, you never once told me you wanted to stop Jake, you never once told me you wanted to break it off, you never said that, it's your fault too" he yelled. "it's more your fault, your sleeping with your sons boyfriend" I yelled. "your sleeping with your boyfriends dad that's worst" he shouted. "your older you should have known better. You seduced me, you started this whole thing!" I snapped. We paused for a few seconds. "do you love him?" He asked calmly. "yes I do" I told him sitting on Austin's bed. "do you love me?" He asked. "yes, maybe, I don't know. Whatever I feel it's wrong" I explained laying on the bed. "it's not wrong Jake, I wanted to be with you and for you to forget Austin," he told me laying next to me on the bed. "What are you out of your mind?" I yelled. "no stay with me Jake" He begged. "I can't do that" I yelled moving away from him. " you can... We could get out of here just you and me, we could just go first thing tomorrow if that's what you want and we can get away from everyone" he explained. "do you not feel guilty for what you have done?" I asked. " I have met someone I really like and yes you're a lot younger than me but I want to be with you. I'm much better than Austin you even told me that yourself" he explained. "That was in the heat of the moment. What you want me to say to you is, yes let's go tomorrow, run away with you? That's stupid, my family will call the police to start looking for me after the college ring them to tell them I'm missing. Then you will be arrested when you're caught, look at the bigger picture" I yelled. "ok maybe we don't move but I want you to be my boyfriend, someday my future husband" he told me. "no Duane no, I want to be with Austin and maybe it took me all this time to work that out but that's what I want, not you!" I told him. " please Jake" he begged. " I'm going to call Austin". I grabbed my phone and ran into the bathroom.
I called Austin over and over again until eventually, he answered. "Austin oh my god, please just listen to me," I said quickly in relief. " what" he said bluntly. "I love you! I really do, yes I did a horrible horrible thing but doing that made me realize that I love you more than I thought. I want to be with you forever, I promise that I will never do anything to hurt you again. I will spend the rest of my life making that up to you" I explained. "That's great. Good for you" he said very bluntly sounding like he didn't care. "please Austin I love you, what can I do to make you believe me, trust me and love me again?" I asked. " I belief you, but my love for you has changed. I do still love you but to make me love you more would take a long time. My trust, that's something that you would have to earn, if I decided to take you back that is" he explained. "I will do anything to get you back, just tell me what to do and I will do it" I pleaded. " I don't know what you can do, I don't even know if I want you back" he replied. " let me prove it to you don't end this" I begged and he hung up the phone.
I quickly ran out the bathroom getting dressed, I turned and ordered Duane to take me to his mum's house. "no Jake I'm not doing that, if I do you might get back with him and I can't have that" he told me. "Grow up Duane, take me to his mothers house! If you want me to be happy then you should let me try to fix this" I yelled. "What if he doesn't want you and he says he never wants to be with you? Does that change things for us?" He asked. "probably not". " why?" He asked. "because if I did then that's not letting him see that I'm sorry". "Look you're putting yourself through all this for nothing, you and me can have a great life together just us two" He explained. "look I will probably always feel something for you but I will also always love him, if he did want me back I wouldn't even speak to you again if that was what he wanted" I explained. "No Jake, don't do this". "take me to his mum's house now" I ordered.
Reluctantly, Duane took me to his car. As we pulled up outside his mum's house, his mum came outside and ran up to the car as we got out. "so you cheat on me with a man, and then you sleep with you're sons boyfriend... You make me sick" She said horribly and slapped him across the face. " give it a rest," Duane told her firmly. "What is this piece of trash doing here? You brought the cheap w***e with you" she yelled. I ran inside the house to get to Austin. "Get away from me Jake" he shouted. "look you were calm when we last spoke let's talk this out" I called. He ran outside to get away from me and ran onto the grass. His mum and dad were to busy arguing to notice either of us. "Let's just talk" I called. "I don't want anything to do with you" he shouted and ran away from me into the road. It was in the moment I heard a cars tires screech. As I turned my head slightly I caught a car in the corner of my eye. It slammed into Austin, his head hitting the bonnet and falling back onto the asphalt.
"AUSTIN!" I screamed running over to him laying on the floor. His mum and dad came rushing over. " Austin wake up, wake up" I cried with tears rolling down my face. " don't move him, I will call 911" Duane yelled while panicking.
I sat still crying, looking at his body, it was still warm and kept thinking that this was all my fault. Not knowing if he would survive or not and seeing his blood made me want to switch places with him. " this was your fault!" his mother screamed at me and then started to attack the driver after he got out his car. I couldn't argue with her, since I thought the same thing. It was my fault why couldn't I just be a good person and stay faithful to my boyfriend.
We stayed with him until the medics arrived on the scene to take him to hospital for emergency care. All three of us went to the hospital with him.
The question that kept running through my mind was, would he survive?