Can't Hate You

The Joker

Melissa

It was very late as he came back and I was already waiting for him. It felt like years.. I ran over to him and hugged him tightly.. I just wanted to feel safe and better since I felt uncomfortable because of these calls and messages from that weird guy who didn't want to leave me alone. He felt that something wasn't alright.. I knew that. I hoped that..

Elijah

I felt that something wasn't alright...

Her hug was different. More intense but careful like she wanted to disappear gently. I couldn't say I wasn't feeling the same way.

"What happened?" I asked. She buried her face in my chest.

"Nothing. I just missed you..." she lied.

I cupped her face. "Tell me."

Her phone rang and interrupted her chance to tell me something. She swallowed and I could see a little anxiety in her eyes what made me wonder.. but she didn't answer the call and left me in conclusion.

"Why aren't you picking up?" I asked her with furrowed eyebrows. I was already very pissed and I couldn't control myself. It felt like my hands were tied and it was making me nervous. The thought that something was happening with her too was making me feel even more strained.

Melissa

I was very nervous. I don't know why... I didn't do anything wrong so I shouldn't feel this anxiety but I was feeling it and I hated it because I wanted to tell him but at the same time I didn't. He was already looking pretty mad and I thought that something happen while he was gone so I didn't want to bother him.

He let my face go. I looked at my display and saw what he saw. "KCG K".

"Who's that?" of course he was wondering because I would wonder too what that meant.

"Melissa! Why are you so nervous?!" he asked pretty inpatient.

"Eli..I don't.." he snatched the phone out of my hand and answered the call. My heart was racing. I couldn't explain why I was so nervous at all. Maybe because he made me feel uncomfortable with his damn call the entire day and I was feeling weird.

"Hello?"

Elijah

"Uh.. hello. I was calling Melissa.."

I slowly looked at the phone and then at her. She was worried and started panicking but trying to show it off..

My blood was boiling. Why was a guy calling her? I would've reacted normally if the number wouldn't be saved in her contacts or if she wouldn't have reacted like she would die if I would find out.. but she did and I knew something was going on. So many thoughts went through my head.. what if she was playing games? What of she was talking to somebody secretly.. telling him everything that happened.. of if she was dating him secretly and cheating.. or something else. Lord I was going insane.

With these thoughts I hung up because I was already shaking. I was too strained today and this was the cherry on top.

"Who's that?" I asked trying to stay calm.

"I swear I don't know.."

She knew how angry I was. That scared her. I could see that she tried to make me stay calm and that she was afraid I would flip and she was really right..

"Are you cheating?" I asked directly what was going through my mind. Her jaw dropped and she looked eyes widened. She didn't expect me to ask this..

"Did you really just asked me that?" she asked furrowing her eyebrows and I took a step back. I shrugged shaking my head and looked away.

She grabbed my face and made me look at her. "Did you.. just ask me that?"

I could hear her voice cracking. She was disappointed because I gave it a possibility. "Yes."

She clenched her teeth after she let me go and backed off like she burnt herself on me. She had tears of anger in her eyes..

"Who's that guy? Why was he calling you?" I said a really pissed trying to calm down which was really hard. Usually I would've never been like this to her but maybe I was trying to push a coldness between us so it wouldn't hurt her too much if I would actually consider to stick to Jasons plan but I knew that I was already hurting her.

She took a deep breath still looking very serious and disappointed.. "I told you that I-".

"HOW DOES HE KNOW YOUR NAME?" I asked her and my voice was way louder than it should be what I was really sorry for but outdent show in that moment because my head wouldn't stop thinking.. Being like this to her hurt me as well but I just needed to know what was going on because I felt like I was living with the risk of losing her and it made me lose my mind that a random asshole had me in his hands..

I could see how scared and disappointed she was. She didn't expect me to act like an asshole. She was the sweet little girl who came to hug her boyfriend after a long day that she had to spend without him and her f****d up boyfriend was screaming at her. But why couldn't he stop?

"TELL ME WHO THE f**k HE IS!" I couldn't control myself no matter how much I wanted to. "I WANTED TO TELL YOU BUT YOU'RE NOT EVEN LISTENING!" she screamed back and I clenched my jaw.. "HE KEEPS CALLING ME AND I DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS! I WAS AFRAID!" she screamed and she seemed genuinely worried about it. It seemed like she was more afraid of him than of me. I didn't want her to be afraid of me at all.. I just tilted my head and looked at her.

"He told me that I should save him under my contacts as 'KCG K'."

She swiped her tears away that rolled a few seconds ago with her shaking hands and my jaw dropped. KCG... and my dumb ass thought she was cheating. Now everything made sense and my head was f****d again. So many thoughts were running through my head again. What did that stand for and was it really who I thought it was..?

I closed my eyes and rand my hand over my face. "I'm so sorry... I'm so f*****g sorry." I said and I knew that this damn apology wasn't meant to fix nothing because I was so mean to her when she only wanted to feel safe in my arms. God damn I was so mad at myself.

She didn't looked at me. I guess it was easier for her. "Forget it." she said and walked upstairs without looking at me once again. I wanted to go after her but I had to call Josh because we had a tiny clue and I could comfort her later..

"NEXT MEETING NOW! WE HAVE A NUMBER!" I literally screamed running back to my car.

We decided to meet on a cliff far from the city. I didn't want to risk that anybody could hear or see us. It was dark so we didn't turned the engines of our cars off to have some lights. They were very curious and to be honest so was I.

I started telling them what happened immediately to letting them wait another second.

"This number called her and he wanted her to save him under 'KCG K'" I said holding her phone up. I didn't give it back to her because we obviously needed it.

Their jaws dropped. "Wait! That means he wanted you to know about that!" Jason was really serious and confused. "He knew exactly that she was going to tell you that.." Josh said slowly and carefully looking at the ground like he was going to solve this mystery. "Means he's not afraid to let you know who he his." he added after a little silence looking back up at me. "Damn he surely must have some balls to be this savage and mess with you like this." James sad crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"Good but what could this K stand for?"

"Good question next question, what could KCG stand for?" Jason asked.

I thought about everything again and got hit by a wave of everything that made me feel this uncomfortable way today and freaked out so I punched against my car. It was making me mad that I had no control for the first time and because of me she was in this to. If she wouldn't have been then I wouldn't be like this, I wouldn't struggle because I would move thinking with me reckless head and not my heart. I wouldn't care if anybody could get hurt or not. It wouldn't matter to me but since she was there.. it did matter to me.. a lot and I couldn't make a move without thinking about how it could backfire..

"HE SAW HER FACE AND TALKED TO HER! HE'S f*****g PLAYING WITH US!"

I ran my hand trough my hair. I was breathing fast and I had to take the gloves off because I could feel the blood on my knuckles since I hit the car way too hard.

"Bro calm down. I know this f***s you up but we'll handle this soon." Josh tried to help me but he couldn't because soon wasn't soon enough. Time was running faster than usually. It was getting out of hands..

"CAN YOU IMAGINE.. SHE WAS SCARED TO TELL ME BECAUSE I'M SUCH AN ASSHOLE!" I said giving away that K wasn't the only one who was bothering me. I was bothering myself as well.

Melissa

He thought that I was cheating. He really gave it a possibility and I could understand that he probably had a rough day but he couldn't take that out on me because I was waiting there for him the whole day...

I couldn't believe him and I wasn't going to forget that easily but I knew that something was wrong. Something was going on and he was hiding it from me. That stressed him so he explode.

To be honest I thought he would follow me after I walked upstairs but he just left and that just proved that something was going on and I wanted too ind out what so bad.

Elijah

I sat down on my car and drank some water leaving my door open. I always had a water bottle in my car and I needed to calm down. I also cleaned my knuckles and took several deep breaths.

"We can't wait longer..." I said and we heard her phone ring. The silence that kicked in was a little scary. All we could hear was her ringing phone. I got out off the car and looked at the display. It was him.. a FaceTime call..

We looked at each other.

I answered immediately. I could finally see him and I wanted to kill him.

His hair was pitch black, his eyes were blue like the ocean with its foamy white waves. His face was striking and a little narrow. He looked like he wasn't real and I asked myself if it was a mask or not but it wasn't because his full lips turned into a little smirk.

"Ahh finally!« he laughed and I clenched my jaw trying to not destroy the phone in my hand. "I knew you wouldn't give her phone back.." he added and he seemed so happy and unbothered that it was bothering me on another level..

"Who are you and what do you want from her?" I asked with a shaking voice trying my best to stay calm. I've never held myself together so well. He leaned back and smirked.

"I want her."

Josh shook his head looking straight into my eyes as a signal that I should stay cam and that it wasn't time to freak out yet because it would ruin everything. He knew exactly that I was close to burn everything.

"We all know that you'll never get her. Go back to sleep and keep dreaming big boy."

That was the calmest answer I've ever given.

"Look...You have two choices." he said leaning back in. It seemed like he had a drink in his other hand and his big pupils gave away what a f*****g mess he was. I raised my eyebrow.

"First choice... you're giving me her by yourself or I'll get her by myself." he said it so easily like he would take it for granted. I laughed sarcastically because that was the only way to keep calm. I was on the edge.

"Second choice... I'll hurt her every time a little bit more with every day that she's with you and you won't even be aware of it.." he looked straight into my eyes through the camera.

"Or I'll hurt you every time you think about her."

He just laughed at what I said like it was the funniest thing he's ever heard.. then he stopped and looked at me. He seemed really serious..

"You really love her.. You don't know me but I know you. I know that you love her more than you love yourself... and you would die if something would happen to her because of you.. right?" he said shaking his head slowly. I said nothing.. it was true and he really knew that.

My jaw was going to break from the pressure that I put on it.

"And you don't want her to know anything about this because you don't want to involve her, right?"

I bit my lower lip of anger.

"See? I knew that you would understand it. But guess what? She's already involved."

I've never felt this way before. I always thought I could handle everything but I was afraid that everything I would do could be bad for her.. I could feel my heart all over my body and I thought about her smile..

"What if I leave her?" I asked and everyone looked at me eyes widened like they didn't expect this from me... "Hmm.. that's a good question.. you got me. Then I'll find a way to make her mine without hurting her or dealing with you." he winked at me and laughed again.

"It'll be easy. She won't stand a chance against my charm. I'll have her on the good side. Honestly it would be a pleasure if you would make this all easier for me with leaving her." he said and he seemed a little amazed. "Why didn't I think of this? You little genius you.." he asked and he asked himself more than me.

Then he laughed again and looked at me. "Anyway you'll hear from me soon bad boy! Enjoy your time with her because.. you already know. Ciao!" he said and hung before I could say a damn word.

It backfired so hard and I hated it. I hated him. I hated myself. He was really playing with me. He was messing with me. He had fun while I was on another level of being pissed. He made me crazy. I would've never care about such empty threats but he was different.. I knew guys like him.. and this was some deadass serious s**t.

I punched against the car again but this time with my other hand because I was still holding the phone.

"Did you see how he was playing with me?" I asked not screaming this time. I was breathing heavily and about to go insane.

"What are we going to do?" Jason asked me.

"I know exactly what we have to do.. well.. what I have to do.."