The bad boy

All a Lie?

I wake up to yelling down stairs. Liam isn’t in bed, so I take clothes on and head down to find out what on earth is going on. As I get down stairs I can hear Liam say something on the line of ‘Why would you do such thing? You have risked everything’. I get down stairs and see everyone ganging up on Lexi. Even boss is looking at her as if she did something really bad. I ask ‘What in earth is going on?’. Liam goes to say ‘we found out this morning that it was Lexi all along!’ I look at him not quite understanding what he means. He elaborates and says ‘She is the rat.. she was all along. She risked everything for us!’. They all look at Lexi with angry expressions. Lexi looks at me then smirks ‘Liam I did it so you and I could take over. The gang needed new leadership, but you went ahead and fell for our informant! Ella did you really think that a man like Liam would just fall did a nobody like you?’ I look at her not really understanding what she means by informant so I say ‘What do you mean?’ Liam gives her a look that say keep quiet, but she doesn’t. She says ‘Ohh he didn’t tell you? You see my dad, boss over there and Liam you so called boyfriend set you up. They knew that your dad was working the case of our gang and needed to know everything that they knew, so Liam was sent to make you fall in love with him, so that we could get all the information that we needed. Little did they know I was the one selling our information to the police!’ I look at boss and then Liam. I can see a flash of guilt in Liams eyes and I go to say ‘Is it true? Did you plan to make me fall in love with you just so you could use me?’ I could feel tears beginning to form but I would not let them fall. Liam stayed quiet which gave me the answer. He really did just use me. My heart sank. I said ‘Well guess what, you used me for information, you made me fall in love with you and I gave up everything for you. My dad and my life. F*** you!’ I gave him my all and he just used me. Liam stepped closer to me and said ‘Ella what I feel for you is true I am in love with you. I am soo sorry for how we started out’. A tear rolled down my cheek and I angrily brushed it away ‘sorry doesn’t cut it. You could’ve told me. You could’ve come clean about it all.’ I did the only thing I could. I walked out. Not even bothering to look back. The tears began to roll down my cheek and I nod let them. I was halfway down the alley that leads away from the hideout before Liam caught up to me. He grabbed my arm and spun me around. I yelled ‘Let go of me!’ Trying to yank my arm from his grasp.

He pleaded and said ‘please let me explain! Just give me two minutes and hear me out!’ I rolled my eyes before I stopped resisting and said ‘You have one minute’. Liam ran his hands through his hair and began to speak ‘Ella everything Lexi said was true. We did plan on using you for information about the investigation, but I genuinely fell in love with you from the first time you met the gang. I knew I couldn’t do it. That’s why I was distant with you. That’s why I seemed as is didn’t want you close. Because I didn’t want you to do it.!’

I looked at him and then said ‘But why didn’t you just tell me?’

He let out a deep breath and continued ‘I knew of would break the trust I had just build and Ella I couldn’t lose you again! Please trust me when I tell you, that I told boss after our second date that I wouldn’t go trough with the plan, that I didn’t want to use you like that!’ I looked at him and he looked me deep in my eyes as if he was pleading me to forgive him and believe him. I took a deep breath. I was broken, shattered. It literately felt like my heart sank when Lexi told me. I looked at Liam and said ‘I can’t.’ And with that I turned around and once again walked away without looking back.

LIAMS POV:

I woke up early. Last night was amazing and I even got to give Ella her necklace that was a symbol of my love for her. A promise that I would always love her! I get a text in my phone and lost out of the bedroom not wanting to wake Ella up. The text is a photo of Lexi with a cop. Not just a cop but the lead investigator of our case. What on earth? Was she the rat. I quickly head to boss’ office and once I enter I show him the picture. He looks pissed. First he asks me if the photo was manipulated? It couldn’t be true. Why would his own daughter do such thing? He immediately call Lexi to come to the hideout and within 20 minutes she is here. He and I start to yell at her. I still can’t believe why she would do it. Ella comes walking down and asks what is going on, so I tell her everything. Lexi then starts to tell us why. She wanted her and I to take over the gang? She looks at Ella smirking. F*** please no. She wouldn’t tell Ella my secret would she?. Panic begin to form in me as she starts to tell Ella why we met. The whole story of how I was supposed to make Ella fall in love with me so that we could use her as an informant. That just isn’t the whole story. I stopped that plan a long time ago. As soon as I realised I was in love with Ella. Ella looks at me and asks if it was true. I couldn’t find it in me to answer which told her everything. She walked away.. F*** I have to go after her . I can’t lose her, not again. I run after her and stop her halfway down the ally. ‘Please just give me two minutes to explain’ I plead with her. She agrees and I start to tell her everything. She then asks why I didn’t tell her and I tell her the truth. That I couldn’t loose her, but i doesn’t work. She says ‘I can’t’ and before I could comprehend her words she is already walking away from me. Drake comes up behind me, and tabs my shoulder. He says ‘Sorry bro, I know you love her! But give her some time to think’ I look at him and ask him to give her a ride to wherever she wants to go. I know she wouldn’t accept if I offered and I need her to be safe. I truly f*** up, and this time I am not sure if I can fix it.

ELLAS POV:

I got to the main road when a car pulled over and I could hear Drakes voice say ‘Ella please stop, let me drive you!’ I turned around not knowing what to do. I was heartbroken and to be honest homeless too. I couldn’t go home. I got into the car, and told Drake to drive me to the only place I knew I could go. Jonas’ house. When we got there I hurried to unbuckle my seat Beal. I just wanted to get as far away from the gang as I could, but before I could get out of the car Drake grabbed my wrist and said ‘Ella please don’t ignore us. I know what Liam did in the beginning is bad, but the rest of us didn’t know.’ I look at him and scan his face. I could see that he was speaking the truth. I nodded my head and with that he let me go but before driving of he yelled ‘Remember to call me even with the smallest of your problems!’ Once again I just nodded and headed to the front door of Jonas’ house. How he would react I didn’t know. I really hadn’t been talking that much with him since I met Liam.

I knock on the door and Jonas comes to answer the door. As soon as he sees me he pulls me into a hug. He doesn’t ask what happened but he just comforts me. He guides me into the living room and I ask him ‘Jonas do you think it is possible for me to stay here for a while?’ He instantly nods his head and says ‘Ella you know that you are always more than welcome. I am kinda heading to school but I can take a sick day and stay home with you. I don’t think you should go today!’. I completely forgot everything about school today. Well after last night and being intimate with Liam I just figured I would stay at the hideout but that kinda didn’t work out. Arg I hate that I gave myself completely to Liam. He was my first.. I just feel used. Used in every way. Jonas breaks my out of my trance by saying ‘Do you want to grab a long hot shower? And maybe after we could watch movies like in the old days, and if and only if you want to tell me what happened then I am all ears!’ I nod and head to the shower. It is just what I need right now. To be honest I feel dirty. I go to the bathroom and strip all of my clothes and then enter that hot water. I stand there rethinking about everything and the tears once again start to roll. I stand in the shower crying for 20 minutes until there are no tears left. I get out and I dry myself. As I get my clothes back in I find a necklace that Liam gave me yesterday after we did had, you know, s*x. He told me that it was his promise to my that he would always be there for me and protect me. That it was a sign of his love and commitment to me. Looking at it now just seems shallow. So I but I back in my pocket and try to forget about it completely. I walk down stairs and into the living room.