Broken Promises

Catch up?

RYLEE'S P.O.V.

After everything that happened today I just kind of wanted to be with my people and while Collin was now one of my people by being my boyfriend, I wanted to tell Melissa everything that happened and Noah because the man loves the juicy details. I only have a week or two left with them and I feel it should be spent with them and Collin, though I'm not sure how him sleeping over would go over well with Hazle. Once I finally got up enough courage to ask Collin to go home thinking I would be yelled at or asked if I didn't love him, or something.

I was pleasantly surprised when he didn't yell at me or make snide comments about it, he was understanding and sweet in so many ways.

"So, girlfriend. I had fun tonight." he smiles as he parks the car.

"As did I boyfriend." I smile, kissing him softly.

"Okay, go hang out with your family and call me later?" he asks.

"Text me before you go to bed and I'll call you." I smile kissing him again.

"Okay, get out." he smiles kissing me.

"I can't with you kissing me." I laugh.

"I don't ever want to stop kissing you." he smiles, kissing me again until we are basically making out.

"Okay, out." he smiles opening his door.

"What are you doing?" I ask confused.

"You'll see," he yells walking around to my side of the truck.

He opens the door for me and smiles. I laugh lightly and climb out of the truck; he closes the door and walks me to the door. I can just barely see Melissa and Noah through the living room window watching.

"You didn't have to," I whisper.

"I wanted to." he smiles, kissing me once more before hugging me.

"I'll see you later darling." he smiles.

"Bye puppy." I smile, waiting till he gets closer to his truck to open the door.

He turns towards the house and waves at Noah and Melissa through the window.

"Tell Noah and Melissa I said Hey," he smirks.

"I will." I smile, my face heats up.

He waits until I'm inside to drive away, and I realize that he is perfect. Everything I should have wanted or expected before.

"TELL US EVERYTHING!!" Melissa yells as soon as I close the door behind me.

"What do you mean?" I ask innocently.

"Don't make us beg for it pleaseeee." Noah whines.

"Fine" I sigh.

"Well, after a very comfortable dinner with his family everyone left." I laugh a little.

"Everyone left?" Melissa questions.

"Yeah, so we go to his room, but he makes me close my eyes and when he opens the door," I said pausing for a moment to grab a drink from the fridge.

"DEHYDRATE WOMAN I'M DYING HERE!" Noah yells.

"Okay okay." I laugh spitting out my water.

"He had candles lit and white roses spelling out 'Girlfriend?' on his bed," I say sweetly.

"You said yes, right?" Melissa asks anxiously awaiting my response.

"Yes." I smile, she squeals loudly jumping up and down clapping her hands like a child. I couldn't help but laugh.

"So did you guys do it?" Noah asks raising his eyebrows up and down.

"Yes." I laugh rolling my eyes.

"And how was it?" Melissa asks eagerly.

"It was amazing, honestly. Though I hit a rough point, after my second climax." I smirk.

"Second?" Noah asks shocked.

"I came three times," I smirk.

"In one time?" Melissa asks shocked.

"What can I say? The man is a wizard with his mouth and other things." I smirk.

Melissa and Noah laugh before Noah makes a weird face.

"What?" I ask turning around.

"Was he big?" Noah blurts out before I could turn fully around.

"Yeah, I mean. Above average for me." I answer.

"As in?" Melissa asks.

"As in, barely fit. In both places." I laugh.

"YOU TRIED ANAL?" Noah yells.

"WHAT NO! GROSS!" I yell.

"Man, I thought we had something in common." Noah sighs.

"I meant my mouth." I scoff.

"So never to the anal thing?" Noah asks.

"I'd try it at least once," I answer shaking my head.

"Good, I think everyone should experience it once." Noah insists.

"Is Lucas here yet?" I ask looking towards the basement steps.

"Uh yeah, he's here," Melissa says lowly.

"What's wrong?" I ask confused.

LUKA'S P.O.V.

I heard Melissa yell and the front door close which indicated Rylee was home, twenty minutes early. Maybe her night with Collin didn't go as planned, I start slowly walking up the steps behind Lucas and Jake as they sit in the kitchen and talk and I can hear her voice.

"Was he big?" Noah blurts out.

"Yeah, I mean. Above average for me," she answers.

"As in?" Melissa asks.

"As in, barely fit. In both places." she laughs.

"YOU TRIED ANAL?" Noah yells.

"WHAT NO! GROSS!" she yells loudly.

"Man, I thought we had something in common." Noah sighs.

"I meant my mouth." she scoffs.

Everyone pushes back down the steps and gives me a concerned look.

"I'm fine, so she had s*x with Collin. Oh well." I scoff.

"I don't think it was just s*x," Jake adds.

"Why?" Lucas asks.

"Before Rylee left, we made casual conversation, I asked her if they were going to have s*x tonight and she said she wasn't having s*x with anyone unless they were dating," Jake answers, looking at me concerned. Footsteps start down the steps and everyone rushes to sit down and tries to change the conversation.

"So, that game tonight," Jason says casually.

"Yeah, they threw that, I mean 20-7. How bad could it have been?" Jake scoffs.

"And that horrible pass." I continue.

"And the QB, what a joke!" Lucas adds.

"Couldn't even catch or throw the ball right." I laugh.

"Hey," Rylee says in a low tone.

"Hey Rylee, how was your night?" Jake asks.

"Uh, it was good, really good actually." She smiles.

"Lucas, can we talk by chance?" She asks, I sigh knowing it's about me.

"Yeah, no problem. Be back in a few, okay?" Lucas asks me, I turn my head to look at them exposing the bruise on my face fully.

Rylee takes a noticeable deep breath before closing her eyes and walking upstairs.

"What was that about?" Jason asked.

"Probably because Luka is here," Jake answered.

"No, I meant the deep breath she took before closing her eyes." Jason continued.

"Oh, that?" Jake laughs lightly.

"Yeah, that." Jason continues.

"Probably her need to nurse Luka, she's trying to repress anything she feels towards him right now because she's mad." Jake answers.

"She nurses you?" Jason asks.

"Yeah, she has before." I inhale sharply.

"When?" Jason asks.

"A few times," I answer.

"And that one night I walked in on you two." Jake laughs, slowly dying it off as Jason punches his leg.

"It's fine, that night was when the whole bet thing was happening," I answer.

"Whatever did happen that night?" Jake asks.

"A few guys were talking about the bet and how easy she was and I started throwing hands, and people started throwing them back." I laugh.

"People do that." Jason laughs.

"So, how's Max?" I ask casually.

"Uh, he's good. We planned to hang out tonight so I'm not sure where he is exactly." Jason answers pulling out his phone.

"Is he coming here?" I ask, glancing at the basement door.

"He should be, I'll give him a call quick," Jason answers before putting his phone up to his ear.

The room was silent while Jay made his phone call, almost pin-dropping silent.

"You still coming?" Jay asks, pausing for a moment.

"Alright cool," he continues.

"Yeah, I'll unlock the basement door," he says standing up.

"Yeah, see you in five. Oh, and Rylee's home." Jason says unlocking the basement door.

"Don't," Jason says sternly.

"Bye," he says before ending the call.

"Don't?" Jake asked.

"He just commented bailing because she's here." Jason sighs rolling his eyes.

"I mean I understand, given what happened between them," Jake says, shrugging his shoulders.

"He shouldn't have gotten involved with her in the first place," Jason says sternly.

I let them sit and talk for a moment and think back to that night not so long ago when my feelings for Rylee started once more, I distance myself every time I start to catch feelings again but this time I didn't. I tried so hard to push myself away but she was going through so much and I just couldn't leave her like that. I struggled to watch her fall apart from afar and this time she needed my help more than ever, Eventually, I just left it to happen and pushed everything down but as we got closer they got stronger again. 

"So, Rylee's pissed." Lucas sighs coming down the steps.

"WE WEREN'T DONE TALKING!" Rylee yells loudly.

"JUST COME HERE, WOMAN!" Lucas yells.

"UGH!!!" She yells walking down the steps.

She looks at me rolling her eyes, she looks mad but her eyes look sadden 

"You two talk, outside. Now." Lucas says sternly.

"Don't tell me what to do." Rylee scoffs.

"Rylee, Luka helped me figure out how to tell you I'm sorry. We are friends now. Just go talk to him and stop being such a baby." Lucas says annoyed.

"f**k you." she scoffs, walking out the basement door.

I sat there for a moment, waiting to see if I should actually follow her or if I'd be punched in the face again. 

"Well, let's go, i***t!" She yells after a moment.

"I can't believe that worked," I whisper to Lucas.

"Don't f**k it up!" Jake yells loudly.

"Thanks for the pep talk asshole!" I scoff.

Once I get outside, I see her sitting on the steps.

She holds her hand out as I pulled my cigarettes out, I laugh and hand one to her.

"f**k you." she scoffs.

"At least you are talking to me," I smirk lighting my cigarette, she holds her hand out for my lighter.

"You are an asshole, you know that?" She whispers as she inhales.

"I know, I'm sorry." I sigh.

"Sorry?" she laughs.

"Yes Rylee, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong. People apologize for that." I scoff.

I don't know a better word to explain how sorry I feel, how bad I feel that she went through everything because of me because I couldn't keep my eyes off of her and the dress she was wearing for another guy, how she clung to him like he was life support. 

"In the wrong? Luka your girlfriend hit me, called me names, disrespected my dead parents, you kissed me and then told me she was pregnant!" she yells.

"I know, okay I know? She shouldn't have done any of that and it was my fault. It wouldn't have happened if I could have just kept my eyes off of you but I couldn't Rylee!" I yell back.

"WHY!" She yells.

"Because to me you are more than my best friend and have been for a long time. God, I hate that I love you, Rylee, I hate it in every sense of the word. Somehow, I fell for you and I couldn't figure out how to stop falling." I answer.

"Well figure it out Luka." she scoffs.

"I tried Rylee, I distanced myself from you, I f****d another girl, I dated another girl. f**k I tried drugs and alcohol to try to get a grip on it but I couldn't. The more I was around you the more I wanted to be with you and when you found out you just bailed and it f*****g broke me." I speak calmly, trying to keep my grip on the situation.

I try to take a few unsteady deep breaths to even out my anger but somehow I continue to feel it slip through the cracks, I can't even tell if it's anger or sadness anymore. 

"Luka, we would never work and a part of you knows that. I didn't leave because of that though; I was happy you were with Daisy. She brought you happiness a kind of happiness I thought you deserved. You are my best friend but you also called me a w***e, and that f*****g hurt." she says, her voice breaking a bit, she clears her throat and continues.

"I love you as a friend which is why I don't think we should be friends. It's not fair to you or the love you have for me. I mean you can always call me with your problems and I'll help the best that I can but I don't feel it's safe for us to be friends anymore." she continues.

Safe? what does that even mean? Safe for me or her? I remember her saying she was scared of her feelings for me, if anything were to happen it would crush both of us but somehow I still struggle to see the 'safe' part in all of this. 

"Safe?" I ask confused.

"Safe for your heart, or mine. What if you continue to fall for me and things get out of hand again?" she asks.

"I promise to never call you a w***e, I don't mean it and you should know that by now." I scoff.

"We have been friends for seven years Luka, I should know what you think of me but if you thought I didn't think of every possible thing before leaving that night then you really don't know me anymore either. I overthink everything, every possible little detail. I was scared and I ran and that wasn't right okay. I'm sorry for running away but it wasn't just you Luka, I had other things going on and I was scared about my future. When I left it was the right thing for me to do, it helped me in so many ways." she sighs as her voice remains steady; I can just barely see the tears falling through the ashes of the cigarette. 

"I know, I was an i***t and I shouldn't have told you or said anything that night, I just finally got the guts to say it aloud to you and was working my way up to tell you in person and I'm sorry. You look so much better, healthier, happier. Apart of me just wants to take back that night or blame it on the alcohol but I can't because I would be lying. I love you Rylee, and even if you don't love me, I needed to tell you." I say softly.

Apart of me just wants you to be broken again, just like me. So, maybe I could have a chance with you, it's selfish I know. 

"That's the problem Luka, I think without realizing it I did fall for you. But I can't. Even if Daisy wasn't pregnant, even if you didn't tell me that night, even if I didn't fall for someone else. We would never work and our friendship would be ruined in the end. I couldn't put myself or you through losing each other like that." She says lowly.

"So instead, we distance ourselves so far away from each other that we forget who we are?" I ask.

"No, we will always be best friends, I just don't think we can hang out all the time, or alone together." She sighs looking at her phone.

"Can you excuse me for a second?" She asks, I nod and she walks away.

Probably her calling him because he misses her or something, I want to understand so badly how he helped her become this person, the one that's not as broken as she was before. Apart of me wants to undo all the stuff he did to help her. I just want her to be Rylee again, my Rylee again. 

RYLEE'S P.O.V.

In the middle of Luka and I's conversation, Collin texted me and I used that as an excuse to walk away and collect myself. Walking away from Luka was one of the hardest choices I have ever made but somehow I fell for someone who could love me for who I really am and not someone who has been dreaming about me for four years.

"Hey, puppy," I say softly as Collin answers.

Trying to hide the fact that I was crying over someone who hurt me so badly.

"Hey darling everything okay?" he asks confused.

"Yeah, I'm probably going to head to bed here soon and I know you are going out with the guys so I just wanted to call and say goodnight beforehand," I say forcing myself to smile.

"Okay, well text me before you go to sleep and I'll still call you," he says happily. I have someone willing to put everything on the back burner for me and yet sometimes my mind can't help but think about Luka.

"It's okay, we've been together for three weeks and then some. Go have some fun with your friends." I say happily.

"Are you sure?" He asks confused.

"Yeah, just text me when you get home even if I'm sleeping," I answer.

"Okay, goodnight darling." He says happily.

"Goodnight puppy," I answer walking back towards Luka.

"Sorry about that." I smile sitting down beside him.

"It's fine." he sighs pulling out another cigarette.

I hold my hand out again for another one since the first one was kind of wasted away while we talked.

"So, still best friends but we don't talk?" he asks handing me one, and the lighter shortly after.

"We talk just not as much and not in person." I sigh, handing him the lighter back.

"Can't we just forget all of this?" he asks.

Forget all of this? Like it was some dream I'd rather not remember when waking up? I'd love to forget all of this, everything that has happened between Luka and me in the past month but I can't because believe me I've tried. I don't want to hate him or to be upset or angry at him, but every time I try to move past all of our problems I see him and it all starts all over again.

"I don't think we can." I sigh before inhaling.

"Fine, we play a quick catch up then?" he asks.

"Okay, go." I shrug.

"Daisy may not be pregnant if she is I'm not the father. I'll know in about 2-3 days if she is or 9 months if I'm the dad, on top of that we got into a fight about something stupid and her dad punched me in the face and I'm only here because he said he was going to blow our house up after he knocked me out," he said quickly.

"Her dad punched you?!" I said angrily.

I didn't even realize I was that mad until I spoke, what right does he have? I'm clenching my fists without even realizing it as I bite the inside of my cheek. 

"Yeah, but I'm fine." he laughed.

"We don't talk for a few hours and grown men are punching you in the face." I scoff.

"So, she may not be pregnant huh?" I ask, biting my lip.

"It's a possibility she isn't, but a few rumors were going around that she hooked up with Jackson at a party recently. Either right before we started dating like the night before, or directly after." Luka explains. 

I wasn't really sure what to say honestly, Daisy has done a lot of things in her time but the thought of her lying about being pregnant or even having the audacity to try and convince Luka he is the father even if he isn't? It truly baffles me that she could be this stupid or maybe just this petty, ignorant, manipulative. In a way I don't think Luka even realized what she was doing honestly, the more I dwell on this the more I realize she probably isn't. If I can stand to think about that night she wanted me to hit her, to hurt her in some way, and when she couldn't get the rise out of me she wanted she tried with Melissa. She wanted someone to hurt her, maybe so she could lose the baby on purpose, and when that didn't work try to manipulate Luka into thinking it's his. Safe future for her and the baby without Luka even knowing if he was or wasn't the father until it was too late. 

Of course, Luka is stupid enough to fall for it and it would have worked out perfectly either way. I hate Luka for what happened and he stays with her without a second thought, I hurt her and still hate Luka or vice versa, she loses the baby and no one has to know she's pregnant. When that didn't work she went to plan B, tell Luka she is pregnant and he won't ask for a test because he's stupid, come over here and cause a bigger fight between us. Either way, I'm out of the picture for her and Luka and he never suspects a thing because he doesn't use that stupid head of his. 

"Anyways, your turn." he looks at me, filling the silence I left to settle while I was in deep thought.

I don't even know what to tell him honestly, like going into too much detail would be horrid but leaving too much out he would know I'm just playing it safe. 

"Collin helped me with a lot of my issues and his family took me in like I was their own, it was a pleasant three weeks but we had a 'no catching feelings' rule that kind of went out the window. They can't find a death certificate for my mom and on top of that, I have to be in New York next Friday and still have no one to go with me. Bruce's adoptions papers are being processed while we speak and that could take 2-3 weeks. I feel really bad for punching you, saw Ace today after he ran into Collin's four-wheeler and broke a few of his ribs, on top of all of that Collin asked me to be his girlfriend tonight." I basically word vomit, I don't want to hurt Luka but I need him to know I'm taken now. 

"Wow, what did you say?" He asked lowly.

"I said yes..." I sigh, as he looks at me, we both inhale our cigarettes at the same time.