Chapter 3: The Audacity
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!!!! **** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATERIALS THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING! SUCH AS GUNS AND VIOLENCE! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! **** !!!!
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Deidra's P.O.V.
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The two of them were going at it so vigorously that they still hadn't noticed I'd come home. I moved to my closet where I kept my shotgun. I wasn't technically allowed to have it, but Deb insisted I take it if I wanted to live alone. I told her a bat would have been fine, but now I'm glad she made me take the gun.
I loaded the barrel with two shells, and then co.cked that motherfu.cker. The noise of the gun co.cking finally broke through their love-haze. Theo made a confused face and turned his head. His eyes went wide and jumped so fast from the bed that he fell on the floor. Sophie looked around confused, and screamed when she saw me.
"Deidra," she breathed out.
"Both of you, get the f***k out," I stated, sounding much calmer than I felt.
"Deidra baby, calm down, this isn't what it looks like," Theo said as he scrambled to his feet.
My eyes glanced down to see that he wasn't even wearing a condom. Now I have to schedule an STI test. A full panel checkup. Because my slu.tty best friend has been fu.cking my fiancé. For all I know, they're both sleeping with other people too. Each other, other people, and me...
"Save it," I spat.
"No, baby, please, I love you. I do. I really do," Theo pleaded, eyes full of guilt.
"Love me enough to f***k the girl I used to consider a sister," I said sarcastically.
Sophie scoffed from my bed. She was sitting up, leaning against the headboard. She made no move to cover herself up. She didn't even look guilty or ashamed. If anything, she looked annoyed.
"Oh come on," she said, rolling her eyes at me. "He's just a man. You'd never let our friendship crumble over a guy. You're too sweet. You love me too much." Then she looked at Theo. "And stop lying to her. You love me."
I raised a brow as I pointed the gun at her.
"You really think this wouldn't matter to me?" I asked incredulously. "Theo and I are supposed to get married next month!" I shouted. "You were supposed to be my maid of honor! Christmas is next week! We had plans to... And you've been fu.cking him! You betrayed me in the worst way possible, and you act like it's fu.cking nothing?"
"It is nothing, because the two of you never loved each other," Sophie snapped, finally getting up from my bed. "I knew it from the beginning. Poor Theo really thought you loved him. But I know you, Deidra. I know you were faking it."
I stared at her with my mouth open for a minute. Partly because of her sheer audacity. Partly because... I think she might be right and don't want to admit it. Theo and I didn't have a lot of passion between us. I tried, really. I faked it so well that even I believed it. But I thought Theo was a good man. I thought that, at least, I was settling down with a man I could trust. A man who had a good head on his shoulders.
How'd I never realize how truly weak Theo is?
Sophie walked closer, and I held the gun up higher. She stopped with her hands up, looking at me like I was the irrational one here. It made me want to pull the trigger just out of spite.
"Look, I love you Deidra," Sophie said. "So much. You're my sister. I didn't mean for this to happen with Theo, but..." Then she looked at him. He looked at her. And they fu.cking smiled. Smiled like they weren't standing naked in my room after betraying me in the worst possible way.
"We fell in love," Theo blurted, both of them looking at me again.
Sorry, did he just say love? They fell in love? Sophie fell in love? This Sophie? The same Sophie I've known my whole life?
I couldn't help the snort that came out of me.
"Sophie? In love? Yeah, okay," I said.
"It's true," Sophie said. "We were going to tell you after Christmas."
"You mean, mere days before my wedding?" I asked. "Why not just tell me right away and get your money back for all the wedding bullsh.it?"
The guilt that flickered across Theo's face had my heart sinking. I really thought I loved the guy. At the very least, I cared for him and trusted him. I was going to pledge the rest of my life to him. And he chose my best friend.
"The wedding is still going to happen," Sophie stated, her voice soft but stern.
Still going to happen... just not with me. I think I made that clear. Hell, I think they're making it pretty clear. So that must mean...
"You two... are going to get married?" I choked up, feeling the tears well up in my eyes.
"Yes..." Theo replied apprehensively.
Every single decision I made about this wedding, Sophie was a part of. It was my dream wedding. Not too big, but I don't have family anyway. I had to reserve the venue two years in advance. It was the only reason we were waiting so long. Because I have had my heart set on the Greenhouse since I was little. And now my best friend is getting married there. To my fiancé. I'll never be able to get married there. Hell, I'll probably never trust another man ever again to even be able to get married.
It felt like the walls were closing in. It was too much, too overwhelming. My entire world just imploded. Love or not. I trusted both of them. And Sophie... I can't believe she'd do something like this to me.
"Was this the plan all along?" I asked, narrowing my eyes at my ex-best friend. "The whole time I was planning the wedding... you were really getting me to plan yours?"
"It didn't start until after you got the Greenhouse," she told me. "I never meant for it to turn out like this, Deidra. I just-"
"Never meant for this?" I scoffed, cutting her off. "You apparently told Theo I didn't really love him. You inserted yourself into our relationship. YOU did ALL of this, Sophie! Knowingly! With an agenda! You seduced him into sleeping with you in the hopes that he'd break up with me, didn't you!? You just didn't expect to fall in love. Or that I would cut you out of my life."
"You wouldn't," she whispered.
"Oh, I would, and I am," I stated, holding the gun at them again. "Get your clothes and get out. You have two minutes. I never want to see either of you again."
"You don't mean that-"
"Get the f***k out!" I screamed, cutting Sophie off. "Before I fu.cking shoot!"
Sophie rolled her eyes.
"Oh please, you don't have the balls to do that," she said.
Something in me snapped. Maybe it was finding them in my bed together. Maybe it was knowing that my best friend had orchestrated this entire mess. Maybe it was Theo's pansy a.ss remaining silent. Maybe it was the way Sophie brushed me off, like I was the crazy one, like I had no right to feel this way after finding her with my fiancé.
Whatever the reason... I pulled the trigger. The gunshot went off, echoing harshly in the room. Sophie and Theo both screamed, which was great, because it was a huge turn-off on Theo's part. They both looked at the hole in the wall. I co.cked the gun again and this time, they actually looked scared. However, I was done playing.
I pulled the trigger again, this time at their feet. They both screamed again, but started to scurry off. I reloaded the gun and followed them into the hall. I may, or may not have followed them all the way to the front door, shooting off five rounds in total. I chased them out while they were still butt-naked.
"You're insane!" Theo screamed as he pulled the driver's door open of his car.
I shot again, shattering his back windshield.
"Deidra! This is too far!" Sophie screamed.
"Nah," I said as I reloaded. "Too far would be shooting him in the nuts, so you two could never have kids." Then I aimed the gun right for his precious junk.
Before I could actually do it, he got in the car though.
"This isn't over, Deidra!" Sophie shouted. "You will forgive me! I'll see you at the wedding!"
Then she got in the car, and Theo tore out of the parking lot like a bat out of hell. I stood there for a moment, thinking how insane those two are. They called me crazy, but they expected me to just be fine with his betrayal. To accept it and be part of it. It's disgusting.
Unfortunately for me, I am a little insane. Because I'd completely forgotten about the fact that I lived in an apartment complex. And I just shot off my illegal gun a f***k ton of times. The only thing that alerted me to my mistake were the red and blue lights accompanied by the wailing sirens that were heading my way.
"Awh, sh.it," I muttered under my breath.
Deb is so not going to be happy with me.
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