Jeff walked from his room
the next morning, he opened the door to the guestroom where he saw Leah asleep
on the bed in Matt's arms. Jeff knew she was safe with him. Matt was always so
over protective of her and he knew he would get some payback on Shannon. Jeff
watched the pair sleep for a minute before he was joined by Sasha. She pulled
him away and made him leave them in peace.
"You two aren't going
to go after him are you?" Sasha asked as she poured her and Jeff some
Orange Juice.
"I dunno. I think
Matt might. I just can't understand him, he has a wonderful girl like Leah and
he goes and does this to her. She deserves so much better than that."
"I know she does. But
promise me you and Matt will not go after him. Please."
"i can't. I'm so
angry at him right now. I just wanna beat him."
"Jeff he's one of
your best friends."
"Was. No friend of
mine will ever treat Leah like that."
"Jeff you can't just
hate him because of this."
"I can and I
do."
"Jeff..."
"No sasha, what he
did was wrong and he hurt her, nobody hurts her and gets away with it,
nobody." Jeff snapped as he slammed the glass onto the counter and
stormed out of the room.
"I think you taking
this way to far." Sasha called after her brother.
"Sash, can i borrow
some clothes?" Leah asked as she walked into Sasha's room. Sasha looked
at her friend who still wore the shirt Matt had given her.
"Sure." She
replied a she got up from the chair at her desk. "How are you
feeling?"
"Kinda numb. It hurts
but i can't feel the pain. It's almost like i expected it." Leah looked
to the floor. "I can't believe i'm saying that i expected my boyfriend to
cheat on me." she said with a cold laugh. She moved and sat down on
Sasha's bed as she looked for some clothes.
"You love him don't
you?"
"I...I thought i
did...do...but now it all hit home. When i was lying in bed earlier, with
Matt, I did some thinking."
"What about?"
Sasha asked as she sat on the bed handing Leah a selection of clothes.
"I don't love him, i
never have. It brought it home to me. I said i loved him, and i tricked myself
into believing that because i thought Shannon was the best i could have. I
thought he was all I deserved. But now I know I can to better than him. I
couldn't do much worse could I?"
"Not really. Why did
you think those things? You could have any guy you wanted."
"No I can't. The guy
I want wouldn't look at me twice like that. But Shannon was different."
"Different how?"
"He made me feel
special. Even in his own twisted way I think he does, or did care about me.
But right now I wanna forget about him and go have some fun with my
friends!" Leah declared standing up.
She smiled at Sasha before
leaving the room with the clothes. She knew deep inside she did love Shannon.
She just didn't want to think of what he had done to her. She had to put on a
brave face, she had to. But deep inside it was slowly eating away at her.
