Broken Bad Boy

PERCIE

How the hell did she find me?

I drew in a long shuddering breath as I opened the door. I was wide awake, wincing in pain as Grandma kept on hitting me with her clutch.

"Ow! What the hell?" I managed to block her with my arms. "What are you doing? Stop it!"

She didn't stop. "I won't stop until I get the answer on what the hell are you doing here?"

I stared at her in disbelief. Then I suddenly realized what she meant. I swallowed the lump in my throat. "Good to see you too, Grandma." I sat on the edge of the bed.

"You will stand up and drive me to your apartment. I paid a hefty amount not for you to just desert it because you're stupid again. You will come here and stay with your mom and dad on weekends. Now get up, or I will let my driver drag you out of the house."

I remembered Grandma like this when I stayed with them before visited Emma for the first time. She was wearing the same anger in her eyes.

"Can you give me a few days?" I bargained.

"No."

"Grandma, please?" I begged.

"No."

Mom came in. "Go ahead, honey. I might come and visit you."

"I like it here." I shrugged.

"Oh, you can't fool me, young man. I may be old and grumpy, but I know when someone is hiding from his troubles. And you chose to run away than to face it. You are better than this. And where the hell is your phone? I've been calling you for the past few days. Your grandpa was worried sick when Hailey dear couldn't reach you."

I looked down. My chest crushed.

"Who's Hailey?" I scratched my head when Mom asked.

Grandma looked at Mom. "Oh, he didn't tell you, did he?"

"Grandma, please?"

"Hailey is his girlfriend. She's a good girl. And I couldn't find any reasons what's their problem was. They seemed happy when they came over the weekend."

"Why don't you invite her over dinner, honey?"

"We broke up, Mom." The word broke up sounded so strange. That was the first time I mentioned it to anyone.

"They didn't, but your son is an idiot. Instead of talking about what went wrong with Hailey dear, he chose to ignore her and walked in the campus like a freaking zombie." "What's wrong, honey?" My mom seemed genuinely wanted to know.

"She's with someone else."

Grandma scoffed. "That's not true. That young lady was devastated. She was crying when she called us. She said she was worry about you that she couldn't reach you. It's not like you who just disappeared without talking to her and your friend. You did not even visit Remy in the hospital after risking his life to chose you." She propped her hands on her hips. "Stupid kids nowadays."

I scoffed back. "You don't know a crap, Grandma."

"Then make me understand. I might consider it, giving you a day to contemplate because you both are perfect with each other. I saw how she looked at you. That young lady cares about you, Percie. And I've never seen you so happy when you were with her. Just mentioning her name, your eyes lit up like a Christmas tree."

"Jeez, thanks, Grandma. We're just not meant to be together."

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She rushed towards me and hit me again. "Don't be an idiot!"

"She doesn't love me the way I do, okay. I told her how I felt, but I got betrayed in return."

"Oh, honey. There's maybe some kind of misunderstanding. I can feel your pain, Percie. Did you ask her the reason? And how did she exactly betray you?"

I blinked back the tears. "It doesn't matter now. I thought she cares about me. I love her, you know. So much it hurts like shit. But she clearly likes somebody else." "I'm still confused," Mom said.

"Nothing more confusing than being in a good relationship then suddenly she's in another man's arms the next day." Fuck. It hurts. But thank god I finally got it out of my chest.

"You saw Hailey with someone else? With whom?"

"Yeah, with I thought my fucking friend."

"Language." Grandma hit me again.

I rubbed my arm where she hit me. "I thought after our heart-to-heart talked, he didn't have any hidden agendas. Lexie is right after all. I shouldn't have trusted him. I thought he's done with his revenge plot. I was wrong." "That's impossible."

"What's so impossible with it, Grandma? I saw Hailey so cozy in his arms in the hospital."

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My breathing held.

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My heart stopped beating.

My pulse rushed in my ears.

Hailey walked in. She'd been listening to us all this time, and she was just right behind these walls.

Fuck.

"I was so sad and worried. I couldn't even think straight when I couldn't find you. I thought Adrian came after you. We asked everyone who knew you, to the last person who saw you, but none of them could tell us where you were. You just disappeared. In my heart, I knew you were just trying to grasp, or you were blaming yourself that somehow Remy chose you over his friends, and he wouldn't be in that bed if not because of the decision he made."

I stared at her in pure shock.

At the corner of my eye, I watched Mom with Grandma leave. It was now just the two of us in my room.

Hailey knelt in front of me. "I cried to sleep at night after I had not heard anything from you. My calls left no returns from you. My messages were left unseen. I thought-" She wiped the tears kept streaming down her cheeks. "I thought of the worse thing you could do, but I knew you were better than that. You were stronger than you gave yourself credit for. I've watched you in pain, stumbled down, yet you still got up from the ground. One thing and the only last thing it never came to my mind was you finding someone else. Your feelings for me would not just vanish, Percie. I know your feelings for me those words you told me are true. I believed in every word you said. I still believe until now." "What do you want from me, Hailey?" I tried hard to be strong, not to give in to her words. I still did not find the answer that I'd been looking for. I needed to know the truth and to see right straight from her eyes.

"I went to see Remy when I couldn't reach you. I thought you went to visit him. I told him that you just left. He was worried sick and asked the doctor if he could home, but they didn't give him clearance. Then I told him everything. I cried in front of him, Percie. I told him how I felt about you. That I was about to tell you how I felt if I saw you again, but you were gone. I was broken. It felt like I lost half of myself." She managed to compose herself before she stared at me. Those tears had never stopped falling. It was devastating to watch Hailey pouring her heart out, yet, I was doing nothing. I felt powerless, helpless that I couldn't do anything to make it stop.

"He was comforting me. He was there for me when I couldn't find someone to cry on. You trusted him that was the reason why I gave my trust as well. How could you ever think of me betraying you with your friend? I cried in his arms, Percie. He was telling me that everything is gonna be okay even if there's no guarantee." She closed her eyes. Somehow, relief filled my chest, but there was another reason why I went away.

"I left because it seemed that every time I got closer to someone, I started to care for them, learned to love them, they tend to get hurt because of me. I watched you that day, and it nearly broke me. And then Remy. I couldn't go through that again. Then I saw you with him."

"You ignored Lexie and pretended you didn't care. You shut me out, Percie. Is that how you deal with your guilt and doubts? Now, you already know my side and it feels like you never even trusted me. I should give you space you badly needed."

"What?"

"Goodbye, Percie."