It's Complicated- Chapter Four
Becca walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her hair. She grabbed her water off the counter and went as sat back on the pull out bed, in which she’d slept. Opening her book she managed to read about two lines before the door opened. She looked up and watched Athena walk in, in the same dress she’d worn last night, her hair clearly having been thrown up into a high ponytail. She watched her walk straight into the bedroom Becca thought she was still asleep in, appear a second later with a pair of shorts and a strap top before shutting herself in the bathroom. Shaking her red haired head a little she went back to her book. Man she couldn’t wait to hear this story. The door had been closed for about 5 seconds before she heard gagging and then… vomiting.
“For fuck sake” Becca groaned as she threw her book on the bed.
Having removed the towel from her hair, she walked into the bathroom without knocking to find her best friend knelt in front of the toilet. She walked over and leant against the sink as she pulled her hair behind her shoulder. Becca rubbed her back without a word and waited for her to feel confident enough to move away from toilet and lean against the wall. After flushing the toilet, Becca sat against the opposite wall and waited for her to say something. She didn’t.
“So you gonna tell me why you’re walking in attt.. 9:30 in the morning and why you’ve just been sick?” Becca questioned
“Well one… i’m severely hungover…” Athena started
“And two?” Becca questioned
Athena looked at the floor as she took a deep breath in, her eyes welling and her stomach turning again. How was she going to say this? She wouldn’t lie to Becca, she was the one person she knew she could tell everything too without being judged.
“What happened?” Becca said gently
The tears rolled down her puffy cheeks faster as she looked to the ceiling.
“I cheated on him” she whispered
“What?!” Becca yelled slightly making Athena snap her eyes shut.
“I can’t explain how much i hate myself!” Athena groaned as she wiped her face roughly.
“What happened? I thought you came back! I thought you were still in bed!” Becca chuckled slightly trying to lighten the mood.
“Ugg i did but you had my key and i waited but i went back to find you and you’d already left-“
There was a small silence as Becca looked at her friend wide eyed and mouth open, completely shocked. Athena kept her gaze on her hands, too ashamed to look up.
“Do you hate me?” Athena whispered
“No” Becca answered immediately
“Of course i don’t hate you i’m just shocked, this just isn’t like you”
There was another short silence. Athena felt that sickening pain behind her eyes as she tried so hard to stop herself from crying. Her eyes welling with more tears as she tried to keep them at bay but it was useless. One of the only things she prided herself in was always being faithful and now her she was, sat on the floor of a bathroom after having cheated on the man she was going to marry. She was disgusting.
“I can’t believe i did this!” she whined, dropping her face into her hands and letting the tears flow free.
Becca shuffled over the floor on her bum until she was sitting next her. She threw her arm over her friends shoulder and pulled her into her. Resting her head on top of her friends she let her cry until she quietened down again.
“Right, you’re gonna jump in the shower, i’m gonna go order room service and when you’re ready we’ll talk”
Athena nodded and sniffed before getting up and watching her friend leave the room.
Becca closed the door behind them and strolled over to the counter where the hotel phone sat. She rang down and ordered almost everything off the room service menu. Once she had put the phone down she returned back to her bed and picked up her phone. She couldn’t believe this! This was so unlike her, Athena had ranted about how she found it revolting that people could be unfaithful on many separate occasions. She couldn’t help but smirk a little however, she knew how miserable Athena got some times in her current relationship, she was kind of like her relationship counsellor. She told her about their boring sex life, about their arguments over incredibly stupid things, about how he always openly checked out other girls.
The door opened and Sarah came skipping in, extremely giddy.
“Hi” she grinned as she closed the door.
“Well hello you dirty slut” Becca giggled
Sarah laughed and jumped onto Becca’s bed next to her. She dove into telling her all about her night. About how her and Alex had gone back to his hotel room and had ‘the best sex of her fricking life’, then how about they cuddled and fell asleep in each others arms, about how they had shared a shower this morning and how he had taken her to breakfast.
“He’s asked me to go down to London in a few weeks to see him before they fly back to America” she grinned.
“Awww i’m so happy for you!” Becca smiled
“Where are the others?” Sarah questioned only just realising they were alone
“Erm Summer’s still in bed anndd Athena is taking a shower”
“How is the bride to be feeling today?” Sarah smirked
Becca chuckled sarcastically as she shook her head a little.
“Well, she’s er, a little worse for wear… she slept with Alex’s friend Jeremy last night” she said nonchalantly.
“WHAT?!” Sarah shouted just as they heard the shower turn off.
She raised her eyebrows quickly as she watched the bathroom door open and Athena slug out. Sarah gave her a small smile still trying to take in the news. Athena flopped on the bed with her wet hair in a messy bun. She was lay back on Becca’s pillows with her feet hanging off the edge, she rubbed her face with hands and sighed deeply.
“Soo… what happened?” Sarah asked quietly
Athena looked over at her and took a deep breath before sitting against the wall and pulled the pillow over her stomach.
“Ier… when we were in that club last night i was pretty wasted and i went to the bathroom and he was coming out of the mens and we were talking and he… kissed me”
“What?! Did he know you’re engaged?”
“I think so, i told him so many times but he was pretty wasted, we were talking and he just kept looking at me and staring at my lips, the heat of the moment i guess”
“Well you weren’t exactly giving him the ‘I’m an engaged woman’ vibe” Becca pointed out truthfully
“I know uuuggg i’m such a slut!” she winged
“That’s not the point what happened next?” Sarah asked intrigued
Athena rolled her eyes and tried to replay last night’s events. She remembered finding him at the hotel and why they went to his room but when it came to how that had started kissing and getting each other naked, she drew a blank.
“Well, i left to come back and i didn’t have my key so i waited before going to their hotel to find you guys but by the time i’d gotten there everyone had either come home or was banging some drummer” She smirked slightly at Sarah who flushed red.
“He was gonna lend me some money for a taxi back so we went to his room and the next thing i remember is being on my knees in my underwear, sucking his dick” Athena huffed
There was a tense silence between the three girls. Becca and Sarah trying to take in the information, While Athena sat looking at her hands waiting for their insults and criticism. She felt sick, she felt like she needed a couple of bleach baths before it was acceptable to even be in the same room as her fiancé. How was she going to tell him this? How was she going to walk into their home and tell him that she’d been with another man? About how another man had made her feel better than he had in months? How he’d made her feel like more of a woman in one night than in their entire relationship?
“Was it big?” Sarah asked, breaking both the silence and the tension.
Becca burst out laughing while Athena looked at her with wide eyes before letting out a little giggle.
“What? I’m curious, he doesn’t look like he’d have one” she laughed
Becca continued to laugh but also looked at Athena waiting for an answer.
“Bigger” was all she said
The laughter died down eventually before they became serious, their faces growing glummer and their eyes sad.
“Ofcourse i am!” Athena answered immediately
“He’s my fiancé! We never keep secrets from each other… this is going to kill him! Oh god what did i do?! I’ve destroyed this relationship!”
“You don’t know that!” Becca tried to reassure her.
“Oh please! He’s gonna hate me! He’s gonna break up with me!… and even if he doesn’t call the wedding off, he’s never gonna trust me again”
“Well look at this way, even if he does call it off, at least you got a good lay out of it” Becca joked, again trying to lighten the mood
She gained a stern look off Sarah and a smack in the face with Athena’s pillow.
“I never wanted to be able to say i’ve cheated on someone! I never want to be one of those women who are married and have it all, the house, the job, the jewellery still want more, still want someone else!… but i don’t want to regret last night!” she blurted out
“What? You don’t regret it?”
“I do but… uugg i haven’t had sex that good in a long long long time! It was different you know, it was rough and exciting and i didn’t have to guide him into me!”
Sarah and Becca couldn’t help but chuckle as they watched their friend have an internal battle with herself.
“Dammnnn i should’ve gone home with Jeremy” Becca teased
“You gonna tell Summer?” Sarah questioned
“Oh god i haven’t even thought of what she’s gonna say!”
“You don’t have to tell her you know! She’s just gonna bitch at you and use it against you for everything! Besides she the biggest gossip around! The whole town will know before we even get back!”
“True… maybe i wont tell her” Athena mumbled as she chewed on her lip.
She didn’t have long to think about how she was about to keep something this big from her best friend before the afore mentioned girl came shuffling out of the bedroom looking worse than death. Wrapped up in her duvet plopped onto the bed just as there was a loud knock on the door.
“Wont tell me what?” she questioned
“That er.. i ordered room service!” Becca piped up quickly
“Why is that a secret?” Summer questioned as she plopped down onto the floor.
Sarah had stood up and answered the door, a cart was pushed into the room by a brown haired middle aged man.
“I was gonna eat all the strawberries and i… i can’t do it” Athena finished shaking her head
Athena relayed the story to her best friend, watching her face turn from shock to disgust to anger. She winced when there was a short silence after she had finished.
“Are you fucking stupid?! That man you have waiting for you at home is the best thing that’s ever going to happen to you!” Summer yelled angrily
“I know and i’m making myself sick just being in the same room as myself right now but-“
“But nothing Athy! And you weren’t going to tell me?! Why not? Do you not trust me?”
“Ofcourse i do i was just… i was scared that you’d react like this! You’re my best friend Summer! Your opinion of me means so much and i’ve completely ruined it” Athena yelled back as her eyes started to water shutting Summer up.
“I made a mistake! And i’m going to tell Troy but i need you to be there for me okay!”
“Maybe i would be if you kept your legs shut!” Summer snarled before storming back into their bedroom and slamming the door behind her.
The next 24 hours couldn’t have gone slower. After waking up alone Jeremy had spent the day wondering what the fuck had happened last night? Had he really slept with her? Was it just a really intense wet dream? Where had she gone? And where the fuck was his phone?! He was dragging his bag out of the back door of the hotel where their tour bus was waiting for them, when he looked up and saw Alex and the blonde girl that had bumped into him coming out of his room this morning.
“Hey” he smiled smallely at her
“I take it she told you” he mumbled as he pulled his jacket in closer as a cold night breeze rushed over them.
Sarah winced and nodded her head a little as she avoided eye contact with him. She just couldn’t imagine him being like that with someone, being rough and pushing them about.
“A little bit of a mess but she’ll be okay, she’s gonna catch an earlier train tomorrow”
“Look i’m so sorry, i’m really not the type of guy that goes around ripping relationships apart i swear”
“Hey its okay, it wasn’t just you she’s as much to blame, besides… she said it’s the best sex she’s had in a long time” Sarah smirked causing Jeremy to blush bright red and chuckle
“Well at least that’s something” he breathed as he watched Kevin and Neil throwing their suitcases into the storage compartments under the bus.
“Look when you see her just tell her i’m sorry… and ask her if she’s seen my phone, i can’t find it”
Jeremy waved Sarah and left her to say goodbye to Alex, he climbed onto the bus and headed straight for his bunk. He needed a good night’s rest , one where he didn’t have to jerk himself off before he could sleep. He wish he would though, tire himself out and distract himself from the fact that he had potentially ruined that girls life. He knew Athena was engaged yet he still fucked her, it was her that was having to go back home and tell him that she had cheated, that she’d betrayed him, while her got to tour and play in new places and just act like nothing had happened.
The blue door came into sight as Athena pulled against the curb and put her car into park. She had left it at the train station before they had left for her hen do. The other three girls had decided to come home early and she had just dropped them each off at him. Sarah and Becca wishing her luck and assuring her that everything was going to be okay where as Summer had been silent around her for the last few days and hadn’t said a word to any of them on the train ride back or as she had gotten out of the car.
Athena took a deep breath as she sat in her car looking up at the house in the dim light of the evening sky. This was going to be the hardest thing she had ever done. The front door opened with a click of the latch and closed with a muffled thud. Leaving her case in the hall she followed the sound of the TV through the first door on her left. She walked in to the bright warm room and found Troy lay across the couch on his back already looking towards her with a confused look on his face. His usual slicked back almost black hair a mess from where he had clearly run his hands though it, his partially inked arms on show due to the short sleeved black top he was wearing. His phone screen lit up, from the floor, with a text message he had just received. The remote lay next to it along with a can of beer.
“What are you doing home? You’re not supposed to be back till tomorrow night” Troy asked confused.
She gulped as she felt her throat go dry.
“I needed to come home and see you” Athena mumbled as she stood at the end of the couch near the door way.
Troy paused the TV, which was playing a Jurassic Park film, and sat up looking a bit confused and worried.
“Everything okay?” he questioned
This was it. This could be the last day of their relationship. The last time she saw him where he didn’t look at her with disgust. Taking one more deep breath she began.
“Look before i say anything i just want you to know that i love you more than you can imagine”
“Athy what’s happened?” he interrupted
She went quiet and just looked into his brown eyes before speaking up again.
“…I slept with someone…” she mumbled as she looked at him, wincing ever so slightly.
Troy’s mouth dropped open a tiny bit as he inhaled sharply. He stared at her for a moment in disbelief. He dropped her hand, that he had picked up when she had sat down, and let it go limp in her lap.
“I’m so sorry Troy” she whimpered as it all came too much.
She was disgusted in herself! How could he hurt him like this! Silent tears rolled down her cheeks as she held her gaze on her face despite his having fallen to the grey couch they were sat on.
“Please say something” she begged after a moment of silence.
“What do you want me to say?!” he said icily
“I don’t know! Shout at me! Scream at me! Anything!”
“I don’t exactly have a speech ready for when you come home telling me you shagged someone else!” he yelled as he stood up off the couch and paced towards the mirror before turning back to her.
“Who?” he asked a little more calmer.
Athena didn’t even look up at him, just closed her eyes tight which made more tears fall.
“Just some guy we met in a club, it didn’t mean anything okay! I was drunk, i know that’s not an excuse but-“
“Is he from Sheffield? What’s his name?” Troy growled as she looked down at her.
“No he was American, Jeremy something, he was touring with his band” she mumbled
“Oh so you’re just some groupie that doesn’t even know his name!” he yelled making her flinch at the sudden outburst.
“No! Troy it wasn’t meant to happen okay but i went back to find the girls cause they had the hotel key and they weren’t there, we went to his room because he offered to pay for my taxi and it just happened!” Athena argued as she stood up in front of him.
“Oh I see your no groupie you’re a whore, he paid you!”
“That’s what you just said!”
“No I never, I’m trying to explain what happened!” she shouted back at him
“I DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!” he bellowed shutting her up
Athena could see that Troy’s eyes had started to water a little.
“I don’t want to know how he undressed you, how he fucked you and made you feel good!..How you… how you touched him” he stuttered
Her heart broke instantly, seeing him hurt because of her! He was supposed to be her everything, her fiancé, the man she was going to marry.
“Please… i’m so sorry” she cried as she moved towards him and tried to grab him hands.
Tory pushed her away and moved across the room away from her.
“We’re supposed to be getting married!” he cried angrily
“I know!” Athena sobbed at him
They both stood in silence without looking at each other, tears wetting their cheeks, Heavy breaths filling the room.
“I need to… i need to go” Troy mumbled as he wiped his face and moved to grab his keys from the coffee table.
“Out! I just need to get away from you for a while”
“Troy please we need to sort this out” Athena yelled as she followed him into the hallway and watched him open the door.
“I can’t bare to look at you right now never mind talk to you… just go and get a shower!” he growled before slamming the door shut behind him.
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