Chapter 38

“Brees, he went to Isadora’s last night and he didn’t come home or back to your house last night,” Quinn said.

“I don't believe that. There is no way he went and spent the night with Izzy after we… I just don’t think he would do that to me,” I said, choking on my words.

Quinn got up and grabbed her car keys, “Come on. Get your stuff on and let’s go find out if he did in fact do this to you,” she said.

“Umm, I don’t know if we should,” I said, hesitating to move.

“No. He doesn’t get to lead you on like this. If Keegan is sleeping over at her house, you should know,” she said, pulling me off of the couch by my arms.

I decided we could drive by her house. I didn’t want them to see us, but I had to know if he was there. As we rounded the corner to the Jenning’s beautiful mansion Isadora lived in, my stomach dropped. Sitting there in her circular driveway was Keegan’s car.

I gasped. I could not believe he had really stayed the night at her house.

“Brees, what should we do?” Quinn asked, awaiting my direction.

“I’m gonna knock on the fucking door,” I said.

My face got really hot. I could feel my hands trembling. She pulled into the driveway and parked near his car. I looked at her and took a deep breath. It was too late to turn back now. I had to find out why he was here. I walked up the large staircase leading to her door. My palms were sweating. I paused in front of the large white doorbell. What if I wake her family? I should just leave. I did an about-face and started to walk away, when I heard the door open.

“Brees? What a nice surprise,” I heard a beautifully accented voice say.

I turned around to see Isadora standing there with her hair thrown over to one side. She was wearing a men’s t-shirt and super small shorts. Even with bed head she was gorgeous.

“Hey Izzy. I was looking for Keegan, but…” I was cut off.

Isadora opened the door wider to reveal Keegan putting on his shoes in the foyer. Our eyes met and his face turned to a look of horror. Barely getting on his other shoe he jumped up.

“Brees! This isn’t what it looks like,” he explained.

“Really? Because it looks like you spent the night at Isadora’s house, Keegan. Or did you not sleep here?” I accused.

“I did, but it wasn’t like that,” he said, grabbing my arm.

“Don’t touch me!” I yelled, yanking my arm away from him.

I started to run down the steps. I could feel him running after me. Quinn stepped out of the car to see what was going on. I was bawling my eyes out at this point.

“B, what happened girlie?” she asked.

“Brees, please stop running. Let me talk to you. I’ll drive you home,” Keegan said, out of breath from chasing me.

“There is no chance in hell that I’m getting in the car with you. Quinn, can you take me home?” I asked.

She nodded and opened the passenger side door. She looked at Keegan and shook her head in a judging manner.

“Quinn, it really isn’t what she thinks,” he continued.

I slammed the door shut. I didn’t want to hear anything else that he had to say. He slept over Isadora’s house. What did he think he was going to explain to me? How he was a liar? How he claimed he loved me? How he broke my heart yet again? Why was I this stupid?

I cried all the way home. Baylen was there to comfort me. Quinn told him what had happened and he was pretty upset. I get it now. I see why me dating Keegan was an issue. When he hurt me, it made my brother have to choose and I hated that. I told him I was fine and he didn’t need to be mad at Keegan. I wasn’t fine. I was dying inside, but he didn’t need to know that.

“I’m not going to participate in Friendsmas if Isadora is here, Bay. I can’t right now,” I said.

“She isn’t coming, Squirt, so no worries,” Baylen said. “She heads out to Italy tonight. Maybe it will be a good idea for you and Keegan to talk tonight.”

“Yeah, I don’t think so. Jeff is coming and I’m not interested in anything that Keegan has to tell me about him spending the night at Izzy’s house,” I said.

“I understand sis. You have time before everyone comes over tonight. I have to wrap my gift still, but let me know what you need, Squirt,” he said.

He walked over and gave me the biggest hug. I knew it was hurting him to see me cry. I tried to suck it up and act like it wasn’t killing me, but it was. I never want to come between Kee and Bay. So I shielded Bay from my broken heart to protect his friendship. I knew that falling in love with his best friend would be tricky, but this had been so much harder than I ever imagined.

Now I had to put on a brave face while our friends came over to celebrate Friendsmas and my heart was crumbling into pieces.