Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Too Far or Too Deep?

Noel’s POV 

You’d think I feel good with everything I did to Freak tonight at the party, but I don’t. I mean I was feeling good until the statement she made before leaving. 

“Whatever we have going on was always suppose to be between us. Between the both of us only. You didn’t have to make my best friend betray me….” 

Those words repeatedly stalked my mind. Did I really went too far with tonight? I thought this was our game, to destroy each other. 

Or maybe she just said that to me so I wouldn’t think about how she got defeated and rather be caught up in a strange trap of guilt. 

I could’ve truly made her best friend betrayed her like she claimed but I did not. All I did was made her escort me to a party for the sake of the video that was made of us. 

Sara doesn’t know anything about the video. Only I do. 

Sara once had a crush on me and thought she’d try her luck. She sent me a box with my favorite chocolate candies, and a letter professing her love.

I never rejected her or let her knew I saw the box. Later on she approached me, told me my silence was enough rejection and that she would like for me to bury that particular piece of memory, and that was how she owed me. 

For me to never say a word about that to anyone, she owed me a favor. 

My plan went beyond humiliating Freak. I wanted her traumatize, so traumatized that she’d never think to cross me again. I simply wanted the night to be a night she’d never forget. 

I hired a guy to crash the party and steal her phone for a hacker friend of mine who was already present at the party too, the hacker was to help me bypass Cheryl’s phone security so I could access her socials.

Then I posted on her account on the school’s app about how she offered me her virginity and I refused because I didn’t think she was all that, this got her bitter and angry, and ever since then has been out to torment me. 

What Jenna did wasn’t part of my plan. But I knew she’d pull a stunt like that and I didn’t think to warn her because I wanted it to happen. 

The other part of my plan was the part that involved Sara. Sara didn’t just escort me to this party. She starred in a video that was leaked to the school’s blog by me of course, but anonymously. 

This video was me asking Sara if she truly once had a crush on me, she said yes. I asked why, and she was really sincere- helping my cause. 

She spoke about how hot I am, and something about my charm. 

That was her knowledge of the conversation. I made a different video of me in the same position but without her to ask a different question. 

The questions were was Cheryl truly obsessed with me? And why? 

My solo video was then edited to the one made with Sara and boom came the perfect proof to support my lie against Cheryl. 

I thought this would happen to her and she’d finally crack. All I saw instead were her cold brown eyes casting me a disappointed look as she made that statement and walked away. 

I had to leave the lake house and come sit by myself at the lake. I needed to be away from the crowd and think about the gravity of what I’ve done. 

“Found him!” Dan’s voice yelled out from the back. 

And upon whirling my head around, the four of them were trudging closer than I’d like them to be. 

“What’s going on with you dude?” Dan asked as soon as they got to me. 

“Dude your plan was fucking messy! How the fuck did you manage all that to happen?! You totally destroyed her!” Finn glazed on and on before he took a sit down with me on the wood so he could throw his hand over my shoulder. 

I smiled a little. 

“Did she truly offer you her virginity? And why would you pass on that? Dude she’s hot, how could you pass on that? I hate you for that man. I hate you.” Nick sounded disappointed and it was all over his face. 

“What’s up Noel?” Jace was looking down at me, as if he could see through the turmoil currently bugging my mind. 

“Do you guys think I went too far? Cheryl didn’t offer me her virginity, I made everything up. The video, all of it. Lies, they were all lies I fabricated to destroy her,” I confessed for them to judge. 

Jace’s expression was the same. Blank but insightful. “I know,” he answered mildly. 

“You do?” Dan furrowed his brows at Jace before his gaze fixed on me. “What?!” He exclaimed. 

“That’s fucking brilliant. Dude you’re fucking evil!” Finn slapped on my shoulder as he broke off into a cackle. 

“That’s not evil, that’s fucking demented. Dude why?” Nick quizzed additionally. 

“I’m more interested in why he wants to know if he went too far. And nothing interests me.” Jace’s eyes on me lowered into a squinted gaze. 

“Yeah!” The rest agreed in unison. 

“She told me this was always between us and that I didn’t have to involve her best friend. So now I’m stuck thinking maybe I shouldn’t have. Be honest guys, was my plan too far?” I flipped my gazes through their faces while anticipating their response. 

“Yes,” Jace was the first to answer, sharp and serious like his stoic expression. 

“No personally for me, I think you’ve finally shown her who she’s been dealing with all along,” Finn shared his view, pulling me in for a side hug. 

“I genuinely don’t know.” That was Nick. 

“My opinion doesn’t matter. I say we ditch this and go back to the party yeah?” Dan said, rubbing his palms together. “Geez it’s cold out here, how long have you been sitting here?” 

“You guys go on inside. I’ll catch up with you in a few, there’s a call I need to make,” I told them as I brought out my mobile. 

They all gave me a long look before heeding to my words. They took off and I was back to my solitude seconds too soon. 

There wasn’t anybody I wanted to call, that was just an excuse I mustered for them to leave so I could gather myself together. 

I stood up from the ledge, about to turn around when I felt a push slammed against me from behind. Sending me directly into the cold water in a rough splash. 

I can’t swim!