Chapter 14

“ Do you know how good she is!?”

Ethan’s brows creased listening to his football team discussing something. They are in the field and practicing but all he can hear is his cousin bragging about a girl.

 “ Damn! She’s tight,” he said making the other players laughed at his comments. He feels disgusted just by hearing him say those words but he keeps practicing since the coach is having a hot shot for him.

“ And the blow… damn man! She is too trained at that area,” Hector added doing something disgusting with his lower body. He cannot help himself but to put a distance from them because of what they are talking about and the coach didn’t even bother stopping them for those unnecessary things.

“ Who’s the girl, man?” one of the players said wanting a piece of the girl that they are talking about.

“ O-Oh no, I will use her first,” he said which makes the other player groans out of disappointment. The whole team only stopped from talking shit when the coach calls for a break.

Ethan immediately jogs to the bench and drinks his water while wiping his sweats. He can saw his girlfriend at the other part of the field doing some stunts and just like before he can’t take his eyes off her.

After what happened to them, she became more colder than before and she is literally avoiding him. He also saw how she is still going to parties and twerking her ass in front of his classmates. His hope of reconciliation is hanging and he didn’t know what to do anymore. It looks like he is just the one still holding to the relationship but he knows that he can’t give up on her… nope… not in her state right now.

Ethan tried to contact Lauren’s distant cousin in Los Angeles to find information on what happened during her vacation there but they only laughed at him when he introduces himself as her boyfriend. He is still pissed at her for everything but his love is strong that he knows he needs to hold every anger just to make her go back to her old self.

Ethan forgives all of Lauren’s actions because he knows that there is a reason why she is doing those things and he will not leave her until she makes a fool out of him. He can still feel her, that the Lauren that he did grow up with is still there hanging in a tiny thread and he will do everything to meet that person again. That is the real Lauren, he said to himself.

“ Yow! Let’s ask him,” Ethan heard Hector said before he walks in his direction with some of the football team in his back grinning at him.

“ What?!” he asked ready to start a war.

“ Chill cous! I just want an answer,” Hector laughed and tapped his back but he dodges his hands away out of his body.

“Is your girlfriend tight?” he asked in front of the team who laughed at each other like what they just heard is some sort of entertainment.

“ What the fuck did you say?!” Ethan said gripping Hector’s collar ready to punch his face.

“ Is she tight?” he asked again before Ethan feel the football team hold his hand and drag him away from Hector.

“ Asshole!” he said to him struggling and still wanting to wring his neck until he gasped his last breath. Hector is reaching his limitations and he can’t stop his rage anymore.

“ Velasquez!”

Ethan just stopped when their coach shouts their surname and walks towards the commotion that they’ve caused.

“ 3 laps!” he spat angrily at them.

“Me, coach?” Hector asked grinning.

“ No, Ethan go!” the coach said making Hector’s grins wider before he tapped his shoulder and lean forward to whisper something.

“ She’s tight, cous.” He said before he turns his back making him dumbfounded.

“ M-Ma’am, is there a-a way to fix my grades in your subject?”

Ethan is at the teacher’s faculty asking to one of his teacher about his grades. Because he is too busy and occupied thinking about his girlfriend, he didn’t notice his grades slowly dropping. He cannot afford to lose this so he is begging for mercy.

“ Didn’t I talk to you last time?” his teacher said before turning her laptop on and completely ignoring Ethan.

“ B-But ma’am, I need this scholarship,” he pleads still holding a piece of paper like his future is written in those sheets.

“ Then you should have studied harder!” she said completely tuning him away. Ethan sighs heavily and walks outside with a heavy heart. He can’t still believe that he just lost his scholarship in his senior year. Ethan wants to cry his heart out and talk to someone but the only person that he knows that will understand him is his girlfriend.

“ Hey mom,” Ethan answered the phone hiding his tears with a smile on his face.

“ I am going to be home late okay? Eat your meal,” his mother said to him making him cry harder. Maybe she will be going to do overtime to the restaurant to pay their bills. That scenario kills him more and makes him devastated.

 “ Everything alright?” his mother asked and he just nods like she will going to see it.

“ Ethan?” she asked again worried, so he gathered all of his strength to make his voice okay for his mother.

“ Yeah mom, I just missed you.” He said faking the smile even though his heart is clenching from too much pain. He is leaning in the wall, in the isolated part of their hallway, and trying to stifle his cries to not make his mother worried.

“ Aw, I miss you too Ethan!” his mother cheerfully said on the other line before it went off. Ethan sighs and looked at his phone for a minute until he realizes that he is still holding the piece of paper.

“ Fuck it!” he said before ripping it apart and throwing it in the trashcan.

“ Fucking bullshit!” he added kicking and releasing his anger for everything.

Lauren…. I will do anything for her.